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This place is real worth it on burpple beyond 3 of us ordered 4 mains and ended up paying only $11. The noodles had a really nice chewy texture. The whole bowl of noodles was dressed with this spicy mala-esque sauce that’s laden with sichuan peppercorns and was quite “salivating” as the name says but it gets abit too overpowering. The accompanying ingredients were just average.

They specialize in their yuzu broth and ramen here and I opted for the tsukemen that comes with a yuzu infused dipping sauce. The dipping sauce was pretty addictive, perfumed with toasted sesame and had a slight spice from I’m guessing a chili oil? The yuzu added a brightness to it but thought it could have been more present in the dish. The noodles were slightly overcooked in my opinion too. The accompanying players of the noodle were not too bad either but nothing to shout about.

Part of the $16 set lunch but ala carte about $6. Comes with sautéed mushrooms, fried shallots, spring onions, nori and a ramen egg. The flavors were all quite strong and it was a tasty bowl of noodles but overall it was surprisingly dry?? There could be more of a sauce or stock to make it more slurp-worthy. We asked for some
their spicy chili sauce which added a nice kick to the bowl.

The ramen bowls here are customizable in terms of the soup flavor, ingredients and noodle texture. I chose strong flavor (which is slightly saltier as “warned” by the staff) and hard noodle texture. The place also serves free flow hard boiled eggs and bean sprouts. The soup is the creamy tonkotsu kind as you would expect and there’s even bits of the rendered pork fat floating around the soup which made it really rich but it could be hotter temperature wise. The egg was well cooked with the seasoning penetrating all the way through while the yolk was still jammy. However, the chashu was abit it a letdown as it was quite a lean cut and very dry unless I doused it in the soup

Seafood broth, fresh crab meat, prawns, meatballs and thick short noodles aka 老鼠粉 or mee tai mak which I did not expect when I first tried to pick up the noodles thinking it would be the traditional pho noodles. They were actually a nice surprise and had a bouncy texture to them which I rly liked. The broth was really clean tasting and squeeze in some lime and stir in some fish sauce to give it an extra oomph. The crab meat and prawns were fresh but could’ve been more generous with the crab given that it’s supposed to be the main ingredient.

Came with bamboo, spring onion, egg and a piece of char siew. The soup was thick but not as flavorful as I expected it to be so adding the garlic chips helped to enhance the soup. The noodles were on the firmer side which I prefer so that was nice. The most disappointing component was the char siew, it had nice caramelization but not tender enough and abit on the tougher side. Had better experiences here before so maybe today was an off day.

Ordered the mazesoba with the variety toppings and also to make the most of the Beyond 1 for 1. Came with 2 different cuts of pork, karaage, soft boiled egg, menma, seaweed and spring onions. They insist on you mixing the noodles for 20 seconds before diving in so I do so as well.

The mixing of the sauce and the broken soft boiled egg creates a rich savory “ZHAP” that coats the noodles really well and the noodles are also cooked well but lean towards a firmer, bouncier texture. As for the toppings they are decent but nothing to shout about, both cuts of pork and the karaage were tender and i’m not a fan of menma. If you want to add some oomph to your noodles, squirt in some chili oil and a dash of vinegar which I think lifts the dish to another level.

Overall a pretty good experience and I would come back to try the other flavors on offer and those who are rly hungry can also upgrade your noodle serving size to 1.5x for free.

$16 for the set that comes with a side dish and a drink made it quite worth but that’s about all that’s good about this set meal. The broth didn’t have the depth of flavor that a good ramen should have and just tasted salty without the rich porky flavor. The meat was tender but once again too salty. The noodles were the only acceptable ingredient and they still had a little bit of a bite to them but strangely had a tinge of ginger flavor.

This looks so simple but it was so good. It had the fragrance of garlic and wokhei without being overpowering. The noodles have the thickness of a meekia but it’s not overcooked and still chewy. I think the thin noodles also allowed it to absorb all the flavor from the garlic.

I would get bowls and bowls of this but it’s $6 for such a small bowl SIGH