Asa Ramen - Gardena

I was pulled here after a drink. I wasn't even so hungry. But my buddy said they had big takoyaki – these are Japanese fried Octopus balls. I like Takoyaki. But I wasn't so hungry. But then he says his arm, then I was like – good, I'm in. These are the simple things in life that make the world turn around. Our order of Takoyaki came first. We stole a few of them soon. They were as expected. On the inside with the slightly crusty deep fried shell creamy. The light fish flies up with the sauce. I think the sauce is the standard tonkatsu sauce. It was what you expected. That's good. Unexpected things have not happened. These are the types of thin ones you remember vividly. They would remember when the octopus was too chewy – but that didn't happen. You would tell every soul that would hear if the fried dough was boiled – but that didn't happen. They tweet about the sauce being overwhelmed – but that didn't happen. The Takoyaki was as expected. It was good. Then we had our rams. I've never had ramen with butter. It always had a little more “fatness”, which means pork fat or lard, as I ordered in other herds. But Asa Ramen offers it with butter. I thought it was interesting. I had to get it. The ram noodles were okay, not exceptional. But it was the egg that fascinated me. I don't know how they do it, but they have a hard boiled egg with the egg yolk a bit on the gooey side. The protein is completely solid with the egg yolk rough enough where it mixes with the soup base and noodles in creamy quality. I love eggs. I'd like to learn how to do that. Whatever. Asa ramen is a nice little place to go for ramen and Takoyaki.

I went to Asa Ramen hoping to find another magnificent version, but I was sadly despised. We started with a beautiful tofu salad, which was a beautiful block of solid creamy tofu, covered with livered green onions, bonito flakes and a beautiful soy-based dressing. That was one of my favorite dishes of the night. A well-prepared appetizer of fried chicken wings was followed, which were crispy on the outside with delicate juicy dark chicken meat on the inside. It wasn't fat and I thought it was an excellent combination of ivory and crispy. It came with a few baby-greens and a little doll of Mayonaise, that was another winner in my book. After that we were a bit of a yam and green onion in ponzu dish, that was very slim and not terribly aromatic like a room temperature mochi without taste. No one found this particularly appealing due to its consistency and lack of taste. And finally, the soup that was accumulated in so many records was extremely salty. I added a good pair of tablespoons of crushed garlic and a few hot sesame oil I had requested and that helped a little, but it still remained too salty for my taste. I had also hoped to take the left over the soup home and throw a potato to get out of the salt, but the waitress said no recess was allowed, so I felt like I left most of my soup because it was too salty and it was not allowed to take it home and repair it. I should have sent it back. If you're looking for the right thing and a delicious soup, I want you to try Santuko.

Big broth and ramen. The place feels like you made a trip to Japan. The title is in Japanese and the waitress does not speak English and the menu is only in Japanese, but if you overlook that the raven tasted great.