Marukame Udon - Thảo Điền — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

Marukame Udon Thao Dien is easy to find and with parking available for both motorbikes and cars (not many). The restaurant follows a fast-food model: customers choose their dishes, take a tray, and move along the counter, so service is quick and convenient. The space is bright, clean, and neatly arranged, though often crowded during peak hours. The menu focuses on udon dishes, with the most popular being beef and egg udon with a rich broth and soft-boiled egg. Other options include spicy pork udon, seafood cheese udon, and salmon rice bowls. The noodles are pre-cooked, thick, and soft, with broths that are generally light and easy to eat. Prices range from 70,000 to 135,000 VND per portion, which is mid-range compared to Japanese restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City. The main strengths are the speed of service and consistency of the food; the drawback is a noisier atmosphere at busy times. Overall, it’s a suitable option for a quick, straightforward...

We tried the combo beef & egg udon, and the new dish - pho udon. To me, I think it’s weird to do pho udon, as pho is pho, abs udon is udon. they're both noodle soup, and if you want pho, you go for pho, and leave udon alone, lol. And vise versa for udon. but my friend didn't seem like mind it. Onto the combo of Udon beef & egg - to me, I think the broth was not enough, so i feel like eating dry or stir fried udon instead. And even though the combo sounds like a deal on the bill, the actual iten don't go well together. In fact, I don't understand what's going on in the menu creator's mind when he/she did the menu for the combo. There's too much "liquid" : you get the udon, then seaweed soup as a side dish… it's weird and makes the customer blow up after finishing the meal, in an...

I had a bud in my Udon Bowl tonight and when I complained to the manager she asked her staff to bring me another bowl… will this action will guarantee that I will not anymore have insects in my order? Of course I return the bowl and I told to the manager that her shop is dirty like hell…. Starting from the service staff that do not use deodorant…. The self-service counter is sticky and you can feel that there is no maintenance to keep it clean… The manager just told me that she cannot avoid having insects in the food…. You can imagine a manager of a Japanese QSR giving an answer like this!! What ashamed!! I told her I never order Udon with insects….. definitely my last time in this chain of restaurants…. Worse than street food in terms of...