Tsukumo

The inside of the ramen shop near Ebisu station that I went to a few days ago. I called it Kyujukyu, but the actual reading of the kanji used is Tsukumo. The specialty is a cheese ramen, but even the regular shouyu ramen is quite tasty. It had a slight fish flavor, but not as strong as most shops that add that kind of taste in their soup.

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I actually went for my first real Ramen in Gothenbugr yesterday. At a semi-new place called MI. I was surpriced that I was served by authentic japanese people (I’ve always thought it was a crappy wanna be minimalistic/zen/japanese-swedish kinda thing), the big bowls and the fresh taste! I had a vegeterian dish with mushrooms and todu and stuff and it was really good. But do you have other (better) ones to recommend? since I will deffo go again…

03.12.31 9:56
Posted by Jesper
I can’t imagine having ramen without any meat. The soup is meat-based. Glad to hear you found a shop though. I just always take the regular ramen, preferably shouyu (soy sauce).

03.12.31 13:03
Posted by Jean
Wow!
its really cool that other gaijin know tsukumo ramen ya!! I lived in the building just few meters away so i could checked if there was too much cue in front of this ramen ya… ^-^
Did you tried the cheese ramen?

Happy new year!!!!!

fra

03.12.31 15:19
Posted by francesco
I didn’t try the cheese ramen. I though the cheese came on all of them, and mistakenly just ordered a bowl of shouyu ramen. The person I was there with did get the cheese ramen (he just pointed to the picture on the menu), and after a taste, I’m glad I didn’t. The taste was good, but I don’t think I could have eaten a whole bowl of it. Cheese and ramen are two of my favorite things in the world, but I don’t think they belong together.

03.12.31 21:41
Posted by Jean

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