つけ麺麦の香 (Tsukemen Muginoka in Takadanobaba, Tokyo)

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つけ麺麦の香

The latest shop from top-level Yamaguchi takes up residence in the original Yamaguchi Takadanobaba space. Ramen Yamaguchi, the gold standard for chicken ramen, moved across the street. Since everything Yamaguchi touches turns to gold, ramen hunters had much anticipation for this one.

Opened in July 2020. Tsukemen, tsukemen with and egg, tsukemen with extra pork, and yuzu tsukemen. Choose your size, but be warned that even the small bowl has 180g of uncooked noodles. Those 180g balloon to over 300g after cooking. Get the large size and you’ll be slurping down over a kilo.

Their kodawari description of ingredients describes a standard tsukemen soup made with chicken, pork, and seafood and enhanced with Yamaguchi’s own special shoyu tare. The tare uses craft soy sauce from Akita Prefecture’s Morita Shoyu. They’ve been making soy sauce in the traditional way since 1903.

Noodles are produced by Yamaguchi at Haneda Seimen (羽田製麺), a noodle factory in Fukishima Prefecture, using Hokkaido wheat. As expected, the noodles are ecellent. The name of the shop, Muginoka, means scent of the wheat.

Overall a very nice addition to Tokyo’s tsukemen scene.

This is the standard bowl. I’d like to come back and try their yuzu tsukemen. Yuzu matches with a thick tsukemen broth and aromatic noodles, enhancing the whole experience.

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