[日本料理] authentic Japanese ramen in GVRD GVRD, Japanese, authentic, ramen

Quest

Disclaimer: I have absolutely no affiliation with this noodle house other than the fact that I luv it's noodles, and the pork bone soup stock, been there many times since early last week while my caucasian colleague of mine (who speaks and writes fluent Japanese BTW) took me there and I've been hooked to it since.

It's called Menya (men-ya) on Broadway and Yukon, just a small corner shop. All the folks working inside are Japanese but speak decent English. Their famous "store" noodle is the Nagahama tonkotsu ramen which is quite good, with good noodles (cooked just the way I like it and good texture also), and pork bone broth that is cooked with care. I ordered the set which comes with gyoza and a rice wrap also. On their wall they also have soyu ramen, tan-tan mein, chasiu ramen, etc. which I will definitely give them a try next time.

While I cannot speak for all other noodle luvers here, all I could say is that I would go there for lunch ever so often from now on (nothing tastes good in dwntwn these days, esp. with that one single noodle house on Howe st. that is operated by Koreans and the food has gone downhill since I started eating there 8+yrs ago...) In other words: nothing dwntwn is authentic anymore and tasted horrible IMHO.

I give them 8.5 out of 10

Quest

Lik

Quest Gor,

I like Menya quite a bit as well, as their miso and tonkotsu soup base has a distinctly different, but equally tasty flavour compared to other well-known Japanese ramen places in town. However, I didn't particularly like their Nagahama tonkotsu ramen.

Everything about the Nagahama ramen was good, except for the fact that the chef added pink ginger shreds as one of the ingredients as well. The gingery taste just didn't go along well with the rest of the tonkotsu soup base, nor did it blend well with the chasiu. And the worst thing about those ginger strips were precisely that -- they were thin strips that was impossible to completely remove from the rest of the soup/ramen.

-Lik

布小熊

i like menya too!
I walk by it every week and I am temped to go in every time....

Quest

Yes, I concur that the only objectionable condiment in the Nagahama ramen is the shredded ginger. While I'm a big fan of ginger of most kinds (and thus my fondness for this noodle), my east-Indian colleague found it to be quite "not to his taste".

I guess one can ask to forget about adding ginger shreds when ordering this ramen, or try something else (like soyu ramen, chasiu ramen, etc.)

Q.

auyatyat

上次路過試o左menya..我覺得幾好
唔係太多味精
但係我男朋友話淡o左少少