Kawawa Ramen

I have a feeling I will get some backlash for writing this post.  Why?  Well let me get my final thoughts on Kawawa out early in this post.  Quite simply, I really enjoyed the food and will definitely go back.

Kawawa is located inside Metrotown right beside their All-You-Can-Eat establishment of the same name.  Now I know I know, this really isn’t an authentic ramen restaurant.  Heck, none of the people that work there are Japanese.  But they actually make some of the better non-Downtown non-Japanese-run ramen I’ve ever tasted.

LBF ordered the Beef Tongue (or “beef tough” as it’s written on the menu) and I think it’s around $8-9.  It came in their “Japanese Style Broth” which I’ll assume is equivalent to shio.  It came with a measly 3 small slices of “beef tough” and indeed it was tough, or so I’m told.  The soup however was quite flavorful and the ramen noodles were not bad.  Quite al dente.

L ordered Combo A which came with a bowl of ramen in Japanese-style broth and a small bowl of charshu rice, which you will see later.  It was $7.95 which is a pretty good deal.

As for me, I ordered the Combo B which is basically the same thing but with Miso soup instead.  My ramen also came with one slice of pretty fatty, yummy charshu.  I only wish they gave more, as it was made pretty well.  The soup was quite rich and concentrated and you can clearly taste miso in it.  I liked it more than the version at Miko (oh I still have to write that post huh….)

And here’s the Charshu rice bowl.  They do give quite a bit of sauce so I really liked this a lot.  Especially when it’s packed for next day’s work lunch!!

Summary

Reviewer

Wendy

Review Date

2010-09-05

What Was Reviewed

Kawawa Ramen

Author Rating

3