Kanji Ramen Noodle & Izakaya is a Japanese Ramen restaurant located in Bend. The restaurant specializes in Tonkatsu Ramen, which includes pork bone broth soup. It also offers variety of Japanese alcohol drink options.
After a long day of hike, we went to Kanji Ramen for a good lunch. We got to the restaurant right around noon and we were the second table of customer. There was only 1 server at the restaurant at that time.
We placed the order very quickly since we were very hungry. We got a Tonkatsu Ramen and a Kanji Ramen, since it was the restaurant's signature dish. As we were waiting for our food, there were 2 large group of people came in. The total number of people among these 2 groups are almost 20 people, we were quite shocked.
After about 5 minutes, our food is here. The Tonkatsu Ramen was the classic with pork, bamboo shoot, green onion, soft boiled egg and corn on top of the noodle. We liked the soup broth since it was fresh and not too salty. The soft boiled egg seemed to be marinated with soy sauce and had good taste to it.
The Kanji Ramen did not come with pork but came with Japanese Fry Chicken. There were 4 pieces of fry chicken nuggets served on a separate plate. The chicken was ok but a bit on the dry side. We would prefer to have the pork instead.
Overall, Kanji Ramen was ok but the price of Ramen was on the high side. The cheapest bowl of ramen cost $17. We would probably look for other options in the future.
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