荷麵亭 HASUMENTEI 士林店 — Restaurant in Taipei

The food is quite authentic. The crispy layer of oyster matches it so well. The ramen is pretty good and if you don’t like any ingredient, they offer customization. It’s kinda salty to me, but they have iced water and you can help yourself, so I’m fine with that. The only thing that kinda bothered me, which is very personal, is that they have signs literally everywhere to remind people not to immerse themselves in cellphones but to focus on food (which is good) and finish and go. That caused stress when eating and I couldn’t relax and enjoy the food. Other than that...

Service used to be a little better. The soup is still very tasty with extra noodles if you ask. The staff speaks English, and Japanese too. But the staff and manager is different. Now they don't open the door for me immediately, until I told them how many people will eat there. It was raining out some. And the manager told me I had to sit next to their only other customer at the counter, next to the noisy speaker, after I requested to sit at another empty seat. They said it would get busy, but only 3 more people walked in while I was there. They sat...

Better than a Taiwanese-flavored ramen shop, with on point noodles and a strong thicker broth, but disappointed by the chashu and salt-flavored pork soup base. Thought the soup might be a lighter more delicate base, but instead it was just extra salty, far too much to finish on its own. The pork chashu was a little ham-like and on the drier side. Not sure if that was on purpose or just overcooked, but definitely not worth remembering. The tangxin egg was also not as tasty as many other ramen shops. Fried oyster was pretty good tho, and...