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Thank you for waiting for my coming back from a 3 months (in fact 2 months) hiatus.
After the seminar in the university I went to Kanda alone in order to visit Yarou Ramen (野郎ラーメン).
As you know, before I had missed this shop with Koba last October.
In some websites it is called or regarded as "Jiro-inspired" (二郎インスパイア) therefore I expected good Jiro-like ramen.
About 8:45 p.m. in front of the shop there were two customers waiting in line before me.
I chose default Yarou Ramen (野郎ラーメン) (680 yen), in other words, I did not choose large-sized one.
And in this shop adding more vegetables costs 50 yen while all of Jiro and Jiro-inspired shops at least I know serves more vegetables free.
So I did not ask them to add more vegetables. And I felt distrust of this shop in my mind.
It was for about only 10 minutes that I was waiting in line.
And my ramen was served soon after I got a seat at the counter.
"S, smaller than I expected..." was my first impression.
I had the first bite to eat noodles and took a sip of its soup... Salty! And less flavored! (しょっぱいばかりで甘みやコクがない)
Moreover, the noodles were too thinner and tough for Jiro-inspired, which should use thicker noodles, I think.
And the roast pork was tough and was not enough seasoned.
In conclusion, I will never visit this shop again and never recommend it to my friends and other ramen fans.
It is only in name that Yarou Ramen is similar to Ramen Jiro.
But it should never be regarded as "Jiro-inspired" and we should never call it so.
This ramen is anything but Jiro.
This was the first time for me to drew such a obvious bad blank in ramen.
Ramen-Satan got angry, and it is sure that he will thunder at Yarou Ramen!
When I was about to go out of the shop, I was asked by one of its staffs whether I wrote a blog because I took photos of ramen.
But I was not able to answer frankly "yes" because then I had already felt like making the heavy criticism against the shop on my blog.
I chose default Yarou Ramen (野郎ラーメン) (680 yen), in other words, I did not choose large-sized one.
And in this shop adding more vegetables costs 50 yen while all of Jiro and Jiro-inspired shops at least I know serves more vegetables free.
So I did not ask them to add more vegetables. And I felt distrust of this shop in my mind.
It was for about only 10 minutes that I was waiting in line.
And my ramen was served soon after I got a seat at the counter.
"S, smaller than I expected..." was my first impression.
I had the first bite to eat noodles and took a sip of its soup... Salty! And less flavored! (しょっぱいばかりで甘みやコクがない)
Moreover, the noodles were too thinner and tough for Jiro-inspired, which should use thicker noodles, I think.
And the roast pork was tough and was not enough seasoned.
In conclusion, I will never visit this shop again and never recommend it to my friends and other ramen fans.
It is only in name that Yarou Ramen is similar to Ramen Jiro.
But it should never be regarded as "Jiro-inspired" and we should never call it so.
This ramen is anything but Jiro.
This was the first time for me to drew such a obvious bad blank in ramen.
Ramen-Satan got angry, and it is sure that he will thunder at Yarou Ramen!
When I was about to go out of the shop, I was asked by one of its staffs whether I wrote a blog because I took photos of ramen.
But I was not able to answer frankly "yes" because then I had already felt like making the heavy criticism against the shop on my blog.
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