{"id":432,"date":"2013-04-07T01:37:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T08:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sciencelifeinubc\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2013-04-07T01:37:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T08:37:06","slug":"motomachi-shokudo-another-ramen-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/2013\/04\/07\/motomachi-shokudo-another-ramen-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Motomachi Shokudo: Another ramen place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Downtown, 740 Denman St.<\/p>\n<p>Kodiki and I on another one of our lunch outings. I think we went here back when ramen was such a craze.. I think to some extent it still is. Anyways I&#8217;ve always heard of Kintaro but it was so packed that we decided to opt for Motomachi Shokudo, which is the one down the road. Plus I&#8217;ve always heard about their charcoal broth so I decided to try it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sciencelifeinubc\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG-20120916-00046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1107\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sciencelifeinubc\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG-20120916-00046-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bamboo Charcoal Dark Miso Ramen\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">\u00a0$9.75<\/span><\/li>\n<li>advertised as healthy, it didn&#8217;t have too much grease and richness as I expected<\/li>\n<li>definitely unique with that dark broth; tasted very &#8220;clean&#8221; and smooth<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s with all the fuss, ramen is alright.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sciencelifeinubc\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG-20120916-00047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1108\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sciencelifeinubc\/files\/2013\/04\/IMG-20120916-00047-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shoyu Ramen<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$8.95<\/li>\n<li>soy sauce soup base with pork<\/li>\n<li>this was, again, light and very smooth. Didn&#8217;t really deliver a kick<\/li>\n<li>Personally, light and one-dimensional flavors will only work on me for the first few bites then I just don&#8217;t like it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ramen hype will just be a hype that I will not really join. I am however, tempted to try out Kintaro to try their rich broths instead. But Motomachi Shokudo ramen is not something I would travel all the way to Downtown and pay almost $10 per bowl. It is healthy but I&#8217;m more about the flavors. It&#8217;s just not my type so\u00a0<strong>I wouldn&#8217;t come here again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Verdict: Will not return<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/14\/451873\/restaurant\/Robson-Street-West-End\/Motomachi-Shokudo-Vancouver\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" alt=\"Motomachi Shokudo \u5143\u753a\u98df\u5802 on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/451873\/biglink.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Downtown, 740 Denman St. Kodiki and I on another one of our lunch outings. I think we went here back when ramen was such a craze.. I think to some extent it still is. Anyways I&rsquo;ve always heard of Kintaro but it was so packed that we decided to opt for Motomachi Shokudo, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sciencelifeinubc\/2013\/04\/07\/motomachi-shokudo-another-ramen-place\/\">Continue reading <span>&raquo;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/2013\/04\/07\/motomachi-shokudo-another-ramen-place\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/blogsquadalumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}