Tenten is a small ramen restaurant among the many eateries on basement 1 of Raffles City shopping center. The deco is simple and typical of a Japanese ramen restaurant, a small kitchen with a few small tables around.
Yuzu Chashu Ramen, $14.80
Yuzu Paste
I ordered their Yuzu Chashu ramen. Yuzu basically means pomelo in Japanese, kind of curious how a Yuzu ramen would look like.
I was surprised when my ramen came. Firstly, the soup base was a clear soup base. Have you ever seen a clear ramen soup base before? This was my first time. Secondly, the Yuzu paste that came in a separate container was just tiny, but the pomelo smell was actually quite strong. It was a bit sour, and a bit sweet. It enhanced my appetite.
Let's get back to the ramen. The clear soup base was like a fresh breeze in the stagnant forest of milky ramen soup bases. Not salty as the milky version, very pleasant to drink. The ramen was very much like our wanton noodle, tough yet easy to bite.
Eat the chashu with the Yuzu paste provided. The fragrance of the fruit freshened the heavy meat flavour, giving the patron a sense of fresh air in the Spring.
Their green tea was not bad, thick and full of flavour, but it was not cheap, $2 a cup.
Overall the ramen was pretty good, and the clear soup base was unique. If you don't like the normal milky ramen soup base, you should give this one a try.
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