Ramen Kuroda SM Grand Central — Restaurant in Caloocan

Ramen Kuroda is my fave budget Japanese resto.

Aka, shiro, or kuro ramen for just php 220. Plain rice is 50 (small serving but it is okay as it is Japanese rice). I love the edamame as well.

As the years passed, they added more variety to their line up.

I remember when this was newly opened, the bento set I ordered is supposed to come with a tea, but I was not given one. I vividly remember I was seated in front of the glass window where the noodles are made.

There is always a lot of customers, long waiting time. Be ready to line up and wait for your number.

This weekend of 8 in evening, wasted more than an hour to be seated and for orders to arrive.

Not pet friendly.

They just don't have good promos.

I like that they shout welcome irasshai mase!!! as any polite Japanese resto would.

Also the condiments at each table is a plus.

With service water.

With fragrant toilet, has soap,...

My first time trying this resto and they already left a bad impression on me, their serving sizes are very small despite having such high prices, let’s say their prices are justifyable, but what about their serving? A cup of rice could be lets say 40-50 pesos, their katsudon is VERY small, its even smaller than my palm, compared to their opposing restaurant like marugame udon, their prices and servings are very justifyable and more worth it, their katsu curry rice is 280₱ whilst in Marugame its 310, they have very larger portions of rice and the size of their katsu is large enough, their curry has meat, potatos and carrots, whilst this restaurant has nothing, just plain curry sauce, mas madami pang curry sa kanin jusko. This is the size of their katsu curry. Def...

We used to like Ramen Kuroda but we had a really bad experience in this branch. They took our order and after waiting for 30 mins, we noticed that the other tables got their orders already even though we came first. We did follow up our order but all staff barely noticed us. After a few more minutes, two female staff approached us and said “Kunin po namin ulit order niyo. Pa prioritize nalang po namin.” I asked her why she’s taking our order again and her reason is “Nawala po kasi yung papel na sinulatan ko.” Is that even acceptable? We patiently waited for our order and it took more than 30 mins for her to notice that it was missing. We did not even receive an apology from them. We left the restaurant right away. So...