Kinton Ramen

Cuisine: Japanese

Price range: $10-$20

Location: Baldwin St.

Mango rating: 7

Kinton Ramen is a newly established Japanese ramen bar on Baldwin. I had visited it a few weeks ago but haven't had the chance to blog about it. Anyways, here's my take on the restaurant:

My friends and I had arrived at the restaurant at 1pm on a Sunday afternoon and the restaurant was packed so we were put on a waitlist. While waiting, we stood outside and checked out their menu. I am no ramen expert but their menu looks appetizing.

After one and a half hour of waiting, yes, it was a crazy long wait. We were seated for our party of 7. We were all starving at this point that anything should satisfy our hunger.

My friends and I ordered various bowls of ramen. Mainly miso ramen, shio ramen, shoyu ramen and spicy garlic ramen. I ordered the spicy garlic based on my friend's recommendation. 

Kinton Ramen, like most other ramen joints (I think), allows you to order varies add-ons to your ramen at a cost. Ie. Seasoned egg for an additional $1.50, Nori for $1, and many others. You can even request for more noodles.

In my case, I got a seasoned egg and extra noodles. 

The ramen was alright, I personally didn't like my spicy garlic soup base. I shouldn't have used up all the garlic that they added since I found my soup to be very garlicy for my taste.

Overall, I think it's a good and well-structured restaurant. The interior design is very modern and the servicing staff was quite helpful. My only complaint would be that I found the food to be a tad over-priced considering other ramen bars offers similarly or better tasting ramen at a competitive price.