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| - I've been to Kinton 1 before and this is clearly far less superior.
I ordered my pork ramen with nitamago, corn, nori, and pork slices. For the appetizer, I ordered the takoyaki.
Honestly, the ramen bowl was a bit like the Kardashians. Overhyped but not that great.
The superstar of the bowl, the soup, lacked the depths of pork bones that had been simmered for hours in a pot. It didn't have enough seasoning and tasted like porky, oily water. No savoriness, no sweetness, no creaminess of the melted fat when you sip the soup. It was bland, disappointingly bland.
The nitamago, while perfectly cooked, was not marinated enough to soak up the flavor of soy sauce and mirin.
The pork belly tasted like overcooked pork chops. It was so dry, so empty (like my soul). I expected to bite into milky melty pork belly fatness and I got cardboard instead. What happened to the fat, you ask? It all went to the Kardashian's bums.
The noodles were good. Cooked al dente and springy with every bite. There's also the takoyaki which was piping hot, deliciously tangy/savory, and had a nice portion of octopus meat and soft pancakey batter in the center.
Overall, I'd probably not go to this Kinton again.
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