Marutai Famous Stores Premium Seiyoken Tonkotsu Ramen Review
The Premium Seiyoken Tonkotsu Ramen by Marutai is part of a set of four types of instant ramen in their Kyushu Famous Stores Series made in conjunction with the restaurant partners. This is the second review I'm doing out of three reviews. This Seiyoken ( 清陽軒 ) stick ramen of thin noodles is made in a rich broth that is still light that has the flavour profile of their tasty in-house soup.
I previously did a big review of their regular Kyushu Marugoto Ramen Pack By Marutai here. This premium Kyushu Famous Stores series definitely has my interest simply because their regular ramen is pretty good to excellent. The individual packages of noodles here are single serving only and are more expensive per serving than the regular double servings. The premium packages include more toppings for your noodles and liquid soup bases which usually produce a superior soup.
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According to the restaurant's website, they started back in 1952 as a street stand in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, the birthplace of tonkotsu ramen. Sei Yo Ken made "ultimate and uncompromizing ramen noodles" in a Tonkotsu (pork bone soup). Now sthey make their Tonkotsu soup using house made noodles and pork bones and they cook it for three whole days.
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| The front of the package of Seiyoken Stick Ramen. |
The front of the noodle package has rich, deep colors that highlight the lightness of the tonkotsu ramen soups shown in the bottom half of the package. You can see tradition even in the key motif that circles the ramen bowl. The premium value of the package is shown by the gold in the top of the package along with the text and the yellow and gold text elsewhere makes it look deluxe. The dark blue in the middle of the package has the glow of a lantern on the left and the restaurants dragon motif on the right hand side. The bowl of soup looks good too, showing a creamy tonkotsu ramen with menma (bamboo shoots) and pork slices and garlic pieces.
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| The back of the package of Seiyoken Stick Ramen. The directions indicate you cook the noodles for 90 seconds in boiling water then add the garnish and soup base. |
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| You get a packet of dried green onion, a liquid soup packet, and a bundle of thin dried noodles (not fried). |
This is a fast cooking noodle soup once you have boiling water as the noodles cook in 90 seconds. You get plenty of green onions in the dry ingredients packet and the soup packet is full of a condensed brown stock full of cooked garlic pieces.
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| The finished soup with some slices of roasted turkey and extra yu choy for greens. |
Marutai and Seiyoken made a nice tasty tonkotsu broth for these noodles. I definitely liked it better than the first one I had, the Nagahamaya. The soup had a nice aroma that reminded me of some kind of meaty rich smell that was on the delicious end of things. There wasn't a super creamy mouth feel to the soup, but it was smooth, with a bit of texture. The taste of the soup was a nice balance
of salty and savoriness. The noodles were firm in the recommended cooking time and good to eat. This was a buy again for sure, even if I didn't get a strong garlic note in the soup. The soup tastes pretty good as there is like 12 grams of fat in the soup base and salt to go with it, but the noodles are not fried. If you are on a low fat diet, then don't drink all the soup.
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| Closeup of the noodles and the soup. You can see all of the little bits of green onion and garlic in it. |
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