Sapporo ebi chashu ajitama ramen, spicy (opening promotion: $14.80++)!
Friday Japanese lunch — Sapporo ebi chashu ajitama ramen (spicy) at $14.80++ via opening promotion. New ramen spot's launch deal.
Friday lunch with BB — Sapporo ebi chashu ajitama ramen, spicy at $14.80++ via the opening promotion. A new ramen spot’s launch deal that we cashed in.
We ordered:
- Sapporo ebi chashu ajitama ramen (spicy) — $14.80++ (opening promotion price)
The Sapporo-style ramen is the Hokkaido regional variant. Different from the Tokyo shoyu, Kyushu tonkotsu, or other Japanese ramen styles, the Sapporo version is built on a miso-based broth with a slightly spicy edge — Hokkaido cuisine’s adaptation to the cold climate calls for hearty, warming dishes.
The broth was the headline. Miso paste blended into a rich chicken or pork bone broth, creating an amber-brown colour with the fermented soybean depth that miso brings. The spicy variant adds chilli paste or chilli oil for the heat that Sapporo ramen often features.
Ebi (shrimp) was the seafood component — usually a few pieces of poached or grilled prawns laid on top of the bowl. The shrimp provides a sweet seafood note that contrasts against the salty-savoury miso broth.
Chashu was the pork component — slices of slow-braised pork belly, with the proper fall-apart-tender texture and the dark glossy braising sauce coating each slice.
Ajitama (味玉, also called ajitsuke tamago) was the soy-marinated soft-boiled egg. The egg has been simmered briefly in a shoyu-mirin-dashi marinade, with the white absorbing the salty-sweet flavour and the yolk staying runny. Halved with the yolk visible on top of the bowl.
The noodles were the medium-thick wavy alkaline kind, cooked to firmness. The proper Sapporo-style ramen noodles are slightly thicker and curlier than the standard Tokyo-style noodles to hold up against the heavier miso broth.
Standard ramen architecture filled in the rest — menma (bamboo shoots), chopped scallion, a sheet of nori.
At $14.80++ via the opening promotion this is fair Japanese restaurant pricing for a premium ramen bowl. Full price would’ve been closer to $19-21. The opening promo runs through the first month or so of a new restaurant launch, giving customers an entry-level discount to test the menu.
New ramen spots open frequently in Singapore, and we’d been cycling through the new launches as they rolled out. The opening promo at this spot was the right entry point — try the menu at the discount tier, decide whether the regular pricing is worth a return visit.
Overall: 4.1 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Solid Sapporo ebi chashu ramen — would consider for the next visit.
