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| - About a 2-2.5: Yokato Yokobai is a small little ramen shop that is located down the hall from Ichigo Ichie. The menu is pretty small and straight to the point (it's a piece of paper that you just fill out with a golfer pencil), offering tonkotsu-based broths - there is the regular Tonkotsu Pork, Tonkotsu Chicken, Tonkotsu Vegetable, as well as an option to make the tonkotsu a bit spicier (in which they label it as 'Kara-Miso') - there are 3 options for this version as well (the pork, the chicken, and the vegetable). You have the option to add extra meat and/or noodles, as well as customize the saltiness (less, normal, or more), the amount of green onion (none, normal, or more), addition of nori (none, 1-piece, or 5-pieces), and an egg (non, 1/2 portion, or a whole). Those who are vegetarians have an option for a vegetable ramen broth. There are also salads, gobos, karaage, and chashu-don, as well as homemade yuzu, vanilla or green tea ice cream. The hubs had the regular Tonkotsu Pork with regular saltiness, more helpings of the green onion, 1-piece of nori, and 1/2 of the egg - the broth was super milky and creamy, and maybe a bit too decadent and thick for some. It had a taste similar to cream of mushroom, so there may have been an addition of heavy cream or milk. The thin noodles were cooked al dente and I was happy that they did not have a gummy taste to them. I had the Kara-Miso Pork version, in which there was a little melon-ball scoop of 'hot paste' - however, this wasn't at all spicy, and just made the broth more red. I had the same customization (the regular saltiness, more helpings of the green onion, 1-piece of nori, and the 1/2 egg) - I thought that this was slightly better than the regular Tonkotsu broth, but again, it still had the super milky/creamy taste. In addition, we tried the Karaage (fried chicken with some type of a soy-based sauce - the sauce was not good at all, as it was more sweeter and had an overwhelming amount of herbs; I'd much rather prefer a cup of Kewpie mayo), and the Chashu-Don (this had pulled pork mixed in with rice, sesame seeds, radish, ginger slices, green onions, and mayo - the hubs was not a fan, as it was just way too much going on; I thought it was the better-tasting out of all the main items we had ordered. For dessert, I tried the homemade Yuzu ice cream - this was more of a sorbet, and I really liked it! It was tangy, sour, and citrus-like, and super refreshing. This was definitely the highlight of the whole entire meal! Service was fine, but the host/server was MIA and pretty inefficient. We had to get our own chopsticks and utensils and refill our own water. On a side note, there is a rack by the rear entrance with some Japanese snacks. I'm glad I was able to try this place out, but I won't be back.
+homemade Yuzu sorbetto :D
+unorganized queue/hosting situation
+MIA servers
+overly milky/creamy tonkotsu broth
+al dente noodles
+pulled pork in chashu-don
+underwhelming kaarage
+down the hall of Ichigo Ichie
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