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2013-12-13
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Menya @ Bedok Mall is having a week-long store opening promotion. It is one of the first restaurants in sight when we walked into Bedok Mall on a busy Wednesday evening & the waitress was outside cheerfully coaxing usto try their special freshly made ramen. Basic ramen portion is 120gm and the restaurant allows diners to upsize up to 5x. Sharing or takeaway of ramen is not allowed to curb abuse of the free upsize policy. Diners can choose from three types of soup base - original or white soup, b
Menya does brisk business even during weekday dinner hours. When the food is ready kitchen staff will cheerfully and loudly yell out from the kitchen and the waitresses will go in with trays to bring the bowls of ramen to the tcustomers. This adds buzz and noise to the compact restaurant where tiny square tables for two a re arranged closely together with elbow room only. For bigger groups the staff will just push the tabbles together.
Despite the fast turnover, Menya @ Bedok Mall manages to maintain the quality of its food. Soups were concentrated and served hot, ramen kept its springy texture and their famous marbled chashu was tasty and melt-in-the-mouth soft. Only one long strip of chashu in each bowl of ramen, though one can order more meat. I liked this outlet's practice of serving freshly fried light and crispy vegetarian 'mock goose' or zhai er for diners to dip into the soup. The tonkotsu ramen souo was better than the tsukemen or dipping ramen. The latter had not enough soup which cooled off too quickly when wecwere half way thru our ramen due to the blast from the aircon.
Our side dish of panfried gyoza was nice too. Tasty filling wrapped in paper thin dough that was moist inside but evenly panfried to an appetizing brown colour at its base. The crispy enoki tempura was light as aur without being too greasy. It was a filling meal and we had no room left for their small selection of desserts.
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