Ippudo Ramen at Mandarin Gallery

Had dinner at Ippudo after my Japanese language class on saturday. The nearest branch was at Mandarin Gallery so we headed there. There was already a long queue when we got there just before 7pm. Food was good as usual but it found it kind of expensive. 2 bowls of ramen, 2 eggs, 1 gyoza and 1 beef stew for $75. 6 pieces of gyoza costs $8. That's really expensive. I'm not sure if it's me or the branch at Mandarin Gallery is more expensive than other branches.

 

Hi hamy!

Beef stew

Spicy Ramen with Char Shew

Weekends!

Had ramen at Ramen Kagetus Arashi last weekend.

It was an impromptu thing as we didn't know what else to eat. 

I think that going to Japan multiple times spoilt our taste buds.

We saw that the shop was quite crowded previously when we walked past so we decided to give it a go. Sad to say, it does not meet my expectations of a good ramen. 

To me, a good ramen has to be slightly less salty because if it is too salty or just nice at the beginning, it is pretty hard to finish the whole serving. Secondly, THE EGG. 

How I rank ramen is:

1. Soup

2. Egg

3. Noodles

The soup is alittle too salty/ rich. Egg was horrible. As I know how to marinate my own ramen eggs at home, I have really high expectations of the egg in ramen. Japan's ramen eggs are DA BOMB. The original egg that comes with Ramen Kagetus Arashi's Ramen is a hard boiled egg and it is not possible to change to the semi hard yolk. We had to buy an additional egg. Egg was overcooked. 

Noodles was alright I guess. 

One of the rare days when I'm in a picture as I am usually the one taking the picture.

The Hmmmmmmm face.

His order of some curry rice. Pepper lunch's version is better.

 

My ramen does not look appetizing because I requested for no vegetables.

We probably will not head back there again as we have had better ones in Singapore. 

Till the next Ramen!

Also over the same weekend, I went to my favourite Kim Dae Mun Korean food stall again!

This time with alot more people!

Whole table of food!

My usual spicy chicken soup.

Another usual!

Love bringing new people to try my favourite food.

Happy customers!

 Kim Dae Mun will be moving to #02-17/18 of the same building starting June 2014! Please take note!

Moving on to Thai food! Favourite version of glass noodle salad!

Same taste, different place.

These pictures are making me hungry now. 

It's almost 12 midnight so i have to control myself.

On a side note, I'm loving the new camera!

Ippudo Instant Ramen!

Back to the ramen craze! This time it's Ippudo's instant ramen. 

Love the packaging! 

Final Product.

Cooked this ramen following the instructions given in the booklet.

1. Heat up the soup packet by soaking it in hot water.

2. Boil 300cc of hot water and mix it with the soup packet.

3. Cook the noodles (duration depending on the firmness of the noodles that you prefer).

4. Add the noodles to the soup.

5. Add the additional condiments.

The brown packet contains seaweed in some kind of seasoning. I preferred the soup without the additional condiments but Chee Wee preferred it with everything inside! It also contains more stuff than the Ichiran ramen one. 

I got it from Tokyo Hands (in Tokyo) the first time.
The second time was from Fukuoka airport's duty free shop after passing immigration.

Bring home Ichiran Instant Ramen!

I brought my favourite Ichiran instant ramen home from my recent trip to Japan! 

There were 3 different kinds: soup, dry and cold noodles. 

This is the soup one. According to instructions, I am supposed to cook the noodles for 2 minutes in boiling water before making the soup. One step that I think should be improved on is to change the water after cooking the noodles. Cook the soup separately and pour it onto the noodles. Mine was too thick because of the starch from the noodles. It tasted great nevertheless. 

I will add more water than instructed as I find that I am lacking soup. The noodles was really good. 

Chee wee loved it too! Did not have time to get any sliced pork so we made do with roasted chicken :x 

This version is also the Ten Jin special I think. Will try the dry and cold noodles soon! 

Hope they taste as good!

The soup version.

Comes with 6 packets of noodles and 3 packets of soup sachets.

The soup essence.

How to cook your ramen.

Finished product!

Already feeling hungry looking at the noodles :(

This is the dry version. It is actually pretty tasty too!

1 packet of sauce with 1 packet of noodles.

This is the cold version! Interesting flavour I must say. 

It is totally different from the normal ramen. It tastes more Thai than Japanese. 

Not something that I like :X 

Hope to be able to try more of these ramen!