Paitan Ramen & Gyoza House

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Our hearts were drawn to ramen, so we wandered off to explore a new place for ourselves (especially since the owners proudly declared that authentic Japanese cuisine was waiting for us). Spoiler alert - I wasn't expecting it. I'll start with the cons, so that it's immediately clear why I've lowered the generous 5's so much, as I suspect, mentored by the staff themselves. The place is small, there is a second floor, but only for "beauty" and going to the toilet (to our surprise, they preferred to send a large company away so that they would not have to run to them with plates there). The selection on the menu is small and highly specialized (hooray, we were glad, professionals will work). Don't make our first mistake, don't take ready-made versions of ramen. Try to collect what you love. According to the content: You will not find traditional wood mushrooms, enoki or shitaki - there are only oyster mushrooms here. Nori can only be found in vegan versions of broths, otherwise spinach. Ramen-loving friends, pain - I've never seen such an ugly muddy broth before. I looked around the room once more and everything became clear (in the basin in front of me is half a can of canned corn and a bunch of pasta, and around the locals are at most slightly over 20 years old. A growing body is two important rules for a hearty and energetic lunch, washed down with Coke. And authenticity is already on the side). I'm done with the ramen. The drinks menu is modest - water, the already mentioned cola and coconut lemonade (coconut milk tastes diluted with water and flavored with ice). But our garlic allergy sufferer was most unlucky. There are two types of gyoza on the menu (there are no illusions, the choice is not between yaki and age, sui or musi, it's just with meat and the mysterious "vegan"). Admittedly, they looked very appetizing, toasted on one side, generously sprinkled with green onion. That's it, authenticity, we've been waiting. It's good that we decided to clarify about garlic in time (you see, garlic was clearly separated and spelled out in the soup menu, but this was not the case in gyoza. You can rightly point out that this is a regular ingredient, but there was no ginger with pork and baked goods there either). In general, it didn't work out to eat gyoza with garlic. And then the song about the staff - to the question of why it is not indicated in the menu: "We do not have to write everything." When asked to wrap them with him: "We don't have that, we don't deal with boxes. If you have a box, we don't mind if you pick it up yourself." How noble, thank you for condescending and allowing it (no one, of course, took anything away), actually there is a takeaway mark in Yandex! We left with a slight sediment, and someone was hungry, to the smiles of the waiters, from whom the thought inadvertently crept in, I hope you at least didn't spit in our food as in our soul. I almost forgot about the good thing - the egg in the ramen, it really succeeded as a reference.

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