179 ramen bar

Apparently this ramen place is pretty famous among the locals. It has been in operation for few years in Padungan but not few weeks ago, hubby and I dropped by to taste its ramen. Actually I noticed this shop last year when we had lunch in one of the old Chinese coffee shop last year. 

Himawari Ramen Bar is located at number 179 Padungan, across from Abee Traditional Buns shop. 

If you are looking for Himawari Ramen sign on the shop, please don't be despair as you wouldn't find it. The only name I could spot was this Japanese name on the wood blind in front of the shop. 

A very long queue when we were here on a Saturday morning. So we abandon our plan to have a taste, but instead we walked to the other side of the road and went to Noodle Descendants. Luckily they had one empty table, so we took that and our noodle came within 30 minutes.  By then, my tummy was rumbling and luckily it did not take such long time for our breakfast here.

The following day, we were still persistent to try the ramen so we went back here around 11.30am. Only both of us, since the kids were not interested to join us.  So after settling their lunch, both of us headed to Padungan for Himawari Ramen Bar.

Queue was longer than the day before but since we did not have anything to do, we did not mind the queue (and heat!), and joined in the crowd. Eventually it took us 1.5hours in the queue to get a seat!

Hubby wanted to try its Gyuniku Shoyu Ramen (beef ramen) RM14.90. 

How his bowl of  Gyuniko Shoyu Ramen turned out! Big chunks of beef; the broth was alright, not too strong yet not so mild.  Just nice for me, but hubby prefer much robust flavour.

One thing was the ramen was freshly made by the owner of this shop.  The ramen was very nice, I liked the texture.

I went for Tori Kankitsurui Aruba Soba Hikari RM10.90.  Basically ramen with boneless pulled chicken with that vinegar and citrus taste. Quite appetizing and unusual flavour to me.

After waited so long, we treated ourselves to these chilled and refreshing drinks. Nam Manglak RM3.90 (left) and Organic Apple Cider Lime Mojito (RM4.90). I preferred the Nam Manglak as it consisted of orange squash, barley, chia seed and jelly. The mojito was piquant or rather sour to my liking.

Overall, our lunch cost around RM70 plus 2 takeaway for the kids. Well, we gave it a try. People sang praises for its Aruba Soba and beef broth, but we thought they were alright; nothing to shout about.  Plus the long queue, it was not that enticing to us. Don't think we would be crazy to go back for its ramen, at least not anytime soon.