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| - I really wanted all these bad days I've been reading to be just that. I've been to Posh's ramen night before, and I was super excited that they finally opened a standalone location. But everything about my night was just disappointing.
It's a really tiny restaurant - from a place that used to serve gyros, cheesesteaks, etc. there's only about 20 seats. You can order on the iPad, get your check and they'll bring your food out to you. Maybe that's the reason why service was really slow - since they don't take your order, it's REALLY hard to call someone over for service. Didn't end up getting water until 5 minutes after getting our food, and even enough chopsticks for the table. Might have been an end of the night thing, but it was really funny that all four of us got completely different glasses for water.
But what broke the camel's back is violating not just ramen as whole, but the name of your goddamn restaurant. "Hot Noodles Cold Sake" should be renamed to "Lukewarm Broth Cold Chashu". The main meat of the dish was ice cold to the touch - verified with my table mates - as if they took it out the fridge, sliced it, and dropped. The broth itself was tepid as well - not only lukewarm, but somehow managed to have the right thickness for a pork broth with little flavor. As for my deluxe toppings, the onsen egg white was dope but the yolk was somehow overcooked to that of a medium boiled egg (same with friend's). And my cracklings had good flavor, but were borderline burnt. Everything else topping-wise worked but didn't compensate for the failures already in the bowl.
Maybe the gyoza could save the day? Hardly. The wrapping was cold, and the stuff inside was so unpleasantly overcooked - like that really tough meat from the first time you made hamburgers and failed. At least I had Kirin to wash it all away.
Even if it were good, I don't know if that would be worth the $21 sans tax. Dish execution varying from place to place is nothing new to me, but the biggest issue being heat is such a joke. Sad thing is, they would have gotten a second star from me if they just used a heat lamp. Probably the third if they actually serve their food hot.
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