Spotlighted Ramen Shop-Hisshoken

At the first glance, ramen seems easy to cook. Actually, it is not THAT difficult to cook ramen good enough to eat, but just being "good" is not at all enough to compete in a severe battle field like Tokyo where there are over 5,000 ramen shops. They are required to create outstanding ramen, attractive enough to satisfy customers' tongue, stomach and mind at the same time.
One of the short cuts to become a promised ramen shop owner is to train at existing popular ramen shop and learn the recipe there. In fact, successful ramen shops are swarmed by craftsmen-to-be who wish to apprentice to the shop masters day after day. Mr. Kobayashi, the shop owner and chef of Hisshoken, knocked on the door of popular ramen shops as well as many others. Most of them start their own shop after a few years training duplicating the ramen of which recipe they acquired without doubt, however Mr. Kobayashi was unique in that he started training himself at the second shop after mastering the recipe of his first model shop. His uniqueness has been brought into relief due to the fact that he trained himself at two legendary ramen shops, Taishoken@Higashiikebukuro and Taishoken@Eifukucho.

Succeeding to recipes of the two legendary ramen shops where Mr. Kobayashi sharpened his ramen cooking skills, he is offering both Tsukemen and Ramen at his ramen shop, Hisshoken. Both menus are most characterized by their soy sauce tasted soup with seafood (dried bonito & small sardins) aroma. Their noodles are sloppy in surface but help soup bring in our mouth with comfortable texture.They are so tasty that you wish you could eat as much as you want. Hisshoken offers the option to make your wish come true.You can order as much noodles as you want with only 100yen.

After a minute or two after taking a seat, you are gonna be asked your oreder. Since Hisshoken is offering both Tsukemen and Ramen, you need to decide which you will take, though this is quite a tough decision.(Both of them look so attractive!) Then you need to decide the size. If you are usually eating a small potrtion, the thing are simle: just order the normal size. But if you would like to enjoy Hisshoken's prominet noodles with extra 100yen, your choice will be widen from twice to infinite. In other words, you can decide how much noodle you will eat. Actually, some has eaten up noodle 10 times larger than the standard portion. Do you want to brake a record? But keep in mind it is never recommended to order larger portion than you think you can eat.

Located near from Chiba Kogyo University, Hisshoken has been crowded by students since its opening. This is a kind of evidence that Hisshoken has successfully acquired their backing by satifying their toungue and easing their hunger. Since strong support from university students is considered to be one of the most powerful driving force for ramen shops to become long-lasting, Hisshoken has apparently made an ideal start. But ramen at Hisshoken should not be occupied by university kids. Let's travel to Tsudanuma and join the watiting line. You will find it's worthy.(BON 2001. November 5)

WidgetBucks - Trend Watch - WidgetBucks.com

Click to go back to World Ramen.net HOME