Tokyo Tsuta ramen eatery to open in Singapore

The world’s only Michelin-starred ramen restaurant Tsuta is to open in Singapore in October.

The Japanese eatery has been signed up by Pacific Plaza on Scotts Rd and will mark the restaurant’s first location outside its home market.

Earning a coveted Michelin star this year has boosted the already-popular Tokyo establishment into something approaching cult status. The restaurant, located in the suburb of Sugamo, has just nine seats and limits its servings of ramen to 150 bowls each day. That has prompted customers to queue from as early as 6am so as not to risk missing out and tickets for a day’s dining usually sell out by 8am.

The Pacific Plaza restaurant will be twice the size, with 18 seats and offer three soup bases – miso, Shoyu soba and shio soba. Chefs will be carefully trained to ensure the quality of the dishes served match those sold in Tokyo – and that the ramen sold is “the best in Singapore”.

Founder Onishi says there are many pork-bone ramen shops in Asia, but he was determined to be different.

“My aim is to create a ramen shop that can leave an impact with its unique dashi and umami flavours, and become as popular as tonkotsu ramen. For me, shoyu ramen is what usually comes to mind when one thinks of Japanese ramen.”

Images courtesy of Mitsueki, Singapore food and travel blogger. Read more about Tsuta and view more photos here.