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| - Kiu restaurant was born from the Ishin Ramen restauramt and another manager.. This review is based mainly on their Ramen and its Stuffed Chicken Wings.
The Ramen (rosted garlic shoju) was good, the taste is light and flavourful, that broth is cook to perfection, a very well done ramen broth. For the rest of the items unfortunately it was not that good in my opinion. The noodles were too thin, that was what I got, i didn't get the option to choose thick noodles, i believe that's all what they got. The problem with thin noodles is the lack of texture and you can finish them with 3 to 5 spoons, no time to enjoy it. Continuing with the rest of the items.. Only half the egg, and the most disappointed cut of pork, only 2 slices and they were thin.. Not like a paper thin, that would had been too exaggerated, it was like 2 pieces of papers together thin and as mentioned, the thiner the less flavour you get and less texture as well... Yea that was bad.
On the other hand, we also ordered their Tsukemen, last time i tried this in Osaka which is pretty much the mother of Tsukemen.. This version at Kiu, was really good, pretty close to the one i had had in Japan; Thik noodles, flavourful broth, the pork was not as thin as the Ramen... This dish is $5 more than their normal ramen bowl, so i was expecting a bit more of quality, and it was delivered... In fact, this is the reason this review has 3 stars instead of 1.
At last, we got the Stuffed Chicken Wings, this is my favourite izakaya dish, but not in here. To start, the price, $7 and it came 2 pieces (which i didn't notice on the menu), for $7 you can get at least 3 -max 4- stuffed wings at any Izakaya, so value wise wasn't that fair. Moving on the taste, when we got the only 2 pieces i elevated my expectations with the flavour; as you know, quality and quantity. I expected a lot for my first bite and it didn't cut it. It was not that flavourful and it didn't have anything special on it.. I felt that they just put salt pepper deep fry and done... Don't order this, you can make 5 of them at home for $7.
In conclusion, the restaurant is good to go for a date, their sushi menu is quite expensive tho, so be careful with your date. But the best value could be having their Ramen for $11 you can be satisfied with a simple meal, so is not a bad place to dine/lunch specialy if you are waiting for your show at the theatre.
Oh!, their staff is great, very helpful and well trained... Koodos on those guys
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