As you can maybe tell this day is sort of almost over nothing too exciting this morning
Just wrap up the Japanese convenience store video and just like every other day immediately fell into a food coma and didn't wake up till
About an hour ago, but I've been waiting for this day thinking about this day
So it's been over a year since I last had it probably the greatest ramen I've ever had in my life
I mean, it's just just life-changing
ramen, if you guys remember that was in Osaka and that was Ichiran and part of the reason I came to Fukuoka is
Because well it all started here because Fukuoka is really known for his tonkotsu ramen and ichiran was started right here
So I am right now heading for the ramen
Capital store of Ichiran and I am about to once again
Feast on something like I I've literally been thinking about every single day since I left Japan last time
This is the monumental day. The city of canals. Hey, this is just gorgeous place
I'm heading right now to the area of ghee on which the the flag should be translocated
There it is, that's all Ichiran that's how awesome Ichiran is it demands its own building, that's a restaurant
That's when you know your ramen is awesome where one floor of a building is not enough you require the entire thing
Oh, I've been waiting for this moment for over a year and there's a line
I don't like standing in line for many things but this I'll wait. I'll wait as long as it takes
Gotta get the combo set
Let's get a couple of those and I'm just gonna go ahead and be presumptuous and get a second Bowl
Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. I'm just holding golden tickets
We meet again a little magic ramen window. As always how your order is, uh, there's a form in front of you and fill
out what you want for your ramen.
Um, medium here, richness medium, garlic tons of garlic, please. Um
Definitely green onions. As if that's a question
My first ball the spiciest you can get without having to spend more money. The perfect amount of spice for cheap Asians like me.
And the texture of the noodles firm, please. There we go
Everything is order, place it by the magic window, push the magic button and then good things will just start to happen. Hai
There we go
I think I could basically live here like you got your water
You got your unlimited food and if you really need to sleep, what kiddo?
Oh
Thank you
Arigato gozaimashita
And there it is
They leave you in peace
To enjoy. Okay, not that I'm complaining. I'm so happy to be here
But I feel like the 10 times spice
Should be more than this. This feels more like a three timer or a four timer
It's definitely way smaller way less space than what I got in Osaka. So I feel like there's there's less condiments here as well
They deffinately give you less scallions here. Otherwise, oh
Okay before I disturb that chili too much
I gotta get a spoonful of the broth as is
I mean
What do you say that someone or something that you've been thinking about every day and you haven't seen for about a year
I think in both instances, I would always say
Let's eat. Oh
Hello
My beautifully rich friend you have them. Well, so pretty rich I guess life's been good for this guy
Add the extra condiments extra slices of pork
Mushroom and of course you can't forget
The essence of the ramen the egg, let's do a little mixing shall we
Okay, I gotta say egg, oh, I mean it's not the best soft boiled egg I've ever seen but it's still pretty glorious
And definitely beats the heck out of that
hard-boiled egg I got in Brooklyn, you know that's gonna bring some extra creaminess to the party. This broth is so rich
Even if I let it sit for about ten seconds, it starts to chilling just a is so incredibly rich. It's been way too long
Without a doubt still
The best bawl of Ramen I've ever had. Look how well the string of noodle's grabbing on to this thick rich broth
Look at it. You can see all the red chili flakes
You see that I mean each strand of noodles
I mean, it's holding on to the broth for dear life
And that's where you want to see these noodle could go on an American ninja challenge because they will never let go
I'm getting borderline emotional eating this because not only am I finally eating this again at it's home where it all originated
It's really bringing back memories of my last trip to Japan and how incredible my first experience with this ramen was
We all remember our first love right and for me, I also remember my first food loves, and this
Was the first time I really fell in love with Japanese Ramen
Ted like head-over-heels
Crazy stupid love. like a Forrest Gump and Janie soulmates type of love that although we may be separated
We will eventually end up together because hey, Janie may have came back sick, but she still came back
It's time to eat this egg. This is the most exciting part. I really do feel like ramen without an egg
It's just incomplete it really is
Glorious milky eggy sunset
If ever ever want your taste buds to witness a glorious sunset you put this in your mouth
I'm just so overwhelmed with emotions right now. It really is not the same having those in New York
It just doesn't taste quite the same. It doesn't. Oh the roast pork too. It's not gonna melt in your mouth
But it will deliver a fantastic porky flavor you're looking for and although I really enjoy my time eating Michelin star ramen in Tokyo
This is home. This is where my heart is.
That's what I call a deliciously fantastic reunion.
I could have saved some broth and just get an extra order of noodles but,
What fun is that. One great meeting deserves another. So, you guys ready to hit the repeat button. Let's hit the repeat button
All right
Now the problem is I got another ball of noodles but the sheet they gave me the extra sheet they gave me is in Korean
So let's try to figure this out. Obviously I've memorized this right now
So regular season, regular richness again,
Okay, I got 10 last time didn't seem to be really tense
Let's do five and seal the difference is and let's go for ultra chewy noodles. I didn't have enough money for an extra egg
And so I guess this time no ramen essence for me
Arigato gozaimashita, when they deliver the Ramen, I feel, I almost feel like borderline
like I'm doing something kind of naughty kind of taboo because you know
They hand it to you through this creepy you never really see their faces
so honestly
the five times spice is
kinda
Like what I got last time with the tenth time spice and like I mentioned you can see how rich this broth is.
It's been iterally sitting there as I'm taking some photos for like
Half a minute. You see that it's already concealing. This is a really really rich tonkotsu broth
And that's what Fungoku is famous for
I don't know how this is possible. But this bowl almost tastes better than the first one is one of these ramen places where
The more you eat it, the more you want to eat it pretty much fits the profile of people you probably want to date
It's beautiful. It's rich. It owns its own building
I don't know, I kind of feel like this bowl like in general is gonna taste better than last one
with each bite you take even though you've been with each other a lot just keeps tasting better and better I
Feel like I've been a little rude to the ramen we haven't seen each other in so long and thing would see little privacy
I
Feel full I
Think I feel fulfilled but just extremely happy
I don't want to make this sound like a cliche, but I can still kind of taste it on my lips
Let's end the night with something sweet
The macha almond pudding with green tea sauce
This does well to sooth the fire. Couple of reasons I swear by the
Itchiran in Japan rather than all the ones that are popping up in the US, is it tastes different. It really does
I mean
It's close
And if you can't make it a Japan go go get your fix and Brooklyns and I guess now in Manhattan as well
It's not bad, it's still Itchiran, it's still delicious. But of course much better here and the experience is much better here as well
The other reason is that the Lux Ramen combo I got for about fourteen hundred yen
Which is about fourteen dollars will cost you almost double in New York
And then on top of that they give you a hard boiled egg for 350. Alright, well that concludes my meal
I'm all like sad and depressed
Like how should you feel when you're leaving
Somebody you love again to go overseas for god knows how long goodbye magical ramen window I guess
I'll go see your clone in Brooklyn when I really really miss you. I know it won't be really you
It's not the same. And of course guys, I'll put information for this place for you in my description box below
Thank you so much for watching this love affair of a video now until we meet again. Hopefully I'll be back very soon
This Ichiran has a live band. Oh that is that is intense
Wow
This is pretty crazy. I
mean if you own the building I
Guess you could it's just like a instrumental lip-synch still good job. Yay
For a minute there, I thought they were like robots. That would have been really really really insane. And that's probably how the world would have ended
Ichiran taking over the world with mechanical robots
That makes ramen. Maybe not so bad. Now after a delicious ramen meal gotta go get some snacks to bring back to the office
When you need to go for snacks is the place I went in with Sokka
Called Don Quixote is like just this multi level- It has everything in there, but they don't allow any photos so
I'll see you when I come out
You want snacks in Japan follow the penguin
Apple KitKat sounds good to me. Red bean sandwich KitKat. It's like grape wine or something. Get that
My God, look at all the KitKat here. I swear, there's a Japanese branch of the government
All they do is make different flavors of Kit Kats god bless them for that. I love sake KitKat
Look at this this KitKat has like stuff on the KitKat
This is crazy, it's like berries and nuts on a matcha KitKat
This is basically all kitkat. One thing
I couldn't find which if you guys see you should definitely get
are these cookies, they're my favorite cookies in the world, they're like Hokkaido milk cookies and Chinese call them ??? and they're like
White color lover or something like that
for some reason when I was in Japan last
They were in every single store like every single ever like every single
7-eleven every single family Mart had them but now like I can't find them anywhere
Which is a shame because those things oh, those are just life changing cookies