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| - There was much hype about this place during the first few weeks of opening, decided to try it out only to find a looooong line up at the door. I'm not a big fan of waiting for food unless it's absolutely amazing. (I only have a very few selection of restaurants in Toronto)
After a couple of months, thought I'd give it a try. This time, no line up, there were even a few empty seats which was a bit surprising. Where did all those people go?
You can choose the thickness of your soup base and which part of meat you wanted, shoulder or belly, both pork. Ah, this place only serves pork bone based soup and pork is the only choice of meat.
I ordered a Cheese Ramen, which was just some mozzarella cheese on a fairly basic ramen.
First of all, Ramen is evaluated by the following order:
1. Soup
2. Noodle
3. Meat / ingredient
The soup was...i would call it a failure. They use pork bone and cook it in a big pot to get the broth, for whatever reason they failed to get rid of the stinky smell from the pork bones. What made it worse is that they tried to mask it with sodium, yes that is SALT. I don't think I've ever tried such soup that's stinky and salty.
Noodle was nothing to rave for either. Honestly, I couldn't tell the difference between the noodles from here and noodles from Su & Shi, which is hooooorrible.
The only decent part of my meal was the pork shoulder in the soup. It was very tendor, although it also did still manage to retain some of the gaminess from the soup.
All in all, I am surprised by the initial hype this place had. But eventually I guess people started noticing that it didn't live upto it's hype, hence the no line up at the door.
I would give Kenzo, which is pretty much the only competitor in Toronto, a 4/10. I would give Kinton 3/10. Sad.
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