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- Moti in Futako Tamagawa is closed due to the development project -

If you are a fan of Indian crusine and live nearby Futako Tamagawa, you should already know about this Indian Restaurant. There are six Moti restaurants in Tokyo and Yokohama. Their first restaurant is opened in Akasaka in 1978. Since I used to work at an office in Minami-Aoyama, I had eaten sometimes at Moti in Roppongi. What I like very much about restaurants in Japan is its lunch special menu. Most Japanese restaurants offer high quality launch menu at surprisingly reasonable price. Moti is not an exception. Moti serves you a mix grill menu only at 1,280 yen. This menu is only available on weekdays. But unfortunately, Futako Tamagawa branch was closed due to the development project in Futako Tamagawa area.

How often do you eat Ramen? If you ask any Japanese around you, you should expect a lot of different answers. For my case, I would eat Ramen at least once a month. I think I am not a Ramen freak. Some people would eat Ramen every day for lunch. But I do eat Soba more than twice a week. Ramen Koroku is good for non-Ramen freak like me to associate with Ramen more often.

What I do not like about ordinary Ramen is its greasy soup. Some of famous Tokyo style Tonkotsu Ramen, noodle with pork bone made soup, come with extremely unhealthy oily soup. Koroku is an adversary to such typical Ramen that young generation would rather prefer to. I would strongly suggest that you would order Koroku Special. It comes with corn, wakame seaweed, and roast pork. Its soy source based soup is only a little bit oilier than the soup for soba noodle.

This ramen shop serves you very traditional Hakata style ramen. Hakata style ramen is known with its very thin noodule and pork bone boillon soup. It is also known by toppings such as Mentaiko, Moyashi and Takana, green radish pickles. I actually went to this ramen shop just after I went to Hakata to tast the real Hakata ramen in the backstreet of Hataka station. And I found the taste of the Hakata ramen at Hakata Koimaro Futako Tamagawa is exactly same as it is at Hataka. For those of you who are accustomed with Tokyo style Aginomoto or Soy Source based favor soup, its real Hakata style taste may be felt too less salty. If you walk straight through a street between two Takashimaya buildings and turn left at the forth corner, you will find this ramen shop on that corner.