Hi there<\/p>\n
Have been hearing quite a lot about this new ramen restaurant Tonkotsu King Keisuke Ramen so thought will try it out with my friend and treat him a birthday dinner & have my reviews on this too.<\/p>\n
The branch at Parco has a revolutionary broth which is without pork bone base (as most ramen place use) their broth is made with mainly fried shrimp, giving it a very rich flavour which is kind of like our noodle prawn noodle, and they only use white soy sauce. Keisuke Tokyo Ramen has also recently won the title of Ramen Champion at Tokyo Ramen Championship 2011 in Japan which is The Ramen Champion Series as and their chef has also been crowned as Ramen King.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n But enough said on the Keisuke Tokyo Ramen, we are here to review about their sister restaurant Tonkotsu King Keisuke Ramen.As mentioned, Tonkotsu King Keisuke Ramen is the sister ramen restaurant to Keisuke Tokyo Ramen, it is located at tanjong pagar at the new Orchid Hotel ground floor.<\/p>\n It is quite hard to miss because it is located at Orchid hotel where it is an isolated building on the green field next to Amara hotel.<\/p>\n What’s more, they have this gigantic banner right in front of the restaurant which writes “Pork” in Japanese. You can’t miss that.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n This ramen place can seat about 20 over people, what they pride in is their soup base, which is their signature pork bone broth.<\/p>\n Their menu is quite simple really, only three kinds of ramen to choose from base on .<\/p>\n Order is being done on an order check sheet while you queue so that the turnaround time will be faster. You are able to concoct your perfect bowl of ramen from soup base, noodle texture, to strength of taste too. I was there on a weekday at around 6pm and there is already a decent crowd lurking there.<\/p>\n We decided\u00a0to go with one regular Tonkotsu and one Black Spicy – All-In, as it makes sense to try out all the ingredients with just a few dollars difference and experience the real deal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Each bowl cost around $15 which seemed to be the norm these days (sigh.. Talk about inflation)<\/p>\n Once we were seated we found something quite different compared to other restaurants. Every table comes with a basket of eggs! They even indicate brown is low cholesterol n white is for regular. We were also given a grinder with black & white sesame seeds to add onto the ramen to add that extra omph, a jar of marinated beansprout too, just like Keisuke Tokyo Ramen in Parco.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ramen comes with one perfectly cooked soft boiled egg with golden egg yolk, big slices of cha shuu (relatively bigger than most ramen joints) some black fungus and with a sprinkle of spring onions. However it also comes with one big sheet of seaweed which you do not usually find in other restaurants.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Soup wise, it is very rich, hearty and flavorful, you can taste the saltiness of the soup, yet you can find hint of pork bone sweetness in it. It is sort of a hybrid between our local bak kut teh and sweet miso soup. Soup is milky probably from the hours of long cooked pork bones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I find the soup a bit too oily to my likings thou as there are cubes and chunks of cha shuu fats floating in each bowl of soup, not for the health conscious and faint hearted, but may be good for the ladies for it’s collagen?<\/p>\n\n