Ko-Ryu Ramen Grill — Restaurant in Torrance

I really want to like this place but I just can't. 1st time I came here I was disappointed with deap fried takoyaki and some kind of cheap karaage (fried chicken) drizzled with some sweet sauce. I forgot Ojiya was closed on Mondays so I thought I'd give Ko Ryo another chance and was disappointed again. This time even worse. I waited a good 10 minutes before somebody came to take my order. Its Monday. Ordered a beer, ramen and karaage. The karaage arrives first with the same cheap trimming pieces with no batter of any kind, drizzled with this sweet sauce again. This time the chicken pieces had feathers! The small portion of ramen arrived 2nd in a oblong shaped bowl, the kind you'd find at a fancy boutique hotel restaurant. Ramen broth was sweet (omg) and had the taste of cheap miso powder instead of fresh paste and had way too much green onion in it. What ramen place juliennes their green onion anyway?!?! Oh yea, beer arrived last after I reminded him to bring it. Glass had a sour smell in bottom of it. No check backs about the food or for another order. I think the dishwasher came and brought me the bill. I seriously am not the one to complain but when I am expected to shell out $25 for noodle soup and fried chicken?... It really doesn't get worse than this. With all the great options for ramen in this town, this place falls seriously short.

Sorry Ko Ryo, never again. I still can't get this sour chemically taste out off my mouth. Pray...

The only reason I am giving them stars is because the old lady was really nice and sweet. The younger Hispanic lady not at all. We went in at 8:30pm and we wanted to order the Mongolian grill she said not because they already cleaned it. Why was it cleaned if they do not close until 9pm. When we got our food that table that’s when they started cleaning it. I felt rushed and unsatisfied. My boy friend and I got ramen, he is not a fan of spicy so he got level 2 and I got level 3. When they have us our ramen they told me mine was spicy 3 and his spicy 2. Not knowing the spicy level we tried eating our food. My boyfriend could not eat any of his ramen because it was so spicy they had giving him the one that was suppose to be for me. I get it they were in a rush but do not mess up someone’s dinner like that. Right after giving us our food the Hispanic lady brings the check and is like “so I can close my register “ and walks away. The only nice lady was the older lady super sweet who kept offering us refills. When we were ready to pay because my boyfriend could not eat his food there was no one. You just hear people in the kitchen laughing and speaking Spanish, had I been someone else who did not care we could have walked out without paying and they would have not noticed. Absolutely no type of...

The ramen is delicious, people are amazing, restaurant is relaxed comfortable and clean. The noodles have a great chew to them. The variety of flavors from miso to garlic bomb to shoyu all taste different and yet very good in their own ways. The gyoza are excellent as well. Also love the brand of can iced oolong tea that they carry.

The service is truly outstanding. We always chat with the servers who are so friendly and helpful.

Tonight I did the Spicy Ramen Challenge. If you completely finish the "level 20" (top level spice) bowl, you get free ramen toppings for life and your picture in the Dragon Wall. I made it onto the wall! I eat a lot of spicy food but this was...very very painful 😂 even though one bite on its own isn't as spicy as Pepper X (hottest pepper in the world), you have to eat a giant bowl of it so it's painful spoonful after painful spoonful. But worth it to get...