Kitakata Ramen Ban Nai - Jersey City, NJ🇺🇸 喜多方ラーメン 坂内

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Back to Ban Nai for my last ramen of 2017. 坂内さんに2017年ラーメン食べおさめ。Ramen with 5pcs extra chashu and ajitama. チャーシュー５枚と味玉をプラスでいただきました。

Got some gyoza too.  今日は餃子も。

Love the medium thick noodles. 喜多方ラーメンの中太麺大好き。The egg is $1.00.  How awesome is that! I say it is Eggcellent!  味玉が＄１。最高。エッグセレント！

Menu - awesome prices メニュー　値段が安い〜

Entering Downtown Jersey City, few blocks from Ban Nai.
ジャージーシティーのダウンタウン入り口、坂内さんはすぐ先。道間違えるとちょっと怪しい感じ。。

Located in a food court inside this Chinese supermarket.
中国系スーパー内のフードコートにあります。

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Ramen - Kitakata Style
Location - Jersey City, NJ
Price - $7.99 and up
Visited - 12/31/2017
Weekdays:　Lunch　11:00AM – 3:00PM ／ Dinner　4:30PM – 8:30PM
Weekends:　10:30AM – 8:30PMhttp://ramenbannai.com/

Ippudo - East Village, NY🇺🇸 一風堂ニューヨーク

Akamaru Modern

The popular ramen shop Ippudo. Probably the most popular in New York. ニューヨークで大人気の一風堂。おそらく一番人気。

The first location in East Village. There's always a line so expect a wait if you go. Yeah that's me taking pictures.

イーストビレッジのニューヨーク１号店。いつも並んで流ので待つのを覚悟でいきましょう。ガラスに写ってる写真撮ってるやつ、私です。。

Ramen - Hakata Tonkotsu

Price - $16 and up

Return - Maybe

http://www.ippudony.com/

Ramen Nagomi - New Brunswick, NJ ラーメン和🇺🇸

Ramen shop in downtown New Brunswick which opened in 2016. 2016年に開業したニュージャージー・ニューブランズウィックのダウンタウンにあるラーメン屋さん。

Miso Crab Ramen みそカニラーメン

 Popular ramen spot for Rutgers (Go RU!) students as well as ramen fans from all over. ラトガース大学近辺にあり、学生や他地域のラーメンファンに人気。

BYOB!

Ramen - Different Types
Price - $11 and up
Visited - 12/29/2017 (second time)
Return - Maybe
www.ramennagomi.com

Rai Rai Ken - East Village, NYC

Rai Rai Ken - East Village, NYC🇺🇸
来々軒 - イーストビレッジ・ニューヨーク

12/28/2017 Update:

Shoyu wonton men on a freezing day in New York. My eyes were tearing just by walking to Rai Rai Ken😂
醤油ワンタン麺 今日はニューヨークは寒かったー。歩いてるだけで涙出てきた。。😂

Wonton, memma, half egg, spinach, nori, and scallions　昔ながらの具

Easy to see menu with pictures　写真付きの見やすいメニュー

Like a ramen shop in Japan 日本にいるような内装

They have happy hour weekdays from 4pm-6pm. Discounted drinks and some appetizers. I had some gyoza and beer today-
平日午後４時−６時はハッピーアワー。飲みのもとアペタイザー数品が値引き
今日はビールと餃子いただきましたー

6/26/2016: Offering traditional Tokyo style ramen originating from Rai Rai Ken in Asakusa, Tokyo. 

The shoyu ramen and shio ramen are their signature ramens.

Go with wonton or chashu.
Affordable prices and a true ramen shop atmosphere.

Ramen: Shoyu, Shio, and other different types
Price: $11 and up
Visited: Multiple times
Return: Maybe
https://www.rairaiken-ny.com/

Batten Ramen - Fort Lee, New Jersey

Batten Ramen - Fort Lee, New Jersey🇺🇸

12/25/17 update:  Merry Christmas everyone! Christmas ramen at Batten today, I chose the spicy miso ramen. They gave me a lot of bean sprouts today!😀 メリークリスマス！今日はフォートリーNJのばってんラーメンで辛味噌ラーメン。もやしが多めのクリスマスプレゼント 笑

Serving different ramen, Tonkotsu, Shoyu, Miso, Champon, Spicy. I usually order the Miso or Champon in regular or spicy. Good price and portion. They also serve different appetizers and Japanese food. The ramen sets are a good deal too if you are hungry.


Ramen - Different types
Location - Fort Lee, NJ
Price - $10 and up
Visited - Multiple times
Return - Yes

Spicy Miso Ramen

Champon

Miso Ramen

Shoyu Ramen

Spicy Champon

Bassanova Ramen - Chinatown, NYC

Bassanova Ramen - Chinatown, NYC🇺🇸
バサノバ - ニューヨークチャイナタウン

Located in Manhattan's Chinatown, Bassanova Ramen is a branch of a popular Tokyo ramen shop.  They are famous for their green curry ramen. Today I tried the Lemon & Black Pepper Tondaku Ramen. It's a pork tonkotsu broth, not sure how tondaku is made but it is pork based. It had black peppers, 4 slices of lemon , 2 pieces chasu, kikurage, sesame, some fried onions and scallions. The thin noodles are made by Sun Noodle. Overall different from other shops.
Restaurant is located in Chinatown in half basement so you may miss it if you aren't paying attention.

They are CASH ONLY.

東京に本店を持つバサノバラーメン。グリーンカレーラーメンで有名なお店です。豚骨ベースの豚濁ラーメンというのがメニューに多いです。トリュフやレモン、グリーンカレー、トムヤンクンと変わったラーメンがあります。個人的にそういうのは好みではないので食べてないですが興味がある方はぜひ試してみる価値あり。
ニューヨークチャイナタウンにあり、半地下なので少し分かりにくいかもしれません。
現金オンリーです。

Ramen - Tonkotsu broth, Green Curry, etc.
Location - Chinatown, NYC
Price - $15 and up
Visited - 12/16/2017
Return - Maybe

Lemon & Black Pepper Tondaku Ramen

The Tondaku page.

Tonchin - Midtown West, NY 🇺🇸 屯ちん - ミッドタウンウエスト、ニューヨーク

Tonchin - Midtown West, NYC🇺🇸

屯ちん - ミッドタウンウエスト、ニューヨーク

12/20/2017 Update

I went back to Tonchin tonight to try the Smoked Dashi Ramen since I love fish based ramen. It was a pork and fish (smoked fish oil) soup with clams, half ajitama (marinated egg), mizuna (water greens), memma, and of course home made noodles. Pork broth is excellent, and the fish based ramen fans can enjoy the addition of smoked fish dashi and the clams. The soup was souperb! Souper! Noodles were good just like the last visit, cooked nice and excellent match with soup.

Now open 12 - 2:30pm and 5:30-10pm weekdays, 12 - 2:30pm and 5:30-9pm Sat & Sun.

屯ちん　魚豚はまぐりラーメン
友人とラーメン忘年会ということでミッドタウンの屯ちんにいってきました。
前回メニューで気になっていた魚豚はまぐりラーメンをトライ。
ニューヨークでは豚骨が流行っていて魚介系が少ないので朝から頭の中は魚介。
自家製中太麺もスープとよく合い美味しくいただきました！

Smoked Dashi Ramen

池袋に本店を持つ人気ラーメン店が2017年11月にニューヨークでオープン！

Serving Tokyo Tonkotsu Ramen. Ramen shop chain from Tokyo just opened (Nov 2017) in NYC. They prepare everything in-house, including their noodles. Soup is tonkotsu broth, creamy and smooth. Noodles are homemade medium wavy noodles. Toppings are thin sliced chashu, memma, nori, half ajitama, and scallion. They also have spicy tan tan, pork and smoked fish broth, and vegan ramens.
Interior is small but modern, long bar counter with tables in the back of the restaurant.
They just opened and have temporary business hours of 6pm - 9pm.
Price is high, for ramen and beer, but excellent quality ramen.


Ramen - Tokyo Tonkotsu Ramen
Location - Midtown West, NYC
Price - $16 and up
Visited - 11/17/2017
Return - Yes 

tonchinnewyork.com

Tokyo Tonkotsu Ramen

Spicey Tan Tan

Jika Seimen Ito - Akita, Japan

Jika Seimen Ito - Akita, Japan 自家製麺 伊藤　秋田県/角舘🇯🇵

Posting a ramen shop I've visited in Japan in the past.
This is the original Ito in Akita Prefecture in Japan.  There are several Ito ramen shops in Tokyo now and is Michelin rated.
Offering Shoyu ramen with niboshi (dried baby sardine) based broth.  They keep it very simple, with just shina soba and shina soba with chashu.

They have shops in Ginza, Akabane and Asakusa in Tokyo.  Worth a try if you are in Tokyo!

Noodle is home made, cooked firm.  I got the large portion and noodle portion was more than the soup.  The niboshi shoyu soup was excellent, I just couldn't stop stuffing my mouth with the firm noodles. Sometimes simple is best.

There are no signs and looks like a regular house with Japanese flags 🇯🇵. so a little hard to find.  Look for the flags if you are going.

Ticket machine, simple with small, medium and large for the 2 ramens they offer.

Chopsticks on the counter.  That's not a ghost in the background, that's my son hangry and waiting for ramen.

Zurutto Ramen & Gyoza Bar - Upper West Side, NYC

Zurutto Ramen & Gyoza Bar - Upper West Side, NYC🇺🇸

Ramen shop serving chicken based (tori paitan) ramen located in Upper Westside, Manhattan.  I went when it first opened in April 2016 and this was the second time.  First time I tried their miso ramen, and today the Zurutto Chicken (Paitan) Ramen.  Very good chicken paitan broth, served with thin noodles cooked just right.  Came with 2 thick chashu, memma, half soft boiled egg, onion and scallion ($12).  They offer different chicken paitan based ramen (see menu below) so I will go back to try the others!

They have happy hour special Sapporo draft + Tori Karaage (3 pieces) for $5 which was nice too.  I wanted to try their gyoza but had to go with the happy hour special (2 of them LOL).  Good ramen for a snowy NY day.

ニューヨーク・アッパーウエストの鶏白湯ラーメン＆餃子店。2016年4月オープンした際に一度行って今日は2度目。前回は味噌ラーメンで今回はベーシックの鶏白湯ラーメン。好みのコクのある白湯スープに固めの細麺。大きめチャーシュー２枚、メンマ、半味玉、生たまねきにネギ。スープがもうちょっと熱い方が好みだけど美味しかった。鶏白湯ベースで他にも色々種類があるからまた行かないと。

ハッピーアワーでサッポロ生＋鶏唐揚げが＄５があります。餃子も食べたかったけど今日はハッピーアワーいっちゃった(ビールのために x 2　笑）


Ramen - Chicken Paitan Ramens
Location - Upper West, NYC
Price - $12 and up
Visited - 12/15/2017
Return - Yes
zuruttoramen.godaddysites.com

Zurutto Chicken Ramen