Ramen Showa — Restaurant in Tokyo

Cute little ramen shop filled with friendly locals and nice staff.

I tried the spicy miso ramen, and yes, it’s spicy. You can choose up to 7 levels of spicy. Up to level 4 is delicious, but 5 and above is reserved for crazy people with a death wish or if you want to make your butt cry. (Says so on their menu).

The flavor was good, but nothing out of this world. The noodles were a nice but normal egg style ramen noodle. The char siu was cut up and had good flavor and char. The egg was a fully boiled, non-ajitama and didn’t taste like anything special.

Yes. My butt did regret the spicy level I ate.

The shoyu ramen had a nice broth. Very clean and good balance of flavors. Not too salty and light tasting. I liked it. It used similar normal noodles as the spicy miso version. The char siu in this one was a whole piece and didn’t have a lot of flavor to it. Good ramen if you like a very light and plain taste.

Lots of locals here and friendly staff gave it a nice easy going vibe. Seats opened up quickly so no worries if there’s...

POOR ATTITUDE. SHYT EXPERIENCE. NICE WAITRESS BUT RUDE RACIST CHEF.

We passed by this store while we heading back to our car. Right after a nice YAKITORI dinner at (Nihonbashi Torikyu)

My husband took a second look inside the store from the window glass and a nice young lady came out of no where with a book. Due to language barrier, we didn’t understand who she was. Then she went into the ramen store.

Shortly after, we went in as my husband got craving for ramen. Placed order for the FIRST ramen, and they clarified “miso ramen ONE?” “Yes”

Chef: “NO” and blabbered on *(then the poor girl was so nice and trying to cross her finger to signal she can’t take our order)

OUR ORDERS GOT REJECTED WITHOUT EXPLANATION. I check back in, do we need to order 2 bowls (since I haven’t placed any order) or one kind of ramen requires 2 bowls?

“Do-Jo” said by the chef to other 2 new customers coming in and he sign “the door is that way” to us

Basically we got...

Literally a hole in the wall mom and pop ramen joint. This is the type of place legends speak of.

It ain’t fancy, it’s super tiny, it looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1970, and the restaurant only has 8 seats. We actually missed this place as we were walking because I blinked. It’s THAT small.

But oh man… once you find this treasure, it serves up some damn good ramen.

I only took a photo of the menu to translate because I don’t speak any Japanese. And no, he doesn’t speak any English either. Just say Showa. That’s all you need for their house special.

We got seated right away. But when we left, there was a line out the door, because apparently they must have heard me slurping the legendary soup from about 3...