The Best Ramen Place In America Is In Texas

I'm gonna do a getting all those like a shout out before the Tatsuya what you guys do it at the very beginning we show to mom [Laughter] [Music] my name is Sean I koa director of operations at Robyn Tatsuya Robin Tatsuya is a quick service ramen shop or the first brick-and-mortar ramen shop in Austin Texas and we like to keep it simple guys keep it quick and it's very tasty we serve southern style tonkotsu broth robin we do counter service you basically care to people who are pretty much know Pearl's got marinated bamboo here chashu [ __ ] Tama is our soft boiled in there in a deck we got roasted seaweed Mayu the black garlic oil and noodles only the poor team is my brother he's a chef owner he's pretty much responsible for everything that we do here well I'm a immigrant I don't have you know he's so and green card why not so I started out the blusher dishes work my way up pretty much I'll stay in like my mom's and I would try to perfect his broth I had it in my head and I drove my mom crazy the house smell like pork all day every day I mean my brother Tatsu and taco they were building the shop a lot of people were always like wiser than ramen in Texas you know there needs to happen I thought it was a great idea excited about the way to go few years ago when I was living here we didn't have much accessibility to specialized foods but now that the city is growing there's been demands for something you know more specialized more focused when I decided you were on this job I decide to do food that everybody can enjoy but that's still coming from my country you know we started service in September of 2012 when we started up we did everything in terms of prep every day of the week we were preparing the broth we had to peel seven eight cases of eggs which is like 600 or so we assumed that every day would be about a hundred bowls of ramen syrup we never imagined that we could go through almost 600 bowls of robbing per day what we got here is our me so hot so it's me so our spicy sauce or pace put their pork broth operating a restaurant let the line out the door you always have to take into consideration the wait time for a customer if your food isn't up to par then there's no reason why people would be waiting so basically our value is to have the best quality don't go to broth we make ramen and that's all we do any a have fun taco the vagina shut Matsumoto I don't drink like y'all [ __ ] man I'm not an alcoholic cheers guys ramaa cut to the Austin Texas oh we had a Jameson shot out of sake glasses right before we started our adventure do you want me to do another one that was the best bull ramen I have ever had beginning of the end here yeah I rode me Priscus and sucia taco we are headed to continue oh I get some snacks and some toddy toddy oh that's my dad's favorite shop you know why well you know why my dad likes you so much because they have pictures on the menu Contego is a contemporary ranch style Hill Country sort of cuisine rabbit livers venison done really smartly in a more accessible format Patrick Jones joined us one of our friend our house guys and she I met samoto this is my little these are social media director andrew is a good friend of of taco and they went to culinary school together we go to the same bars pretty much [Applause] right we started out with a whole bunch of hot toddies when you have hot alcoholic beverages you don't realize how strong they are that's just cocaine do you want me to store it but yeah dude dude on camera we had a chicharonnes with kimchi regular wishbone unless I get don't even contigo everything the best pork liver pate is my favorite thing over there the eggplant they drizzle his over Texas honey it's perfect mixture of sweet savory rabbit dumplings would say is like this is an inter dish for contigo is an example they do a damn fine job we're going back to the shop and we're gonna make drunken food and feed everybody so you guys I'm we would like to have you guys come back to the shop then we headed off the barley swine so barley swine it's a really good place it's actually a pretty damn affordable 12-course meal yeah yeah I guess money you know some of my favorite places skill to do you change their menus once every month or so barley swine is a modern take on local cuisine they're a bunch of hooks that love food they get their produce from local organic farmers they even go out on Mondays on their days off to pick wild onions in the greenbelt I just got super buzzed [Music] diver scallops oysters it was terribly Joyce's the best dish that I had last night was sunchoke panna cotta hedgehog mushrooms trout roe and pea shoots in there as well on the bottom they had a pine caramel it's the strangest combination all the items didn't really make sense if you just ate them individually it's like you put it all together it just tasted like blah for some reason I think that was their intention that's one of their strong points to have different components and bring it all together to make something taste really really awesome oh it's good chocolate got it all together with you [Music] that's right it does it's about that everything that's to it you know I think we just ain't the [ __ ] out of it we had for dessert blocked out chocolate cake brown butter ice cream and aerated chocolates I can't get enough of the aerated chocolates actually if I were working that barley swine I would probably like three other pounds see those aerated chocolates all the flavors are like they go together very well everything was great then we headed off to shangri-la shangri-la is a place that we usually hit up at Tina and I it is it's a lot of like industry people a lot of your friends that you were there working different restaurants you might have worked for in the past or always there so you have d6 we're like the hipsters and a lot of like the industry people go there's a lot more divert your bars and then they have the emergence of West Sixth reason I got friends are like now I don't want to go there it's too pretentious I don't like but there's really cute girls there yeah see but you like those Western chic girls with the titties hanging out that's gonna [ __ ] all bad well okay as opposed to you know the ecig Street girls armpit hair yes lots of tattoos yes like yes they take showers as well yes there's many bars like it all along the strip of East 6th Street but we decided to go shinola because it's the most hospitable to a lot of the industry folks that we come across I'm drunkest I'm just getting no stress huh you didn't hear anything brunette shot is something Kristen I made up it's half a shot of Fernet and half a shot of bullet rivals [Applause] it's like water hey James what's a potato art sorry I mean how many potatoes does it take three peas oh my god how many potatoes does it take to feed three people yeah I think everybody was drunk at that moment three and then we walked over to a at three one three Detroit style pizza place one of the best pizza crusts I've ever had any day of the week someday I try to you but the lines way too long so we're just like you go during the week I will wait out there for an hour to ether you get that we headed back to ramen Tatsuya to have our munchies meal hey Patrick what's up a joke how many potatoes does it take to feed three people how many potatoes three potatoes do not eat the pizza yet do not eat to beat the yet I didn't realize that was gonna be a big party of that sort I just invited a few friends and you know how it goes [Music] those using James didn't cook the Choshu down nose for the sliders I believe so I'm gonna make a crab slider I got some soft-shell crab over here baby and I ball lime juice yuzu and love temper your love right when I've been drinking I really like crazy crazy food [Music] no one looks good [Music] we prepared a brisket style skin now we'll be a Texas barbecue [Music] yes what's gonna happen it's gonna make this skin them brought that noodles up and 35 seconds work get down out Oh skimmin is our concentrated broth the broth is made for the noodles to be dipped in we heavily sauce it with a soy-based [Music] crass we got brought about five boxes of bo3 one free pizza and it made a dipping sauce out of our concentrated broth so unseasoned skimming broth with butter most vitamin parmesan yes why white vinegar oh yes originally flake parsley oh yeah and there's truffles in here runner runner let's go this is a dipping sauce for the pizza ladies and gentlemen we like to introduce you to the dipping pizza like Papa John's extreme [Music] you

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Id: 9C3ExQG3O80

Length: 14min 17sec (857 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 09 2018