Tsurumen

Update: love their new Dan Dan ramen. The ramen here is good, high quality and rich broth. Nice location and very clean and spacious interior. I’m more of an udon person so I admit I’m biased. Tried the shio (salt) and shoyu (soy sauce) ramen and both were a tad salty for me personally. I think they are understaffed since the wait time was ~30min for 2 bowls. (In addition to line up outside).

It was super busy tonight, but the wait was worth it! A steaming hot bowl of rich Miso Paitan Ramen with an onsen egg on top is the perfect meal after a long day. The chashu (pork) slices were tender and seared to bring out that extra flavor. The noodles were pulled perfectly for that firm chew I love. And the broth was heavenly like always! I savored every last drop, and am ready to go into a full food coma immediately after this review. 10/10 will be back. Gochisousama deshita!

Very limited menu as a while and a single vegetarian/vegan option. Don't expect much veggies in your bowl. A lot of noodles and soup though. They charge a dollar extra for making the vegan ramen spicy, but it was still very low on the spice. There are several better places with lower prices in and around Cambridge. There were a lot of Japanese people, so it's probably more authentic. But, i have had better tasting ramen in Cambridge.

We had the Paitan Ramen, which is advertised to have a "RICH" chicken broth base (their emphasis, not mine). It was good, but not fantastic. The ramen smelled wonderful, and the base was very rich. But its richness was based more on fat content than complexity of flavor. After the first few spoonfuls, It truly needed salt to bring out the flavor, and without that, I recommend using the supplied Japanese pepper as a partial work-around (no salt shaker was provided at the table, only pepper). They do have Shoyu Ramen, which is soy based, but we did not try that as we were really interested in the "rich" chicken broth. Noodles were good. The egg was soft boiled in just water, which was different as it was not boiled with soy sauce, and the egg was a bit undercooked. The pork was spot on. The folk behind the counter were very friendly.