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Raikyuken cooks their soup for around ten days. Surely that's a typo. Ten hours, right?
Nope, it's ten days. A few pots are used, and soup is shuffled around like magic potions until the brew is ready to serve.
The shop is a short walk from Mifuneyama Park. My timing was impeccable. Not only could I see the fall colors lit up at night, but the crew behind Team Labs Borderless had set up a mini-exhibition.
The icing on the cake was that I snagged a last-minute room at the hotel. Rooms here normally go for a few hundred a night, and I was out here camping for free, but a quick check online and I was staying here, among the art, for well within my budget.
The exhibition was set to close around November 2019. Too bad. Checking their site, however, and I see that they will have a renewed, different light show, by the same people, in 2020. The new one looks even crazier!
It's always nice to have a little sightseeing to go with your ramen.
Yes, the soup here takes 10 days to make. They use three massive iron pots in the back. Soup travels from one to the other in a kind of conveyor belt of flavors. Though I wasn't able to check in detail, they say that the color changes in each one, with the final product being this milky white pork soup.
The shio tare is a secret blend of 10 ingredients. In the end, the final product looks quite simple. Creamy soup with a couple pieces of chashu and a few slices of negi onion.
Even in the brisk November temperatures, the back kitchen was hot and steamy. I say back kitchen, but this was more of a converted garage unit.
Raikyuken opened in 1975 and has been highly ranked ever since ranking ramen was a thing in Saga Prefecture.
More art photos?
The art installation was set inside an abandoned hot springs complex. Lights and technology.
Half the complex houses the art, and the other half houses the hotel. If you stay at the hotel, one bonus is that you have free access to the park.
And of course the beautiful natural hot springs.
Official site here.
2 comments:
Wow, I've been following your blog for awhile now, but this post was really incredible.
I should post more about places and not just ramen. I used to have a separate blog, www.japanbash.com but now all my non-ramen adventures are just for me.
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