Comments on: Nagasaki Champon (長崎拉麵) at Ringer Hut, San Jose

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:26:21 +0000

Hi! I found your site via Google while searching for Nagasaki champon.
Ringer Hut is a chain restaurant in Japan and it’s fabled that its owner/president (?) retired to San Jose and thus the lone Ringer Hut in all of US lies (very randomly!) in San Jose. As a ramen aficionado, I’ve been eager to eat at this locale whenever I’m in the bay area, but alas, no one else in my group ever shows any of interest whenever I go!
Thanks for your reviews. They help me whet my appetite for my next trip.

By: hiro

hiro — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:28:45 +0000

I was looking for yaohan and end up in this blog, I lived in cupertino before 97 the year I came to tokyo and being here ever since. I used to go to yaohan every weekend to rent video tapes (japanese dramas etc) and read magazines at kinokuniya bookstores and of course do my shopping (natto etc) and sometimes eat ramen, at night I usually went to ringer hut at saratoga av to eat champon and gyoza. I remember I really enjoy it because as a sentimental fool I am very fond of anything that is japanese, but I am a liittle sad because it seems yaohan is not there anymore, more or less it use to be the center of my weekend activities. On saturday mornings I use to play football pick up games at homested high school where I met lots of malaysians, singaporeans, taiwanese, mainly working at silicon graphics or sun microsystems, after the games we use to go to eat chinese noodles in mountain view at el camino real I dont remember the name of the restaurant but the noodles were pretty good and it was all noodles and football talk great time, sometimes for a change we went to main street montain view, there was a vietnamese noodle shop a new experience, different but pallatable. Here in tokyo sometimes I go to ringer hut for champon but it is dirt cheap 350 yen, I thought it was some sales pitch but they have it for years and I dont know how are they making any profits, mind bogling, also I thought champon was a japanese dish but reading this site I found out that this is not the case, so all the schemes inside my head are broken now ha, ha. Is good to remember my past life in cupertino

By: tanspace

tanspace — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:25:36 +0000

It serves ramen before most of the ramen shops opened in the bay area… it also serves udon, curry, before the Curry House. So it’s been around for a long time serving good Japanese food.
I tried Santouka in Mitsuwa the day after it opened and they’re good. My full review is way behind, backed up along tons of others… hope to get to them soon.

By: judzzy

judzzy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:52:43 +0000

I’ve always wondered about this place every time I passed by. No one wanted to try it with me. I didn’t think it serves ramen! have you tried the new ramen “place” in Mitsuwa?