Shoyu ramen + egg + char siew (1-for-1: $32.84)!
Sunday Japanese lunch — shoyu ramen + egg + char siew at $32.84 via 1-for-1 promo. Two ramen bowls for the price of one.
Sunday Japanese lunch with BB — shoyu ramen + egg + char siew at $32.84 via 1-for-1 promo. Two ramen bowls for the price of one.
We ordered (1-for-1 promo):
- Shoyu ramen with egg + char siew upgrades (two bowls)
Total: $32.84 via the 1-for-1 deal.
The 1-for-1 promo math is the value play. The full price for two upgraded shoyu ramen bowls would’ve been roughly $50-60; the 1-for-1 brings it down to $32.84. The savings are about 40-50%, depending on how much the upgrades add to the bowl pricing.
The shoyu ramen base was the Tokyo-style soy-broth bowl. Clear-amber broth from the soy and dashi base, with the slight glossy sheen of rendered chicken fat on top. The flavour profile leaned the lighter side — savoury from the soy, umami from the dashi, with a clean finish.
The upgrades made the bowl more substantial. The +egg upgrade added a second ajitsuke tamago (soft-boiled marinated soy egg), making the egg topping two halves rather than the standard one. The +char siew upgrade added extra slices of the slow-braised pork belly, turning the standard 1-2 slice serving into a more substantial 4-5 slice portion.
The noodles were the standard thin, slightly wavy alkaline kind. Cooked to firmness, with the proper QQ chew.
Standard ramen architecture on top — menma (bamboo shoots), chopped scallion, a sheet of nori, a piece of kamaboko (fish cake).
At $32.84 via 1-for-1 this is fair Japanese restaurant pricing. The 1-for-1 promo turns the upgraded bowl into something more accessible than the regular menu pricing would suggest.
The Sunday Japanese ramen rotation through phase 2 had been steady. We’d cycled through tonkotsu, miso, shoyu, and the regional variants at multiple chains, with the 1-for-1 and Burpple Beyond promos making the format affordable for regular visits.
The pattern across November had stabilised. Home weekday cooking + occasional restaurant breaks + subscription-discount Japanese dinners + hawker stops. The split worked for our energy and budget.
Phase 2 was deep in, and the ramen scene was back to full operation with the 1-for-1 promos as the regular value-driver.
Overall: 4.2 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Solid shoyu ramen with upgrades via 1-for-1 — would repeat the deal.
