Yu-Raku, San Mateo, CA

Chuka cuisine(中華料理) is Japanese style Chinese food. It does make sense living in Japan to hear this term.  I did search on the difference between chuka cuisine and Chinese cuisine and the result is that there are no difference.  I would put chuka cuisine similar to a black guy opening up a chinese food store in japan.  hard to imagine..

It is also hard to imagine how Chuka cuisine would survive in a chinese dominant bay area.  In my surprise, it was good bowl of ramen that I had!  The place is call Yu-raku (遊楽) in San Mateo.  Parking is hard but there is a parking garage 2 block down.  Came in right when they opened at 530 and ordered gomoku ramen (五目ラーメン), which is the seafood style ramen with soy sauce soup.  

The way it works is that the chef would stir fry the seafood (scallop, shrimp, squid, green onion) with the soy sauce dominated sauce.  then, put the food into the soy sause based ramen.  I was almost starve to death and when the food was brought in front of me, I lost my conscious.  Furious I would recalled. lol. Just look at how much seafood is in there! granted it does reflect on the price to be a little bit more expensive. 


The soup is more toward less dense but full of flavor coming from the stir fry.  The scallop and the shrimp were fresh and with chewiness.  The noodle is a thin noodle and the egg flavor is still preserved.

Want to share the Scallop!! why cant they have a nigiri sushi option???

One more in fisheye! lol. 

Will come to try the other soup flavor.  This place is opened by Japanese people and they know what they are doing! Good!

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Yu-Raku
104 S El Camino Real
San Mateo, CA 94401
http://www.yelp.com/biz/yu-raku-san-mateo


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