Menya Hanabi Takabata Honten

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This ramen shop located in 5 minutes’ walk from Takabata subway station, Menya Hanabi Takabata Honten is a popular shop often has many people lined up. The main menu here is Nagoya specialty noodle, “Ganso Taiwan Mazesoba”, the thick noodle without soup but topped with spicy minced meat. This shop is widely known as the originator of this menu, “Taiwan Mazesoba” and attracts many locals and tourists every day. Not only “Taiwan Mazesoba” but other dishes also taste great. If you don’t like spicy food so much, try their shio-ramen or shoyu-ramen!

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Exquisite Soup Made From Carefully Selected Ingredients

What makes this shop so special is their exquisite soup! The base of the soup is made from 18 whole chickens and pot herbs cooked over 10 hours. Then, the soup stock made from some seafood such as konbu （sea weed）, niboshi （boiled and dried sardines） and dried scallops is added to the base soup to make the ramen soup. The salt used for their shio-ramen is also the ones carefully selected. It is the special blend of 2 kinds of salt, solar salt made in Vietnam and rock salt made in France.

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Popular Menu, Nagoya Specialty Gourmet

The most popular dish is “Ganso Taiwan Mazesoba” （810 yen）. The bowl of thick noodle is topped with spicy minced meat called “Taiwan minchi”, raw egg yolk, spring onions and garlic. Stir up all ingredients well and enjoy your bite! If you still have some meat left in the bowl after you eat up all the noodle, you can ask for some rice to eat with it for free.

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Popular Ramen Made with Carefully Selected Ingredients

The noodle made with special soup and salt, “Shiru Soba Shio” （730 yen） is another popular menu. Medium sized, straight noodle made specially for this menu has smooth texture and goes great with rich, simple taste soup. The topping, Aburi-Chashu （grilled pork） also has many fans who add it to their orders.