 the salami lid go ahead say it with your chest the salami hello everybody welcome back to another universal video this time it's another ramen vlog so i mentioned in another one of my videos that my city doesn't have a whole lot to offer in terms of like good soup good ramen but i'm going to be taking you guys through the places that are my personal favorite hopefully in like a video series kind of deal and none of them are as good as san francisco or la but they are as good as it gets here in the valley you know i can't i can't exactly go to san francisco in la like every week i deal with what i have so we're going to be taking you to ramen hayashi which is one of my favorite places and let's go so we just ordered i got the tonkatsu ramen and he got the yaki ramen so like fried pan fried noodles kind of thing we also got a takoyaki just because sisco really likes it a lot so now we're kind of just waiting for the food and the ambience here is very nice it's very cool so yeah now we just wait so here we got the takoyaki and then we got my tonkatsu ramen looking so fucking fire i actually started really liking wood ear mushrooms and then here the yaki udon that he got so just like a plate of like fried noodles chicken um veggies and all that kind of stuff so let's dig in so the noodles themselves they're like thin but they're like super like they got a bound strip and they really really hold the broth really really well so i'm gonna take a little bit of broth just do a little taste test super duper like cloudy and milky like a good tonkatsu is well let's try it honestly this is a lot better than the last ones i've had like it's got enough salt it's got enough flavor it's not like super pungent not like anything crazy but this is actually pretty good this is better than last time like i think if we're comparing it to like san francisco and la level of ramen i think this is good for the valley and not compared to those but i don't know it's better than last time and that's kind of like what's skewing my thing right here now and then we got some nice bamboo shoots here super crunchy and delicious now let's try this freaking soft and tender chashu this is the only place in the valley that torches their meat so this is pretty damn good oh hell yeah that's hella tender it's super sweet whatever they soaked the edge in i think they also soaked the chashu in the the bamboo in and by god did that was that a good idea because it's all very sweet and very very good all right i'm gonna go ahead eat this uninterrupted not finish it all so here's my food in a bowl because we waste absolutely nothing in this house hella studious all right guys so here's my final review of the ramen i think what this place does really well is their toppings it's pretty good chashu and it stands out because of the charring on the outside that you don't really see here in the valley and whatever they marinate their eggs in is pretty good it's subtle but it's very delicious and their water mushrooms are also really well prepared since they don't have or add like a funky flavor to the broth like some places do their broth was pretty good this time it had enough salt had a pretty good pork flavor it's just that most times when we come here it's a little bit plain even their spicy miso soup i had here a few times ago wasn't really salty enough which is kind of crazy to me because miso itself is very salty and if you're making it spicy you're kind of just adding even more stuff which gives even more flavor so it was really weird to me that it didn't really have much flavor back then i might have caught them on a good day or maybe they've just improved the recipe since my last visit but that's kind of my biggest complaint they also have a pretty big menu which is sometimes an indication that their broth has shortcuts taken in it to compensate for the kitchen space but that's not always a thing it's kind of just what i've heard from ramen experts and like people who make ramen for a living overall i think they have really nice ambience it's a pretty chill place to have some ramen and a couple drinks if you want it's not the most expensive it's about 13 a bowl where i've seen some of my city go for about 16 dollars but i've also seen some ramen here go for about 10 to 11 dollars so about middle range in pricing i know they're a lot cheaper in japan but since we don't really have a whole lot of ramen here and it's not really our thing they kind of upcharge on it a little bit so from my final rating i'd rate this place a seven on my ramen scale which might be a little bit liberal but i love ramen a lot i'm kind of comparing it to the really good ramen that i've had here in california like menno and barufuku and to me those are tens and unless i ever try ramen that's 10 times better than that which i might if i ever go to japan or if i ever maybe go to new york which i hear is really good but for now the scale stands at an a and maybe i'll re-rate it if i ever find ramen really good all right guys that's all for today's video if you guys like ramen content like this i've got a couple more on my channel for you to check out i hope you guys subscribe for more see you guys later bye