朝阳区 新源街2号(近机场高速辅路)
Recently Kotarou has added ramen to its menu. According to the kitchen, they would start cooking the ramen soup base at around noon, and have it ready by around midnight. Customers would flock there late in the evening, and by 2am the soup would be gone and a new batch would start afresh the next day. These are all evidence of a serious ramen proprietor, but on the day of review, the ramen falls short of expectations. The tonkotsu soup base is strong and concentrated, full of flavors of pork and fat. A tinge of smokiness suggests that the chashu pork is slightly charred on the grill before simmering in soup. The pork is tender but, regrettably, a bit too soft and lacking a chew-able body. The noodle is the weakest link: it is surely not made fresh, as evident from an artificial bounciness and a relative lack of flavors.
