Eat Out London!Monohon Ramen
Authentic Japanese ramen restaurant in Old Street, London.
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Many years of corporate life later, on a slow Friday afternoon in the office, a touch hungover from Thursday night drinking, someone asked me the standard, ‘what would you do if you won the lottery’ question.
The ramen light bulb came on again and within a month I’d quit my job and was on a plane to Japan.
Anyway I travelled up and down Japan for a few months eating A LOT of ramen, trying to remember the language and studying in a ramen school.
Back in London I spent the next 6 months making ramen in my kitchen every single day.
In the summer of 2015 I launched Monohon Ramen as a pop up and over the course of the next year we sold a couple thousand bowls of ramen wherever we could find a space in east London.
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Monohon Ramen Review - Great Shouyu Tonkotsu - Le Captain ...
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It is time to tell you about my review of Monohon Ramen and their great Shouyu Tonkotsu.
Monohon Ramen has been founded by Ian Wheatly a young entrepreneur, passionate about Japanese food, who decided to leave the corporate life to enter the fascinating world of Ramen and Restauration.
In addition to their Ramen Monohon serves 3 additional Soup-less dishes : In regards to the Drinks, Monohon Ramen has a great variety of Japanese drinks to go with your Food, whether it is Japanese beer, Sake, Shochu Cocktails, Teas or the delicious Calpis.
The good news at Monohon Ramen is that you can choose if you want to go for a regular or large portion when ordering your Ramen.
Overall: If Kanada is considered by a lot of Foodie the best Ramen in London I guess we have a pretty good contender for the title with Monohon Ramen.
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Many years of corporate life later, on a slow Friday afternoon in the office, a touch hungover from Thursday night drinking, someone asked me the standard, ‘what would you do if you won the lottery’ question.
The ramen light bulb came on again and within a month I’d quit my job and was on a plane to Japan.
Anyway I travelled up and down Japan for a few months eating A LOT of ramen, trying to remember the language and studying in a ramen school.
Back in London I spent the next 6 months making ramen in my kitchen every single day.
In the summer of 2015 I launched Monohon Ramen as a pop up and over the course of the next year we sold a couple thousand bowls of ramen wherever we could find a space in east London.
Monohon Ramen - Edible Experiences
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He talked us through all the ingredients (and toppings for the noodles) and the contradictions of the word 'soba'.
Abura Soba is a kind of "soup-less" noodle dish -- abura actually means oil/fat, but this was not a greasy dish.
It was simply oozing umami: delicious broth is at the bottom of the dish; the noodles are on top.
The toppings and the noodles themselves were all in delightful crockery from Rouge's stock.
It was a perfect accompaniment to the meal -- a hint of floral counterbalanced the savoury of the dish.
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Located on the Clerkenwell side of Old Street the small restaurant serves just six types of ramen, including three soup-less ones, one of which is served chilled.
Whilst there’s only a small selection of dishes there’s still a few choices you have to make from how hard you want your noodles to what toppings you’d like to portion size.
We went for the Spicy Tonkotsu, which is a creamy pork bone broth with thin noodles, bean sprouts, spring onions, slow cooked pork belly and spicy miso pork mince.
Noodles are made on site, dishes are served fast and it’s some of the most authentic ramen we’ve had in London.
A great little place to get your Japanese noodle fix.
The best and worst tonkotsu ramen in London – 2017 review update ...
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Although Bone Daddies opened at more or less the same time as Tonkotsu, it has taken a different approach to expansion with spin-off brands such as Shackfuyu concentrating on other dishes and thus working alongside the ramen-focussed branches of Bone Daddies such as the one near Old Street.
It’s still better than most though and, rather unusually for London’s ramen restaurants which tend to have side dishes that yo-yo in quality, it’s certainly worth dropping into the Old Street branch purely to snack on the pork kushikatsu.
The Shiromaru Classic Tonkotsu Ramen came with thick, reasonably fatty slices of modestly caramelised pork.
The intriguingly named Tonkotsu X variant breaks from the norm in using a broth made from chicken and pork bones, as opposed to just pork.
The noodles and fungus were damp squibs, but the egg was richly salty, while the roast pork slices were tangy and rich in umami.