It's a Friday night, which I meet my secondary school classmate, Bryan, for dinner. I had always like to eat noodles, all kinds of noodles. Being to quite a few recommended ramen shops around Singapore before, but I can say that I still cannot find the one that is on par with the one I ate in Japan last year. However, they are still pretty good and above average than your usual ramen found in most Japanese restaurant. I will post my reviews on them next time when I visit them again.
This particular ramen shop is recommended by my one of friend, who is also Japanese food/ramen lover. Other than just listen to him, I got to tryout myself!
Shop name: Ramen Santouka
Address: #02-76, The Central
Price: Affordable, ~$14-$20
This shop is kinda hard to locate, and I found this shop through accident when I look for toilet last time. It hide in one corner next to Billy Bombers and has the view of Clarke Quay. The shop is kinda some with limited seats, but I'm glad was there early about 7pm. Still, it was already full house.
They sold a few varieties of ramen with choice of soup base: Salt, miso, shoyu and spicy miso. I ordered a miso char siew ramen. The bowl is kinda small with a few thick pieces of char siew, some veg, bamboo shoots and a fish cake. The soup looks think but kinda oily as you can see oil floating on top, most probably from the fatty char siew. It does not come with the creamy stew egg!! and we have to order seperately, which cost $1.
To me, the soup is the heart and soul of a ramen beside the noodle texture. It taste good, but not fantastic. The miso added gives it a thick texture, but I must mentioned again that it is kinda oily. However, it does taste better than most normal Japanese
restaurant ramen soup. The noodle is not bad too, with a good springy texture and not mushy.It seems to be a very popular restaurant, with queue started to form immediate after I am seated around 7pm. So if you want to try, please be there early.
Overall, I will give it 3.5 stars.
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