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| - One of my great passions in life is ramen. I've made it one of my soft goals to try every ramen place I can, at least once. Touhenboku marks the first one I've encountered in Toronto, unfortunately it just kind of hits the middle of the mark for me. Props to the restaurant for having one of the cutest logos ever though, a ramen bowl on a tree stump? Yes please.
Like many other ramen places, they give you a range of things you can customized - noodles, soup, and type of meat. I went with Red (spicy), with Pork soup (extra $1), Soya sauce seasoning, thick noodles and pork belly for meat. This wasn't anywhere near the worst ramen I've had, but it's definitely far from a standout. The ramen wasn't very memorable. The broth, with a soy sauce and pork broth, it should be richer in texture and flavour, but I find it rather run of the mill. The noodles were well-cooked and the meat was pretty average. The Red broth wasn't really spicy, which is something I usually like in my ramen, just a touch of spice, but that might just be my personal palette, so I won't let that cloud my judgement too much.
Service was really average. It took us a little while to flag down a waiter to pay, which is something I always find strange. As I mentioned above, this ramen is just extremely average, and I'm sure there are better options in the city.
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