Soy Sauce Ramen of Soup Is Changing Color -Hachiya Head Office in Asahikawa-

Hachiya head office (蜂屋本店) is a long-established ramen restaurant near Asahikawa Ginza mall (旭川市銀座商店街) and was founded in 1947, and it has 2 restaurants such as the head office and the establishment branch (創業店). According to Wikipedia, originally Hachiya seemed to be derived in an ice cream shop using the honey. The bee means Hachi in Janapese language. It is not the family name of the founder. In addition, it is interesting that they are the whole family same as Kato ramen. By the way, the foundation year is same as Aoba (青葉), famous ramen restaurant, and it is known as one of a root of Asahikawa Ramen.

I visited here around 11:30 on weekdays. The ramen restraunt had an atmosphere of a traditional ramen restraunt. Atmosphere of Showa period is good. There are many tables and family customers seem to enjoy. A parking lot was vacant, and the restaurant was vacant, too, but the parking lot became full when 11:40 past. The visitors came to the restaurant one after another, too.

After asking a waitress about ramen restaurant's recommendation, she replied "Soy sauce ramen (醤油ラーメン)". The customers can choose a quantity of fat between rich or normal. When I asked the waitress recommendation, she replied "It is different depending on the person". Therefore I ordered the soy sauce ramen with rich fat. The price is JPY 750.

Approximately 10 minutes later, the soy sauce ramen was served. Ingredients were roasted pork fillet, bamboo shoots and green onions. Appearance looked traditional Asahikawa ramen, it was good old taste for a person from North Hokkaido. It was not salty than I supposed.

The ramen of Hachiya was famous for burning lard, and the soup changed in color from brown to amber when I stirred the soup. Intringuing! When I drank up the soup, the letter of thank you in Japanese language appeared. Intringuing!

The soy sauce ramen of Hachiya is found on Amazon.

Soy Sauce Ramen and Atmosphere of Ramen Restaurant Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Soy Sauce Ramen

A page of Asahikawa is here