One of my students Mai, took me here once. Many of my students agree this is the best ramen shop in Toyohashi. However it is just not reachable from where I lived and worked by bike. I biked all over Toyohashi but this was outside of the areas of town I was familiar with. I learned a lot about ramen when I ate with Mai, before I had to try to figure out the menus on my own. She taught me the oomori extra noodles trick. I tend not to get the extra noodles but I often get the chashumen which is ramen with extra slices of meat.
Eight months after I left Toyohashi, I was able to recollect the name of this place despite only visiting it once. I made a point of asking my students what the best ramen shops in town were. The most common answer I got was Momoyama 桃山. This I confirmed by matching the characters in the picture. There are more characters than just momoyama, but the fact that the characters match my memmory has to be a good sign. Since I'm going to China later this year I have sudden resurgence in interest in learning Kanji or Chinese Characters.
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