After Nara, we briefly passed by Osaka for a quick lunch before taking a train to Koya-san. We went to a ramen place near the Nankai station in Namba.
They got a waiting area inside the restaurant, very specifically laid out. I don’t know if its a byproduct of Covid, or if they were just specific.
While we were waiting, we checked out their ramen box. We should have grabbed a few boxes for Koya-san. More on that later.
We ordered a bowl of ramen for each of us- some soy sauce ramen, some shio ramen. The chef was warning us that if we order the noodle, we must finish the noodle. Oh I see, we got a small kid in the group, one bigger kid and they were doubting our ability to finish the bowl. Challenge accepted!
Can someone tell me what the red warning is about?
Shio:
Soy sauce:
More soy sauce:
Very good ramen. I actually liked their shio more than their more popular shoyu. Happy to go back in any future trips.
But I mean come on, those bowls weren’t even that big… We dutifully ate everything. We didn’t even leave one single strand of noodle.
Jouroku’s national ramen accolade:
The dizzying street outside.
Its pretty difficult to get all of four of us unhappy and feel mistreated at the same time but somehow it happened. Its not usually appropriate to write a negative review about a buddhist temple and its monks, but in this case, it needs to be done.
