Ramen Has Beautiful and Clear Soup for 70 Years -Aji-no-Seichan in Sapporo-

Aji-no-Seichan (味の清ちゃん) is a long-established ramen restraunt in Misono, Toyohira ward, Sapporo city. If a shop curtain is not hung on an entrance, I will not notice that a building is a ramen restraunt. Very kind elderly woman waited on customers when I entered here. Interior decoration of the restraunt was nostalgic. The ramen restraunt is small, but family customers seem to enjoy if they avoid only lunchtime. I asked her about ramen restraunt's recommendation, she said "All menus and you would choose the menu that you like". After having thought, I ordered old style salt broth ramen (昔ラーメンの塩味). The price was JPY 800.

Approximately 5 minutes later, the old style salt broth ramen was served. Ramen bowl of clear soup was fulled. It tasted too much salt, but I did not feel salt with umami of the soup. Like she said that most important thing was "soup", the soup was beautifull and tasty. This soup seemed to have been used for 70 years, transparency was important. The whitish curly noodles were made by Ichiyanagi Noodles Factory.

When she founded the ramen restraunt in Kuriyama town in around 1943, she learned the ramen from the chef came from the hotel of Sapporo. He said that the smooth and clear like salad oil was important. She throws away the soup if the soup is muddy even a little. She have keep a tradition of the old sapporo ramen.

Old Style Salt Broth Ramen and Atmosphere of Ramen Restaurant Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Old Style Salt Broth Ramen

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