Our Craft Ramen

Welcome to HiroNori! We are the top destination in California for Japanese ramen. We bring authentic Japanese craft ramen to our local areas (check out our locations!). The HiroNori team brings together over 20 years of passion and culinary experience. To learn more, read Our Story.

Continue reading below to learn what makes our tonkotsu, shoyu, and vegan ramen stand out from the rest of the crowd.

Experience the Craft Ramen Difference

We cut no corners to meet our standard of preparing our tonkotsu, shoyu, and vegan ramen with the highest quality ingredients we can get our hands on. We make it our priority to ensure that each grain from our wheat fields is second to none.

To create meals that feed the soul, we believe that it starts with the quality of crops, farming, and the farmers. The people who look after our precious ingredients share the same mission: quality starts from the root – it’s the small details that keep our craft alive.

We aim for sustainability and long-lasting relationships by treating everyone that is a part of our ramen journey like partners. Starting from our wheat fields all the way to the fresh noodles in your bowl, our one mission is to make sure we help take care of your family and bring you joy, one bowl of ramen at a time.

-Hiro & Nori

Tonkotsu Ramen

Tonkotsu ramen (豚骨ラーメン) gets its name from the pork bones that flavor the broth. At our restaurant, we pride ourselves on preparing traditional tonkotsu ramen, including the fact that our broth takes 24 hours to prepare, given a distinctive taste.

Our tonkotsu ramen is prepared with a simmered pork bone broth accompanied by artisan crafted noodles. The dish is topped with bean sprouts, green onion, spinach, a half egg, seaweed, wood ear mushrooms, and pork chashu grilled to perfection.

While our standard dish is a favorite, you can personalize your meal by adding garlic, our house spicy sauce, or black garlic oil. There is no right or wrong way to have ramen. We suggest you start with the standard recipe and try one topping at a time before you find your perfect tonkotsu ramen.

Shoyu Ramen

Shoyu ramen (醤油ラーメン) has a more clear broth consisting of chicken, pork bone, and soy sauce. The distinctive flavor of this dish comes from shoyu, or Japanese soy sauce.

At HiroNori, we pair shoyu broth and artisan crafted noodles with spinach, bamboo, green onions, kaiware sprouts, a half egg, and exquisitely-prepared pork chashu.  The key is to balance the different flavors to create a cohesive meal.

To prepare the perfect shoyu ramen, we use soy sauce barreled for two years. These barrels have been used for more than 300 years at one of the oldest soy sauce factories in Japan. Founders Hiro and Nori personally visited the facility to inspect the quality. We are the only company in the United States using this special soy sauce.

Vegan Ramen

For those following a vegetarian or vegan diet, we are proud to offer a flavorful alternative. This craft ramen dish is prepared with a 100% vegan broth that you have to try to believe! In the words of San Diego Reader author Ian Anderson, “I am smitten with a vegan ramen from Irvine.”

The HiroNori vegan ramen brings together sesame miso broth and artisan crafted noodles with broccolini, tofu, corn, bean sprouts, baby kale, and chili oil. Unsatisfied with traditional miso broth, our recipe uses 5 kinds of miso imported from Japan.

This precise combination of miso and our proprietary method for preparing broth adds depth and flavor that is unique to HiroNori.