Ikkousha where are you?

No, Ikkousha is not a lascivious lady from a thousand and one nights, but a Japanese Ramen restaurant about which a story has recently been published on this blog (www.thailandblog.nl/eten-drinken/in-de-soep-zit/)

According to the Sunday Nation; a world-renowned restaurant that also landed in Bangkok a few weeks ago. According to said newspaper in the J Avenue shopping center on Thonglor Soi 15. So we want to find out a little more about that. A piece of cake with the skytrain. Get off at the Thonglo stop (this time without R) and we are on Soi 55, also called Thonglor.

It is a lively wide road with a choice of restaurants for every wallet on both sides. If you continue walking on the left side of the road, you will walk to Soi 15 in a good fifteen minutes where you will find the relatively small shopping center J Avenue. You have already passed a lot of nice restaurants on both the left and the right side of the road and the walk is certainly nice. Adjacent to the relatively small shopping center - big name for the 4 floors with hardly any shops - you will find a few taverns with cozy terraces to relax. And even a metropolis like Bangkok is not exactly richly blessed with terraces. In particular, the neat Mousses & Meringues, with delicious coffee and an extensive range of pastries, is more than worth a visit.

Second floor

Via a staircase we continue the route to the next floor, because that's where the Japanese restaurants are located and we look for Ikkousha.

We see Kan-Teki-Ya, Nanohana, Ootoya restaurants, but no Ikkousha. There is a restaurant called Kyushu Jangara Ramen. Just ask where Ikkousha has chosen domicile. No Thai who can give a sensible answer to that. Never heard of it! Then enter the establishment advertised as a Ramen restaurant in large letters above the entrance. Actually an unsociable atmosphere with a menu with many types of Ramen, including the black ramen that the journalist praised in the Sunday Nation.

In no time a large bowl of soup is in front of me, Ramen? It doesn't look like it. The filling consists of nothing more or less than a toss of noodles and there is no question of a tasty broth either. Unfortunately, my opinion that you can't make a nice, fragrant and tasty broth from pork has come true. Still, I made a mistake. Apparently you don't get served for 200 baht anymore and you can add eggs, meat, garlic, mushrooms, et cetera, of course at extra cost, to the watery soup as seasonings. Nevertheless, this restaurant is not a recommendation.

If you want to enjoy a Japanese soup -ramen-, go to the Grand Ramen restaurant. Walking into Thonglor from Sukhumvit you will find it after a hundred meters on the left side of the road. The question remains: where is Ikkousha?

Who knows can tell.