Recommended bowl: Stinky tonkotsu

Goten is like taking a step into an old-school style shop in Fukuoka. The stench of the boiling pork bones hits you before you are fully in the door. Most ramen shops skim away the scum and foam that form at the top of the soup pot as the bones simmer, but here they mix the scum back into the soup-- retaining as much umami as possible, along with some bitterness and funk. This is pure Hakata tonkotsu, with thin straight noodles cooked to preference with kaedama refills available. A grungy, smoky and smelly ramen shop, usually packed with regular customers who love it. Originally opened in Isogi in 1995.