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| - This is one of my favourite Japanese ramen restaurant in Toronto, and I always recommend it to my friends when we're looking for a place to eat near the Eaton Centre.
Environment:
It's located near the Dundas/Church intersection, which means it's only about 10 mins walk away from Dundas Square and the Eaton Centre, which you know the restaurant will be packed all the time given its great location and amazing noodles.
Usually you can expect a 30mins long wait outside the restaurant if you go during meal times. The inside of the restaurant is somewhat packed and quite noisy due to the crowd. It's better that you come in a group of 4 of fewer.
Food:
Honestly I think the portion sizes here are a little smaller than the other ramen restaurants nearby, and the prices to be a little more expensive, but the taste totally makes up for it. You can order different sizes of ramen too based on how much food you want to get, but for the regular size it's definitely smaller than Sansotei.
I usually like the ramen with creamy soup base like the Tonkatsu ramen. Also, I would always ask for less salt as well, knowing that ramen restaurants like to splurge on the sodium. The quality of the chashu is pretty good, it's really tender and has a nice soya sauce flavour. I especially like the taste of the soup, as I find it tastes a little bit sweet which gives it more depth.
Service:
The waitresses are pretty nice and they would usually say "hello" and "goodbye" to you in Japanese. However, since they mostly hire Japanese people, I find their accents to be pretty thick and sometimes they also have a hard time understanding me when I want to request for less salt in my soup. But overall, decent service.
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