Champon Noodle Restaurant San Jose Near Me

Jason A: mayo.I also haven't seen many places that serve Orion beer which originates from my family's hometown of Okinawa so I order it when I get the craving.The staff here are nice and are pretty accommodating of our kids. When I ask my kid where she wants to eat and she says "Japanese food", she always means that she wants to go here and as a picky eater herself, that's tantamount to a ringing endorsement.Overall, we've found our go-to place for us whenever we just want to go out to eat somewhere that's cozy and familiar.

Eve Lim: Went there a little past 8pm on a Sat night. Saw the staff starting to close part of the restaurant already. There was only 1 other table of 2 customers in the almost empty restaurant. Ordered the deep fried oysters and ramen. Wanted to try the ramen with Yuzu broth but when I enquired with the waiter if I’ll be able to taste the Yuzu, he said I won’t. Thought that is strange to have a description on the menu of broth having Yuzu taste but in actuality won’t taste it🤔 So I ended up going with his recommendation of one with chicken and pork base broth instead. Food was served fast. Oysters looked kinda over-fried as the batter looked rather dark, but tasted fine. The ramen noodle had a nice chewy texture and the broth tasted ok but nothing impressive. I wanted to try their ramen as I saw the pics online that they were chunky pieces of pork belly vs the usual thinly sliced ones. It is served chunky but it wasn’t as tender as I had hoped for. The taste was standard typical ramen taste except noodles were more chewy than most other ramen places. My friend had the Buta-ramen which had minced garlic, lots of bean sprouts and an egg which I noticed was a hard boiled egg and not soft boiled. I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to dine here again since I can get better tasting ramen elsewhere.

Saulmurillo: Excellent service and delicious foodThe owner is a very kind personAnd very aware of his businesscongratulations

Dan Meyer: .If you get anything spicy added, stir well. I thought I had stirred well, but it turned out the bottom half was far spiced than the top.Very little comes in the default dish. No egg, etc. so even though these are listed as extra in the menu, you need to add them to get anything at all.Lastly, #2 spicy is barely spicy at all. If you get Original and actually want it spicy, 2 isn’t going to be enough for you.

Mars: I’ve been going to Santouka ever since Kinokuniya Books was across the parking lot from Mitsuwa. It’s totally awesome to know that it’s still around and they make a great bowl of ramen. The ramen has always been great here. Not mind blowing but they deliver a taste that hasn’t changed since they’ve opened. The noodles are good and the broth delivers. The roast pork is darn good. I can’t think of any other ramen places that’ve been in San Jose for as long as they’ve been. BIG props to Santouka for having the stamina of a long distance runner.