our experience was pretty spot-on with the rest of the reviews here. the pork buns were amazing and the chicken shitaki dumplings were great. i ordered one of the fruity cocktails and it rocked. this place would easily be five stars if you just showed up for a cocktail and appetizers.
the ramen, on the other hand, was so incredibly disappointing. i ordered the vegetable ramen with a garlic bomb and topped with corn. the noodles were amazing but the broth was so salty that the meal was actually inedible. it was a deep msg tasting salt that actually hurt my throat to swallow the broth. so depressing because i LOVE ramen and wanted to write a glowing review.
the folks behind the bar were very friendly when we walked in and we were seated right away for an early friday night dinner. our waiter was very nice but not very quick on the ball about attending to our needs. the apps came out in a short amount of time but the ramen took close to 35 minutes - and it was literally us and maybe five other tables at that point. we know they're not hand-making the noodles and ramen broth (good ramen broth) is a perpetual process... we found that confusing. and i'm HAPPY to wait 35 minutes for amazing ramen.
clearly not so happy to wait for inedible salt hell. i'd go back for the tuna poke and those pork dumplings... damn. so so good in an otherwise not so great restaurant.