Sometimes you really crave a bowl of noodles. Then sometimes you really crave a bowl of noodles covered in rendered pork fat and hulking with meat and shredded veggies and bean sprouts. Yume Wo Katare specialises in the latter and ever since its opening last summer I have battled the urge to haul my lazy arse out of bed every weekend morning and not indulge in what might be one of the best bowls of noodles in Beijing. The staff are all incredibly friendly and the restaurant draws Japanese and Chinese families from all around - it's a place for peace and slurping.
Hell, they even closed up shop and made it to Yugong Yishan Festival last weekend, where it was cold, drab, and erring on miserable, yet we were all rewarded for having gotten out of bed with a bowl of their magnificent ramen, this time in a damp field two hours outside of Beijing. Their presence was almost the best part of the wind-beaten festival.
Yume Wo Katare, thank you and please never change.
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Re: Comfort food taken to the extreme
The ramen is medicore at best. Very old school style Tonkatsu that has been out of fashion for like 20 years. You see some japanese eating there simply because there is limited options and or nostaglia.
The guy running the show is nice, and tries his best. But again, the food is very medicore, in what way? Super heavy, too satly, the pork is not really cooked well. Should be much more tender.
and for someone who trained in Japan, it's a shame he didn't pick up how to run a shop properly. Literally the guy does everything himself, ramen and the cooked food menu, like running from station to station like a mad man. Yes in Japan you have 2 people behind the counter for small shops, 1 for ramen 1 for cooked foods like gyoza, but with much fewer seats, usually 10-15. Super slow service, it was simply a pain to eat there. Honestly speaking there is only 2 ramen places in Beijing worth going to, 1 is Ippudo, the other I wont' say because I don't want hordes of people ruining it like they did Sake Manzo when it was just the 1 location and was empty most of the time.
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