Yamaarashi Guting Restaurant — Restaurant in Da'an District

If you go at lunch, the first thing you notice is the large hissing pressure cooker in the corner of the shop. It's quite menacing; some patrons asked to be reseated away from it. It also warns of the ridiculous richness of this ramen; this is by far the richest ramen I've had anywhere. It's certainly good, but pretty much every time I eat here, I get a stomach ache the day after. The next time I go I'm planning on asking for less oil and back fat. The soup is very porky, rich, and creamy; it feels like biting into a chunk of pork belly. Finely chopped pork back fat (seabura) permeates every spoonful, giving the soup a viscosity that you don't get in many shops. Normally, the ramen comes with thick noodles, but I recommend asking for thin noodles. They're better suited to carrying the soup and fat with each slurp. The noodles are on the softer side of my preference (I prefer slightly firmer noodles) but are still pretty good. The toppings here are great. The lettuce is the perfect texture and has good shape for scooping soup and fat. Green onions and minced onions cut through the fattiness occasionally, but there isn't actually that much so the ramen is still ridiculously rich. The chashu is cold, quite lean and tender, good for soaking in the soup then biting once it heats up a little. It balances with and adds texture to the the richness below.

Their sea flavor is very good. It uses the same tonkotsu broth as the standard bowl but adds either niboshi, katsuobushi, or both to it, sort of like a tonkotsu gyokai soup. The flavor is primarily tonkotsu but with a strong accent of fish flavors. I asked for this bowl to have less oil, and though it was still very oily and thick, it was balanced enough for me to finish the soup. Yamaarashi also serves tsukemen, and I feel like this sea soup is very suited to being tsukemen because of its...

+++ High Recommendation +++

I myself ordered the Fish Flavour Soup (see picture), but also tried the Spicy and Standard Version on this day. In my opinion the standard version was the best.

The broth is incredible creamy and had so much body to it. It felt like drinking heavy cream, a pure pleasure. The taste was very balanced, no off-flavours at all. Despite the thickness of the broth, the pork taste was not too strong, but still strong enough. One of the best ramen broths I had so far.

The chashu was soft and good, but not as outstanding as the broth. The egg was sublime.

When ordering, you can choose the amount of aroma oil. I chose 30%. For me that was perfect. As the broth is already quite rich, i did not need more fat in my bowl.

You can also choose the noodle thickness. Default setting is thick. The thick noodles I had were great. They were as chewy as ramen noodles are supposed to be like. However, I would recommend choosing the thin noodles as they usually carry more broth when slurping and are in general a better match for such thick broths.

Overall that bowl of ramen was outstanding and takes a place in my top 3. I highly recommend this place to any...

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［寫在食記前］山嵐特色

山嵐是北海道的拉麵店，但有別於北海道特色走的是豚骨背脂為主打！

山嵐的湯頭加入大量的背脂，湯頭可以明顯看出來其特色。 但是卻不感到油膩且順口好喝到想把湯乾掉碗底朝天，就是山嵐最強的地方，很魔性的魅力！

因此也累積不少鐵粉，『山嵐最高！』就是鐵粉山嵐王的精神標語。 此外也針對台灣的口味做調整開發出：背脂減量的清爽版本！

看似簡單卻又做出如此不簡單的湯，這就是山嵐。 ▎店家：山嵐拉麵 台灣總店 ▎區域／鄰近地點：台北市／捷運古亭站出口3 ▎用餐時間：7/4(四) 19:30 ▎排隊狀況：有，約10分 ▎拉麵名稱／價格：海湯拉麵／260 ▎配置：細麵、清爽減脂版本 ▎延伸：#跟著椪柑一起檻 #今天我是山嵐王 #小型麵聚

★門口旁買完食劵店員會安排入座 ★食劵機上可以直接選取客製化版本 ★「5回優惠卡」活動企劃ｉｎｇ

山嵐原本的本店是忠孝店，但是那邊因為租約的關係搬遷到已閉店的小川家原址位置。 店內配置也跟小川家當時的配置有一點差異，不過還是保有小川家當時硬體的一些問題(如:冷氣)...(苦笑

我們去的時間到離開現場都還是有麵友在排隊等待吃麵，不難看得出山嵐的魅力所在！ 那天山嵐的台灣社長島村先生也在店內內場鎮守品質把關。 然後跟新科山嵐王椪柑一起吃麵，所以也被社長認了出來最後還有幸一起合照~ 只能說椪柑真的是全台最強洗碗工，無誤！(笑

因為本身不太吃辣，所以這次就點了還沒嘗試過的海湯試試味道。 同行有人剛好有人點［０背脂］的白湯版本，總算讓我感受到背脂在山嵐湯內原來是多麼重要的靈魂！

能把一碗麵一個味道好好堅持，好吃、穩定、安心，我想這就是一個職人想傳達的。 不論是小川還是山嵐社長，都是讓我這樣覺得！

▎海湯拉麵(細麵清爽減脂版本):

先說一下我喝到的０背脂白湯版本，湯頭少了背脂的滑順，真的相形之下就失去山嵐的特色。 不過原湯的味道真的奶味感十足，這也是和其他家湯頭最大的差異。

海湯的部分剛好同行的椪柑也點了０背脂，其實少了背脂魚介粉都會下沉，所以看起來就很像白湯... 我的有30%的背脂，所以呈現就是大家比較常看到的海湯樣貌。

湯的味道主要類似柴魚的味道為主體，白湯的味道則為輔助。 如果喜歡這味道的麵友就會很愛，不過跟一般的常見的豚骨魚介又不同，可以說是一碗山嵐特色的味道。

麵體細麵軟硬度剛剛好，搭配高麗菜中和海湯的味道這碗一下子就吃完了~ 叉燒肉一樣和外表不一的軟嫩好吃，這也是山嵐很特別的地方！

山嵐的麵看似樸實，卻保有自己驕傲的特色和味道，這次讓我再度感受到山嵐的魅力~...