Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Ennosuke Shoten (Osaka-shi, Yodogawa-ku)

縁乃助商店
えんのすけしょうてん
Ennosuke Shouten

Soup-nashi Midorichan: 15 / 20
(汁なし みどりちゃん)

Awaji - such a convenient place to go! And such a depressing one too… I would have loved to live there for convenience, as it is perfectly placed on the Hankyu line between Osaka University Suita campus, Umeda, Tenroku, and on the way to Kyoto. But no, it is really much too quiet for me. Anyway, that shouldn’t be a reason not to try the local ramen.

Ennosuke Shouten specialize in a kotteri torigara ramen, but I was not so much in the mood for heavy soup, so I continued my recent soupless investigations and ordered the mazemen. Here it comes, beautifully covered by green negi.


Sauce: Both salty and sweetish, and with a strong, delicious katsuo aroma. Excellent.

Noodles: Just firm enough, they shouldn’t be more thoroughly cooked though.

Meat: Interestingly, there was some chicken minced meat with nankatsu for the crunchy touch. Why not...

Toppings: A lots of green negi as you can see, but very mild in taste. A raw egg, of course. And some bean sprouts.

Side-dish: You can help yourself with what looked like kimchi but happened to be good, spicy daikon.


Although I like nanktasu in itself, I was not really convinced by its use in mazemen. The whole thing was really good, but not as excellent as Marusho or Jikon. Anyway, you will certainly pass by Awaji some time when using the Hankyu line if you live in Kansai, so you should use the opportunity to discover this restaurant.

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