Kuromon (南京ラーメン 黒門) Kitakyushu

Awards

Ramen Beast

Ramen Beast, #3.5

All Ramen Beast in Kitakyushu All Ramen Beast in Japan

Cuisine

Tonkotsu

• 2018

7 / 10

Ramen at Kuromon (南京ラーメン 黒門)

on 28 Aug 2018

by Abram Plaut

Recommended bowl: Light tonkotsu

Before opening this shop the master of Kuromon was a ramen geek himself, eating over 500 bowls a year around Kyushu. This is an especially impressive feat considering that about 90% of the ramen shops in Kyushu serve pork-rich tonkotsu ramen. This shop first opened in 2003, but has since closed and reopened again. The soup is somewhat unique — it’s a tonkotsu shio, and the soup is neither clear nor totally cloudy. The noodles are soft boiled, which is somewhat... More

Recommended bowl: Light tonkotsu

Before opening this shop the master of Kuromon was a ramen geek himself, eating over 500 bowls a year around Kyushu. This is an especially impressive feat considering that about 90% of the ramen shops in Kyushu serve pork-rich tonkotsu ramen. This shop first opened in 2003, but has since closed and reopened again. The soup is somewhat unique — it’s a tonkotsu shio, and the soup is neither clear nor totally cloudy. The noodles are soft boiled, which is somewhat rare for this genre. An original, well-balanced, and highly ranked bowl. Less