KIN by Rice n Roll | Sushi & Modern Asian & Ramen — Restaurant in Wauwatosa

HEADS UP ON THE RAMEN!! Here is the deal with the Ramen in particular. If you order it ask them to remove the bamboo shoots unless you are a fan of the fermented canned versions. This is not fresh bamboo. I ordered the Tom Yum Ramen and it tasted great but smelled like a urinal. I have done my fair share of traveling the world, never ran into this problem with Tom Yum or Ramen before. I couldn’t pinpoint what was wrong, but eventually as I ate the bamboo shoots it went from smelling urine to full on tasting it. Yea! Not great! I asked them to smell it and they said it was normal and sour. In my mind, this wasn’t normal. Of course a simple google search revealed that fermented or canned bamboo shoots are very pungent and smell like urine to a lot of people. I couldn’t understand why other reviews kept referring to the Ramen as just “okay,” but this is why. So do yourself a favor order the ramen without the bamboo shoots (they are in every ramen type on the menu) and you’ll have a fantastic bowl! Wish I had known, because at some point I just couldn’t eat around it or stomach it any more. I recommend to the restaurant to have them on the side or just exclude them if they refuse to get them fresh. Americans are certainly not accustomed to that taste or smell. Even the waiter said they had quite a few customers turned off to the Ramen because of this same issue. Why make a fantastic $17 bowl of Ramen and then ruin it?

On the flip side: the Teriyaki Beef Bowl was delicious. The Mango Sticky Rice was on par and the Matcha Cheesecake was a delight. Everyone’s sushi around us looked amazing, although heavy on the rice, so just consider how much rice you are getting with a...

My partner and I stopped in this week and were excited by the menu. We ordered the shrimp and veggies tempura, the Tosa Fab maki, the tonkotsu ramen and Tom Yum ramen. Unfortunately, everything was relatively terrible. The tempura shrimp were burned and the vegetables mush, the maki was somehow both tasteless and off-putting, and tonkotsu broth was, in my partner's words, "some of the worst I've had," and the Tom Yum was just wrong. The highlight--the noodles tasted hand made. The server was attentive and apologetic; we were refunded the tempura, and we appreciated that gesture. I had a hard time putting my finger on exactly why everything was so bad until my partner said, "It's like an AI cooked dinner---it wasn't so horrible, just uncannily wrong." I think that is a perfect way to describe the experience, as if the fusion concept were executed by an AI. In spite of our experience, the table next to us declared loudly that "they probably know us by name by now!" which tells me that folks love the place. Perhaps we're actually AI reviewers with uncalibrated taste buds. Hard to tell these days. Anyway, wish I could say...

Never really into reviewing, but since the front staff wanted to give attitude in Thai - thinking we wouldn't understand - I'll reciprocate.

Anyways, the Thai food isn't close to authentic. Sure it's not a big deal, Everyone knows you'll never get the real thing. Also I cant speak for anyones taste buds. Some ppl like to buy crack. Ever since our first experience on the East Side, we only get sushi, preferably sashimi.

Family came once from visiting just bc it was the only Thai restaurant close to me on the East Side. Kind of sad to see your own kind butcher their own food. Lil bro liked the drunken noodles though ... but he's a crackhead (joke).

As for sushi, there's really nothing you can do about sushi in mke. Where you gonna get it? Woodmans? Metro? Still, I'm not gonna spend money on that copy/paste sushi with so many ingredients I only taste regret. Note, idk how above average sushi is supposed to taste like.

The inside reminds me of the restaurant "Easy Tiger".

1 star because we recognize the waiter from "Vientiane" on National, and we generally like the food there. 1 star bc they serve raw...