Ichido Ramen H-Mart Food Court

Good ramen and pork cutlet. The manager here is friendly and nice

I love Ichido Ramen! My boyfriend and I get food from there nearly every week and we've never had a bad experience. The owner is super kind & the food is incredible! Highly recommend the spicy miso ramen :)

The ichido ramen in the food court of Hmart is amazing. The cook is always quick with food and service. Everything on the menu is delicious and worth the price. My go to every time I go to hmart.

Ichido Ramen is situated at the food court inside the Hmart grocery store. The food court is modern and hip, but maybe due to the demographics in the area while serving mainly Koreans, it has never been bustling during any of the 3 visits I've made so far. This is one of the two establishments serving Japanese cuisine at this food court. This one serves ramen and hot dishes, the other one focuses on sushi. (FYI - there is also a Chinese, a Korean fried chicken, and a Korean tofu dolsot place here.)

You can study the menu, inspect the mock displays, and sample at each restaurant store front or counter, but you place and pay for your orders at one central place near the back across from the restrooms. Once your order is ready, your number is announced via the PA system. And you go to the respective counter to claim your order.

We ordered Shoyu Ramen $10.99, Tonkotsu Ramen $10.99, Chashu-don (rice) $11.99, and an app, Takoyaki $5.99. It took 15 minutes for our number to be called. The plating looked very inviting.

It was the second time I've had takoyaki. The first time was in the streets of Tokyo. The size of the 5 tako "balls" can be classified as "miniature", about a quarter of the size of the "real" ones. The number partly compensated for the small size, but I still considered it pricey. Each takoyaki only had about half of an inch of an octopus tentacle in it.

We instructed "low-sodium" on the ramen, and the broth indeed tasted just right, and the noodles were springy. The serving size was disappointing, but the price point is also cheaper than average. I would say the Ramen dishes were up to par.

The Chashu-don was a disappointment. The picture depicts juicy marinated pork belly; instead, we got the dry and thinly sliced pork, possibly the same protein used for the ramen. It was "turned" into "Chashu" by adding the sauce on top. The sauce was over-powering and the little rice they gave wasn't nearly enough to go with it. The dish did come with a salad and pickled radish on the side and the sesame-based salad dressing was quite unique and refreshing.

Overall we weren't impressed, and were left "physically" unsatisfied - we each had to get a donut at the adjacent bakery (Cafe L'Ami) to fill our partially filled tummies.

Great place for oriental foods.