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Disclaimer : before criticize this restaurant I'd like to point out that I have a relatively higher (or just different) standard about ramen than most of the American population would have. I have traveled to Japan several times and tasted many of renowned ramen restaurants in Tokyo, Hokkaido, and Fukuoka. Therefore my criticism is gonna be my very honest review about the foods I experienced from this place but soley based on the standard that surely is different from what average Detroit population would have.

Firstly I was very impressed by their improvisation of Japanese noodle culture, and how well the chef understands of umami taste. However I really should point out that the broth is using too much of dashi (possibly dried anchovy broth or seaweed broth or both) for their ramen noodle soup. Dashi components are amazing sources of umami yet when it's too much it's gonna overlap other flavours and eventually ruin the whole balance. For instance, I ordered tori paitan (literally means chicken broth white soup) but the whole soup was very overwhelmed by the smell and flavor from dashi. Even another noodle ordered by my wife had same overwhelming dashi taste. I am not American (but a legal alien) and I don't know what kind of taste an average American person would expect from Japanese noodle restaurants, but I can tell the noodles I had are not even close to what they are supposed to be, and that could've been the reason why this place wasn't populated with east Asian people. Tori paitan should taste more like tori paitan.

Second thing I want to point out is the cubed meats. Of course there is no correct answer for foods, and I believe this place had their own reason to cut those meats into cubic shape. But Japanese ramens are usually topped with thin slice of meats and one of the reason is thin slice of meat can mingle a lot better with noodles and broth than a cubic one. I guess American people never slurp and that is the one of the reason they don't really care about mingling of meat, broth, and noodles, but you guys should really try slurping when it comes to Japanese noodles! They are not spaghetti :D

Chicken Karaage was good!

Nevertheless, I was very impressed to try some sort of Americanized ramen noodles in detroit. Nice try!