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User Reviews on Ajisen Ramen
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Overall
Highly Recommended
Food 9
Ambience 9
Service 9
Value 10
I had wanted to try this place for a while. Finally got the chance to this week and was pleasantly surprised. $25 dollars got my brother and a huge drink each a meal and enough rice and miso soup to satisfy us both (He is a big eater too). The tonkatsu was the best I have had and I have had a lot of it. The squid was enjoyed by my brother and the Melon soda was to die for. The waitress brought out a wrong meal and profusely apologised and fixed it immediately. All in all it was a great and affordable meal.
The value of the food is not as high as it priced, three pieces of meat served on curry with rice, deep fired soft shell crab was overcooked this results to dryness.
Service is poor, waitress drop the sauce and splash on my boyfreind. She said sorry and walked away, without helping the cleaning or offering any serviette to the mess. I asked for doggy-bag, she gave plastics container without a plastic bag, then I asked for plastic bag, it took her a while to look for it.
My Japanese friend wanted to try this place because he wanted his home town food!! The ramen soup base did not have much taste, which was really disappointing. The other two people I was with were disappointed too. The octopus entree was nice and they had a bigger range of drinks than oher places. Reasonably priced food but the taste of the ramen soup base was very disappointing.
What a disappointment. I first attended this restaurant not long after it opened and was amazed at the fantastic flavour of their ramen stock. It was on par with my favourite ramen restaurant in Japan Taiho. After a few visits the shine and enthusiasm of the staff seemed to be fading, they’d lost the opening buzz. Have not been back for a month or so, back last night and so disappointed.
The delicious ramen stock was gone, maggie 2 minutes noodles have more flavour! Staff congregate at the rear of the room, leaving me to flap around like a dying swan! Might give it another go in a month or two, just to be sure not all is lost.
Good ramen for an international franchise, a fact they're not shy to admit via a massive world map printed on one wall illustrating the blooming Ajisen Ramen global empire. All the usual suspects are here as far as the ramen menu goes, along with a handful of less common offerings like my ton toro ramen (soy-based ramen topped with shredded pork; I read that it's pig's cheek but I can't be sure).
Soft-shelled crab and kara-age were definitely more-ish (aren't they always?). Gyoza, on the other hand, to my tastes isn't the best around.
The dishes came out quickly and without fuss in the hands of pleasant waitresses. Value is reasonable, the bill between two people for a bowl of ramen each plus three shared sides coming to $43.