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| - I am new here, in this desert land known as Phoenix. Great cloud patterns, awesome blue sky, urgent and indomitable sun. In a frenzy of missing LA food (DAIKOKUYA!!), I searched Yelp last night (honestly, more in time-killing mode) to find a place in Phoenix that sells authentic ramen (I am like Naruto with my ramen, fools). Imagine my shock when I saw this place had ramen...not just ramen, but TONKOTSU ramen. Then, and this is the killer, it was across the street from where I'm staying!
"At last," I thought, "God has forgiven me for that unfortunate incident in junior high on that co-ed camping trip." Been making "good deed" installment payments on that incident for awhile.
Alas, he still has a bone to pick: 3 stars because the food wasn't just "it's not Daikokuya," but just not good. Noodles were freshly un-bricked, 3 pieces of Oscar Meyer lunchmeat (or one slice cut up), and...actually, that's it. No veggies, no seaweed, no egg, nothing else. If you like ramen (and, more importantly, have had good ramen), probably not the place to rush to. Shrimp dumplings were OK, though. Service was sketch: took a crapload of time to flag my waitress to close out.
Place gets high marks from others, though, so I'll have to try something else some other time. Maybe. The heart takes awhile to heal.
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