Ramen Sou Omoshiroi Hou e Suminoe — Restaurant in Daito

Tucked inside a quiet corner of Daito, Osaka, Ramen So Omoshiroi Hou e—which translates to “Toward the Interesting Side”—isn’t just a ramen shop. It’s a challenge. A journey. A declaration that the ordinary isn’t enough.

The moment you step inside, the scent of simmering pork bone broth hits you like a memory. It’s loud. It’s hot. It’s alive. The energy crackles from the open kitchen to your seat. You don’t come here for peace—you come to feel something.

I ordered the Buta W Ramen, stacked with thick-cut pork slices like a mountain of intention. The broth was heavy with umami, clinging to the thick noodles that held their own under the weight of it all. I added Yasai, Ninniku, Abura, and Karame—the holy call-and-response of the Jiro-style faithful.

Each bite was unapologetic. Greasy in all the right ways. Wildly rich, yet somehow balanced. It didn’t ask for approval—it demanded your full attention.

This isn’t gourmet. It’s guts and glory. A meal that doesn’t just satisfy hunger, but imprints itself into memory. The kind of food that you talk about long after you’ve finished. The kind you crave again—not just for the taste, but for how alive it made you feel.

Ramen So Omoshiroi Hou e is more than a name. It’s a direction. And once you’ve been, you’ll understand—you really did take a step toward the more interesting...

Delicious jiro-style ramen! We went as a small group and lined up for an hour and a half on a weekday evening to get in, but people who were there alone were ushered in much more quickly.

The quantity of vegetables was a little less than the usual when I ordered zen-mashi, so I'd like to go again to get mashi-mashi vegetables or even try the "original call" system where you can tell the ramen man some abstract quantity like "vegetables as tall as the Tokyo Skytree" and he'll interpret it however he wants and serve it to you. The pork was a little dry,...

Don't go if you don't know what it's like. It's very very different from typical Japanese ramen. It is extremely salty and the layer of oil is so tick I don't even know if there's broth underneath. Maybe it'll taste good with ¼ of the salt and oil, but I'm not going to try it again... Very large portions and you can get 3 times the normal size for no extra...