Other than Taiwanese milk teas sprouting like stray mushrooms in the Metro, ramen houses have also started lining up and grazing the food landscape. The arrival of this renewed fondness for ramen could not be a better timing… especially this year, when the weather is much colder and rains have soaked the city. Imagine the calming flowing almost mute sound of a ladled soup with the steam wafting across your face.
Raku Hokkaido Ramen in the midst of bustling Makati City aims to give just that. The interior can easily transfer one to a quaint ramen restaurant in Japan. Modish framed photos of beautiful geishas and scenic Japan facets complete the concept. Space can be limited and cramped but this fact soon forgotten with what the kitchen can put forward. I visited on a Thursday lunch and the place was packed, brimming with people slurping broth or picking at their bento boxes.
On the Table
Yakitori PHP 145
Yakitori makes great appetizers, dampening your tongues with that touch of barbecue sauce covering succulent chicken meat. The grilled chicken skewers of Raku Hokkaido Ramen seemed perfectly grilled over hot charcoals with taste highlighting smoky charred flavor embraced with the slightest sweetness of teriyaki sauce.
Fair warning, you might end up popping this continuously in your mouth mindless that lunch time is already over. The same story goes for their mouthwatering gyozas, which I totally want to inhale plates and plates of.
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