Ramen Kagawa

I recently dined at the Ramen Kagawa restaurant, and it was an incredible experience. The food was delicious, with rich and flavorful broth, perfectly cooked noodles, and fresh toppings. The service was impeccable, and the ambiance was cozy and inviting. I highly recommend this restaurant for any Ramen lover – it's a definite 5-star gem!

Service was good and fast but nothing to write home about. The clear star of this restaurant was the ramen. It was my first time ever trying authentic ramen and I was skeptical at first but IMPRESSED. I found myself craving it days later. Do yourself a favor and order the Taiyaki for dessert. This might be one of my favorite things I've ever put in my mouth. It tastes like a delicious fish shaped donut with a cocoa center.

This place was a dissapointment, reviews and pictures drew me in. Ordered potatickers, they came out over cooked and a few had even exploded so no filling present. I asked for ponzu or a sauce because I thought Id seen a dipping sauce in a picture but they only had soy which came to the table in a dirty container. Pork buns looked good but missed the mark for flavor, they weren't got and could have used a drizzle of flavor. The dining room had a faint smell of old fryer oil which was confirmed when our order of Kaarage came to the table. The chicken looked completely unappetizing, burnt and dry. Ordered the Tonakatsu Ramen since Id read good reviews but unfortunately it wasn't very hot and the broth not as flavorful as I would have hoped. Maybe it was an off night for them, idk.

I feel like I have to have eaten at a completely different place than the 5-star reviewers ate. The food is extremely mid. The spicy chicken ramen lacked flavor. The chicken in the ramen was pretty flavorless and dry (just…how?). Server was nice enough. But certainly will not be coming back, not with so many better ramen places in the valley.

We wanted to try Harumi Sushi next door, but there was a one hour wait, so we decided to try Ramen Kagawa so that we didn't have to wait outside in the heat. There was no wait at Ramen Kagawa. The ramens were not great. In my bowl of Hokaido (missing a K in the menu by the way. It's Hokkaido) Miso Ramen, I had broth, noodles, soft boiled egg, cabbage (why?), chashu, corn, and about a tablespoon slice of butter. The noodle was undercooked. The corn was room temperature. The cabbage was really cold. The inside of the soft boiled egg and chashu was cold. The butter didn't even melt because the broth was luke warm. The server was explaining to me that they put the ramen together with ingredients that are premade, refrigerated, and put into the bowl. For the chashu, they sear it before it's put into the bowl, he said. I'm guessing the corn was room temperature because it wasn't refrigerated and was from a can that was at room temperature. We had three different bowls of ramen, and all were the same. The broth should be hot! It's one thing to not make the broth or the noodles in-house. I can understand Japanese restaurants that don't want to spend the effort in making the noodles. I can also understand if they don't want to make their broth, however, I will refuse to eat a bowl of ramen if they don't at least make their own broth. Ramen Kagawa does make their broth. To put food together with premade ingredients and not even heat them up is pretty lazy and terrible. At least make it so your customers don't notice that you're cutting corners. The karaage was overcooked and dry. Maybe they get overcooked because it's premade and being refrigerated (frozen maybe?), it takes longer to deep fry. They also don't make their gyoza. They buy them frozen, and heat them up. Sometimes they make them in-house, the server said. Google the term Kodawaru. If a Japanese restaurant is Japanese owned, they should be pridefully serving good food. What's the point if the food is terrible? After I spoke with the server about the ramem being cold, he gave us a 15% discount. I think he should have just taken the ramen off the ticket. I would not return, and I don't recommend you go either.