Had their "Basic Spicy Ramen" which looks like tonkotsu broth with spicy miso or kochhu jang. There were some pan-fried bean sprouts on top, along with the menma, some wood-ear mushroom and nori. The charsiu was very tender, and they blowtorched it a bit before serving so it had some nice char-flavour to it. But the real star was the broth: so smooth and well-balanced it tasted creamy. Any more fat and it would have been greasy, but as served it was just perfect. Too bad the noodles were run-of-the-mill packages. Stiff with no chewiness, they were fortunately not bad enough to ruin the excellent broth. I kind of feel like the differences in price from ramen-ya to ramen-ya are artibrary: $11 got me just the bowl here, no sides.
If there is time this weekend, I will try their sister restaurant Minca.
After filling my belly (and closing the restaurant) headed back to the Village to hear Tom Harrell at the Vanguard. What a sound! But the rest of the band was not to my liking, just personal taste I guess. When we got home we tried listening to that band's latest album, but it was the same: not to my liking.
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