Everyday Food I Love

Shabuton Tei Japanese Restaurant specialises in authentic Japanese ramen and gyoza, as well as shabu-shabu. This restaurant has a casual and welcoming ambience, it's an ideal place to hang out and unwind with friends. Get seated on their oil drum cushioned stool which can be opened up to throw in belongings or enjoy your food in the half opened-air dining area surrounded by wooden furnishing.

Kinryu Ramen in Osaka is hard to miss with it  colour red building and a gigantic green dragon on its roof. Kinryu, which stands for "Golden Dragon" serves Kyushu-style tonkatsu (pork) broth ramen and is a well-known landmark along Dotonbori. Kinryu is open 24hours a day, sometimes only one staff is manning the stall and it was self-service restaurant. For this economical restaurants, you have to pay for your ramen at the vending machine in front of the shop, with only 2 choices - standard ramen (600 Yen) and with more pork slices. Then hand your order tickets to the staff, take you queue number and find a seat at the tatami-mat platforms surrounding the open air kitchen and wait for your ramen.

Living Spring Restaurant is a fusion restaurant located in Damai, replacing Fukurou Japanese Restaurant. Serving variety of dishes, the fusion of Japanese and Western cuisines available in their Menu are pretty appealing.

Koshu Ichiba Wonton Men is a won-ton soup noodle chain in Tokyo, there is a branch located in Shinjuku. If you hate waiting, skip the lunchtime rush and head over for a warming evening meal instead. Their noodles broth here is made from a mixture of seafood ingredients such as dried shrimp, dried bonito and seaweed with well balanced flavours; and the noodles have just the right texture and consistency.  Koshu Ichiba also offers a range of side dishes.

A delicious and affordable Hakata ramen from this ramen joint named Hakata Tenshin, it has a number of outlets in Tokyo, and we went to the one nearest to our hotel at Kabukicho in Shinjuku. This outlet is located approximately 50m from the entrance of Kabukicho, the red-light district in Shinjuku, on the left row of shops, watch out for the eatery’s catchy huge pig mascot displayed outside the shop. Many locals drop by for a quick meal here and most of them sit at the counter. Hakata Tenshin’s thin noodles were cooked perfectly served in those piping-hot pork broth which was gloriously rich, milky and tasty. A standard bowl also comes with a large piece of nori. Add to that nice spicy mustard greens, a dash of sesame seeds, crisp and sweet pickled ginger, and a dab of garlic, and you'll get a perfect bowl of pork ramen.

When we were in Taichung, wandering around at Yizhong Street, we stumbled upon Takumiya (拓海家), a Japanese's ramen shop patronized mostly by the locals.

The latest rage is finally here in KK. Ramen - the latest trending food item not only in Malaysia, but almost everywhere else outside of Japan. With over 150 branches in Japan alone, we KKians are rather proud to be added into the list of fraternity of haves. So we have to thank Yamagoya Ramen for bringing more 'Culture' to KK and with it more variety to our grub choices.