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Brought the fiancee because she loves umeshu. She picked this on top of the tasting set as she likes tea too.

Brought the fiancee because she loves umeshu. I love hard tacos, but the fatal flaw here was the mediocre chicken, which spoilt everything.

Brought the fiancee because she loves umeshu. We added this because the prawns in the ramen were very good quality. The problem here was it's way too salty.

Brought the fiancee because she loves umeshu. I've always liked dry ramen so this was generally okay. Prawns were high quality. But it's spicier than we thought and the noodle was the hard kind.

Brought the fiancee because she loves umeshu. That's the dish's name. Lovely texture, featuring well-fried exterior and gooey interior, but the uni taste wasn't as strong as hoped.

Brought the fiancee because she loves umeshu. Three tasting flights. (From left) Pineapple, yuzu, blood orange. The first had the highest alcohol so it's for those who prefer that. It's not really for me. The others were nice too.

We had dinner tonight at @hanamaruken_sg Hanamaruken Ramen, a famous ramen shop from Osaka. It's one of our go-to ramen shops, especially for the Signature Happiness (Mega)! It has so much meat in it.

The star of the show, of course, was the Signature Happiness (Mega). This behemoth of a dish is piled high with tender, succulent pork ribs, making it a carnivore's dream come true. The rich, flavorful broth complements the meat perfectly, creating a truly satisfying meal.

While the Signature Happiness (Mega) was the highlight of the meal, We also tried a few other dishes. While most were nothing special, the Chahan Japanese Fried Rice was surprisingly delicious. It was packed with flavor and had the perfect texture.

It’s been awhile since my last visit to Lazada One for some meals and decided to return to grab a bowl of ramen from this ramen restaurant.

Hanamaruken Ramen is not an ordinary shop, it is a famous ramen shop from Osaka. Which you may familiar with it if you been to Osaka often.

Their signature ramen would definitely be this Happiness Ramen, so get it to see whether it would make me happy.

It comes with braised marbled soft bone pork rib, which is more firm than most pork ribs you could ever have for a ramen. Yet it wasn’t too hard to chew.

The tonkotsu broth has been simmered for hours to give you the toast of umami. Accompanied by tamago egg and fresh garnishing.

When the bowl is served to your table, you won’t miss out the Japanese wording in-scripted on their nori, which means great auspiciousness. I guess this would already a great start towards happiness to receive such blessing.

($9.90) My friend ordered with add-on gyoza and yuzu soda ($6).

($9.90) It's under lunch deal so I asked my friends whether they wanted to try their ramen. I felt that their ramen portion was quite small tbh. My friend did topped up for size. The ramen noodle was quite thick and chewy texture. I felt that it's not that spicy and strong umami taste for overall. Need to mix it up evenly before eating dry ramen.

The last time I dined at @hanamaruken_sg , I had rice instead of their famous ramen that’s achieved legendary status in its hometown of Osaka. So this time I had to set things right, and I ordered a Double Happiness Ramen ($19.80++). Double Happiness barely begins to describe the joy of seeing this bowl of ramen laden with chashu, a sizeable slab of soft bone pork rib, a whole ramen egg, and lots of bamboo shoots.⠀
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I am well acquainted with the stellar soft bone pork rib, and it was just as tremendously tender and tasty as the last time. It has been stewed for so long until the soft bones, which are normally inedible, have turned into tubes of pure collagen. Ladies, forget all that overpriced crap from that skee-skee ass cosmetics company that keeps putting unavoidable twenty second ads on my YouTube mobile videos. Just eat a whole slab of this astonishingly tender pork rib that falls apart when you pick it up with chopsticks regularly, and you’ll have skin as smooth as a baby’s.⠀
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Of course, the broth is the pride and joy of Hanamaruken for good reason. It’s easily the most flavourful, richest & most luscious ramen broth I’ve had in Singapore, and it’s the perfect bath for the springy handmade ramen along with all the amazing accoutrements. Crazy what boiling pork bones along with soy sauce & a whole bevy of secret spices for more than eight hours can do. The chashu is more familiar to us Chinese as regular braised pork belly, but it’s even more tender & delicious thanks to the low & slow stewing process.⠀
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Now, whoever said that money can’t buy happiness needs to get over here so I can smack some sense into them.

($6) come 2 random dish (got ginger flavour pork and fried mixed colour pepper) (they will be changing daily) with rice and oden soup. I really enjoy ginger flavour pork as it was strong taste for fried pork. But I didn't really eat fried mixed colour pepper so I passed it to my friend instead.

Chawan-Mushi

($4) I didn't intended to order this but the ingredients inside was really not that fresh such as fishcake. At least, they keep chawan-mushi hot and warm before serving.