Menya Jouroku

Cannot recommend highly enough! We came to try Osaka's famous Takaida Ramen and were so impressed! The flavours were delicious and friendly service

If anyone goes there please note each person has to have an order. We only had one combo and the cook told us each person had to have an order. We got in late to Osaka and it was open woth some seats. The place is very dingy with the chef cooking the noodles right next to a garbage pail. To put it plainly the ramen is very average. Char sui lacked any flavor, the broth had no depth on either ramen. We went with the deluxe and a miso ramen. We had a mini combo and got their pork rice bowl as well which was we mediocre at best. I have a feeling they were using day old rice and the pork was under seasoned and dry.

A ramen shop a few minute’s walk away from the Den Den Town area. The place only has counter seats, and the queue is inside using stools that face the eating customers. I ordered their chuuka soba with extra meat slices. The bowl is the most aggressive soy sauce ramen that I have ever eaten. The spice from the fresh onion gives a good kick from the mellow yet dark broth. It reminded me of a ru rou han bowl from Taiwan but with noodles. I wish that the slices from the extra helping of meat was as thin from the one provided in the standard bowl, but that is negligible from the overall quality.

One of the best bowls of ramen you can get in Osaka, it’s a very unique taste that you can’t get it anywhere else! Not sure why there are so many reviews about the chef being rude, they were really kind and strict about the rules to follow as this restaurant gets very very busy. If you’re in Osaka you cannot miss out on this place! My recommendation is to arrive 15 minutes early as during 6:30pm there can be a long wait.

The most popular kind of ramen is a bit salty for my taste. Very soy-saucey. I’d recommend the salt ramen (chicken &fisn stock based). Limited bar seating available but everyone eats relatively fast so the wait is bearable.

Don’t listen to all gajins complaining. You don’t go in a ’share a bowl’ at a ramen place and you don’t stay for a long time. Why? Their margins are really small and they survive due to the amount of customers. I’ve been here numerous times during my trips to Osaka and they are serving one of the besr chuka sobas I ever had. Go there, wait patiently, don’t be loud and eat one of the best. Strongly recommended.

Wow! The Takaida style ramen was so flavorful and not too salty like some soups can be. The noodles were perfectly cooked not too soft and not too hard.

Ramen was okay, but the chef was rude !!! Is he japanese? He should be more polite like most japanese. Or maybe he felt his ramen is famous, if he keep his attitude like that, i think the business will be droped !