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I had the kyouka ramen and then later tried the tsukemen dipping ramen.
Pros:
Authentic Japanese ramen restaurant with a Japanese chef straight outta Comp.. er... Tokyo. Ironically, this location used to be one of those fake non-Japanese sushi restaurants and then a fish and chips place.
Very clean premises owing to its recent opening
Location: bringing authentic Japanese cuisine to an area without one (i.e. not downtown)
Counter seating where one can enjoy seeing the chef in action and the pots, pipes, steam and the works, which is the authentic ramen restaurant set up. In Toronto Santouka and Kinton have this lay out. Sansotei, Ryus, etc. do not. Ramen restaurants have to feature open concept kitchens.
Polite servers who smile and are happy to be of service
Chasu: melt-in-your-mouth pork and chicken
Ajitama: the perfect just-rightly boiled ramen egg - too bad they give you half instead of a whole one
The soundtrack to Ghibli anime on the speakers
Cons:
(Now mind you I am biased because my personal favourite broth is pork) the chicken.pork broth mix is oily and not as fragrant as tonkotsu pork broth. It always amazes me that people find pork broth heavier than chicken broth. Once again, I found the chicken broth very oily here (like Touhenboku's broth - although Kyouka is much better than Touhenboku. I would return to Kyouka, but would not return to Touhenboku whose broth is just strange).
Tsukemen was not deliciously fishy like Ryus. The fish broth tsukemen at Ryus is the best. Kyouka's was missing sesame too.
The fishcake naruto and chasu were so thinly cut I felt like they use a deli meat cutter.
Small location needs to be expanded.
Didn't order zinga appetizer as it was 3 for $6
No Japanese staff except for the owner himself
The broth was not so good, the noodles were very standard, but at least thick which I like and the atmosphere felt strange and out-of-place until I noticed it is because there were no Chinese customers in the restaurant. I thought as soon as an authentic Japanese restaurant or business opens our Chinese-Canadian friends would line up but not here! It was fun watching the chef create the ramen bowls with care and style...
One last comment: the ramen is available in regular/mild, spicy and suicide spicy flavours. Those who know ramen know that it should not be eaten as spicy. Spicy ramen helps kill the taste buds, which is not what real food/ramen lovers would do.
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