What type of food comes to your mind when you're faced with heavy snowfall like this?
Given that we've had shabu shabu and sukiyaki ( read here) already, we decided that the best dinner we could have after fighting thru the cold and wind is a bowl of hot soup i.e ramen.
A quick google search tells us that the ramen we should try when we are in nozawa is Toyo Ramen.
Now now, this place is SUPER difficult to find, to be honest, I don't even know how to give you instructions to where it's located. If hunger games or battle royale was held here and you hid at this restaurant, I think you might be the eventual winner even without killing anybody. Provided you're lucky enough to have this place avoid being in the danger zone la.
We were asking almost every single passerby with our broken Japanese for directions, and really most of the time is blind leading the blind because most on the main street are tourists and... yeah.
A couple of times we thought we struck Jackpot because people were very confidently pointing directions to us, but you know something is wrong when you walk towards the direction you were being pointed to, ask someone else and they point you to the direction that you just came from hmm...
But I have to give it to these people, they point with such confidence... It just never crossed my mind to doubt them ! I think all of us ought to work hard to achieve this skill, I can only imagine how useful it is when it comes to work.
Anyway, after what felt like a wild goose chase... We FINALLY reached the restaurant.
It's this really hole in the wall kinda small family run ramen shop. I think we did make a booking but I'm not 100%. All I can say is that, it was SO crowded !
Normal shoyu ramen for me. The broth was amazing ! The only thing I didn't like about this bowl was that there were SO MUCH beansprouts. I don't really eat beansprouts :/
Nick had the spicy miso
No pictures for what was the highlight of this meal for me.... I think the stars of this restaurant is actually their Karage chicken, gyoza and fried squid.
So good. The karage chicken was not oily, the batter was light and the chicken was SOOOO juicy! Same goes for the home made gyoza. Super generous with the fillings and they were so flavourful.
Fried squid is fried squid la. squid is always good.
Toya Ramen
9347 Toyosato Nozawaonsen-Mura | Tokiwaya Ryokan B1, Nozawaonsen-mura, Shimotakai-gun 389-2502, Nagano Prefecture
Mon- Fri : 11.30-12.30pm, 6-8pm
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