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| - A friend of ours highly recommended us to try Raku Ramen few weeks ago and decided to give it a try. As always, we did a google and yelp search to find the location. Surprisingly enough although we been to Kennedy Square a million times, it seems that it's tucked in the far south corner near Power King that we didn't realize it was there.
First thing I notice is for a Chinese run and owned establishment, its very clean! Next to the Sushi bar there is a private room with a nice white stylish divider. Over head there are some neat hanging bamboo scrolls decorations which I thought was cool.
So once we got seated, the server immediately served us tea and small bowl of salad. I thought it was nice that we got something to drink and nibble on while we look at the menu.
There were decent selections of Ramen, Sushi and Rolls on the menu but this time my wife ordered Tonkotsu Ramen and I ordered the Spicy Ramen. Unlike the popular Japanese Ramen Franchise (deemed nameless), both soups were flavourful which I believe in the Ramen World is most important. As my wife described her soup was sweet, light and creamy. My soup had the right amount of kick in the spice, good aroma and I don't feel there's much MSG otherwise I would get headache. As for the toppings, the Char Siu was thinly sliced, the noodles was at the right texture and most impressive was the eggs were perfectly cooked (not just hard boiled). Both of our eggs were soft boiled to the point were the white was set, the yoke was half set half runny.
The only thing I wish was they would add a little more for the toppings (ie: Have two halves of one egg each bowl instead of just one half.) Or if they come down the price of extra noodles to $3 instead of $5 I would probably think about paying extra. Keeping in mind it's already around $9 each bowl. But I guess in running a business you want to balance price with Quality. I would definitely swing by again if I have Ramen Cravings.
In terms of service, it was OK as the food came out fast. But wouldn't mind if they pass by to serve tea. So for this I would've docked a 1.5 stars to make it 3.5 stars realistically. But since I can't do half, I'll give them the extra half in hoping they read this post and give the other half of the egg in the next bowl.
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