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| - This ramen place is conveniently located right off of the Bland St. light rail station. The music was really loud inside the restaurant so my coworker and I decided to sit outside, which is a nice patio area.
Since this place is called Futo Buta ("Fat Pig"), I thought I should try something with pork belly. We ended up ordering the tofu skewers to start and I had the miso ramen as my main dish. The presentation of the meal is good, and makes it look pretty authentic. I like the fact that they make their noodles here but wish that the noodles are a little more chewy. The broth was OK, like many other yelpers mentioned, the soup isn't very salty, which I don't mind so much, but it's not very super flavorful overall and is definitely on the greasy side. The pork belly was good and looked appetizing, but also not as flavorful as chashu pork should be (it didn't feel like the pork absorbed the flavors). I did enjoy the corn they added in the ramen, which was very sweet.
I think it's unique that they do soft serve here (although a bit pricey, $5 for an order), but super awesome when it's a hot sunny day. We ended up ordering each a soft serve and tried both the strawberry banana and yuzu mango flavors they had that day. I preferred the yuzu mango flavor because the yuzu gives it a nice uplifting citrus taste to the mango's tropical flavors.
We had a very filling meal and the total came out be about ~$25 per person.
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