Umenoya wasn't open, thus it is the first time I try Ko-Ryu.
Started with the Koi Ramen, advertised heavily as their signature. The broth is heavy and thick, not so much creamy, but homogenously dense. The pork is rich, and the fat is plenty, but it's more salt and less balance, and it gets overwhelming and a tiny bit nauseating if you consume more than half.
Same goes for the Spicy Miso Ramen. Same thick broth base, but it feels like all the salt sank to the bottom of the bowl. You want more water to down more broth, but you can't hold the gallon you already consumed. And the Chashu...HORRIBLE. So dry it shears apart into strips, it might as well have been jerky.
Started with the Koi Ramen, advertised heavily as their signature. The broth is heavy and thick, not so much creamy, but homogenously dense. The pork is rich, and the fat is plenty, but it's more salt and less balance, and it gets overwhelming and a tiny bit nauseating if you consume more than half.
Same goes for the Spicy Miso Ramen. Same thick broth base, but it feels like all the salt sank to the bottom of the bowl. You want more water to down more broth, but you can't hold the gallon you already consumed. And the Chashu...HORRIBLE. So dry it shears apart into strips, it might as well have been jerky.
The Chashu Bowl is better, but the barbecue sauce on top is obnoxious. An attempt to add flavor and depth where none exists. This chashu is at least not dry, but it completely lacks the savor of a fatty belly cut.
Not worth the food coma, definitely not worth the multiple bathroom trips. Ko-Ryu seems at first okay, and their walls are covered with masochists who delight in their various levels of ramen burn, but there is a polish that their ramen lacks. I left feeling somehow incomplete, thus it is the last time I try Ko-Ryu.
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