Daiichi Ramen Kahala - Honolulu

I really like this restaurant, it offers a large variety on their menu. Atmosphere is clean and beautiful. Would suggest a calming type of music to finalize this restaurant. Another suggestion would to add green tea ice creme on their menu to compliment the fine food. I would highly recommend, which have started already, this restaurant to others..

I had this place bookmarked after seeing my Yelp buddy Bruddah Brian M. write an awesome review about this place called Daiichi Ramen in the Kahala neighborhood.I 'll be honest, I 'm not really a ramen eater and rarely eat ramen unless its on a cold day in da 808, but what I do like is Japanese curry, and Daiichi Ramen does do curry.Located at the Ku 'ono Marketplace, you can find Daiichi Ramen just next door to the Lanikai Juice shop. The restaurant is well lighted, clean, and the restaurant itself has sorta of an L shape configuration, not a large sized restaurant, but not small either.We didn 't have to make reservations to come here to dine, but I would recommend coming here early if you don 't want to fight for parking in the Ku 'ono Marketplace parking lot.As I entered the restaurant, we were greeted right away got a table instantly. Menus and water were dropped after we were seated and after looking over the menu, I decided to get the Mochiko Chicken Curry on Rice.My homie ended up getting the Mapo Tofu on Fried Noodles.What can I say about the grub?I would say that my Mochiko Chicken Curry was pretty good, generous portions, but I wished they offered different levels of spiciness like the other curry places I 've been to in the past.As for my homie, he said that his Mapo Tofu on Fried Noodles was good too.Nothing like local style comfort food, and the prices here were pretty reasonable and on point.Now if you 're not into curry like me, Daiichi Ramen does offer salads, soups, fried rice noodle dishes, and of course ramen udon options.

Worst everything! Never received food. The person on the phone would not help. I lost $70 and not even any offer to help. They said not my problem! Wow!

Overall, it's a good ramen spot. My daughter loves it. We've been back 2 times since our initial visit. I had the spicy tonkatsu ramen. The broth was not oily at all. It was rich and mildly spicy. The Cha Sui was tasty and thick. The noodles were cooked al dente providing some resistance when I was chewing. I also had the chicken katsu as a side dish. This was also cooked very well. The breading was light and crunchy. It wasn't oily at all. Overall, it was a good dining experience.

Order katsu curry, the bed of rice was hard and I explained that to them on the phone. But he proceeded to tell me when he ate his lunch wasn't hard and that I probably took a long time to eat it.