Recommended bowl: Kazuya Disciple

This unsuspecting shop in Okubo serves up excellent shoyu and miso wontonmen, as well as chashumen. The Tokyo style soup contains chicken, pork and niboshi, combined with a miso tare blend using miso from Tokushima. Noodles are supplied by Daiei Shokuhin, same as the legendary Tokyo shop Tantantei. The recommended miso chashu wontonmen comes topped with extra pork chashu, house-made wontons and roasted negi. The master trained at Kazuya in Meguro, whose original master trained at Tantantei. Open since June 2016.