tonkotsu
Pork-stock ramen in onigiri form sounds like a covetous convenience store snack that would require dark powers to create.
Recreating all the restaurant’s famous touches, including the serving of food from behind the bamboo curtain.
We’d meant to compare French tonkotsu with Japanese tonkotsu, but we couldn’t resist trying a brand new kind of ramen!
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