First day on the job is always hectic. Who said the first week of work is easy? please stand up, please stand up. I would just say.. hell no.
After a hectic day, I thought of treating myself to a bowl of ramen for a good job I did today, plus I am soaking hungry. Decided to come to this ramen shop at an unexpected location, uptown of Palo Alto. The store is call Dohatsuten (怒髪天), which in Japanese means crazy hair pointing the sky. Kind of funny.
Came in the store around 7ish and the store is about half full. I seating in the store is a country Japanese style seating where just 4 bar seats with the rest tables. It is decently big place. I ordered the Dohatsuten Ramen and I did not even realize that 4 soup base can be chosen:soy sauce, salt, miso with yuzu, and pork bone base. Very interested what yuzu with miso taste like, but thought that should say safe with the regular salt base..
Soup: salt base but cant really tell if it is chicken or pork or both.
Noodle: straight yellow normal thickness noodle.
I was really confused after I had a sip of the soup. The soup did not strike me as a pork bone soup or chicken soup. Plus, it did not taste watery either. The first smell is the bamboo shoot on the side had a strong flavor. The threaded pork also give the soup a little of its flavor because I dont think they are cooked together. There is also 1 piece of chashu...
I thought it was a ordinary chashu with the meat flavor did not completely come out until couple of chew. I would rather have 3 pieces of these than the chopped pork in the center actually.
The plus about this noodle is the soft-boil egg is above average. After bitting into it, the egg yolk did exploded on my teeth. Good!
After thought, if this bowl is served in an chinese restaurant, I would not have thought that this is a ramen. My imagination of ramen is different than this bowl.
Have to say that if you really starving for ramen or live in the palo alto uptown area, give this place a try. I would come come back to try out the other soups though, they do have 4 different soup bases.
Just for fun! I search what dohatsuten online. Found a rock band name dohatsuten and they look to be pretty popular. here is a clip of No Music No Life! I doubt they are connected. lol.
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Dohatsuten Ramen
799 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.493.2878
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