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| - Really a wonderful place for Ramen. Given how many ramen places I've visited over my account on Yelp, you'd figured I would get sick of it, or have the whole "well they all taste the same" syndrome. Nope. This place is excellent and my only regret is I wished I knew this place a lot sooner.
It's at the intersection of Yonge and Gerrard, where it's also near a place where it's near and dear to my heart (psst...it's Kaiju Curry, go there!) and surprisingly accessible (I had this odd idea that it was really far and out of the way). This ramen place is actually pretty spacious, where there's a front and back of the room of this ramen place and yet it was still pretty busy overall, a friend and I barely got a table for this.
The menu, it's actually laid out really well, where they offer few bowls, but offer a variety of combos, and different sizes. I went with a Ramen combo, Tonkotsu Shio Ramen, and it came with salad and a curry rice bowl.
I have to say, if I have to rate the experience and the taste of the food. These guys have the potential to be the absolute best in Toronto. And overall, I highly enjoyed the food overall, so the following will sort of be minor nitpicks but I think these guys can take #1 position easily.
I'll start off with the major positive. The broth. I don't think any place has nailed a broth so accurately like Raijin, there's a creamy taste to the broth, and it's nowhere near salty as the other reviews are suggesting. If you want salty, I can name other places that you can go to, but I won't do that. They...NAILED that broth. It's tasty but not salty and the taste itself isn't overly aggressive, but it's really wonderful.
They unfortunately didn't nail the softboiled egg...I could easily separate the yolk (even it was semi liquidy) from the actual egg white, so while it taste great, the running yolk wasn't all the way there. On top of that the noodles, as much as I like al-dente noodles, dare I say it, they were a tad slightly undercooked, like maybe 30 seconds longer in the boiling water. Again, I want to make this clear, these are minor nitpicks and does not take away that as a whole the dish itself was DELICIOUS. They cut up the black fungus in little strips, which is my preference, because I'm normally not a fan of it, but I found myself enjoying it here, as well as the cabbage that was incorporated in the dish. Overall, yes, minor nitpicks, a solid solid dish.
Heck, even the salad and curry bowl were delicious too and deserve to be noted here.
Service is wonderful as well. They're pretty attentive and despite it being busy, they're quick thinkers and always have a smile on their face. Thought that was something I wanted to point out and thought it was pleasant to witness.
Overall, I'm conflicted. A lot of ramen places are just simply stepping up their game and this one is definitely on my radar for good, excellent ramen. While ramen grows more in popularity, I implore you guys to give this place a try.
Over and out.
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