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Now Try This: Oxtail ramen at Rakiraki
Kearny Mesa ramen shop kills it with noodles and beeftail
Rakiraki, Kearny Mesa’s hipster noodle house, has an oxtail ramen dinner on the menu that’s an absolute must-grind.
The ramen part is more of the same: Rakiraki’s chicken-based ramen, with its light and surprisingly fatty broth, and kinky, chewy, (usually) just-about-perfect noodles. The delight is the oxtail, weirdly served in a separate bowl, but to great effect. The reason it’s so killer is that the light, tangy broth surrounding the chunks of oxtail serves as a brilliant foil to the chicken grease that slicks the surface of the noodles. Breaking down the succulent hunks of tailflesh leaves a film of gelatin on every surface that contacts the meat, but the resulting bone-suckery qualifies as borderline meat perfection. It’s an exercise in full-tilt, go-for-it eating; but what a way to send the message to friends and dates that you mean business at the table!
On the other side of the menu, Rakiraki’s lunch special kills it, too. $8.95 for a bowl of ramen and some of their crunchy katsu over rice? Deal. It gets pricier as you stray from the basic order, but it’s still a good deal for a coma-inducing amount of lunch food.
Go. Go now. Eat this ramen!
Here's something you might be interested in.
Now Try This: Oxtail ramen at Rakiraki
Kearny Mesa ramen shop kills it with noodles and beeftail
Now Try This: Oxtail ramen at Rakiraki
Kearny Mesa ramen shop kills it with noodles and beeftail
Rakiraki, Kearny Mesa’s hipster noodle house, has an oxtail ramen dinner on the menu that’s an absolute must-grind.
The ramen part is more of the same: Rakiraki’s chicken-based ramen, with its light and surprisingly fatty broth, and kinky, chewy, (usually) just-about-perfect noodles. The delight is the oxtail, weirdly served in a separate bowl, but to great effect. The reason it’s so killer is that the light, tangy broth surrounding the chunks of oxtail serves as a brilliant foil to the chicken grease that slicks the surface of the noodles. Breaking down the succulent hunks of tailflesh leaves a film of gelatin on every surface that contacts the meat, but the resulting bone-suckery qualifies as borderline meat perfection. It’s an exercise in full-tilt, go-for-it eating; but what a way to send the message to friends and dates that you mean business at the table!
On the other side of the menu, Rakiraki’s lunch special kills it, too. $8.95 for a bowl of ramen and some of their crunchy katsu over rice? Deal. It gets pricier as you stray from the basic order, but it’s still a good deal for a coma-inducing amount of lunch food.
Go. Go now. Eat this ramen!
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