{"id":126114,"date":"2019-04-25T17:07:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T08:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=food&#038;p=126114&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-10-02T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T01:34:46","slug":"nakamulab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/nakamulab\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakamulab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-001.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Situated in a regular looking house in the southern Fukuoka suburb of Nakagawa, NakamuLab is a buzz-generating hole-in-the-wall <em>ramen<\/em> shop where all seats are available by reservation only. After working in <em>ramen<\/em> shops in Tokyo and Singapore and developing his own ideas about flavor, owner and Fukuoka native Takashi Nakamura decided to open a shop in his home ground. He rented a house to serve as his \u201clab\u201d for prototyping his <em>ramen<\/em>, and then turned this lab into his restaurant. \u201cI started this shop to test myself. I felt I could make it as long as I could get people to come here,\u201d says Nakamura. Despite being a reservation-only operation, his prices start at a reasonable \u00a5740. His specialty is not the local standard <em>tonkotsu ramen<\/em>, but rather <em>tori-paitan soba<\/em>, a variety of chicken <em>ramen<\/em>, and its spicier cousin <em>tantanmen<\/em>. He uses a blender to make the creamy, emulsified chicken soup for his trademark <em>tori-paitan soba<\/em>. The air bubbles on the surface give the soup a mellow mouthfeel. NakamuLab makes a great pit-stop for drives to Nakagawa or further south.<\/p>\n<div class='photo-galleria' >\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-126114 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-002.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1' title='fn250 ramen nakamulab-WEB-002'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-002.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-002.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-002.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-002.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/fn250-ramen-nakamulab-WEB-003.jpg?fit=682%2C1024&ssl=1' title='fn250 ramen nakamulab-WEB-003'><img loading=\"lazy\" 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<em>soba<\/em> \u00a5740, <em>tantanmen<\/em> \u00a5850<\/p>\n<p>*Foreign language menu: None \/ Credit cards: Not accepted \/ Reservations: Required \/ No smoking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situated in a regular looking house in the southern Fukuoka suburb of Nakagawa, NakamuLab is a buzz-generating hole-in-the-wall ramen shop where all seats are available 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