Daruma Ramen

By Unknown - 7:44 PM

I'm so sorry I've been a bit distracted this week. I've been preoccupied with work, workout (for Cabo San Lucas in two weeks) & a special project for the upcoming Valentine's Day and just haven't had the time to spend with you.

Today I finally made time to go through my December photo clusters, I stumbled across these and realized I'd totally forgotten to upload them! So better late than never, here's my Ramen at Daruma with these sweet gals: Christine, Ellie & Maddy.

You know me, I'm always eager to slurp down a good bowl of soup.
I braved the icy cold weather and met the girls in Sixth Street District.
There was nowhere else I wanted to be than nestled behind that wooden glass door, gorging on a big bowl of steaming hot ramen.

Daruma Ramen (sister restaurant of Kome) is a great petite welcoming place with a very cozy, traditional Japanese yet modern & sophisticated ambiance with small communal wooden benches.

So get up close, comfortable & personal with your neighbors.

I haven't quite figured out what this little guy symbolizes but he is everywhere in the shop, even on the bowls & napkins, but he has grown on me.

The menu offers a handful varieties of ramen made from scratch with eggless tapioca-based noodles and freshly brew whole chicken broth.

Unlike other ramen shops in town with pork-based broth, Daruma's chicken broth has fewer calorie, lower cholesterol & high in vitamins.

We got down to business & placed our orders.

(Top Right) Maddy went for the spicy clear "Chintan" style chicken broth Shio Ramen with seafood salt base, topped with shio tori chashu, ahi-tamago (half boiled egg), bok-choy (missing), wakame seaweed, goji berry, scallion & a dash of ginger oil.

(Top Left) Ellie went for the original Miso Ramen with homemade miso-tare, topped with beansprouts, chicken breast meat, aji tamago, sesame seed, shredded dried red pepper, & homemade ra-yu oil.

(Bottom Right) Christine went for the classic Shoyu Ramen with seafood flavor topped with tori chashu, boiled egg, bamboo shoot, bok-choy, scallion, naruto & anchovy oil.