Soup Vats: Town Hanabi and Hase Area

soup vats: That's their loss, as it serves some of the best ramen in town, according to The Japan Times. Hanabi is a classic labor-of-love story, opened some 12 years ago by a husband-and-wife team armed with a great recipe and bags of enthusiasm. Every day streams of visitors walk past this unprepossessing noodle joint without giving it a second look as they hike between the center of Kamakura and the Hase area and its famous Great Buddha. What with their two huge soup vats and other equipment, there is only room for an eight-seat kitchen counter, plus a small extension where all you see is the water filtering equipment. ; They make their basic ramen in the sh yu soy sauce style, but with two choices of soup a classic meaty version they call it mukashinagara old-fashioned made with chicken and pork; or the house-special Hanabi ramen, made with gyokai fish-based soup mixed in. They also offer a shio salt ramen, tsukemen dipping noodles and a gently spicy, summer-only hiyashi chilled version. This latter is favored by their regular customers, they say, perhaps reflecting their location close to the coast. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.