鶏白湯玉子入 - Toripaitan with Egg ￥850
It's nice to know that some visits to a ramen store can still can be a spontaneous decision and that a camera phone will suffice. I don't lug around a big SLR or anything, but it certainly doesn't fit in my pocket. And so it was wandering around our neighbourhood that we happened upon Ittoku. We had seen it before as it is just a few hundred metres from Tetsu, but we were not completely sure what they had on offer. However, one thing was for certain - They like cats...
Every kind of ramen on their menu is made with chicken, from the obvious toripaitan and gyokai blends, to the less obvious chicken tantanmen. With all these chicken choices in front of we decided to go with perhaps the most chicken-y of them all the toripaitan.
Toripaitan isn't really the most popular ramen style in Japan - I've mentioned it to Japanese who haven't ever heard over it, but it should definitely be on your to-do list. This particular bowl tasted like a creamy chicken and corn (it IS in there somewhere) soup and was finished off with some ground pork, a couple of soy-drenched menma and some daikon sprouts, kaiware.
I rather enjoyed the bowl and the fact that it wasn't so greasy and great for a hangover means I'll probably be back. The only problem with this being Burari, a shop just a little closer to home.
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