Noodle House Ken
150 Orchard Road #01-17/18 Orchard Plaza Singapore Tel: (65) 6235 5540
Operating Hours:Mon-Sat: 12noon - 2pm, 6pm - 2am (Closed Sundays)
Had been wanting to try this place since several blogs highly recommend it. Walked in this evening (a Friday), around 7.30 pm and the tiny space was packed, with a number of Japanese customers reading the evening shimbun, manga etc. The counter seats around 12 regular-sized people. There’s more seating outside (2 or 3 tables on the sidewalk) and another room (we could see it on the CCTV).
Ordered the chashu ramen, $12, plus an egg (we think ni-tamago is a good indicator of how good a ramen place is). We were served in 12 – 15 mins, huge steaming bowls of thick yellow ramen noodles (like the chinese yellow noodles they use for prawn mee). Really can’t imagine the upsized version (for an additional $2 or $3)! Also included were the requisite sheets of seaweed, cut onions and veggies. There were 4 big slices of chashu (the size of my palm!) atop the bed of noodles. It looked like this:
150 Orchard Road #01-17/18 Orchard Plaza Singapore Tel: (65) 6235 5540
Operating Hours:Mon-Sat: 12noon - 2pm, 6pm - 2am (Closed Sundays)
Had been wanting to try this place since several blogs highly recommend it. Walked in this evening (a Friday), around 7.30 pm and the tiny space was packed, with a number of Japanese customers reading the evening shimbun, manga etc. The counter seats around 12 regular-sized people. There’s more seating outside (2 or 3 tables on the sidewalk) and another room (we could see it on the CCTV).
Ordered the chashu ramen, $12, plus an egg (we think ni-tamago is a good indicator of how good a ramen place is). We were served in 12 – 15 mins, huge steaming bowls of thick yellow ramen noodles (like the chinese yellow noodles they use for prawn mee). Really can’t imagine the upsized version (for an additional $2 or $3)! Also included were the requisite sheets of seaweed, cut onions and veggies. There were 4 big slices of chashu (the size of my palm!) atop the bed of noodles. It looked like this:
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The soup was excellent. Truly, truly good. I could just pick the bowl up and drink it. No MSG for sure. The chashu was tasty, not too salty (yay!) and the ni-tamago was not bad (still does not replace our all-time fave, done by Marutama). Had wanted to also try the gyoza, but thanks to the huge serving size, we were stuffed and unable to eat another morsel.
Also came across this interesting contraption (so call me suaku) to grind sesame seeds:
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Would we return to eat here again? Of course. I’d like to try the rice dishes (same combo, but instead of ramen) and the gyoza! It gets crowded at peak times of course, but I’d imagine table turnover is no more than 20 – 30 mins (the Japanese gentleman to my left slurped up his ramen in under 5 minutes).
Also came across this interesting contraption (so call me suaku) to grind sesame seeds:
Would we return to eat here again? Of course. I’d like to try the rice dishes (same combo, but instead of ramen) and the gyoza! It gets crowded at peak times of course, but I’d imagine table turnover is no more than 20 – 30 mins (the Japanese gentleman to my left slurped up his ramen in under 5 minutes). 
