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Very average ramen with skinny so-so noodles and decent shoyu soup. You get a piece of mystery meat and some green onions and that’s it. This gets a 6.

So is it shoyu or tonkotsu? Unfortunately, it doesn’t really matter. So-so noodles and so-so soup makes this a very average nondescript ramen. It gets a 6.

Wow…everyone’s favorite college-student-cheap ramen has a semi-fresh ramen! It’s made in the U.S. and I found it at our local 99 Ranch (Chinese supermarket) so it should be relatively easy to find. And guess what…it’s actually pretty darn good! The noodles are a little bit skinny but chewy and tasty. The soup is a decent shoyu base…nothing magnificent but solid. This gets a solid 8.

Ah…now we’re talking…this ramen is made by the same company as the last one I rated, which I really enjoyed. This one is shoyu flavored, and it’s very good. This is the best of the semi-fresh ramens I’ve had so far and I’m giving it a 8.5. Why not a 9? Because I haven’t had enough of these kinds of ramen to really make a fair judgement, and I’m always hoping there’s something out there that’ll blow me away. But for what it’s worth, this one is damn good!

Technically this a chuka soba, which is slightly different from a “regular” ramen because the noodles are lower in far and not fried in oil before they’re packaged. The noodles are super skinny, and a bit bland and not very “chewy.” The soup is a decent shoyu flavor. Overall, this gets a 6.r,

Our local Marukai is having a regional ramen sale. This is supposed to be a Tokyo tsukemen but I don’t really taste anything special. Tsukemen is an odd ramen where the noodles are served seperate from the soup. Tokyo tsukemen is supposed to be cold. You dip the noodles into the soup like you would with cold soba. The noodles are quite good, as usual for this kind of “fresh” ramen, but the soup is so-so and non-descript. The noodles get an 8, but the soup only gets a 6.