Tsujita LA

• Cuisine(s): Japanese
  Hours: Daily 11am-3:30pm, Sun,Mon,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat 5pm-12am
  Price: $$
• Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
  Alcohol: Beer/Wine
• Reservations: Accepted
  Parking: Street

Description

The revelation at Tsujita, what separates it from every other Japanese restaurant in town, is the lunchtime ramen — specify hard-cooked — that float in soup made from chicken, fish and long-boiled kurobuta bones. The gossamer noodles act more as texture than as substance; they add little weight to the broth. Or better yet, get the tsukemen: thicker, burlier, more slippery noodles, pure chew, with the tensile strength of hand-pulled Lanzhou mian; with syrup-dense dipping sauce porkier than pork itself.