Santa Ramen

Despite being sick, I ventured out to meet the birthday boy at this very well-regarded ramen house. It's in San Mateo and the line was pretty long. In addition, you can't be seated unless your whole party is present. So... having a notoriously late person in the group... eh.

The lady allowed us to tell her our orders first despite his not being there, (well technically we started telling her our order before she found out he wasn't there) and she tells us that they are now out of miso flavor. My favorite! I order the soy sauce flavor instead.

As we wait for late guy, we are told that they are now also out of soy sauce flavor, the waitress lady tells us she save our group the 4 we order though with a little smile. When the line dies down, and we are looking longingly at the food, she lets us get seated without late guy. That's nice of her.

I'm told that's how they do it in Japan.

The food come out after a while, and it looked and smelled amazing, with the butter floating on top. The noodles were firm, the broth was heavenly, so rich! There was meat, I also had mushrooms, the seaweed was flavored. And this isn't even the most popular dish. I was very very impressed with this place. The pork flavored broth was also very tastey. :)