Ichikakuya quietly open a branch in Shoplex Mont Kiara last year during covid pandemic. I notice their presence thru the signage board outside whenever I pass by as their location is quite hidden. It's a corner lot where The Fat Fish occupied previously. Apparently their very first Malaysia branch is open at UOA Business Park in Shah Alam on Jan 2020 when covid begin. Yesterday a friend was there for dinner alone and ask me if I wanna join, that's where I recall I have yet give them a try. Yokohama's IEKEI Ramen with more than 50 years history is unique with its rich and thick Tonkotsu soy sauce soup, with thick and chewy noodles that handmade daily with Japanese wheat flour imported from Yokohama.
The soup is shoyu or shio (salt) based thick pork bone soup with chicken oil. You may customize the thickness for the soup (strong, normal or light), extra / normal / less chicken oil in your soup broth and firmness of the noodles (hard, normal or soft). We both go for Yokohama IEKEI ramen where my friend choose the salt based soup (where the broth color is white) while I go for max version with extra chasiu (so we could share the chasiu) with soy based soup. Both goes with strong level for the soup thickness, extra chicken oil and normal doneness for noodle. It served together with dried seaweed, spinach. torch burnt thin slice chasiu and quail egg. I also order an extra Onsen egg, and it is as good as Kamikaze Ramen!
Two days later, my family is visiting me in KL. I bring them here for IEKEI ramen and they likes it as it's been a while since we had a good bowl of Ramen after Kamikaze closed down. Order the same Yokohama IEKEI ramen with soy and shio based each with extra topping of black fungus and negi. My brother try the Red Max Ramen~ Spicy IEKEI Ramen and he describe the broth has the Chinese fermented bean curd taste. While my mom not a fan of ramen so she goes for Chicken Katsu Rice Bowl. Ramen price pretty affordable~ starting from RM18++ onwards depending on what's your order.
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