Ramen Akimoto — Restaurant in Yokohama

🍜 特製味噌らーめん / tokusei miso ramen 🇯🇵 麺処 秋もと / mendokoro akimoto / ichigao, kanagawa 🗓️ 06/28/2024

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Miso ramen is not something I actively seek out but it's hard to resist once you see a good-looking bowl on social media. If I understand it correctly, the miso here at Akimoto is somewhat of a gentei because it hasn't always been available on the menu. However, for the limited amount of time that it has been available, it seems like it has managed to impressively climb the rank on Ramendb. Alas, I understand why now because my god, this was delicious. The intense miso combined with the heavy use of ginger brings the flavor of this broth through the roof. The medium-thick, flat-ish noodles pair nicely with this broth and do their job of pulling a good amount of this flavorful soup toward your taste buds. The use of the 2 varieties of dried seaweed here was also really cool. The flaky, iwanori seaweed felt like the perfect topping here. Ajitama was dense but flavorful. If I had to complain about one thing, however, it would have to be the wontons. While they weren't the worst wontons ever, they didn't really add much to the bowl, especially when they had more wrappings...

The best ramen restaurant so far for me. The location is not commercial at all, out skirt of Tokyo. The chef cooks extremely detailed ramen as well as friendly staff serving. This ramen has pork, chicken, well-melted yolk egg, and shrimp wang-tang and they created well harmonies with fish based soup. Noticing orange NOREN is the day they serve Miso based ramen which is only Wednesday. You must queue for at least 30 min. My longest in the queue was 45 min. However, it is worth to be. The other days, they serve soy source based and salt based soup. But all good. The location is about 45 min from Shibuya. Try also roasted-pork on the rice. Never...

Ordered the Tokusei miso ramen, a bit pricy at 1430¥ but very worth it as it came with a lot of toppings. The miso taste is not very overpowering which makes it quite unique from other miso ramen places. The pork slices and wontons were also really tasty. The place was also quite spacious for a ramen shop and the staff was really helpful with guiding people when there is a line. Ability to read and understand a bit of Japanese is recommended though as the ticket machine is fully in Japanese and I think the staff only speak...