Ramen at Bari Uma @ Jaya Shopping Centre, Petaling Jaya

Bari-Uma located on third floor of Jaya Shopping Centre in Petaling Jaya. Bari-Uma has over 40 restaurant in Japan and it is a new comer in term of ramen into Malaysian market. Besides ramen, they have delicious yakitori and Gyoza. The restaurant in Malaysia were managed by Nippon Delicious Sdn Bhd.

Taste:8/10(Good. The attraction here seems to be their pork belly yakitori which is succulent and fragrant. Adequately grilled to perfection with tasty sauce. Their ramen is good with not so thick soup. What lacking here is raw garlic which I think is a must for good ramen. They provide dried garlic instead which lack of flavour).
Price:6/10(Moderate. The lunch set is quite reasonable with a bowl of ramen of three options, yakitori or ice-cream or Gyoza as side dish and a glass of green tea. All this at MYR29.90).



My bowl of bari-uma ramen (Pork flavoured shoyu soup with thick-cut flamed chashu). Request to add an egg at MYR2.00.

Closer look at the ramen.

Two sticks of pork belly yakitori. Tasty.

Green tea.

Lunch set special. From 11.00am to 3.00pm. The lunch set includes 1 bowl of ramen, 2 sticks of pork belly yakitori or 3 pieces of Gyoza or ice-cream and 1 glass of green tea. All this for price of MYR29.90. They also have Yakitori special at night. It comes with yakitori combo which is 5 sticks of yakitori and a bottle of tiger beer at MYR19.90.

Besides set, you can order their ala-carte meal.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.109244, 101.637113
Address: L3-11, Level 3, Jaya Shopping Centre, Jalan Semangat, Seksyen 14, 46100 Petaling Jaya.
Phone: +603-7932 2958
Opening Hours: Daily 10.00am-10.00pm
Website: www.bariuma.my

Yummy ramen at Mutekiya @ Ikebukuro, Tokyo

Mutekiya is a popular ramen shop in Ikebukuro. They are famous for their delicious pork belly in the rich ramen soup. They have menu in various languages, so ordering a meal here shouldn't be a problem. The staff can understand English as well. Be ready to queue about 30 minutes when you arrive to this restaurant. There is only 17 seats in the restaurant and you will satisfy with the waiting time once you have your ramen in the shop. The "chashyu" (pork belly) in the ramen here are know to be the most tender and delicious.

Taste:10/10(Excellent. Thick and flavourful soup. With cloudy and rich soup from pork and chicken simmered for 16 hours, no doubt that the soup is great. The pork is odorless, sweet and enough portion of fat which melts in your mouth. The noodles were cooked to the correct level which soaked up the soup aroma into the noodles).
Price:6/10(Moderate. The bowl of hontorotokumarumen that I ordered cost 1,030 Yen. The pricing for large and small portion of noodles are the same).


Mouth watering ramen with thickest soup. I choose hontorotokumarumen. This is among their most popular ramen with very thick soup. The others are nikutamamen and honmarumen. It comes with one slice of delicious pork belly, seasoned bamboo shoot, seaweed, an egg, some vegetables and spring onion.

Delicious bowl of ramen with melts in your mouth pork slice.

In mutekiya, they provide raw fresh garlic. Use the tongs to press raw garlic and squeeze the juice over your ramen noodles.


The egg were done just right. The egg yolk still in half cooked in liquid but not harden. The yolk colour resemble that they use better quality egg.

Fresh whole garlic and spicy pickles are provided.

Usual long queue outside Mutekiya restaurant. You will forget about the queue once you tasted the ramen.

The frying pan showing the ingredient in honmarumen.

GPS/Coordinate: 35.726911, 139.711548
Address: 1-17-1 Sakimoto Building 1F, Minamiikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo.
Phone: +81 3-3982-7656
Opening Hours: 10:30am-4.00am
Public transport: Ikebukuro train station in Tokyo.