Supersupergirl's restaurant reviews: Butao wud be King on OR if everyone wrote a review

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Butao wud be King on OR if everyone wrote a review

My first encounter with Butao.

Before I tried Butao, ramen used to mean noodles from Ajisen or the squiggly al-dente ones that I never liked.

After I tried Butao, I realised how delicious Ramen could be.
It has changed my view on Ramen. These days I only eat Ramen if it is the thin type of ramen or because of the broth.

Butao has been so popular, that there has been never ending queues there since it opened.

If ALL those people that queued for Butao wrote a review for it, Butao would rank first on OpenRice for a long long time!

first attempt to eat at butao! but gave up

I attempted to go quite a few times before, but the queue was just so long!

Although I have only been there twice, the taste is so distinct you can remember it for life.

My second time there was actually written first because it was a charity event, however this review was actually my first visit.

While I was eating there, it was interesting to see people queuing there with luggage, Butao is probably the last delicious bowl of noodles before they jet on a holiday or go on a business trip.
Or it could even be their first bowl of noodles and first impressions of Hong Kong.

Hence it can be seen how special Butao is!!

I didn’t know when my next visit would be, so I had two bowls.

There are basically four flavours, spicy (red king – chek wong), green king (tsui wong) which is basil and parmesan based soup, black king which is ramen in ink soup, and Butao king.

They used to have curry, which I wanted to try as well.
Hopefully the curry will be back one day.

I picked the green king and the black king.

For all their noodles, you can choose the softness of the noodles, the amount of spring onions they put in, how strong you want the soup flavour to be etc.
The noodles came with Japanese roast pork, it was thinly sliced, and similar to the roast pork found in English meals.
I never really eat Japanese roast pork, but the roast pork here was amazing, it was soft and moist, and it tasted fresh.

I chose the ramen to be hard because it gets softer just like instant noodles.

Extra noodles can be ordered because there is bound to be broth left if you didn’t drink it.

Green king tasted nicer than the Black King, the cheese and basil was really nice.
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Green King