Ramen Sunday @ BLY

My hubby and I went for dinner at Blue Light Yokohama. They only serve ramen on Sundays so it's necessary to reserve a table. We came on time and got our table, the menu was tiny.. I somewhat expected more. But maybe I should have read more.
The place was half full but the staff ran around like it was fully booked. To me they needed to be a bit more organized and not having to run around like crazy and be "stressed".
It took over 30 min to get the food, a long time for ramen! And especially since that's the only thing on the menu, the broth should have had been made, noodles pre-made (ordered from Japan) cooking time should have been minimal, the condiments as well should have had been pre-made.

Let's break it down.
We chose the tonkotsu (pork based one), I went for the spicy garlic miso and hubby for the traditional.

Broth ★★★★★
Super tasty, as good as in Japan.
I loved the garlic and miso taste to mine.
For the normal one, hubby loved it. For me there was one tiny minor, it could have had been a bit more porky.
We ate all soup!!

Noodles ★
A huge disappointment. These are bought ones from Japan and I have no idea but they seems to have been cut! I have never ever eaten so short ramen noodles in my entire life! I want to slurp my ramen, it was not possible! Noodles were a bit undercooked making them more chewy and it felt more like eating spaghetti.

Char Siu ★★
For our taste, the pork belly had way too much fat and not enough meat, not so much flavour making us disappointed.I don't have an issue to eat fat from pork belly, but why serve the fatty parts only?

Egg ★
Way too over boiled for an egg to be a ramen topping. the yolk was not soft at all like all of the eggs I have had in Japan. Such a disappointment!! I have never had such hard boiled egg before.

Other ★★★
Not sure why they added benishoga, to me it would have had been more fit with more scallions. However the ginger taste gave a good taste to the broth so in a way it made the flavours nice!
The beansprouts where a bit crunchy like they should.



Overall ★★★
It's way better than Ki-mama ramen in Stockholm. But there were a a lot of things I was disappointed with. Would I go back? Based on this dinner, No I wouldn't. But I'd love to try their other dishes - sushi etc.
So far I'd say Totemo ramen is the best ramen I have had in Stockholm! And I expected BLY to be way better than this, not at all a genuine Japanese experience!!!
I still find it hard to understand how they could miss out on so many things, especially since that's the only item on the menu. I mean..to boil a "softer" boiled egg, how hard can it be?
But their broth was AMAZING, I could go back and only eat that ^^


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Best ramen in Ikebukuro

I always try to eat lots of ramen when in Tokyo.

It's due to that we have only a few places in Sweden and they are super expensive!

I told my friend over dinner that I was heading to Ikebukuro the next day and she told me to go to this place called Mutekiya ( 無敵家). It's only a few min away from Ikebukuro station (JR East Exit).

However it is super popular, I stood in line for at least 45 min. They also have menu in English, Korean, Chinese and Thai.

I love Tonkotsu ramen, and wow it was so delicious, I want to eat it again! And to press garlic into the broth, amazing!! The chashu was super thick, although 1 piece had been enough I stuffed myself with all of them..haha

And while eating by myself suddenly someone knocked on my shoulder, I turned around and saw my friend!!! I'd never imagine I'd run into someone I knew in Tokyo, She could spot me from the outside I guess ^^ Coloured hair and grey coat. She and her bf stood in line, I think they had 30 min to go before they could enter. The place wasn't big, maybe 17-18 seats in total.

If you are in Tokyo I'd strongly recommend this ramen! :)

Homepage: Mutekiya (Japanese)
Address: 〒171-0022 東京都豊島区南池袋1-17-1 / 1-17-1 Minami Ikebukuro Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0022 Japan
Access: http://www.mutekiya.com/access/index.html

つけめん@ラーメン燈郎.

I posted about this a year ago or so.. You can read it here.

We made a new visit to this place, they have a special kind of ramen, or tsukimen.

I brought my darling this time and also one of my best friends. She said her husband was jealous because this place is kinda famous!

I took a normal size portion, so did my friend but my darling took a larger, which he in the end didn't finish. I struggled to finish mine. I thought I'd explode at one point..haha

Before order, think of the size, it's more than you think!

I had a "normal" one but I think mini would have had been more suitable,

Tsukemen means you dip the foods in a separate bowl. The broth is usually thicker.

Ramen means all is mixed in one bowl.

Mini = Ramen 150g noodles, Tsukemen 200g
Normal = Ramen 250 g, Tsukemen 300g
And the largest (XL) has 500g for ramen and 600g for Tsukemen!