Menya Ippou

Hello! I am Stay Gold.

Today I visited Menya Ippou in Yoshino-cho, Kagoshima City.

Menya Ippou offers Kagoshima ramen and Hakata ramen as its main menu, and of course, I chose Kagoshima ramen as my favorite!

The style is to purchase a meal ticket from a ticket machine, and this time I bought Kagoshima ramen and mini fried rice (with edamame).

Normally, at Kagoshima ramen restaurants, pickled daikon radish is served before eating, but at Menya Ippou, pickled daikon is not offered, but instead, shibazuke, tsubo zuke, and spicy takana are self-served and taken from the bowl.

Spicy Takana goes well with Hakata Ramen, so if you order Hakata Ramen, you may want to try adding spicy Takana to your ramen.

Menya Ippou’s Kagoshima ramen features straight, medium-thick noodles with a slightly firm texture.

It is interesting to note that the noodles are firm, but not the elastic firmness of udon noodles, but rather the soft texture of Kagoshima ramen noodles with a bit of firmness.

The noodles are a little thicker than the medium-thick noodles at other restaurants and are very satisfying when you take a bite.

The soup is a semi-muddy broth based on pork bones, with a light Kagoshima ramen-like flavor that is delicious, but maybe a little too light for me.

The chashu pork has little white meat, but is so tender and tasty that it falls apart in the mouth.

The mini fried rice is quite tasty, featuring the sweet taste of onions in the salt and pepper seasoning because of the onions.

At first I thought, “Edamame in fried rice?” but the edamame also fit in with the fried rice without getting in the way.

Still, it is hard to believe that this is a mini fried rice dish with such a large quantity! This quantity for 280 yen (as of August 2023) is a great value for money.

To sum up. Without a doubt, “Menya Ippou” is “the Kagoshima ramen” in my opinion!

So, everyone, STAY GOLD!