After a long day at work, I was thinking of a place to meet C for dinner, so the thought of the new ramen place near my workplace came to mind. SH was also craving for dinner so altogether we went there for some comfort food. Even at about 9pm, there's a abit of a queue and we ordered our food while in the queue.
Ordering the food feels like filling in a survey form, you will need to fill in your name, then you get to choose from the 3 kinds of soup flavours (Original, Black spicy, Red spicy), 3 levels of strength for broth, 3 kinds of noodle thickness (Soft, Normal, Hard) and 3 levels of chicken oil. There's also options for the toppings you want to add to it. In short, it's a highly customizable ramen. Just nice there's 3 of us so we each took one flavour and went on with "Normal" for most of the the options. After about 20mins wait, we were finally seated, the interior is very interestingly decorated with some old posters and Japanese wordings giving a unique and cosy feel to the small little restaurant
Ordering the food feels like filling in a survey form, you will need to fill in your name, then you get to choose from the 3 kinds of soup flavours (Original, Black spicy, Red spicy), 3 levels of strength for broth, 3 kinds of noodle thickness (Soft, Normal, Hard) and 3 levels of chicken oil. There's also options for the toppings you want to add to it. In short, it's a highly customizable ramen. Just nice there's 3 of us so we each took one flavour and went on with "Normal" for most of the the options. After about 20mins wait, we were finally seated, the interior is very interestingly decorated with some old posters and Japanese wordings giving a unique and cosy feel to the small little restaurant
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| Interior of the restaurant |
While waiting for our food to arrive, we noticed the basket of eggs on our table and after asking the busy waitress, we got to know that the eggs are provided FOC as appetizers for customers. She suggested us to eat it with the Mayo sauce provided, brown eggs are lower in cholesterol and white eggs are the normal ones. Other than the eggs, there's also the marinated beansprouts, and black & white sesame, bonito flakes for us to add to our ramen.
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| FOC basket of eggs, seasoned beansprouts, black&white sesame |
Finally food is here! I had the black spicy ramen, C the red spicy ramen and SH the original one. After a round of soup tasting, I still prefer the black spicy ramen that gives a little peppery and spicy taste. Red Spicy ramen has similar level of spiciness but I seem to taste a little sesame oil flavour, I am not sure though. The flavoured egg that we added, tasted different from the FOC eggs provided. The egg yolk is more liquid and overall, tastes slightly sweet. How I got to know is because, I tried all 3 kinds of eggs! After dinner today, I declared that i exhausted my egg quota and no more eggs for me this month... or maybe this week.
The noodles have a nice springy texture to it, it's the straight, white japanese noodles so it does not leave the"yellow flavouring" taste in the soup. As we ordered the option with "All toppings", we have Seaweed, egg, chashu, black fungus and spring onions. Being the curious me, i experimented with bonito flakes, crushed sesame and seasoned beansprouts as well. Result was a bowl of very flavourful ramen with very robustly flavoured soup broth, of course I did not add them all at one go so to taste the original broth.
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| Red Spicy Ramen |
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| Black Spicy Ramen |
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| Original Ramen |
Overall, it's one of the better ramen place that offers value for money and also I am impressed by the thoughtfulness of the restaurant by providing tissue boxes and also "sides" to fill the hungry stomaches while waiting for the ramen. One piece of advice maybe would be to choose the option with less chicken oil as the soup can get rather oily and heavy towards the end. One more thing to take note will be that this place only accept cash payments.
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