Today shocker of shockers, I saw two guys order their lunch and it didn't include any ramen. I wanted to mutter like those curmudgeonly Puritan Pilgrim biddies that must have graced many an early American church about how sacrilegious their choices were, but I refrained. When their food came out, it looked pretty good: blistered shishito peppers, a plate of crispy chicken wings, four pork buns and two bowls of rice with pork.
Speaking of pork buns, I think Momofuku's win out, but it isn't as if you'll be suffering paroxysms of disgust choking down an Ippudo bun.
One night I showed up at Ippudo and there was a one-year anniversary special ramen, that I ordered. It sported a combination of silky chicken and tonkotsu broth, which was topped with slices of smoked berkshire pork, gobo chips, cabbage, hard boiled egg, kikurage, and scallions.
Accompanying the ramen was a yuzu-pepper sauce that the waiter instructed me to mix into the broth half-way through in order to change the flavor of the ramen. Though this ramen was good, I prefer either the Akamaru Modern or the Spicy Tonkotsu.
Shockingly the hard-boiled egg came overcooked with a discernible ring of green sulfur.
Ramen Setagaya's egg, as you can see, exhibits a proper bright orange-yellow yolk.
Beyond that I have no complaints with Ippudo. During lunch you can order a set lunch, which enables you to choose a ramen and for about $4 more a small bowl of rice topped with pork or broiled eel, or in this case mentaiko (spicy cod roe).
Okay going forward I'm going to try really hard to stop going to Ippudo. There are a ton of cute restaurants in the East Village and Lower East Side that I must hunt down and conquer. Some people go to Africa in search of big game. To stalk my meal, I just don flip flops and grab my wallet.
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I couldn't agree more about the addictive properties of Ippudo!
(I'm James' coworker btw and he sent me your blog URL so had to check it out)
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