It was deadly cold all the day today.
In spite of the fact that I promised Kaz to start muscular exercises at Kunitachi city since 4 p.m. and it takes 1.5 hours to go there from my room, it was already 2:30 p.m. when I woke up.
I send him an E-mail with the cellular phone, "sorry, I woke up just now. Can we delay starting exercises for 1 hour?"
We reached the gym about 6 p.m.
It just was not my day today.
I omitted to take with myself from the lab of my university sports shoes which we must wear when we do exercises at the gym of Kunitachi city. (So I hurried back to my lab by bicycle in order to take them from the gym through the deadly cold air. ToT)
Because of my omitting I had less time to do enough exercises. And Kaz did less exercises because he was going to go skiing with his old friends and professors in Nagano prefecture so he did not want a muscular pain.
After exercises we moved to Higashi-koganei (東小金井) in order to eat ramen at Ramen Dai (らーめん大), one of ramen shops inspired by Ramen Jiro (らーめん二郎).
At first we was not able to find out this shop so we wandered around Higashi-koganei station with looking for it. My hands holding the map were numb with cold.
This is the first time for us to visit Ramen Dai including its all branches.
We had to wait a little for seats to come open but was able to get them soon.
A young man looking as old as I managed this shop alone at this time.
I did not like him to greet and speak lower; a staff of ramen shop should greed loudly and lively.
わたしたちが「らーめん大」を訪れるのは、他の支店も含めて、初めてである。
東小金井の「大」は、わたしたちが訪れたときは、わたしと同じくらいの若い男性店員が一人で切り盛りしていた。この店員がひどく声が小さく、しかも挨拶もなく不案内なので、初めて訪れたわたしたちは満席の店内でどこに並んでよいかわからず困惑してしまった。しかも、声の小ささに加えてタオル（バンダナ？）を目深に被っているので、彼が目の前のすでにカウンターに座っている客に話しかけているのか、それともこの店での行列の作法を知らず困惑しているわたしたちに話しかけているのか、判別するのはしばしば困難だった。「ラーメンデータベース*」においても、この店員かどうかはわからないが、この店の店員の接客は悪いという評価がなされている。
I ordered large-sized ramen (ラーメン大盛) (700 yen) as well as Kaz.
He said to me that it tasted good but I do not think so. It did not tasted bad, however compared with other Jiro-inspired ramen shops I think that Ramen Kagemusha (らーめん影武者) is better than Dai and I prefer Kagemusha to Dai. But it is sure that its boiled pork did not taste good.
A poster put in this shop said "please eat our ramen 3 times, and you will appreciate its deliciousness."
But I am not sure that I visit this shop the other 2 times in order to eat and appreciate it.
わたしとKazはラーメン（600円）を大盛（+100円）にして注文した。
彼はこのラーメンは旨かったとわたしに言ったが、わたしは内心ではそう思ってはいなかった。もちろんまずくはなかったが、他の「二郎インスパイア系」のラーメン店と比較すると、わたしは「らーめん影武者」のほうが東小金井の「大」よりも旨いと思うし、わたしは「影武者」のほうが好きである（「影武者」のほうが店員の愛想がいいということも、わたしの「影武者」贔屓と無縁ではない）。
味に関して言えば、ここの「大」のチャーシューが大して旨くもなかったことは断言できる。少なくともわたしは好きではない。野菜は茹で方が足りないのか、とりわけキャベツの外皮近く濃い緑の部分が固いままだったのが気になった。
店内の張り紙には「当店のラーメンは3回食べてください。そうすればおいしさがわかります」と書かれていた。しかし味以上に、店員の接客の悪さが非常にネックであり、その味を理解するために、わたしが残り2回わざわざ東小金井まで足を運ぶかどうかは不透明である。ちなみにわたしは店員の接客の悪さには非常にうるさく、その悪さのゆえに国立の「伝説のすた丼」や高田馬場の「べんてん」には行かなくなった。
Large-sized ramen
After having teas at Mos Burger (モスバーガー) in front of Higashi-koganei station, we left each other there about 11:00 p.m.
I was almost dead because of deadly cold in the night while I was waiting for a train at that station.
In spite of the fact that I was born in a colder region (Fukushima prefecture) than Tokyo, my 7 years living in Tokyo undoubtedly made me weak in cold.
And I noticed that I had eaten too much ramen (Jan. 26, 27, 30, Feb. 2 and today, 5 times in the last 10 days!)
I will not eat ramen including instant noodles in the next 7 days at least!
Kaz in front of Ramen Dai
I did not intend to shoot him but he suddenly entered the frame as I leveled my camera. He has read this blog once before so he must have wanted to appear here!
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