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Spicy Ramen Hunt
So Ace n I are on a mission to burn our tummys from the inside out hunting for yummy spicy ramen in Japan. Ramen is a serious business here everyone and anyone is or wants to be an expert. We just love the taste of the soupy noodles and love finding all the different types - pork or miso base, clear, yellow or hand made noodles. The options are endless and i want to share our spicy ramen adventures. Thus far we have been pretty successful finding some spicyness... here is one that we found in Meguro. The whole shop is painted bright red which seems to be a must for spicy ramen, and as you can see the soup is just as bright. Ordering from the non-english vending machine was the first challenge with a wonderful smiling man, also wearing a red t-shirt and headscarf, giving us some help via charades. As for the soupy noodles - yumo! The noodles were the wiggly ones which are not as good in my books but still noice. The soup was pretty thin and not much sludge (some ramen has lots of miso base and makes it quite thicker and sometimes gritty), really nice rich flavour not too salty. Most spicy ramen shops have a scale to gauge just how hot you want to have your ramen. This shop's scale was from 1 - 10. I had about a 6/10 spicyness which made me sweat and burn quite a bit. Ace had 10/10 and ended up with tingling lips and lots of "burniness". Sometimes the meat is really fatty and this one was pretty lean so bonus points there. Overall this one is good, toiletpaper in the freezer please.
So Ace n I are on a mission to burn our tummys from the inside out hunting for yummy spicy ramen in Japan. Ramen is a serious business here everyone and anyone is or wants to be an expert. We just love the taste of the soupy noodles and love finding all the different types - pork or miso base, clear, yellow or hand made noodles. The options are endless and i want to share our spicy ramen adventures. Thus far we have been pretty successful finding some spicyness... here is one that we found in Meguro. The whole shop is painted bright red which seems to be a must for spicy ramen, and as you can see the soup is just as bright. Ordering from the non-english vending machine was the first challenge with a wonderful smiling man, also wearing a red t-shirt and headscarf, giving us some help via charades. As for the soupy noodles - yumo! The noodles were the wiggly ones which are not as good in my books but still noice. The soup was pretty thin and not much sludge (some ramen has lots of miso base and makes it quite thicker and sometimes gritty), really nice rich flavour not too salty. Most spicy ramen shops have a scale to gauge just how hot you want to have your ramen. This shop's scale was from 1 - 10. I had about a 6/10 spicyness which made me sweat and burn quite a bit. Ace had 10/10 and ended up with tingling lips and lots of "burniness". Sometimes the meat is really fatty and this one was pretty lean so bonus points there. Overall this one is good, toiletpaper in the freezer please.
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