Over the past few days, we have been thinking of eating ramen, but haven't gotten a chance to have any. So this time we decided to look for the bestest ramen in London.
How to look?
1. Go google and type "ramen london" lor. Obviously that isn't the best way to look for the best ramen.. but then you go and type "best ramen london" and see what it returns.
2. Go londoneating.com and type "ramen". Unfortunately it only returns the name of the restaurants that start with ramen.
3. Look under jap cuisine. Doesn't work to well either, since it can be anything from teppenyaki to sushi belts to proper jap restaurants.
Finally, we decided on Ramen Seto, since there were plenty of reviews on the net and most of them seem pretty good.
It was a small shop, with maybe enough seats for 20. There were a couple of japs in there, so the assumption was that it can't be too bad. It was like a budget ramen restaurant la, don't have fancy deco or music or whatever.
We got the ramen of course. I had chasiew (how do they spell it?) ramen and L had miso ramen. I was still recovering from my food poisoning at that time, and though I did have some appetite at the start, I couldn't finish the ramen. I thought it tasted quite nice - maybe a bit on the salty side and the noodles were a little overdone. L though, once she tasted it, declared that the Ichi Ramen in California was nicer. hmm.. can't really comment since I just recovered.
** and a side story **
Two japanese guys came in about 15 minutes after us and sat right next to us. One of them had a guide book - probably recommended them to come here for jap ramen - or maybe they were just shopping and then chanced onto the restaurant.
They ordered in Japanese, since the waitresses there do look japanese. Unfortunately, the waitress that served them wasn't japanese. The conversation went like this
"a** ..... miso ramen d*** ka?"
"ah, miso ramen, hai.."
"(more japanese)"
"... (silence, incomprehension)"
"whats meat is there?"
"meet? what meet?"
anyway, they finally ordered their food and they probably weren't having high expectations after that. when the food arrived and they tasted it, their response was
dunno if that yokata means "good" or "i'm relieved", but in any case, they did enjoy the food, judging by their expression and body language.
But it still doesn't compare to Ichi Ramen... I need to find a better ramen restaurant.
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