Recommended bowl: Niigata style

Specializing in Tsubame-Sanjō style ramen, the bowls here consist of a slightly fishy niboshi, pork and vegetable soup, showered with pork back fat. The thick-cut noodles are made and shipped in from Niigata prefecture. Each bowl comes topped with pork chashu, diced white onions and iwanori (rock seaweed). The house recommended iwanori ramen comes covered in the dried iwanori, which is then covered in a shower of pork fat which can be customized to light, regular or heavy at the time of ordering. Although this brand hails from Niigata where the head shop is located, they have two Tokyo outposts-- one in Kamata (open since 2005) and the other in Kameido (since 2009). Open seven days a week, 10 am to 3 am.