Culver City Ramen recos?

[swicks]

Yamadaya? Santouka? I have also been told Tsujita is also good?

Tsukemen style is ideal...

Thanks!

[willworkforcheese]

Yamadaya is conveniently located for us so we go occasionally, although I prefer my noodles to be thicker than their ultra thin style. I usually order a rice plate.

Tsujita has ruined me for other ramen joints. Their egg is a heavenly wonder!

[Dommy]

You know, I tried Tsujita's noodles at their sneak peak at Mitsuwa and after reading your post... I couldn't recall having their egg... I even looked at the photos I took at the time and its turns out that they didn't serve egg!

http://twitter.yfrog.com/h754yuhj

So I finally braved the crowds today and pulled up a bowl...

OMG.

The egg was beyond anything I ever thought a ramen egg could be... I LOVE that they keep it whole... it's like an lucious yolky bomb of everything that great about food... I can't wait for the Anex to open...

--Dommy!

[Bob Brooks]

Yamadaya, particularly the Culver City branch is about as good as ramen gets. Suggest the extra spicy tonkotsu done yamadaya style.

[ns1]

Does the egg also suck at the culver city branch? and by suck I mean greater than santouka worse than everyone else.

[Dommy]

The Egg is still pretty good at the Culver City location... I read about your egg heartbreak at the other location... I would have been LIVID...

If love your ramen egg, my current favorite is at Men Oh in Little Tokyo... absolutely stunning...

https://twitter.com/i/#!/Dommy_in_LA/...

--Dommy!

[Porthos]

The egg at the Costa Mesa branch now sucks a la Santouka. My last one was cooked completely through.

Time for Tsujita to expand down here and take away some business.

[chrishei]

My last 2 visits to the Culver City Yamadaya have only been meh, but it's still a lot better than the Westwood one. Not as good as Santouka though.

Tsujita is the current champ IMO, but it's not in Culver City...

[andrew_eats]

Surpisingly, lots of locals have mixed impressions on Santouka. Not surprisingly the people who dislike it prefer Daikokuya. Japanese natives think Santouka is better than most.

I agree with you, Tsujita's tsukemen is the best. Tastes pretty much as good as places you'd find in Tokyo.

http://twitter.com/andrew_lum

[ns1]

Who are these "lots of locals" you speak of?

[andrew_eats]

people who live in LA, who post on yelp for instance

[ns1]

opinion of hounds > opinion of yelpers 99% of the time. IMHO

[andrew_eats]

Yes, in terms of great food knowledge. Nevertheless, mainstream customers matter, in terms of bringing in money.

[swicks]

What does this entail?

[swicks]

I mispoke, Tonkotsu would be ideal...

[ns1]

Tsujita is the hot rec for tsukemen
Yamadaya is the hot rec for tonkotsu

I still love Santouka shio w/ special pork

[swicks]

Thanks ns1!