Hey ya people!
As you know, I'm still using my mum's phone, from the day after my phone fell into a coma.
So... Yeah, I took some shots, but it takes a heck out of me to connect her phone to my lappy.
And guess what? My old phone's USB cable cannot be used at all.
Her phone's sucked at detecting the cable thing.
I tried to push it into the phone as hard as possible,
it did detect and managed to connect.
While establishing the connection, the phone auto restarted.
So it was a hassle for me to establish a bluetooth connection instead.
Took like a whole hour just to figure out how to enable the bluetooth thing by device manager when my control panel does not show any bluetooth options.
And... connecting it to the phone is a pain in the arse.
Well, at least I succeeded.
Which is, YAY for me, 'cos I no longer need to MMS those pictures to my e-mail and access it using my lappy. Save time and money.
Okay, here goes.
The thing is, I went to this restaurant in One Utama with my friends for KP's belated birthday celebration. Well it's inside Isetan Eat Paradise, the place where you can see a plenty of Japanese restaurants as well as Korean Eateries.
And the most popular spot for Ramen is Menya Musashi! Yum~
What so special about this restaurant is that, the employees' working spirit.
You know how usually the promoter will greet you with "Welcome"?
Well, this restaurant had all the staff greeting you!
When the girl outside the restaurant managed to pull you in and greeted in Japanese, which is "Irasshaimase!",
The other staff will take it as a signal that a customer has entered,
and I guess there's a leader in the kitchen as he yelled something,
totally alien to me and everyone, including the kitchen staff yelled "IRASSHAIMASE!"
It was embarrassing how we have to stand in front of the entrance and order our food there AND at the same time paying for it, while they're yelling at you.
The menu is really limited, to soup Ramen or Tsukemen, if there are others then I never did try them out before. And the funniest thing is that the green tea cold is cheaper than plain water.
Plus, the food are quite expensive! That time we ate, one person required to pay around RM30.
This totally knock my socks off. I guess we had to pay for the service of yelling at us.
I ordered the signature Musashi ramen, with two slices of pork, half of hard-boiled egg and some pickled bamboo shoots. It costs like RM26, and there are three types of soups to choose from: Shiro (White), Kuro (Black) and Aka (Red).
Shiro practically means clear, or no add-ons. Which is the perfectly Shio-type ramen soup.
Kuro they mentioned sesame oil and stuff, but for the soup to have some black liquid in it, Yuen thinks that they added Squid Ink or something.
Aka - obviously, is spicy.
And yup, I ordered Kuro. Nothing like eating something out of curiosity =)
The service is pretty quick.
Once we sat down, they served us our water.
And few minutes later, the noodles.
And here's mine:
It certainly looks yummy, alright.
But the pork slice in this picture looks more like bitter gourd to me ><
Hmm. Let me get a clearer shot of the black-coloured soup.
Failed. Totally. Sorry about that. My mum's phone isn't exactly the most high-tech gadget in the world. Just some cheap normal phone, and the camera function is like a surplus for her.
As long as she can call and SMS, she's happy.
Long story short, the noodles are springy~
The soup is TOTALLY LOVABLE! I wanted to drink the whole thing.
The soup stock is thick and full of flavour.
Why I didn't finish it? Well, I CAN'T!
The size for one serving is underrated.
I ate so much and there's still a lot of noodles left inside the soup.
Really a lot! If you wanted to try this, better share 1 large serving with your partner.
Nope, the story doesn't end here.
I went again to this very restaurant with my mum today.
She's really eager to try this out.
After I told my mum about this restaurant last week,
her colleague told her about it this week.
And she recommended her to try the dry ramen instead of soup.
So, there I went, with my mum, to eat something different from the menu.
Since my mum insisted on sharing, we had a little side order.
Gyoza. Well, it's pretty common here in Malaysia. Nothing abnormal.
But I kinda liked it. I finished the whole thing (Sorry mum).
While she eat her ramen. Which is a tsukemen ramen.
Yeah well, it looks like your average dry noodles with a bowl of soup.
But the way you eat Tsukemen ramen is different.
It's like eating Soba noodles.
You had to dip the noodles into the soup, and THEN only eat the noodles.
Why? 'Cos the soup is actually the VERY VERY SALTY broth.
It gives flavour to the noodles. But, NEVER, EVER, DRINK the soup.
It's freaking salty. Which is a total waste, after how I wanted to gobble down the soup on my previous visit.
(Hint: The price for different sizes is THE SAME! This is LARGE! And still at RM27. Yup, I know, it's expensive, but since we're sharing, it's cheaper per head.)
And well, I forgotten to mention, that they will pretty much yell in unison too when you're leaving.
"ARIGATO GOZAIMASU!"
It's funny how I wanted to reply with "do itashimashite" means you're welcome,
but it's kinda embarrassing to do that too.
So I just smiled and leave.
My second visit is kinda special.
The boss, the owner and the person who started this restaurant chain back in Japan.
Yes, the owner is a Japanese.
He was there to supervise and help with the reception.
I guess it's because Sunday there are way more people.
I had to queue with my mum before we can order.
Are you expecting a picture of him? No such luck.
Am not interested at all. Unless he brought his son along...
hahahaha Just kidding. Well, before I end,
since it's been a while since I last went to One Utama,
(being 1 year after interning at KPMG)
They renovated the old wing where Jusco was (or Aeon to be exact),
and I saw this candy shop, if I'm not wrong, is called Candylicious?
Well, we did some browsing there (with my friends, not my mum)
and took some shots.
Giant Hershey's Chocolate Syrup. Yum.
But it's fake. I think it's a coin bank or something. Haha.
Giant Hershey's Kisses.
Ditto. Coin bank.
If they're real, I bet the second country to have obesity problem after America will be Malaysia.
Well, just saying. No offence to anyone =P
That's all for now.
Will blog about stuff after I have my phone back (I hope).
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