Miso ramen with extra egg $10.80
The money shot
The gory ending
DonToo
This is our pick for the best tasting bowl of ramen in
Melbourne. While others will disagree and while it's certainly not the
most authentic ramen out there, it's the one we consistently go back to.
So why is it the best? Firstly the price: at $9.30 their miso ramen is
ridiculous value, especially considering that other ramen joints easily
charge you $15+ to get the sorts of topings you get as standard in
DonToo's version. It's also just super yummy and ridiculously
comforting: the homemade noodles are always lovely and chewy (and you
get to upgrade to 300g worth for no extra cost), the broth is delicious
and flavoursome, something I have found lacking in other bowls of ramen,
the pork is super flavoursome and not too fatty (although this is a
personal preference, others prefer a fattier cut of pork like the
traditional rolled pork belly), there are plenty of vegetables including
my fave—the corn, the marinaded egg is absolutely delicious, well
flavoured and gooey in the middle (so much so that I almost always order
extra egg), and last but not least free condiments!!! At the counter
you can pick up cute little jars of garlic, chilli, pepper and sesame
oil. I add all of them in abundance to my broth while M prefers to go au
naturale; but hey, it's nice having a choice, right?
Beef boat noodles (no beef balls at my request) $9
Thai Culinary
As previously alluded to, when the hankering for boat noodles hits, we
generally go to Jinda Thai in Abbotsford to quell the craving. However,
like the last time we wanted some Thai, Jinda was booked out. Instead,
we headed round the corner to Thai Culinary, which is usually pretty
good if you want a quick meal on the cheap. I've ordered the boat
noodles a few times at TC now, after changing from my previous fave of
pad see ew. The first time I got the boat noodles here, it was a huge
serving, with really nice soft meat and bits of crushed whole garlic
cloves for extra flavour. Nowadays, the serving is definitely less
generous, the meat not as nice and no more garlic. That said though, the
flavour of the broth is still really nice and even though it lacks the
blood which is traditional, it's still very very flavoursome so I'd
still recommend it if you have a hankering for a hot bowl of spicy and
fragrant noodles in the CBD.
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