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| - The last few times I've been to J-town, I've stopped by Niwatei and got their udon or ramen. Whichever suited my liking during the time.
This restaurant is situated in J-Town, and as soon as you go in, there's two restaurants in one. Green Tea Lounge and Niwatei. The menus are at the front so you can take a look at them before you sit down.
At first, we sat at Green Tea Lounge, the other restaurant hoping for some vegetarian options. However, when the lady was explaining the menu, they did not have much vegetarian options except for the appetizers. However, she said Niwatei had some vegetarian options which was really nice of her to offer. At least these two restaurants aren't in a feud. We switched tables without any hassle (Awkward tho!)
This may sound really strange but I felt there were a lot more people sitting on the Niwatei side. I don't know if it's a thing, but I overheard a lot of people ordering vegetarian ramen - it could've just been a coincidence tho!
For dinner you can order the sets which consists of 1 appetizer, 1 ramen and 1 dessert. Be warned: there's the regular ramen set, and the deluxe ramen set. Apparently, the deluxe has more flavouring. You could pay for the full portion or the half portion. In my opinion, I'd just pay for the full portion only because it's only a few dollars more and it was actually just enough. I don't think I would've been full with a half portion. The tonkatsu and shio broths were good, however I thought there could've been more flavouring in the noodles.
If you're up for a surprise, you can always order the mystery dessert too. The mystery dessert doesn't seem to be consistent as two of my friends order it and got a green tea mousse, and vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup.
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