Early dinner, a light snack before the match. Just time for some ramen at the aptly-named Tonkotsu in Dean Street.
As a snack to start, a serving of gyoza potstickers. There are three kinds to choose from: these were the prawn and pork (there are also straight pork; and also shiitake and bamboo shoot)…
…with good craft beer to go with that — a hoppy lemony Citra IPA from The Kernel, one of my favourite microbreweries, down under the arches in the Maltby Street market.
The eponymous tonkotsu ramen is good: excellent rich broth cooked down slowly the proper way, using pork bones from prime local Berkshire pigs.
Light noodles, fine and straight; nice juicy chashu pork; and an excellent free-range ajitama egg;
The miso ramen was less successful, mainly because it's made with a veggie broth (we should have read the fine print before ordering). Not bad, but not what we were expecting [this is the kind of thing we are used to now.]
But all in all, nice to get a taste of our home from home. Gochisosama deshita.
Here's the Tonkotsu web site…
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