Osaka Style Ramen ($10)
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Newly opened hipster foodcourt @Fomosg located along Sultan Gate is a collection of notable eateries like Poke Doke, Kani Mochi and while this Osaka Style Ramen from Zamza is relatively unknown, it is actually brought about by the people behind Jimotaya. I had high hopes for this bowl of economically priced japanese favourite especially since Zamza’s selling proposition is to be a cut above in terms of quality, taste and value.
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Breaking down the ramen bowl, there was fresh chinese cabbage giving the bowl a strange crunchy element, 4 slices of charsiew which was probably half the size of usual char siew slices and tasted rather bland, wakame and a soft boiled egg doing a rather poor impersonation of an onsen egg which had been badly sliced and contains a half ripen yolk. The broth was hailed to be using ONLY imported Japanese Shio and carried a fanciful name such as “Osaka Style Tori Kuriya ‘Clear’ Shio Broth” but it’s ultimately all about the flavour regardless of the origin of the salt used and my verdict was that the broth tasted disappointingly briny with neither aromatics nor layers of flavour.