Tiger Eagle Ramen

Long long time ago, in a distant land known only as China, man of great wisdom and prowess created the two greatest styles of martial arts known to man. They are the Tiger Fist of the North and Eagle Palm of the South. Undefeated by another forms of combat, these two power martial arts techniques has defended Chinese against thousands of years of mongol invasion. Famous practitioners of these forms includes but not limited to Confusion, Sun-zhi, Mao, and Jay Chow. As our world becomes increasingly peaceful (ha!)  these two forms are made obsolete. Luckily, the ramen master Ching Ling Chung from the land of China brought over both styles to Japan. And using its techniques, he created the Tiger Eagle Ramen. Ladies and Gentleman, I present to you, Tiger Eagle Ramen（麺屋武蔵 鹰虎）. 

This place is hidden in a small alley right outside of Takananobaba station. You see Big Box? It's on the opposite side, across from rotary. What kind of place you ask? Well, it's a freakin hole in a wall. If you were in America, this is a place that you want to be running away from. Not Japan. Nope, like everything, there is a lot then meets the eye. 

Here is the Bearded-one posing outside of Tiger Eagle ramen. Remember his face, don't invite him to be in a group with you. He promised to do a blogpost three weeks go, but was apparently "busy" and couldn't do them. I think we call that Bullshit in English. 

Once you step into this hole in the wall, you know that you have just enter the den of a master. We felt like humble children walking into the infamous dojo for the first time, ready to be instructed in the Art of Ramen. The decorate is slick, modern and efficient. Everything has a purpose. And that purpose is to create the perfect ramen. Did I mention that they also play hip hop music in the background? Try to eat your ramen with hip hop music in the background. Don't question it, just try it.

Everything in this shop, from the tshirt of the ramenya-san, to their hats, to the stools, to the bowls are custom made. Everything matches seamlessly and expresses the theme of eagle and tiger. Awesomeness? It's over 9000!!! Even the Ranmenya-san look like badass out of mortal combat. One of them had the grey/blond hair combination down and the I have a lot of piercing and I don't care attitude.

You ready for the ramen?

I think it's enough if I just finish this post here. A picture speaks a thousand words. See that big fat piece of meat? That's the tiger. See the round piece of meat? That's the eagle.

The soup base actually has similar to tsukemen. But it's also thick like the soup base has been boiled for hours and hours in which every essence of the meat and bone they used to make the soup base has been extracted.

For those two big pieces of meat you are looking at 1000 Yen for this bowl of ramen. If you skip this big piece of meat and then go for the normal, weak, unimpressive one, then you will save money. But at what cost? When your friends ask you when you go home what kind of noodles have you eaten while in Japan, are you going to show them a normal picture of the generic ramen? Or are you going to show them this bad boy? Plus, how can you dare to break this legendary combo?

THE VERDICT

Serious what do you need me to say? Go and experience or maybe survive it. According to the Japanese people that I talk to, 1000 Yen for this bowl of ramen with those two big chunks of meat is cheap. So there you have it. As a lasting thought, here I present the ramen one more time. 

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