Yatai Yakitori Ramen

Have you heard about the new ramen craze in town? The humble Yatai Yakitori Ramen stand located at Tomas Morato cor. Scout Fernandez, Quezon City just across Chili's.

It's the small ramen/yakitori street stand known for it's long lines and very much affordable ramen. But is it worth it?

I love ramen and to satisfy my curiosity we decided to brace one and a half hour of waiting time just to try it. Mind you we arrived at around 12:30am and was only seated at 2:00am. They were even offering if we would like to eat without a table?! (facepalm) after waiting for that long? seriously?

This is probably because they only have 4 small square tables arranged to form a long table so they can only seat 8 to 10 people at a time. And yes you will share tables with strangers because remember it's only a street stand so dining experience was not that comfortable, cramped even.

 The menu contains pictures and prices of the food they offer. They have 5 types of ramen with the Super bowl at PHP105 and Overload Bowl at PHP135. They also have rice bowls for PHP75 and side dishes ranging from PHP20-PHP50.

Probably the most affordable ramen you can find as most Japanese restaurants offer ramen for PHP350-PHP500 per bowl.

Preparing the ramen

Yakitori PHP45

I like this one

Buta Bara PHP50

This is good too

Tebasaki PHP35

Very bloody chicken wing

Shoyu Ramen Super Bowl PHP105

Soy based non spicy ramen. It was okay but somehow lacking.

Konbata Ramen Superbowl PHP105

Creamy non spicy ramen. I was expecting a tonkotsu (pork) base but it turned out to be buttery in taste. The egg tastes weird a bit sour?

Just to give you an idea how big is a Super bowl

Going back to the question, is it worth it? For the price and taste maybe it was okay. There's really nothing special though it's really affordable. But I honestly prefer Tokyo Tokyo's Spicy Chicken Ramen if you're looking for an adfordable ramen. 

For the long wait, to satisfy my curiosity yes it was worth it but will I go back again? NO. 

TLDR:

It is affordable, the taste is okay, the lines are too long (hype), the dining experience was not okay.  (^_^)