ラーメン + 餃子 / Ramen + Gyoza / Ajino Hōrai / Nakameguro, Tokyo
Old school shoyu soup uses mostly chicken carcasses. Topped with pork chashu, bean sprouts, menma, negi and wakame. Housemade gyoza on the side, with over 100 different dishes on the menu. All rice used is from Niigata Prefecture.
Master Shinoda-san's father founded Ajino Hōrai in Ebisu in 1974, later moving the shop closer to Nakameguro in 1984. Eventually when he could no longer work, Shinoda-san's mother took over the shop. When her mother passed away in 2018, she took over. She is the only one who knows how to prepare the gyoza recipe from scratch each day. 20 seats. Since 1974.
