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A restrained soy and pork-bone bowl with thin straight noodles, chashu, spring onion and bean sprouts, still called chuka soba here rather than ramen.
Hiroshima ramen grew from postwar street stalls in the western half of the prefecture, and locals kept the older term chuka soba, meaning Chinese noodles, long after the rest of Japan moved to ramen. The broth is a blend of soy sauce and pork bone, lighter and cloudier than Hakata tonkotsu and darker than a Tokyo shoyu bowl. Youki has cooked the same single-dish menu in Eba since 1958, and Hiroshima shops still tend to serve one bowl and nothing else, with no side menu and no seasonal specials.
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Chukasoba Youki has cooked one dish in Eba since 1958, and its soy and pork-bone bowl is exactly what Hiroshima people mean when they say chuka soba.
OrderChuka soba, the only thing the kitchen makes
TipThe Eba flagship shuts on the 1st, 12th, 13th and 26th of each month, so check the date before crossing the river.
Tsubame Ramen works a small Higashi-Kanon room in western Hiroshima, a neighbourhood chuka soba counter rather than a stop on any visitor circuit.
OrderChuka soba, the shop's soy-and-pork standard
TipService runs unbroken from 11:30 to 22:00 on every day except Sunday, which is the one day the shutters stay down.
Rai Rai Tei is a plain Minami-ku noodle room in Hiroshima with a split lunch and dinner service and a queue that forms without any signage at all.
OrderChuka soba at lunch, before the kitchen breaks at 15:30
TipThe kitchen closes between 15:30 and 17:00 from Tuesday to Saturday, and the whole shop shuts on Mondays.
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