Ramen eating

My sister and me has such a special culinary habit of trying new food and, of course, new eating places in my town. And this time is for "ramen".

Ramen is  a Japanese noodle soup or dish that originated in China. It is served in a meat- or fish-based broth, often flavored with soy sauce or miso, and uses toppings such as sliced pork, dried seaweed, green onions, and occasionally corn.

We pass the place everyday and last couple days we saw a new small red sign with the picture of a bowl with a chopstick and noodle. We decided to visit the place next day to have our lunch. Later we know that this place is one of franchise's branch, means it has several other stores in other cities.

Reading the menu we found Local Ramen and Import Ramen; Original Ramen, Chicken Ramen, Beef  Ramen, Egg Ramen, Seafood Ramen, and the combinations of them. As several places in Indonesia thus there isn't any pork in the menu and there is a sign of "halal" (allowed or permitted for Muslims). For the price, it can be said above the average level :p.

Actually I wanted to try seafood ramen but it was out of order and in fact my sister can't stand of seafood things. So, finally we chose chicken import one. It's served in a big white bowl, a pair of chopstick, and a white Chinese soup spoon. The smell was so tempting, though the appearance quite not what we've expected: Noodle with its broth, three "quite small" pieces of chicken crispy, corn, dried seaweed slices, and instead of onion we get boiled mustard greens.

At first, the taste will be strange perhaps our tongue is not used to it (we often have our local chicken noodle or Chinese noodle), especially for my sister where she was really convinced that the soup was made of fish or seafood, even she could tell it from the aroma. That's why she couldn't finish it. Well, for me, I left the bowl empty only with some drips of soup hehehe. Yet, I was extremely starving that time :p

an example picture of ramen

 my sister is tasting