The ramen shop 'Nekoya Shokudo' is located in a residential area of Yachimata City, Chiba Prefecture. Its most notable feature is its irregular business hours. As long as the shop sign is up, it is open, but once the soup runs out, it's over. Whether you can enter the shop depends purely on luck, making it a rare find.
The medium-thin straight noodles are well-coated with the soup, and the harmony of the sweetness of lard and the fragrance of dried bonito in the soup is exceptional. However, the real highlight of this shop is its unique style, where after slurping the regular ramen, you can dip it in the special dipping sauce. The hybrid flavor of light soup combined with rich dipping sauce offers a fresh surprise.
The Mapo rice bowl has a distinctive scent of Sichuan pepper and is recommended to be paired with a little extra rice. Furthermore, there are also voices recommending pouring the leftover dipping sauce over the remaining rice. It's a dish that showcases the playful spirit unique to irregular business hours.
The small shop with only 3 seats may be full at any time you visit. However, the cooking is efficient, and the ramen is served within 5 minutes of seating, which is its charm. When visiting Yachimata City, why not seek out this hidden gem of a ramen shop?
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