Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Okiboru Tsukemen & Ramen - Quick Lunch Revisit

The original Okiboru location in Sandy Springs has been killing it since it opened. But the space is pretty small and gets packed quickly. Their big draw is the tsukemen aka dipping ramen. Tsukemen's origin is by way of Tokyo in the mid 1900's, where the restaurant workers would eat leftover cold noodles and broth that didn't sell during the day, nothing was wasted back then unlike the entitled rich little bitches today. This style of ramen was not very well known in the USA. Shit, sushi didn't become popular in the states until the 1980's because roundeyes despise eating anything raw, especially, fish because it was considered dirty and low rent... And also, Asians were treated like second class citizens for a century in this country and WW2 didn't help with all the internment camps on US soil until 1946... C'mon, bro, say it like it is- they were fucking concentration camps for slopes and the fucked up thing was that our troops were fighting in the war to end all wars to liberate Jews from the Nazi concentration camps thousands of miles away! The fucking hypocrisy is profound. But the sushi fad became fab in the decade of decadence in the late 1900's... Yes, I'm talking about the goddamn 80's. Wallstreet was on fire, people were making mad bank and they had to spend it somewhere... So, the fashion and food culture exploded in NYC. Sushi became ultra lux and anybody who's anybody ate sushi by the pounds... Speaking of pounds, it's about time for this fat fucking chode to feed again... Let's go check out another location up in the sticks of  Duluth for a quick lunch...

Paitan Tsukemen, rich chicken and fish broth, pork chashu, soft boiled egg, yuzu zest, scallion, lime,  thick noodles. This is the dish that made them a household name.. OK, maybe not as famous as Mrs. Butterworth's, Aunt Jemima or Uncle Ben's... Oh, wait, they have been cancelled by the woke snowflakes. Maybe Okiboru will change their name to the Atlanta Pedestrian Noodle Company. OK, back to the noodz... Take a gander at this dericious specimen. It's just simple perfection. Everything you need and nothing you don't. In one bowl, you got the toothy noodles, perfectly roasted chashu, golden runny soy egg and a wedge of fresh lime. In the other bowl, a thick salty complex broth for dipping. Marry both of them together and it's just an amazing meal... Or a light snack for this bloated marsupial. They got this shit perfected. Will have to see if they dumbed it down for the roundeyes in the new Buckhead location.

Tonkotsu, traditional rich pork broth, pork chashu, soft boiled egg, scallion, thin noodles. It's just hard to say no to a bowl of tonkotsu... And this didn't disappoint. They may have one of the best bowls or tonkotsu in this one horse town. Many others have put this dish on their menus but most of them are total garbage. Ton Ton in PCM has one of my favorite tonkotsu (it was the best on my list when they first made it at Miso Izakaya) but I haven't been back for a minute and now I must go back to make sure they are still on my top 5 ramen list. But here at Okiboru, their ramen is a major contender for the top spot. It's simplicity is the key to this bowl. The most important part of this ramen is the broth... Shit, the broth is what makes a ramen a ramen. Without the broth, it's just fucking spaghetti. Look at that dericious broth... The glistening little oil spots calling me to motorboat my fat facehole into the bosom of this luscious bowl of WAP aka wet ass poontang. If I had a broad with a vag that tasted like creamy tonkotsu, I would be slurping that muff until I fall asleep on a nightly basis. Oh shit, did I say that out loud? Eh, no one read this ridiculous blog anyways... Spew away, Pouch, spew away... Or is that spooge?

Pump Pump... Squirt.

3614 Satellite Blvd
Duluth, GA 30096
https://okiboru.com/