Recommended bowl: Light tonkotsu

Before opening this shop the master of Kuromon was a ramen geek himself, eating over 500 bowls a year around Kyushu. This is an especially impressive feat considering that about 90% of the ramen shops in Kyushu serve pork-rich tonkotsu ramen. This shop first opened in 2003, but has since closed and reopened again. The soup is somewhat unique — it’s a tonkotsu shio, and the soup is neither clear nor totally cloudy. The noodles are soft boiled, which is somewhat rare for this genre. An original, well-balanced, and highly ranked bowl.