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Las Vegas – Monta Japanese Ramen

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The Skinny: This is the ultimate hole in the wall Japanese ramen restaurant in Las Vegas.  Many of it’s predecessors have tried and failed, but here we have standing Monta.  It’s a very simple restaurant, with an even more simple menu.  You have 3 broths to choose from, Tonkatsu, Shoyu, or Miso.  Then you add your toppings:  extra char siu, corn, mustard leaf, extra noodles etc.  Aside from the Ramen menu there are other things for those who aren’t that into noodles.  They have a pork belly rice, kimchi fried rice, gyozas, etc.  a small variety of dishes.  Very limited seating including a counter seating like in Japan.

The High: I always order the Tonkatsu Ramen.  To me it’s the most flavorful of the soups and takes the longest to make.  (I tried making it…..12 hours later, I went to Monta to order instead lol)  The Tonkatsu Ramen comes with 2 pieces of char siu, green onion.  I always add corn, mustar leaf and sometimes the soft boiled egg.  Your first encounter with this broth is OMG WHAT? It’s SO flavorful and delicious you can’t get enough of it.  Every bite has to have enough soup to go with it.  If you get super hungry you can order more noodles, except they won’t give you more soup if you run out.  I also tried the Gyozas which were handmade in house.  I loved them! I’m used to restaurant frozen from the bag gyozas, but these were fresh because we were watching them make it while waiting for our food.

The Low: It IS a large sodium intake if you eat it too often.  It also gets VERY hot in the tiny restaurant during the summer.  Hopefully they’ve fixed it.

Would you come back again? Absolutely! Anytime I’m craving Noodles, Monta is always the winner hands down, even over Pho :O

More Info: www.yelp.com.  Monta doesn’t have a website, but take a look at the yelp reviews and you’ll get the gist of the restaurant.  They do to-go, but you have to cook the noodles for about 3 minutes when you get home.  Still tastes the same.  How often do you do take out and it still taste as if you were eating it in the restaurant?

Sniper Tam *Pew Pew Pew*