Ramen Rakura Hitoshina — Restaurant in Sendai

This ramen store uses only bones from the sea bream fish to make its soup stock. The moment you step into the store, the smell from the fish can be overpowering, however the broth itself is not fishy but tastes light and balanced. I would not say it is the best ramen i have had, as it is just different from your typical pork based ramen. It is more like a different noodle soup. The noodle is the soft style unlike the firmer one you get from normal ramen too. Overall, it is still good and worth Q-ing up for. I would recommend ordering the white soup ramen as it brings out the taste of the broth more. The clear base is too light and the soy sauce base is too salty. Skip the sesame base, it looks good but does not bring out the actual taste of the broth. Service is good and fast with the machine ordering system at the entrance. When finding out we are foreigners at the entrance, the boss would say, “Sorry, i do not speak English.” in very clear and fluent English 😄 He will lead you to remove your shoes, order at the machine and bring you to your table. Each table would have a cup of ice tea prepared for you. I arrived at 9:40am first in line. By the time the door opened at 10am, there were about 6 groups waiting in line behind me. Location is within walking distance of Sendai JR, located in a small quiet...

It's easily a 5 Stars. The clear soup sold out today, and ordered the salt one. The soup is shocking good! Perfectly balanced, refined, natural, thick and tasty yet fresh and comlex, feel like in a luxury cuisine, a perfect soup for the wonderful noodle. Could finish the soup easily. The food is prepared and cooked so skillfully and detailed, amazing! Egg is optional because the soup is too good, wonder if we could order the fish instead of the meats. Will come back for the clear soup definitely.

Update: Revisited and ordered the clear soup the next day. Still a refined broth, it's actually a salted fish soup without the white. I enjoyed the white salted broth more, the clear one lacks the magic the white salted soup offer. Will order the white again in...

Best fish based ramen I’ve had. Went just before 12 and there was no queue. I asked what they recommended and chose that (top right ramen on the machine). It was brilliant. Light but flavourful and not every salty like a lot of other fish ramens. I wasn’t even in the mood for anything fishy but it was brilliant and so glad I went. Service was friendly and welcoming and despite not claiming to speak English there were no hiccups in communication. There was a queue of about 7 people when I left...