Buta Kin @ Beauty World – Ramen For Less Than $10

What determines a good bowl of ramen? The noodles? The soup? The ingredients? I think it’s a combination of all that. In Orchard Road, we have got the world’s only Michelin-starred ramen eatery Tsuta. Here in Bukit Timah, we have a new ramen hawker stall Buta Kin selling ramen for less than $10!

Located at Beauty World Food Centre, Buta Kin offers quite a huge variety for a hawker – 5 types of ramen/udon dishes and 4 different Japanese curry dishes. Most of the items are less than $6, it’s really quite a good deal especially for foodies who crave for an affordable bowl of ramen.

We went for the Special Tonkotsu Ramen ($6.90) – the most expensive item on the menu with a choice of ramen or udon. Each bowl comes with 3 slices of pork belly, black fungus, soft boiled egg and seaweed, quite a generous serving I would say. The charred pork belly was pretty good, not meltingly tender but comes with a good bite and marinade. Soft boiled egg was done well too with a custard like egg yolk. However, the pork broth was a little weak on our day of visit and the noodles had a texture that was relatively similar to Chinese la mian. Not complaining hor, just managing expectations here.

We also ordered the Tonkotsu Black ($6) which I thought would be more flavourful because of the garlic oil. But sadly, it didn’t lift up the flavours a single bit. The ingredients here are similar to the tonkatsu ramen. Of course, being a hawker stall, you can’t expect ingredients to be premium nor can you expect noodles to be handmade from scratch. But, I believe they will do better if they can improve on their pork broth (i.e. simmer longer to bring out the rich depth of flavour).

MissTamChiak.com made anonymous visit and paid its own meal at the stall featured here.

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