The Holy Grail of Dipping Ramen! Best Noodles You'll Ever Taste! Chuka Soba Tomita

Hi everyone, we contemplated scrapping this vlog due to the bad audio arising from circumstances during filming but decided against it as we really wanted to share this experience with you guys & revisiting Tomita in the future likely wouldn't improve the filming circumstances. Hence do watch this video with subtitles as during the visit the speech is barely audible😂. Enjoy the video!😉 In the spirit of keeping us on our toes & improving here's how we felt about this video from a technical perspective:- It's bad...probably the worst video in recent memory, mainly due to really bad audio. When we were filming Wei Loon couldn't talk with a normal volume as the moment he speaks all the other customers stared at him. He ended up whispering which causes the ridiculously bad, barely audible audio with lots of distortion. We tried to salvage the audio & this is the best we could come up with at the moment. As the space is non existent due to the entire counter space being taken up by food we also couldn't film close ups effectively, causing a lack of footages/reuse of footages which is undesirable. Wei Loon also couldn't push the camera back far enough despite using a 16mm wide angle lens, hence his giant face every single time he had to take a bite :( Tomita also seats everyone by batch so it means you get about 30-40 minutes to eat all the food and leave because they'll need to serve the next batch. This means Wei Loon had to film all the shots himself to make the time & certain shots were out of focus. The dim lighting with a really bright background also causes the camera to struggle with focus at certain angles, hence the out of focus facial shots. We also screwed up with white balance as we left camera on auto white balance. This causes certain footages to be extremely off colour which we tried to salvage in post. We did a semi decent job but it's rather noticeable. Of course we are extremely appreciative of Tomita san for allowing us to film the entire process of our visit, we could've done better. All in all we learned a lot this episode & will take note to improve in the future.

Never too harsh. Always with respect to the restauranteur and honesty to the viewer. My favorite food vloggers, thanks!

You know its number 1 ramen when you hear the other guy sippin the S*** out of that noodles lmao.

I need that in my life.

dont be too harsh on yourselves! even at your “worst”, the quality of this vlog far exceeds so many on youtube. and i say this as a person who generally doesnt prefer travel food vlogs. the audio was fine to me, and i could hear all of the commentary. thanks for the stellar effort as usual!

Thank you for making a detailed explanation of the ticketing system. It’s honestly so useful for those who have never been.

I love this review! This is the first time I've seen a food reviewer who says Tomita's broth is overly salty. Food reviewers shouldn't skimp on negative experiences or make it too indirect. Also, I recommend these ramen shops: Menya Takahashi (麺屋 髙橋) - Tsukemen with cold noodles in Sapporo IRUCA-Tokyo- Roppongi (入鹿TOKYO 六本木) - Yuzu Shio Ramen Ramen Iida Shoten (らぁ麺飯田商店) - Shio Tsukemen, highest ranking ramen shop in all of Japan, in Kanagawa Seijo Seika (成城青果) - Shio Ramen; started in June 2020, yet it was already one of the highest-ranking ramen shops in Tabelog, in Tokyo Ramen Maikagura (らーめんMAIKAGURA) - Tori Paitan Chicken with white truffle oil and a poached egg in Tokyo Chuukasoba Uemachi (中華そば うえまち) - Has one of the best shoyu ramen in Osaka Dateya (伊達屋) - Shoyu and shio ramen in Fukushima

Under the circumstances I would say it was a pretty good vlog!

I like the honest review. What's your fav now for tsukemen? Michi?

I don't understand why your videos aren't getting pushed. They seem to tick all the boxes for an excellent food page.. And I can attest your palette is quite well developed. i held the same opinions as your dinner by Heston review and many others. Keep up the good work.

Great vid! Sad to see he has changed his style. Do you prefer This or Rokurinsha?

Thanks! I don’t have to wake up at 5 am

do they have takeout? it kills me to wait in line for 3 hrs + over a lunch.

faceful of "lor mee"! hahaha.

Tsukemen is eaten with a little noodle in the soup. If you mix it like you, the warm soup will get cold.

While you were introducing the wonderful broth and noodles I was totally distracted by the constant slurping sound in the background which was not from you. Anyway, a fantastic episode about Japanese ramen that I'd thoroughly enjoyed watching.

Mikey Chen is getting jealous 😂

Still gotta be tomita man for number 1

Do they have an english menu?

Do they accept reservations or you really have to line up