Penang Restaurant | Ichiban Ramen
Another crazy food adventure! Well, Japanese food adventure to be exact. Instead of focusing on the Japanese restaurants in Penang, we took a drive during lunch last Friday to go all the way to Jusco Seberang Perai City for our Japanese food hunt and back to Penang island to our office.. hahaha
Ichiban Ramen is located at the first floor, inside the newly opened Jusco Seberang Perai City and we thought we might as well dropped by to “look see look see” the latest and biggest Mall in Seberang Perai.
The outlet was based on open space concept with some bamboos being erected to serve as walls between the premise and the walkway. Standing outside the outlet, we could actually see what was going on inside and also could see what other patrons where eating then.
The outlet itself was not quite big but it did manage to squeeze three tatami styled tables with each able to cater up to 7 people max , of course depending on the size lor. Huat Koay was so quick to choose a seat that he did not realize he was actually sitting directly under the air conditioned duct and was shivering throughout the whole session.
Poor Huat Koay! So, remember to choose the right seating place when you dine there!
The orders came quite fast without long waiting time. Chicken Katsu Don Set came first and it was time to savour!!! Wait, cannot eat yet as need to capture photos…
The rice bowl looked big with quite a big portion of rice inside. The fried chicken was put on top of the rice together with half cooked egg and the portion of the egg actually mixed with the rice so it tasted a bit wet. The set also came with a small plate of fried chicken strip, miso soup and few slices of watermelon as well as green tea.
The Sapporo ramen tasted like miso soup mix with curry. It was salty, spicy with heavy tofu taste. The soup was quite a lot that it covered most of the ramen and the ingredients, unlike the picture we saw in the menu. Well, we liked what we saw in the menu more than the actual one.
The tomyam ramen was sour and spicy and most of us agreed it was the best among all we tasted during this visit. Again, we liked the one in the menu, presentation wise. The tom yam has generous ingredients including big mussels and prawns but we noticed they do put lots of lemongrass and cili padi as well.
The seafood ramen was good in terms of the ingredients; you would get prawns, mussels, squids and crabstick meat. But then we could not figure out the soup base used for the seafood ramen, the water was murky and the taste… errmm unexplainable. No worry, still can drink one!
The Japanese Fried Rice set also came with miso soup, fried chicken strips and green tea but the fried rice portion was extremely small! Fei Fei looked stunned when it was served to him, he kept saying he wanted to have second portion elsewhere later. The portion is slightly bigger than the small bowl used for miso soup. Where got enough for the Tua Pui??? Nevertheless, the fried rice was quite fragrant and tasty.
Our visit this round was nothing to be proud of, the overall food quality here looked normal and tasted normal too and given the price for the meals here, we would think it was a bit expensive for the meals we had. We would expect something better from a restaurant that has multiple chains in Peninsular Malaysia. Even Nippon Yataimura could do better than them.
By the way, this restaurant is under the the same management as Che Go, which is opposite Ichiban Ramen at Jusco Seberang Perai City. Our next destination, hopefully will be better service then
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Do you mean mussels? Got any food name as “muscles”?
Anyway, I won’t recommend any friends to visit this shop. Kinda not worth it. I mean the taste.
hi Patrick…
Thanks for spotting the typo error… kept thinking the muscles because they do sound the same… :):)
with the money spent, we still think other place can offer the same type of dishes at lower price….
I’ve tried this restaurant before at Sunway Pyramid outlet. NOT NICE at all. The taste …… errrr …….. dunno how to describe. It just taste awful.
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Tomyam ramen?? Can’t imagine that working… a bit too fusion lah, haha. Hey, btw, nice sexy looking site!!
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yea, we’re not used to some of the tastes either… It’s a bit different usual Jap Food we tasted..
Went to this shop last 2 weeks and found the food taste WEIRD… Improvement needed…..
550ml jar of faith,
Yes, that’s something different, Jap meets Thai combination… not bad actually…
Hehehe sexy site? flattered*flattered*… Thanks~!!
I just had the tomyam ramen last weekend. It tasted better than the Sapporo ramen. The service was OK…the waitress keeps refilling our green tea non-stop. Price wise, it’s a little high…maybe due to the big management and chains they have.
Yeah, been here will colleagues for lunch before and I can say I won’t be there for a second visit. The fried rice portion is extremely small and it came with a SAD looking piece of chicken (illutration on menu was normal sized, guess we were fooled). The ramen was ok only (can’t remember which one I had..), nothing special.
The food there is pricey for the measly amounts and average dishes. Definitely don’t think this place is worth it until they either decrease prices or increase portions.
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