Volcano is sooooo good

Well Hidden is the 2nd floor corner at The Central, lies a volcano ... bursting out bowls and bowls of delicious hot ramen. This little ramen stall (yes, the seats are very limited.) is called Ramen Santouka. With the Jap (or chinese ....) writing on the signboard .. it directly translate into fire-head mountain. I shall call it Volcano Ramen (correct me if I am wrong).

It is a Jap restaurant franchise with shops all over Japan and even the states. This franchise is different from your usual franchise, the ramen taste great. Unlike some other franchise, which claims to be best ramen in Singapore ... but come on, I can easily find 10 stalls than serve much better ramen. You won't regret stepping into this stall and the time spent waiting for a seat.


I ordered a Char Siew Shoyu Ramen ($15) that comes with about 3 pieces of fat juicy pork meat served with rich and nicely brewed soup. The noodles was springy, just nice for ramen. The fat juicy pork meat was sinful, but the feeling of the fats melting (yes, it really melts in your mouth) throw away all my worries of putting more 'reserve' in my waistline.



Ahpui soh ordered a Charhan Shio set. ($15.50) It comes with a Ramen, Japanese Fried Rice and a nicely braised egg. This version is served with a piece of the same juicy pork char siew in a rich milky broth. This taste equally great, although the Fried Rice is not equally impressive. And you should try the braised egg, it is different from the usual braised egg you got from your Kway Chap store.

For this stall, I will give a Ahpui score of 8.5/10. The Char Siew Shoyu Ramen is a must try !


The location is at :
Ramen Santouka
The Central
#02-76
Tel : 62240668

Food note from land of 1K Smiles (Day 1) Part 2

Day 1, Part 2 :

A few hours after our late lunch, ahpuisoh complain that she was hungry ... so who is the glutton here ....

So we went to this Japanese Chain resturant - Fuji Resturant at level 6 (same levele as the cinema) of MBK. I ordered a Soyu Ramen (90 Baht = $4.10), and me and ahpuisoh share a Katsu Roll (120 Baht = $5.50), SoftShell Crab Roll (120 Baht) and a Agedashi Tofu.



My Soyu Ramen comes with 2 small slice of pork, half an egg, some greens and a slice of 'i don't know what'. The noodles is springy and taste like good Ramen from a decent Jap resturant. The soup-base which make or break a Soyu Ramen, tasted a bit salty (well, it is soyu anyway), which is a bit disappointed, considering that the Ramen tasted good but does not have a good soup base to match.



The Katsu Roll comes is a set of six, with the Katsu neatly rolled up with a mixture of black fungus, Enoki Mushroom and cheese. The katsu is nicely fried and not too oily, and the fillings blend in well with the fried pork and give it a unique and nice taste.




SoftShell Crab Roll comes with four rice roll with softshell crab with either salad or avacodo & Cucumber as fillings. And the rice roll is nicely coated with sesame seeds. The only slight -ve point is that the portion of softshell crab is a bit small.

Agedashi Tofu is totally disappointed. The tofu is not soft, and it taste like cheap tofu. Don't order this dish.

I will give this place a Ah pui score of 7/10. Nice Kastu Roll and Softshell Crab Roll, but disappointed Ramen and tofu.

Nice little Eatery hidden in Ann Siang

Hidden in a corner at Ann Siang is a nice little Japanese eatery - Wacha.
When I first step into this shop ... err ... restaurant, I thought I might had entered a shop selling nice little Japanese tea wares. Well, they do sell them, but they also serve food ... wonderful food.

They have both à la carte and set menu, with the tasting menu at $40 each. I will suggest go for the tasting menu, you got a 5-course meal for only $40, really value for money.


The first course is a set of mini mouthful of various appetizer (for me, I feel it will be better if they come in a bigger portion), served in a cute little mini basket. (I would like to have one of those)

The next dish is stew pork and lotus root. It is so nicely done that the lotus root almost melts in my mouth. The it was follows by baked cheese with macaroni and ham, and lastly, the unique green tea fried rice.





And of course, the dessert : Green Tea Cheesecake and red bean pancake ... heavenly !
Then, we finish off with a pot of green tea, relax and enjoy the surrounding deco.

I would say this place is highly recommended, try it, before the whole town know about this wonderful place. Do book in advance, as seats is very limited in this family run restaurant.

The location is at :
Ann Siang Road (right next to club street)
Tel : 6438-1553