Have you tried Ukkokei's Tantanmen?

Tantalizing flavors of Tantanmen

According to the servers at Ukkokei, total of 40 Tantanmen bowls are only served per day.
That's quite a small volume compared to the oodles of ramen served elsewhere.
Tantanmen is a spicy, earthy ramen made with minced pork. Tasting it reminds me of the Chinese dish Mapo Tofu. Ukkokei's version is pretty good, the spiciness dows not overpower the flavor of the noodles, but you have to finish this early because the soup might turn into film-like good after a while (its that deadly oily) At 360 pesos a bowl, its good enough to satisfy one's hunger pangs.
Best paired with a cold soda or tea.

I was lucky enough to try the Tantanmen one Sunday night because we did make sure to go there early for dinner so my sister won't miss her ramen fix. I suggest you try one too to discover what the fuss is all about. This is not ramen I would like to eat everyday but I do get to enjoy every once in a while.

 My Ramen Ranking: 3rd place

Ramen Diaries: Ukkokei Ramen Ron

Being one of the most hyped ramen in the Philippines, Ukkokei had its own share of  urban legend (or sad truth) The story goes like this, an influential governement guy comes in this place before closing, insists on his order of ramen but had his order refused by the badass Japanese chef (No soup for you!) Then there were reports of... Ukkokei being closed down a few days (tax problems, they say) Well, now they have re-opened and new branches have sprouted all over the place. In fact, there's a new one at the Fort.

What is Ukkokei? Native manok!

Tacky menu design

Their Menu

I was at Ukkokei Ramen Ron some nights ago and I can't believe out of the awesome ramen choices, I ordered the most lame. (Hand slapping head)

sensei will haduken you if you still order when its closing time

The crew tries to give good service

Perhaps you might have read my other entry about Hokkaido Ramen Santouka,
where they had the creamy delicious Shio ramen. http://kainmanila.blogspot.com/2013/10/ramen-santouka-hokkaido-legendary-ramen.html

Ukkokei's version (Shio P300) is quite average and it tasted like noodles in chicken soup.

Ukkokei Shio

But we also ordered the corny and buttery Miso Butter Corn (P 360) and this was very good, better than the overly cheesed version of Kenji-Tei. There's still a bit of "umay" but butter in soup is good.

Miso Buttah Corn

We also ordered the Chahan (Flied Rice) and the Gyoza. Their gyoza is like Voldermort,
it tastes so ordinary and to say its not good is something that should not be named (shh)

My sister had the bestseller Tantanmen. I had a taste of her oily soup. It was... ok, ok, good. (no arm twisting here) I heard they only limit this to 20 - 40 bowls a night.

Spoon Rating

3 spoons
(Hey it's just me, but you can comment/ disagree below)
I'll probably go back to try other stuff.

Rating
Zero Spoons - Not coming back
One Spoon - Something's wrong here
Two Spoons - Average Joe
Three Spoons - Good but can do better
Four Spoons - Yummy, la
Five Spoons - Where have you been all my life?