Bloody pop, very very loud, contemporary excrement MTV-style, supper annoying. The music is obviously chosen by and meant to entertain the staff, not the customers. To the customers the message seems to be “LEAVE! LEAVE RIGHT NOW!” This is a chain restaurant with good ramen,...perhaps geared for the tourists, with service just OK, and the first one ever that I noticed one can pay the ticket machine with a credit card. Screen menu is easy to choose, with wording in English and photos for their varied choices. The specialty here is the shio ramen with yuzu, one of the three main native citrus fruits in Japan. Yuzu is a formidable addition to ramen, and it brings an explosive zest to the flavours, without being too spicy, or too acid. The tsukemen is great, and one could be surprised at the small bowl for the dipping sauce/broth, but because this is a thin sauce, it does not stick to the noodle in mass as the thick sauces do. There will be plenty left over, for you to sip from the bowl. This is a beautiful sauce, citric, with umami flavours, a bit savoury, sweet and certainly nutty, with the addition of the sesame seeds. Beautiful indeed, and in my opinion with a stronger yuzu character as compared to the great Hyotokko in Yurakucho. Super convenient, as it is open up to very late hours into the next day. If this is your third bowl of ramen for the day, order the normal size, as it has a nice small quantity of noodle and good amount of toppings. I chose the konyaku noodles, which felt just appropriate, but I want to try the regular what noodle next time. And certainly I’d like to try this ramen at the original store, Zund Bar in the middle of nowhere in Kanagawa (I think). Hopefully the food is at least as good and the music is better.More
