The lifeblood of MENGA is Japan's traditional culture of brewing known as "shoyu (soy sauce)." We carefully select shoyu produced by long-established shoyu brewers who protect traditional techniques of making shoyu by insisting on making everything by hand and use it liberally. This masterpiece that boasts the outstanding natural umami of shoyu has been created without sparing any efforts by repeatedly cycling through the process of trial-and-error in order to extract as much umami out of the shoyu as possible. Please fully savor our secret flavors that make the most of choice ingredients from all over Japan.
We blended several types of shoyu from two long-established shoyu brewers in the Kansai region to build a base for the flavor. After heating, we add sake, mirin, and our secret shoyu-based sauce to add depth to the flavor. We carefully stir in choice domestic chicken and pork stock to slowly and thoroughly prepare the secret black soup, which does not have the saltiness of shoyu, in order to extract as much umami as possible over time.
Our noodles complement our soup perfectly and are purchased daily from a long-established specialty manufacturer of Chinese noodles located in Kyoto. A blend of several different carefully selected kinds of wheat flour, a little salt, and alkaline water are the only ingredients that go into our noodles, which are aged and dried. With a chewy texture and smoothly gliding down the throat, our low-water-content, medium-thick straight noodles go well with MENGA soup.
Our char siu is made from Materra pork, a rare Japanese brand of pork. Marinated in a special char sui sauce, our char siu picks up the soup well. Negi scallions are a decisive factor influencing the flavor of ramen. We are unsparing in our use of Kujo negi grown according to a unique method that makes abundant use of high-quality organic fertilizer in Kyoto fields that are rich with nature. MENGA is also very particular about bean sprouts. We use generous amounts of Foot of Mt. Fuji sprouts. Grown in natural vanadium-containing water, they are rich in mineral content.