We've had our optic on Shop Ramen as well as its vegan bowl a long time, but alone lately made our start see later 9pm on a Wednesday. Although nosotros didn't instruct to witness their noodle-making inward activity it was the correct fourth dimension to comfortably snag a topographic point - 2 years later opening there's all the same oft a queue out front.
The carte is reasonably simple, living upwardly to the neon sign out front end advertising RAMEN, BUN & PIE. While dietary requirements aren't clearly coded, fundamental ingredients are listed later each dish as well as the staff are on mitt to help.
We started past times sharing a bun ($4) stuffed amongst exceptional sauce-smothered tofu, sauerkraut, peanuts as well as coriander, as well as most besides steaming-hot to handle.
Michael dipped into the widely lauded vegan tofu ramen ($14), piled amongst broccoli, pickled shitake mushrooms, edamame, cress as well as sesame (the criterion version includes egg, but they're happy to exclude it). The first-class cashew milk broth is the novelty of this dish, but the fresh, slippery noodles were in all probability truly the star.
I took on the other vege principal - a chilled rice bowl ($14) containing uncooked tofu squares inward a sesame salsa verde topped amongst shredded fresh as well as pickled vegetables. Edamame, almonds as well as currants kept the brownish rice interesting, as well as a salty soy sauce pooled inward the bottom of the bowl.
The salted caramel milk shiver is to a greater extent than widely recommended than the pie, but I didn't discovery myself to hold upwardly much inward the mood for either dessert later a repast of rice as well as pickles.
Blog accounts from ramen aficionados banknote that the broths as well as share combinations at Shop Ramen are far from traditional - that mightiness hold upwardly 1 argue why us vegos instruct a look-in. They served us good when nosotros needed around late-night veges as well as nosotros mightiness telephone phone on them for this sort of post-show nourishment again. Yet I in all probability won't hold upwardly devotedly queuing on the regular.
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Fellow vegetarian bloggers are separate on Shop Ramen - Ebezilla's Food Blog was disappointed amongst her food.
In the omnivorous blogosphere, there's praise for Shop Ramen on Temasek, Melbourne Patron, Eat. Play. Shop., Banana & Rum, It's an expensive but delicious habit, as well as Snow Crab Nebula; ambivalence on Ministry of Gluttony as well as Barley Restaurant Reviews, as well as thence disappointment on Skinny Glutton.
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Shop Ramen
329 Smith St, Fitzroy
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Accessibility: There is a minor lip at the door. Inside the depression tables as well as stools are quite densely packed, although at that topographic point is a clear path through the middle. We ordered at the tabular array as well as paid at a depression counter. We didn't see the toilets.
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