santouka ramen open in vancouver
 

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i read this site a while ago, and seems like this ramen place is still not here yet. Anyone know more info?

On Santouka's website there's no mention of store opening in Canada nor is it listed in the store list. But looking @ their updates of new store openings they tend to do it day-of opening or very close to it.

Someone educate me on This chain?

It's a ramen chain that started out in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan back in '88. They have stores throughout Japan. Quite a few in the US, mostly located in Cali. One in Singapore, & couple in HK. If they have this many stores they must be fairly good, although I'll never try it since I'm a tonkotsu-only fan & they serve shio/miso/shouyu only according to their site.

sounds promising!!!



even tho i aint a big fan of ramen

Wow.. i can't wait !!!!! hopefully they will open soon.. have they even started construction?

on an unrelated note.. the new benkei on thurlow is open..

It is located on Robson beside Guu. I last walked past it a month ago and it was under construction with the windows covered and signs up saying opening soon.

This better be good cause I will be "Webraging" on RS about how much it sucked. :lol

cheese ramen. mm...

It's Open now. They don't have everything readily available on the menu. The official Grand opening is on March 5th. I went yesterday(28th), and found that this Ramen joint is awesome! Great stuff! Best I've had out of the Lower Mainland.

Just like the Japadog Robson location and Gyudonya, they all missed out on the possible Olympic business they could have had.

Still, I can't wait to try this place out.

^ Technically Japadog didn't lose any business since there were two locations serving the Olympic crowd.

japa dog is overated, its just hot dog guys :rolleyes: A bun, a dog, and some different sauces



new location is opening soon on robson

sounds good thanks,

can you compare to any other ramen palces you have been to?

Only thing I've agreed with :thumbsup:

went there on sunday... its not bad 8/10 but lots of items on menu was not ready
ie. small dises or sushi roll and other speciality dishes

I went there on Tuesday and had the toroniku kara miso ramen. It's a bit pricey at $13 but the special chashu that comes with it was really good (not too salty, very tender) and I liked the soup alot. Noodle was not really the type I like but I would definetly go back again.

Their regular shoyu/miso/shio/kara miso was around $8. My friend had the shoyu so I tried some of the soup and it was good as well.

cant justify paying $5 bux plus for a dog

god damn

JDM hype

oh well

went today. i ordered the chashu shio and its probably the best ive had in vancouver aside from kintaro except not as fatty. personally, i like kintaro's noodles but santouka's kind is passable i guess. chashu taste almost exactly like kintaro's lean chashu which is a definite plus. aside from that, i will probably order the toroniku miso next time to try the pork jowel or the tsukemen (which i don't think any other vancouver ramen place has offered yet).

Went there this week. Very good ramen, but place is small so you'll probably have to wait.

Have you been to the DAWG house on broadway?

its like 6-10 for a dog....

I love this place. I've been there 3 times already. Seems like each time I go back there is a longer line up. I don't like Kintaro but I really like Benkei. I like this place a little bit more than Benkei.

This is coming from someone who hated ramen at one point.

Best Ramen i've had in vancouver hands down...

had to line up for 15 mins, broth soup was really nice (had miso) but noodles weren't the same as kintaro and the price was at 8.95 a little steep

but i'll visit another time as they gave out free noodle tickets to us yesterday