中華そば / Chūka Soba / Mendokoro Tomo Premium — Akasaka, Tokyo

Rich chicken and pork tonkotsu soup is made with yaki ago (grilled flying fish) sourced from Nagasaki Prefecture. The shoyu tare combines whole soybean soy sauce with light soy sauce by Yagisawa Shōten in Iwate Prefecture. Each bowl also contains yaki ago flavor oil. Thin straight low hydration noodles are by Mikawaya Seimen. Topped with rare pork chashu, menma, spinach, red onions, two types of negi, naruto and nori.

This is the second store (and brand) of the ramen shop Akasaka Mendokoro Tomo, run by a music company called Tomo Music Co., Ltd. Store manager Ayumi Suzuki has been working in ramen shops since she was 16 years old. 28 seats. Open since November 23rd, 2023 @tomo_premium