Last year, I wrote about my favorite ramen place in Tsuchiura, the great chicken ramen Ryuusuke. I wrote about how their chicken ramen is something that is out of this world and I talked about how much I love the place. If you want to check out the post, here is the link:
The last time I went to Ryuusuke, I saw the owner and got to talk to him for a minute. He let me know that he opened another ramen place and that my wife and I should give it a try. Both of us agreed that we should go there as soon as possible. We finally got that chance last December, and got to experience Butasoba Tokuryu.
Butasoba Tokuryu
Butasoba (pork soba) Tokuryu is kind of on the border of Tsuchiura and Ami town. It is across the street from Kasumigaura high school. I highly recommend coming by car since because it is more convenient but there is a bus stop nearby. The Ibaraki Eats Duo walked inside and found the place to be like any other ramen shop. The seating is limited. I think 10 people can fit in max.
The Menu
The menu is on a ramen ticket vending machine so you got to pick your ramen and press a button. The options are the pork soba, pork soba with no soup (so basically maze soba), pork soba tsukemen style, spicy pork soba, spicy maze soba, and spicy tsukemen. The vending machine also has options for adding toppings, ordering drinks, and gyoza. You also get to choose if you want regular or oomori. That night my wife ordered the pork soba tsukemen and I got the regular pork soba.
Butasoba Ramen
When the butasoba was placed in front of me, the smell was captivating and I couldn't wait to dig in. It had some garlic, pork fat, chashu, and moyashi (bean sprouts), lots of moyashi. Here is one little thing about me, I don't hate moyashi but I don't enjoy a mountain of it. A little here and there is nice but not when I can barely see anything else in the ramen. After digging through the mountain of moyashi, I picked up some noodles and got to slurping. The noodles were fantastic, amazing texture, the right size and extremely tasty. I would expect nothing else from this ramen master. The soup had a heavy pork taste which was expected but it wasn't very oily. I loved this ramen but I find Ryuusuke to be the better of the two.
Butasoba Tsukemen
Here is the question. Do you want to dip your noodles are not? That is pretty much the only difference between the butasoba tsukemen and butasoba ramen. Everything else is the same minus the egg. Both options are great but I enjoyed the butasoba ramen a little bit more.
Butasoba Tokuryu is a nice little ramen shop to visit, especially if you are on your way to Ami town from Tsuchiura. The noodles are amazing and the chashu is great. It may not live up to its older brother Ryuusuke, but it is a tasty ramen shop.
So if you are heading down to Ami and want to grab a quick bowl of delicious ramen, why not give Butasoba Tokuryu a chance. Who knows, you might see me there, enjoying some great butasoba.
Enjoy!
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