Disappointing Ramen

Posted on 2012/08/12 12:12:54 (August 2012).

[Saturday 11th August 2012]
I'd had a bit of a craving for ramen most of this week, and was keen to try out Tonkotsu, the new ramen place in Soho - particularly having seen that they have a vegetarian ramen dish on the menu. This represented only the third place I'd ever had ramen other than at home - it's almost always made with some kind of pork stock, and vegetarian versions in Japan are close to non-existent. It was a tad disappointing though, if I'm honest, there just didn't seem to be much substance to the dish, and the soup was a bit non-descript. I guess vegetarian ramen just isn't really an established thing, and it's really hard to get the flavour right. There also didn't seem to be any Japanese staff in the place, which is usually a bad sign, and the staff they did have didn't really seem to know what they were doing - they couldn't even read the menu, in fact. Oh well.

We fared better culinarily a little later on in the afternoon, when we popped into Foxcroft and Ginger for a coffee and a piece of their very good chocolate and orange flower cake.

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