Fuunji, the lonely adventurer, has been on my list for ages, and I rolled up at 3:30pm on a Tuesday afternoon. As someone who often ventures out as a lonely adventurer, I'm no stranger to arriving at a closed shop. Sure enough, Fuunji is closed from 3:00 to 5:00 for preparation.
With a lesson at 6, I had the easy task of killing time in Shinjuku. The downside is that now I want a $5000 3D plasma television.
I went back a little early, with plans of sitting in a nearby park until the shop reopened. Twenty minutes before opening, there were already a dozen people in line. This would expand to almost 30.
No hesitation ordering the tsukemen. How would Fuunji stack up to my favorite shops, TETSU and Rokurinsha?
Bested. This is my new favorite tsukemen shop. It does justice to the massive line and rave reviews.
The soup is layers upon layers of fish flavors. The essence of roasted fish skin gave this the gold for me. I'll be back, if I have the time.
4 comments:
My friend introduced me to your blog...
I went here a month ago to Fuunji
This place was amazing...If this is your favorite tsukemen shop, then huge props to you....going to have to check out your takadanobaba posts.
Unfortunately, I don't have a ton of shops reviewed in Baba. Check out my buddy's site though:
www.ramenate.com
Terrific shop, thank you for the post. Even better was arriving at 18:30 on a weekday night to find just 2 people ahead of me in the queue; result! 30mins later there were 25people waiting. The soup here is out of this world and the shop has atmosphere in spades.
A few other shops that aren't on your blog which I recommend for tsukemen;
Hazuki
http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1317/A131714/13008248/
Tsujita
http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1310/A131002/13020599/
Warito
http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1317/A131705/13096566/
Thanks for your great blog and all the effort that goes into it.
Thank you for the recommendations! All of those spots are pretty famous, I hope to check them out soon.
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