Ippudo Ramen / Restaurant and soup vending machine in Tokyo Japan

The world-class Japanese ramen restaurant, Ippudo. Hi, I'm Samurai Junjiro, born and raised in Japan. In this video, I'm going to introduce you to Ippudo, a ramen restaurant that originated in Japan. Ippudo is currently a very popular ramen restaurant with over 280 locations in 15 countries, including the United States and Europe. I'll be introducing not only the restaurant's ramen, but also products available at convenience stores and vending machines, so please stay tuned. Now, let's get started. Oh, I'm so hungry. I feel like I'm going to collapse. I haven't eaten ramen in a while and I have a craving for it. Oh no, I haven't introduced you to Ippudo, which originated in Japan. Let's go buy some Ippudo ramen sold in convenience stores first. Now, here I am. It's 7-Eleven, the convenience store with the largest number of stores in Japan. 7-Eleven has a lot of delicious food developed in-house, but they also have Ippudo ramen. Let's start with the cup ramen. This is the Ippudo cup ramen sold only at 7-Eleven. Now, let's make it. Take out the bag inside and put in the powdered soup and ingredients. Add hot water, cover with a lid, and wait for 3 minutes. After 3 minutes, add the liquid soup. Add the spicy miso paste and garlic oil too. It's done. It's Ippudo cup ramen, only available at 7-Eleven. Dissolve the spicy miso in the soup and eat. It smells good like pork bones and garlic. Ippudo's soup is thick, but it's refreshing with no distinct flavor. The noodles are the same thin noodles that you get at the restaurant. They've faithfully recreated the store's ramen. The chashu pork also has a lot of fat on it. I can't believe it's chashu pork from a cup ramen. Next, let's eat frozen food. This frozen food is also a 7-Eleven limited product. It's called champon and it's a noodle dish that uses thicker noodles than regular ramen. Open the bag, put the noodles on a plate, and heat them up in the microwave. I'll boil the water while it's warming up. Put the liquid soup in a plate and pour hot water. I'll put the warm noodles in the soup. It's done. It's Ippudo's champon. Champon is a special product that is not served at the restaurant. When you take a sip of the thick soup, the flavor of the pork bones spreads in your mouth. I'm glad there are plenty of vegetables in this dish. The rich soup goes well with the crispy vegetables. The noodles are thick and chewy. The noodles contain pepper so it has a refreshing taste. Let's add the spicy miso that was also added to the cup ramen. I'll dissolve it in the soup. This spicy miso is indispensable for Ippudo. The spiciness has increased and it has become more delicious. Next, I'll introduce a little interesting Ippudo. In fact, Ippudo's soup was released at the vending machine from October 2021. It's a rare soup that can only be found at vending machines at stations near Tokyo. I bought it, so let's try the soup. I'm curious to know what kind of soup it is. Let's put it on the plate. The moment I open the can, I can smell the delicious aroma of pork bone soup. The room smells good, just like a restaurant. The rich soup has the same taste as the restaurant. It's so warm, it'll warm you up if you drink it outside. Let's go to the Ippudo restaurant. This time, I came to Kameari Station in Katsushikaku, Tokyo. There's a new Ippudo that just opened in March 2021, so let's go there. It's just a minute's walk from the north exit of the station. This is the recently opened Ippudo. It looks like they have ramen that's only available here. I'm curious to know what kind of ramen it is. Now, let's go inside. It's so clean and stylish. I'll order my recommended dishes this time. First up is a ramen that's only available at this restaurant. Here it comes. It's Ippudo's soy sauce ramen. It's full of ingredients and smells good like soy sauce. The soup is thick and rich. The aftertaste has a refreshing scent of yuzu. The noodles are a little thicker than the pork bone ramen. The soy sauce flavored soup goes well with the noodles and it's delicious. Let's eat some seaweed with it. Let's try the egg dipped in soy sauce. Even the yolk is soaked in flavor. Let's eat the chashu pork. It's a big chashu pork. It's so fatty it melts in your mouth. I also ordered grilled dumplings. They are cooked just right. They are small enough to be easily eaten by women. It is recommended to eat with this yuzu pepper. The yuzu pepper gives the dumplings a spicy, acquired taste. Soy sauce and vinegar, the standard way of eating dumplings, also goes very well. After all, dumplings are indispensable for ramen. Let's eat fried rice next. Ippudo's fried rice is as popular as ramen. They use special rice suitable for fried rice. The rice is stir-fried over high heat all at once so every grain of rice is crispy. It's worth coming for the fried rice alone. Last but not least, let's have the classic ramen. If there's one thing Ippudo is known for, it's their pork bone ramen. The characteristic of this ramen is that it doesn't have the distinctive smell of pork bones. It's a thick soup but you can drink every last drop. The chashu pork is also juicy and has a satisfying taste. The pork bone soup goes really well with the well-seasoned egg. The noodles are thin and go well with the soup. You can even smell the wheat. It's incredibly delicious. I don't get tired of Ippudo's ramen no matter how many times I eat it. No wonder it's the world popular ramen. I even finished the soup to the end. Thank you for the delicious meal. Well, this time, in this video, I introduced Ippudo, the world famous ramen restaurant that originated in Japan. But how did you like it? Was there any ramen that you wanted to eat? If there's a restaurant you'd like me to introduce in the future, please let me know in the comments. There's still a lot of food in Japan that you don't know about and a lot of restaurants that you can't find in the guidebooks, so I'll introduce them in another video. Well, that's it for today. See you in the next video.