A Hot Meaty Ramen
Ibaraki Eats has moved! We got our own domain name! To celebrate this achievement, I have decided to write about ramen. Enjoy!
Hey everyone! I wrote this back during winter and had it on the back burner for quite a while. Please note that the lateness of releasing this post does not reflect on my experience with this ramen place. I loved the ramen here, and I would love to go there again. I just had a lot of other things going on, and unfortunately, this post fell through the cracks. Today, I will finally be releasing my post on Tsukuba's own Haikara. Enjoy!
This winter has been quite chilly, and as a Floridian, this is not to my liking. So, during this time, I usually take refuge in my kotatsu. If I leave my kotatsu, I will venture into the unforgiving cold of winter to get a nice hot bowl of ramen. My wife and I recently did that to get the chill out of our bones. We got our hot bowl of ramen at a little place called Haikara.
Haikara
Haikara is located in the Hanamuro area of Tsukuba which is kind of close to Sakura Town. When I first saw the name, I thought Haikara meant high calorie and laughed to myself. My wife then explained that Haikara means fancy and high-class. We will see if the ramen lives up to that name. It was a somewhat short drive from Tsuchiura. We were driving around a neighborhood when we spotted Haikara. If the ramen restaurant didn't have a sign out front, you would think that this place was a small factory of some sort. The building is gray and looks exactly like a factory building. There is also barbed wire fencing next to the restaurant. That weirded us out a bit, but we found a parking space. Oh, I should mention that there is no real parking lot. Just park anywhere there is space. We parked our car and went inside.
