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カルガリーでRTTの細麺や豚骨スープのおかげさまで、お家にお好みのトッピング合わせながら、簡単で本物の博多ラーメンを作れています!感動深いです!
Respect The Technique's Hakata-style thin, straight ramen noodles and tonkotsu broth are as authentic as you can get in Calgary, to the classic Hakata-style ramen that hails from Fukuoka.
With the exception of the beginning of COVID, having been to Japan at least yearly since 2007, I would miss Hakata-style ramen when I came home. During COVID when tourists weren't allowed into Japan, I especially craved bowls of ramen from the small places I happened across while in Fukuoka as well as more well-known chains like Ichiran or Ippudo. There just really wasn't any ramen restaurant in Calgary that made what I was craving.
Thanks to Kaede and Jonny at Respect The Technique, I can make my own bowl of classic Hakata-style tonkotsu ramen at home!
Jonny's recipe for fresh Hakata-style ramen noodles is amazing. Perfect in thinness and length. Cooked for 1 minute in boiling water at Calgary's elevation, was the exact, just-cooked texture I was looking for. The right amount of spring, but not overly chewy. If you like your noodles 固め (katame = harder) or やわめ (yawame = softer), then you can adjust the cooking time.
Kaede's tonkotsu broth, is all umami. Taste the broth before seasoning it with 塩 (shio = salt), 醬油 (shoyu = soy sauce) or 味噌 (miso = fermented soybean). It's an incredibly clean, creamy pork flavour. A good tonkotsu broth needs a lot of fat, but personally I dislike an oily aftertaste. Kaede's broth is precisely that, it's すっきり (sukkiri = clean/refreshing) in taste, leaving umami on the tongue but it's not cloying or oily. A 1 L container is enough soup for 3 portions of their noodles.
Their Thicc Cut Red Miso Bacon, is also fantastic. I'm not a huge fan of miso sauces like miso katsu from Nagoya, but curing in red miso gives it a salty umami taste, savoury but not overpowering in miso. Pleasantly surprised by this bacon!
Their delivery option straight to my house is really convenient! My only regret is that I wish I had ordered from them sooner.
Looking forward to being able to fill my freezer with more of RTT's products!