Surprisingly, we’ve never heard of this ramen chain store until we went to Okinawa.
Apparently, they have so many outlets in Japan and all over the world including the States! In fact, we had stumbled upon this long queue of people outside a ramen restaurant along Kokusai-Dori and thought to ourselves like true blue Singaporeans that this must be good ramen. So we decided to queue for it despite it being a windy cold 14 degree C night. After a good 70 minutes of queuing, we made it in!
Like many ramen restaurants, they don’t have that many different choices but since it was my first time trying it, I opted for the most basic & signature option while the husband chose the sesame version.
Ordering is done via a machine, so order first before taking a seat, then give details about your orders – Texture of your noodles, flavour of your soup and choice of add-ons etc.
I had high expectations of the ramen because of the long queue and the truth is, if I had queued so long for this, it’d better be good, right??
AND…. IT’S SUPER GOOD! The ramen tasted pretty similar to Ichiran’s and I love the texture of the noodles. The gyozas were good too – Super juicy as I bit into them!
And as you can see – the egg was good too! Cooked perfectly.
We enjoyed the meal so much that we decided that we had to go back again another day, and this time round, we went at 1am (The shop closes at 2am) and thought that we won’t need to queue at this kind of weird timing. I mean, who eats ramen at 1am, right?? Apparently, we were not the only ones with this grand idea. We still had to queue but we made it in within 15 minutes, which I was grateful for. Haha. So far in Japan, they have outlets in Tokyo, Fukuoka and Okinawa. Strongly recommend you give it a try when you are in those places! =)
To read my earlier posts on Okinawa, you can click here: http://www.jbabiesinthedaisies.com/search/label/Okinawa
