Located at 130 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Getting there, simple catch a train to Parliament Station and it's a 5-10 minute walk from there.
Date: Friday, 12th November
Cuisine: Japanese
Catching up with Shannon over dinner, we decided to go to Ajisen Ramen.
We've both been there 4 or 5 times.
Here's Shannon!! :D
It's a nice, warm place - the furniture and setting is sort of like modern meets Japanese traditional.
Entree- Gyoza, which is like a Japanese Dumpling with dipping sauce.
Quite average, the filling is nothing special - pork mince and a bit of ginger and spring onion
The chewy Gyoza skin should have been more crisp - it was pan fried
The dipping sauce was nice- balancing sweet, sour and salty.
$7.00
Main- I had the Hiyashi Chuuka, which is a Japanese Cold Noodle.
It was nice, the noodles were of a good texture- they had a bit of bite to them
The vegetables worked well with the dish.. and there was a lump of horseradish ==' (which is like wasabi) and I thought it was tofu. My mouth burned.
There wasn't enough of the meat, though the noodle dressing was nice - sweet, sour and salty, with a bit of chilli.
$10.00
Shannon had the Sashimi Bento- which comprised of slices of raw salmon, rice, seaweed salad, fruit, salad and a chicken skewer. Looked quite nice.
$13.50
Dessert- Black sesame icecream for me and Green Tea Icecream for Shannon
Strong Sesame flavour, quite creamy, but it still can't top Green Tea Icecream. Presentation was nice and simple.
$4.00/Each
Drink- Green Tea Spider.
It was rather strange. It was a scoop of green tea icecream in lemonade.
The lemonade was flat- not fizzy and the green tea gave it a weird powdery-ness.
$4.50
Lemon and Lime Bitters for Shannon - $4.00
Next time, I'd definitely stick to the ramen, bento boxes, seaweed salad and yakitori (the delicious chicken skewer)
Cost: $47 - Relatively Cheap
Worth a visit :)
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