Thursday, June 08, 2023

More noodling and tori karaage at Menya Kokoro

Menya Kokoro, 100am

Came by Menya Kokoro for some of their summer menu "super" noodles.

Menya Kokoro, super seafood cold ramen hiyashi citrus

Their citrus hiyashi seafood ramen sounded good. Weather's been sweltering lately. While I'm willing to admit that it was a refreshing bowl as a whole, I'm not impressed and this large portion was measly. As a citrus cold noodle, Healthy Soba IKI's lemon soba blows this out of the water by being more flavourful and citrus-y. Completely. As a soba with lime, it wasn't anywhere as limey as a proper sudachi soba. Prawns were sweet but the clams didn't taste good and those thin slices of scallops had almost no flavour.

Menya Kokoro, super garlic mazesoba

This was their super garlic mazesoba. Garlic was obviously the selling point and one could see chopped, pureed and fried garlic among the toppings. It's not very garlicky. It's a nice bowl with their usual mazesoba standards but garlicky it was not. I expected something called super garlic mazesoba to be in your face and dragon's breath or money back kind of garlicky. Enough of the word garlicky. Felt gimmicky. 

Menya Kokoro, tori karaage

Tori karaage was delicious. This will likely become a regular order. Today's looked a little smaller though. I wonder if I had imagined that. But I've said enough about them already.

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