A little mom and pop Japanese spot right next door to Shanghai House in the Outer Richmond. The sign says Azusa but it’s actually Miki’s. Ramen is not on the menu but on the specials taped to the wall. I tried the tonkotsu shio spicy and had a taste of the tonkotsu miso spicy. Both [...]
Archive for the ‘Ramen’ Category
MIKI*’
May 19, 2010
Hawaii
March 2, 2010
Hawaii Eats March 2010 KCC Farmer’s Market – bbq abalone, delicious abalone bbq’d on the half shell. One stand had – excellent kalua pork, smokey and moist without being over cooked and stringy. The vendor said that it was done traditional emu style (by burying it), it was definitely better than a lot of the [...]
SANTOUKA RAMEN ****
January 21, 2010
Santouka Toroniku Ramen (#7). Shio broth is silky and complex with balanced salt, seafood and pork flavors and a sesame note. The special pork (pork cheek?) is thinly sliced with a nice ribbon of fat that softens in the broth, nice soy flavor and tenderness. Noodles were good though not notable. Halu’s noodles are more [...]
NYC Trip – Part I
June 1, 2009
YOTTEKO-YA****
March 27, 2008
There’s something that always makes food taste better, like my mom cooking her special dish for me when I haven’t been home in a long while, a celebratory meal with an old friend, eating anything outside on a nice day, or finding some special food when far from home. This may explain why I like [...]
SANTA RAMEN ***
March 1, 2008
My favorite ramen place is Yotteko-Ya, a Japanese chain, but the inconvenience of flying to Japan or Hawaii for lunch has left me on a quest for a local substitute. Santa Ramen located in San Mateo is the current front runner. On a recent lunch visit, I had the pork ramen spicy and it is [...]
HIMAWARI***
February 1, 2008
Having several meetings in the peninsula over the past month, I’ve been able to get to some of the ramen restaurants in Melanie Wong’s list. This time it was Himawari in San Mateo. I felt like something spicy so I went for the Tan Tan Men, a spicy thick broth with ground pork, menma (bamboo [...]
RAMEN HALU**
January 9, 2008
The ramen noodles at Ramen Halu in San Jose were the best I’ve had in the Bay Area, thicker than the usual noodle, chewy and flavorful. The smallish restaurant was crowded on a weekday lunch hour, but the service was fast enough that the wait was minimal. The signature Ramen Halu had a broth thick [...]
TANPOPO**
December 26, 2007
It seems rather odd to me that there is such a dearth of good ramen shops in the City. While visiting a friend that lives in J town we headed to Tanpopo for a quick bite. Not bad. After a couple more trips, I’ve tried the Karamiso and Ankake Ramens, as well as the Chahan. [...]
KYOTO RAMEN***’
September 3, 2007
Kyoto Ramen/Yotekko Ya
