Thursday, November 13, 2014

Seafood Ramen, Ramen Sea, Sunnyvale, CA

Another Wednesday intense tennis which almost paralyzed me..

Want to record yesterday dinner with Jess in Ramen Sea in Sunnyvale.  We arrived around 7:30pm and unexpectedly waited for 15 min for table..

We went with the original taste of seafood and clam ramen.  I did add egg and spinach.  An excerpt, only one noodle type.


The soup is pork bone based with seafood.  The add would be the garlic oil which bring another jiz to taste.  Egg is soft and perfectly cooked.  Half cut egg is always a standard for me on a good bowl.
Noodle is the curly yellow noodle which might need some more time to soak up the soup.

It is definitely a nice switch from the heavier soup of Kotetsu/Orenchi/Kahoo.  Will try Tonkotsu based soup next time. And, Yaki onigiri looks very tempting!


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Ramen Sea 
173 S Murphy Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
http://ramenseas.com/

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Kotteri Miso, Kahoo Ramen, San Jose

Who would have thought public notary has so many different options?  I spent the whole morning running 3 stores to find out the difference.  It should be easier!

Ramen after a busy morning is well rewarding proposition!  Orenchi is always too many people, I went to Kahoo in Mitsuwa plaza to get their Koteri Miso ramen.


Amazingly Kahoo also needs to wait 30 minute line!  Ramen fire is continuing in the bay area! 

Koteri in Japanese means dense, becomes the standout of this ramen.  Bean sprout is washed and preserved the crispiness. chashu is the kakuni (pork belly) in couple pieces, in complement of the yellow curly noodle.

Just make sure you put a towel in front of your shirt! Those noodle does bounce around the soup! 

Other ramen I have tried are Kokuman shoyu, tan tan men.  All are decent!  

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Kahoo Ramen
4330 Moorpark Ave
San Jose, CA 95129


Monday, November 10, 2014

Tsujita LA & Tsujita LA Annex

It feels like Giants before 2010 championship that I have not written a blog about ramen! ... to give them prop, Giants won again in 2014 through the god sent #MadBum!  Amazing!

Thinking back of the year that I been slacking off, decisions of either slow down the pace of eating ramen due to health concerns and also the lack of new places in the bay area deterred me from my journey.  It was childish to put aside dreams completely.

Thanks my business trip + friend's birthday down in LA, couple friends and I went into Tsujita LA and Tsujita Annex.




Guess which one is which~. (laugh).  

Both places reminded me of places in Japan I used to go to.  The seafood porkbone bonito heavy flavor completely complements chewy but not unbreakable yellow round egg noodle.  First taste fills with a full bonito smell and taste.

Annex features more “二郎”ish ramen soup with porkbone shoyu flavor.  The egg noodle is more flat but can suck more soup into the noodle.  One of the obvious difference is the saltiness of this bowl and also the heavy porkbone flavor.  Bean sprout and string green onion are one of the bright spots for me.

Ambiance of both stores are similar with Annex with better lighting and bar like area.  Personally I do put the original store on top of my list of tsukemen!  Time to get another bowl!

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Tsujita LA Artisan Noodle
2057 Sawtelle Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Tsujita LA Artisan Noodle
2050 Sawtelle Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90025