Ramen Yamadaya In San Diego

I've been going here on and off for years. The spicy ramen is my favorite in the area, I've tried plenty and sometimes I prefer other places but most of the time I crave Ramen Yamadaya. It's consistently delicious while the other places are not. I'm not a big Japanese food fan so I'm not sure if I can judge it fairly but I think they do ramen well but everything else is very average.

Ramen Yamadaya is one of my top 5 ramen joints in this great City of San Diego. Their tonkatsu is clean and balanced. The pork belly is the bomb diggity if you can stomach the calories. The roasted pork is also very delicious. The shio is good but not their string For a side dish the Yamadaya bun is a must try! It's a bit expensive for what you get but it's worth trying it at least once. The noodle quality was great and the soft boiled egg was perfect. Broth is heavier but balanced and salt based.

Great ramen. I ordered the Kakuni Shoyu (pork broth with soy sauce base) and it was excellent. The broth was rich and this ramen came with braised pork and pork belly. The pork belly was tender and had a good flavor from whatever marinade they used to make it. The service was great, but it took awhile to get my food, about 20-25 mins for one bowl of ramen. They did apologize for the wait and had some unknown issue going on, but they fixed whatever the problem was because others who came in after me were served in a timely manner. FYI: picture is not mine, found on yelp, but that’s exactly what I got.