Ramen Kurume Honda Shoten Ramen Studio — Restaurant in Fukuoka

This is not a soy sauce or salt ramen, but a tonkotsu ramen.

As common tonkotsu ramen literally simmers pork bones for a long time, it is basically a cloudy soup.On the other hand, Honda Heijiro shoten, which opened from Kurume in Fukuoka, realized a clear soup by carefully simmering pork at low temperature.

First of all, tonkotsu ramen is born in Kurume about 80 years ago. At the time, this clear soup was commonplace, but it was said that it was now cloudy.

If you don't know anything, it's so simple that you don't think it's tonkotsu. The store where ingredients are filled in another plate also emphasizes the transparency of the soup.

It is also good to change the taste by putting Yuzu-gosho(dumpling pepper) in...

We stumbled upon the Ramen Stadium as we were visiting the Canal City Hakata, a place where we can sample different type of regional Japanese ramen.

After reviewing different stalls, we decided to give Kurume Honda Shoten a try as we never has ramen from this area before. Little did we know Kurume was the birthplace of Tonkotsu Ramen in late 1930s.

We ordered 3 different types and they all have a rich creamy pork bone broth, topped with eggs, scallions, charsu, and seaweed. The noodles were slightly thicker than those normally served in Fukuoka and have this very chewy texture.

Overall, their ramen were flavorful but a little...

Bought so called popular No.1 ramen at 1150 Yen. Noodles is on the soft side, at the finishing stage it's all soften already.

Broth is okay, can't taste anything particular, pork meat melt in your mouth, but it's cold, if they could grill it before serving will be the best.

Egg is good, other than that I can't say much...