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| - Came here on a Sunday night around 9pm with my hubby and was seated right away. Ryoji is a ramen house/izakaya in one, it actually does pretty well in both fronts, their ramen menu is a bit smaller than a regular ramen place (about 6 or 7 choices of ramen), their izakaya menu is also smaller than a regular izakaya menu. However, the choices offered are interesting and tasty in general. The vibe and decor feels like Guu, even down to the mouth wash available in the bathrooms. It is pretty loud.
Had the Otoko-Aji Ramen which is the basic tonkotsu ramen. The broth was pretty good, it is definitely a rich and fatty kind of broth, so if you are fat and collagen adverse you might not like it, I liked it. The noodles comes as soft, medium or hard and are the thin, white, straight type wheat noodles. It was a thinner noodles than most ramen places. The pork belly that came with it was soft and had about a 1:1 fat to lean ratio, so again if you are fat adverse you might not like it, I don't mind it. The gripes I have with this dish is that (1) no egg came with it (you have to order it separately) and (2) it was a bit too salty.
We also had the Otoko-Aji with Kuro-kogashi which is basically black garlic oil, so basically a tonkotsu with garlic oil. Besides the garlic oil, it came with 2 sheets of seaweed compared to the regular Otoko-Aji ramen. This was even saltier than the regular tonkotsu, but as I mixed the noodles and the soup more, it was better. I also got a noodles refill (Kae dama), and the 2nd set of noodles with the broth was better since the salt level was much more balanced. Out of the two ramens we tried, I actually like the regular Otoko-Aji ramen more even though I am a huge garlic fan.
We also had the Ji-Ma-Mi which is a house made peanut tofu with a light soy-syrup kind of sauce. This dish was good! It was definitely the most interesting thing we had tonight. The "tofu" texture is almost like a cross between a mochi and tofu with a slight peanut flavor. The savory-sweet sauce that came with it really complemented it.. Good dish.
Service was fine, the servers were a bit swamped, but were friendly and informed us our dishes were coming when we have waited for a while without us asking. Overall, I like this place and will definitely return, there are lots of other interesting items on the menu that caught my eye, such as pig ears in chilli oil, grilled pork neck and a pork belly platter done two ways.
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