Mitsuyado Sei-Men

They are popular for their Tsukemen, which you need to dip your ramen with the dipping sauce.

Their Japanese springy noodles are freshly made in house, which you can catch the making process in front of the shop.

The marutoku comes with everything you need like roasted pork, half-boiled egg, assorted vegetables and seaweed.

I really like the yuzu dipping sauce, tasty but not too overwhelming. You may ask dashi soup if you need.

Tonkatsu soup blended with chili oil with a piece of roasted pork, spring onions, black fungus and spicy miso paste toppings RM21

This good-for-groups Japanese joint in The Starling Mall specialises in tsukemen – a ramen dish where you dip your noodles into a separate bowl containing a concentrated broth one mouthful at a time. Order the speciality, the Original Yuzu (from RM24.50) that sees thick Japanese noodles (served hot or cold) and a signature yuzu sauce with cubes of pork. Expect an oily and tangy yuzu broth that coats the chewy noodles perfectly when dipped into. They even provide hot dashi soup to add into the sauce which you can drink after – you won’t regret this. Dress up your noodles up with the Half Boiled Egg (RM2.50) with a perfectly runny centre. So good!
Photo by Burppler XingWei Cheang

The signature yuzu tsukemen here is even tastier than I remembered! Rich, oily and tangy broth that’s perfect for coating the thick noodles (you can have it hot or cold). They even give you extra hot dashi on the side which you can pour into the sauce and drink after – best part! Only wish they were more generous with the meat or other ingredients in the sauce.

Love that they offer dry ramen and with their signature yuzu sauce too! Topped with an onsen egg, pork cubes, fish cakes and more, this dish so flavourful and refreshing. My fav is that with every bite you get the tang from the yuzu.

*This portion is small and only offered for lunch. Still very filling for one!

Confusion hits when you order ramen, but they give you noodles and broth separately.

Turns out this is the specialty of Tsukemen ramen; where you're meant to dip each bite of (hot or cold, cold being preferred) ramen into the broth and pair it with the meat of your choice, mine being roast pork.

I wasn't too adventurous because I'm generally not the biggest ramen person but this place may make me a convert - I've not eaten much ramen, but I can tell you that this was good ramen.

Pretty excited to come back here and try out more of the menu.