My friend Jason took me. He said it was pretty good but of course I was
a little skeptical. He said he used to go to this place when he was
contracting at a company near by and it was pretty amazing.
Well,
he was RIGHT! It is AMAZING. In fact, what's even more amazing is
more people don't know about it. Actually, the only reason there isn't a
huge line in front of this place is because it's not in the most crowded of
places. If it was is a good location I suspect there'd be a line at least
an hour long at all times.
This place is a Chinese noodle place. Ramen is originally Chinese but
of course being in Japan, most ramen places are Japanese and of course each area
in Japan has it's traditional specialties and so each restaurant specializes in
usually just one type.
This place those is Chinese run with Chinese chefs and DANG it's good.
They have like 14 kinds of ramen and so far every one of them I've tried has
been among the best I've had. I have tantanmen. I've had some kind
of red spicy tonkotsu ramen. I've had regular tonkotsu ramen with HUGE
chucks of pork (buta no kakunin). So much so it was hard to eat it all.
But it's not just ramen. On top of ramen they have about 15 or 20
Chinese dishes including huge bowls of friend rice with tons of meat in them to
different kinds of ankake. I don't even know all the names I just know
it's great.
It turns out they are actually a nation wide chain but they only have 2 in
Tokyo. They are run but a large company that has several other restaurants
all over Tokyo and Japan. If they are all as good as this place they much
be doing very well indeed!
The one I went to is just two stops from Shinjuku on the Odakyu line at
Sangubashi about 3 minutes from the station directly across from Yoyogi Park.