I'm so sorry that I have been pretty busy for the past few days but but, I'm finally back to bring you more foodie posts!
I'm really EXCITED writing this post because I'm about to bring to you my ALL TIME FAVORITE RAMEN PLACE! YUMMY!
Here we go about the LEGENDARY Butao Ramen 豚王!
To start with, Butao Ramen has 4 outlets in Hong Kong, located at Causeway Bay, Central, Shatin and Tsim Sha Tsui respectively. I always go to the Causeway Bay one since its considered the nearest to HKUST.
There are 4 different flavours of ramen in Butao, and my favourite is the original flavour 豚王.
The pork bone broth is thick, the noodles are very springy 弹性, and the portion of char siew given was very generous too, its thick and tender. The BEST part of the ramen is the EGG 温泉蛋 ! The egg is cooked just nice, not too well done, the egg yolk is still pretty watery but the egg white is pretty cooked, the whole texture is just amazing.
For others who likes more exotic flavours, they could opt for the spicy or the black broth.
The red broth is spicy but yet not too spicy for me, just nice. the condiments inside pretty similar to the original ones, just the broth is different. Nevertheless, its still amazing!
The black broth is basically squid ink broth, very unique indeed. It comes with a scoop with black grounded meat ball. Its not really my thing but still its good. Its worth a try!
Lastly, the jade (green) broth is basically a pesto pork bone broth. Sorta a 'east meets west' thing. Very interesting flavoured bowl of ramen indeed. I was quite skeptical about it on the first glance but nevertheless, it was worth my money, definitely. The broth was thick, the ingredients was fresh, and again I would like to put emphasis on, the texture of the noodles was really GOOD!
For those who are planning to pay a visit to butao soon, do prepare to queue, or opt for hours between 3-5pm, they have relative less queue during that time, or no queue at all.
Well, to make things quick, the staffs will pass you this order sheet while you were queuing. You get to pick your own broth, thickness of the soup, sauce, garlic, pork tenderness, noodle type, texture and any extra side dishes you need.
So basically, butao ramen is sort of a bowl of customised ramen to your own preference. :)
On a side note: If you are looking for somewhere cozy and comfy, butao is NOT that place! haha. Butao outlets are all small and tiny.
Hope you enjoyed my post and DO TRY BUTAO. You will never regret. The price range is basically between 80HKD - 200 HKD ( if you add on a lot of stuff ) haha.
overall rating: 9/10
Butao Ramen
opening hours: 11am-11pm
address: 40, Tang Lung Street, Causeway Bay 登龍街40號地下 (MTR Exit A *times square exit*)
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