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the basics like edamame and seaweed salad.
The quinoa salad with sesame dressing was
light and fresh, a good balance of ingredients
not overwhelmed by kale, and a bargain of a
meal for six bucks.
Two of the tapas are out-of-this-world
delicious. You’ll definitely want to get the
brussels sprouts tempura with truffle oil. The
truffle scent is strong enough to guide the
generally louder scent of the halved sprouts,
and the fluffy tempura batter delivers a nice
sea-salted crunch. This solid evidence that
sprouts can be terrific without bacon can be
had for six bucks, or during 3-5 p.m. happy
hour for just four bucks. The other great small
plate is the spicy creamy shrimp tempura,
which turns everybody’s favorite flash-fried
sushi roll inside out, leaving just the big
shrimp with its light batter coated in that
spicy mayo sauce you crave.
Tasting
Intown
By Megan Volpert
Megan Volpert lives
in Decatur, teaches
in Roswell and writes
books about popular
culture.
The ramen
you slurped
in college had
only two things
going for it:
it was cheap
and fast. The
power of Jinya is
that it preserves those two essential values,
with the additional two grown-up values
of being delicious and healthy. This little
40-seat ramen bar is designed to get you
out the door again in under an hour. Enjoy
the upbeat dance pop and reggae music
while you wait fewer than 10 minutes for
your food to arrive. Nobody has time to
simmer a 10-hour broth made from scratch
at home; Jinya has many varieties ready
when you arrive. Just pick your additions
and plunge in.
You can’t go wrong with any of the
choices, but if you don’t know where to
start, pick a number. I had the #1 spicy
chicken ramen. It comes with chicken
broth, two fat slices of tender chicken
chashu, spinach, spicy bean sprouts, Tokyo
negi (a type of onion), green onion and
thin noodles. All noodles and broths are
made in-house. If you like fresh pasta, wait
until you try fresh ramen. It comes in a gigantic
bowl, and try as you might to put a dent in it, no
matter how hungry you are you’ll still be taking half
of it home. Well worth the $12, and you can add
over 20 different accoutrements for a dollar or two
more — anything from extra noodles to a poached
egg to bok choy to dried seaweed. My wife ordered
the #2 garlic lover’s ramen, a pork broth with pork
chashu, seasoned egg, bean sprouts, chopped onion,
green onion, fish powder, chili powder and thick egg
noodles.
The best additional topping is unquestionably
the fresh garlic. They bring out a jar of garlic cloves
and a garlic press. You get to pick out however much
you want and squeeze it over the bowl yourself,
and this customization is free. You’ll want to put
garlic on everything. There are a dozen ramens on
the menu that run between $10.50 to $13.50. If
you’re not feeling soupy, they have rice bowls in two
different sizes and a whole bunch of tapas, including
Jinya Ramen Bar
When was the last time you ponied up 79 cents at the grocery
store for a brick of dehydrated ramen noodles with a tiny seasoning
packet? If that is your idea of what ramen is, rejoice, for Jinya Ramen
Bar has finally arrived in Sandy Springs, and the ramen there is
nothing like the sad, salty snack you remember from college.
Jinya is a small, fast casual chain conceived by Tomonori
Takahashi, who moved his ramen joint from Tokyo to California
in 2010. Takahashi’s success over the past six years has sprouted
more than 20 shops, from Santa Monica to Austin to Chicago to
Washington D.C. Our city was overdue — heck, even Tulsa is getting
a Jinya this year.
Brussels sprouts tempura.
Spicy shrimp tempura.
Ramen #2 with garlic.
Drink a craft beer or a cold sake, but
don’t linger. Jinya is here to feed you right and
let you get on with your day. It is efficiently
friendly there; they greet everyone with a
exclamation of welcome in Japanese and
servers are on constant alert so that you don’t
wait for anything for very long. Hopefully we
will not have long to wait before Jinya opens
additional locations.
Jinya Ramen Bar is located in the
Hammond Springs Shopping Center,
5975 Roswell Road, B-217, in Sandy
Springs. For more information, visit
jinya-ramenbar.com. [El
48 September 2016 | ITI
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