Pick Up Ramen

Toripaitan

Slow-cooked chicken broth salt ramen|Toripaitanmen Kageyama Takadano...

There are numerous ramen restaurants in the vicinity of Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo, and “Toripaitanmen Kageyama Takadanobaba-ten” is one of the most notable. We visited on a weekday evening and were able to smoothly enter the restaurant without a wait that day.Upon entering the restaurant, we immediately purchased a meal ticket from the ticket vending machine. Since I visited the restaurant for slow-cooked chicken...

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Shoyu

Special shina-soba|Shina-soba Sawada|Ramen

About a 3-minute walk from Shinjuku-Gyoenmae Station in Tokyo. “Shina-soba Sawada” is located in a back alley with a calm atmosphere near Shinjuku Hanazono Park.The owner trained at several famous ramen restaurants in Tokyo before finally establishing his own restaurant. The restaurant’s two representative dishes are “Shina-soba” with soy sauce broth and “Shiro(White) Shina-soba” with white soy sauce. In addition, popular toppings such as...

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Seafood

The mackerel set meal ramen|Sumibiyaki noko chukamen Okurindo

I went to lunch at “Sumibiyaki noko chukamen Okurindo”(Charcoal-grilled thick Chinese noodle Okurindo) in Daimon, Tokyo. At first glance, this ramen restaurant looks like a typical Chinese noodle store, but the menu in the storefront describes set menus of mackerel, squid, fall fish, sardine, and horse mackerel, which is a quirky detail to attract ramen lovers’ interest. This time we visited the restaurant just...