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Kanada-Ya 金田家

This one’s a bit of a mixed experience, and I think a few factors could make or break it depending on when you visit. I went on a Saturday evening without a booking. It was super busy, which is usually a good sign, but I had to wait around 15 minutes outside for a table. Once seated, the service felt rushed and impersonal – staff were clearly overwhelmed, running around like headless chickens, and it felt like they just wanted to get people in and out quickly.

I asked for some guidance with the menu since there are a lot of ramen options, and while the server gave me a recommendation, it wasn’t very helpful. I was surprised that the ramen doesn’t come with an egg as standard and you had to pay to have it – though the marinated egg I ordered was very tasty.

I mentioned that I enjoy spicy food and was recommended their spicy version of ramen. Unfortunately, it was way too spicy – so much so that it completely overpowered the flavour and richness of the broth. It didn’t taste like a properly balanced spicy ramen, more like a regular broth with loads of chilli sauce mixed in. At that level of heat, it would’ve made much more sense to serve the chilli oil on the side and let customers adjust it themselves.

That said, the ingredients themselves were fresh and good quality, so I do believe their standard ramen bowls are probably much better. But overall, between the lack of care in service and the overpowering dish, the experience just didn’t leave a good taste in my mouth – and I wouldn’t return to try anything else.

I had no intention of eating ramen this evening, but when I passed by this restaurant, I decided to give it a shot.

I ordered the Tonkatsu X ramen with a Hanjuku Ramen Egg.

The bowl of noodles came to my table in less than 5 me minutes.

The broth was excellent and the noodles were cooked to perfection. The sliced pork belly was also tasty and tender.

The Ramen egg was prepared beautifully, firm on the outside with the yolk being slightly runny inside.

Service was top notch to say the least.

The ramen was delicious. I ordered the spicy ramen with an extra egg (the egg was so good!) I was honestly impressed when the food arrived; it looked amazing 😂😂 The rice was also tasty, though it might be even better with some sauce or something since it was a bit on the dry side.

Ramen was yummy and the broth flavoursome. It's a very busy place and the service is very slow due to lack of staff available, they are really nice though. It definitely felt very overpriced. We spent £50 for two rames and I did not get any additions on mine.

I came here with high expectations but was a bit let down. First of all, my all time favourite ramen will always be tonkotsu pork ramen. So, I order it every time I go to any ramen places. Their tonkotsu ramen has great flavoursome broth and the noodles was cooked to my liking. One of my complains was...they charge an extra £2.85 if you want an egg in your ramen. Which shocked me truly as this is the first ever ramen place that I went to that charge for an egg. I thought it automatically comes with all ramens. Second was, the pork, though thinly cut, it wasn't tender at all. I'm used to kinda melt in your mouth pork belly in tonkotsu. So, was really disappointed with my ramen. The best part was the Karaage chicken. It's also one of my favourite Japanese food so I was well impressed with it.

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