Ramen Sanpachi 38!

Last night i had a terrific dinner!

my boyfriend has always been a fan of Japanese Ramen noodle, and he introduced me to that dish which is quickly becoming my favourite food. Anyways, last week i noticed a new Ramen place opened up in Plaza Pondok Indah, Ramen Sanpachi 38. And we went there for a culinary adventure last night.

The restaurant is small and just modest but very japanese, it's a typical japanese neighbourhood restaurant. when the waitress first handed us the menu we were quite disappointed because lots of the noodles use pork. but then she explained that it can be changed to halal (chicken or beef) and when i ask she also explained that they use different cookwares for the halal and non halal beef so rest assured that there wont be any mix up. The waitress was very helpful she explained that for some menus we can pick the kind of meat we want, sliced or grinded. We can also choose between curly and straight noodle. She also recommend the cooking style best for each noodles.

I chose the jigoku Ramen, a hot soup ramen with mushrooms, leeks and some spinach and sliced beef, with half cooked straight noodle. There were 10 levels of hotness for the hot dishes, 1 to 10. To my boyf's and the waitress's i asked for level 5 but then i changed for level 3. and believe me that is hot enough, my mom's an acehnese and i eat chili like everysingle day since i was born and that level 3 hotness is very spicy already. Seru deh! ;D

Abang ordered the Miso Ramen, a miso seasoned ramen soup with vegetables and grinded beef with cooked curly noodles. It was not hot but later he added some chilli powder and chili oil. The seasoning tray at every table is complete with salty soy sauce, chili powder, oil, and paste, even sesame beans and oils. We ordered a plate of Gyozas too.

We didn't order any drinks because they give us free iced water already, free flow. Nice! Oh and for beer fans they also serve Erdinger beer at Rp. 70000. The noodles are around Rp 45000 per bowl and there are also rice dishes or don and set menus.

We waited for the noodles for about 10 minutes reading japanese mangas and magazine available a rackful by the door. Well, we were just looking at the picture sih.. hahaha
and then the holy amazingly large bowls of ramen noodles came. We were drooling before it even reach our tastebuds. the soup was tasty, very tasty. The noodles were soft but not weightless. and all the other ingredients are fresh and tasty. the gyoza was marvelous too. these are the best Ramen and Gyoza i've ever tasted, ever.

abang kept saying "we are so coming back to this place" over and over again and we were quite sad when the whole thing's finished. Eventhough we actually have got no more space in our tummy anymore hahahaha.

When we thought were at the end of our culinary adventure the waitress came back bringing us our free dessert! Pineapple konyaku jellies! It's perfect. The jelly cooled my hot insides immediately and the sweet taste give my tastebuds a rest after all that level 3 chilis.

Wonderful wonderful dinner!