Yokohama — Restaurant in Gorham

Service: The service is kind, hard working and mean well.

The food: Expensive, confusing, average to low quality for the price point.

TLDR ; I will burn incense for the Japanese ancestor, Dogen Zenji, The great tenzo ( master cook and monk) begging forgiveness for the hubris and audacity of this place.

I ordered the ramen. 24 bucks.

Now ramen is classically defined as a type of noodle and has nothing to do with soup. I in-inadvertently believed soup was coming, like mabo-Ramen with the egg. Google image a picture of Ramen. I figured something like that was coming. Nope.

What came to my table was a mixed meat dish of chicken, beef, "oriental" vegetables and a noodle that had the consistency of lo-mein. I didn't give the staff a hard time about it, they were in the weeds working hard, and its a 25 dollar family dish. I'm a chonk, a trucker and overly emotional with food.

My primary grievance with it, it was slovenly slathered and drenched in gravy. An absurd amount of gravy. Like a brown gravy sauce that seems to be the staple of a number dishes. Check the images of the food. Everything has gravy. Its weird.

I looked around at the table near me and at least a third all the dishes had that weird gravy in one color or form. I was pretty hungry, so I put some hot mustard down and I ate it all like my grandmother just put liver and onions in front of me.

I felt emotionally challenged by the audacity of calling this dish ramen. Its technically not wrong but the guardian spirit of the ancestors are clearly angered. To be clear, so not the staffs fault. In fact, after my "confusion", they warned the next table about it and did their best to avoid any further disappointment. Their heart was in the right place.

My secondary grievance were the price points. While I appreciate we are in a tourist mountain town, 7.75 for two egg rolls is border line extortion....fuggetabout it.

The decor and atmosphere is wild. I liked it. I feel like a person from Brooklyn in the early 60's was in witness protection, came to New Hampshire, opened, and decorated the spot. The spacing, shapes, sizes and colors were surreal and created a healthy flow of movent. The colors, art and symbolism was a mishmash of mostly Japanese and some Chinese culture. Definitely come in for some wasabi peas and some tea to...

I am a very picky eater because of how i can tell the difference between fresh/frozen foods and methods of cooking. So I ordered the Oyako donburi to get a general sense how how they make use of two staples of cuisine, chicken and rice. I was met with a dish of what i could tell was frozen veggies with pan cooked chicken bits(likely in veggie oil from the taste), and generic shirt grain white rice coated in a soysauce mixed with brown sugar and oyster sauce. When i asked the server if the veggies were frozen and was told that the peas, white onion, green bell pepper and carrots were all par boiled. And if you know how to cook, ya dont parboil onion, bell peppers, or peas. My reccomendations to help improve the recipe are 1: use a mix of short and long grain rice. Short grain has the texture while long grain has the nice taste for a good rice meal. 2:use freshly cut onions, bellpeppers, and carrots because the frozen veggies taste lifeless 3: add worchestershire sauce into the sauce mix cause it adds some smokiness and heat. And 4: for the love of god listen to your reviews. Not many people are out to slander you just to be hurtful. I want to see you succeed and genuinely care. Listen to your customers. Just because we don't have a degree to cook doesn't mean we don't have ideas to help you improve. Take the critisism and improve to the point we have to...

Some of the worst food I have had any where, and when I complained about the quality I was told by my waitress "it's Yokohama style, which is Japanese... and probably not what you expect." I interrupted my waitress and told her not only have I had Japanese food many times before, I have even eaten it IN JAPAN. It is not "Japanese style" it's just poorly made. Katsudon not crispy/golden. It came to the table soggy and grey. The fried rice looked more like old severely overcooked jambalaya then it did any sort to fried rice I had in my life. Crab Rangoons were bland and undercooked. My wife's dish, looked as though it had been eaten already and regurgitated back in to a bowl. The best thing I ate was the"hibachi platter" which was just a PuPu platter, but I was lead to believe it was meat that I cooked over fire at the table... not a bunch if fried appetizers. If you don't want to be confused with a Chinese restaurant, don't have half you menu be chinese items... including Mai tais and scorpion bowls... you are serving tiki drinks and Crab Rangoons and egg rolls as "Japanese" food. Just all around a terrible experience, with out taking into account that we stood at the "please wait to be seated" sign for almost 10 min(without a line or reason) and the whole dining experience took 2.5 hours for obviously pre-made food... very very...