카미(94 reviews)Lunch・Visited 2022/01(2 visits)3.50The gold standard of shio ramen - TorishioWaited in line and got in around 2:15 PM to eat the Torishio. Like always, I ordered it with extra chashu for that wild saltiness. I visited Torishio often back then, but since I used a flip phone until my entrance exams were over at 20, I have almost no photos left. Since Torishio closed, the space has been run by places like Denki and Butano Max, and Denki has occasionally sold Torishio's ramen as event specials. I couldn't make the timing work back then, but if I could, I'd make time somehow to visit and taste that shio ramen again. It's a day where I really miss Torishio, which used to serve ramen that maximized umami through the saltiness of its rich yet clear chicken broth.
카미(94 reviews)Lunch・Visited 2021/10(2 visits)3.502The best shio ramen in the country, now goneI used to ditch class in Daechi back in high school and head over to Torishio (토리시오) occasionally. Ordered the shio ramen and tori soba (added chashu). Since I lived in Busan, my hometown, during the week and stayed in Daechi on weekends, I mostly visited on weekends. You could choose between mild and wild for the salinity, and I always went with wild. The shio ramen had a clear chicken broth similar to dakgomtang (Korean chicken soup), where the umami of the chicken and the shio tare really intensified each other. It was a powerful ramen. The tori soba had a thicker chicken-based broth, rich with those deep flavors you get from boiling a whole chicken for a long time, so I’d order that instead of the shio ramen from time to time. Whenever I eat shio ramen, I think of Torishio. It really is the benchmark for shio ramen for me.