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Looking at the Yamagoya website you’ll see photos of the first shack being put together in Fukuoka, Japan back in 1969.
Founder, Mr. Ogata proudly poses with a bowl of steaming hot ramen.
There’s history and heritage.
Walking in to their first London ramen shop (after a successful pop up above Shuang Shuang) none of that heritage is present.
It feels like a well polished … Continue reading Yamagoya, SE1
Tonkotsu Soho Review - donutsam a London Food Blog
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Tonkotsu is one of my preferred ramen joints in the city.
It’s a good spot to know for lunch, they do a special combo deal which includes a side.
A challenge a layman like myself wouldn’t know, there’s an art to getting the right ramen flour and the right alkaline water.
My order was for the classic Tonkotsu Ramen, made up with a 16-hour pork broth which has a sea salt and lardo base.
I went for the chicken gyozas and these three are a great little side.
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The ramen noodles themselves have a firm bite, the seaweed has a springy consistency while the thin slices of pork are fatty and salty and the bamboo shoots have an odd but pleasing chewiness.
The deliciously savoury, meaty broth tastes of chicken and there are generous dollops of both chicken and pork along with a rich, salty egg, firm noodles and chewy bamboo shoots.
If there’s one weak link in Tonkotsu’s menu then it’s the third and final ramen dish, the mushroom miso ramen.
They both agreed that the Tonkotsu ramen was a fine, lip smacking bowl of noodles in soup.
They also both enjoyed the fresh and firm fillings of the pork and prawn gyoza, but Socialist Worker seemed far more ambivalent about the hiyayakko tofu judging them to be not proletarian enough.
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The tender, braised slices of pork weren’t very fatty but they did have a charred quality to them, while the bamboo strips were tender, the egg was slightly runny and salty while the noodles themselves were very hearty and had a slight springiness to them.
Bone Daddies seems to like experimenting with new types of ramen dishes, as my own Three Miso Ramen was quite unlike any ramen The Lensman had encountered during his various trips to Japan.
I opted for the oddly-named T22, a soy miso ramen but made using chicken bones instead of pork bones like the tonkotsu.
The real highlights are the tender, fatty strips of pork, the rich, runny, salty eggs and the hearty, springy noodles.
It’s far better than any of the ramen noodle soups I had at Shoryu and it’s almost the equal of the different Three Miso Ramen from Bone Daddies.
Tonkotsu, Soho
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Tonkotsu — review | London Evening Standard
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And Japanese streetfood restaurant Tonkotsu — which specialises in ramen noodles — is like walking onto the set of cult foodie movie Tampopo.
The name, Tonkotsu, comes from the restaurant’s signature dish, pork ramen, a traditional Japanese comfort food.
We watch in awe as the Japanese diners “slurp” — scooping up noodles with chopsticks as they spoon the soup into their mouths.
When award-winning Japanese street canteen Koya opened two years ago on Frith Street — serving plates of steaming udon noodles in hot broth — the new fast-casual restaurant concept was born.
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Tonkotsu | Restaurants in Soho, London
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Riding the noodle new wave that washed over London in 2012, Tonkotsu (offshoot of Tsuru) plies a no-nonsense trade in Kyushu-style ramen – distinguished by a creamy, pork-bone broth.
With just four flavours of ramen, three kinds of gyoza and a handful of sides to choose from, a meal here can be swift, though that doesn’t prevent queues forming.
The food doesn’t warrant such high demand: ‘handmade, daily’ pork gyoza were let down by a frankfurter-esque filling; classically fatty tonkotsu soup needs to be steaming hot, but on occasion we’ve found it served unpalatably lukewarm.
Since February 2013, Tonkotsu has been making its own, very good noodles on the premises.
In line with a Tokyo ‘big night out’, more attention is paid to beer than wine, with some US and London ales giving the Asahi-Kirin-Sapporo triumvirate a run for their money, as well as a Japanese beer brewed in Belgium (Owa).