I tried chocolate ramen ``Red Ghana 2024,'' a Valentine's limited collaboration between Lotte Ghana and Menya Musashi, which celebrated its 60th anniversary.



The Valentine's Day limited menu ' Red Ghana 2024 ', a collaboration between Lotte's chocolate '

Gana ' and the popular ramen shop ' Menya Musashi ', will be available at Menya Musashi Iwaatora from Thursday, February 1st to February 14th, 2024. Available until Wednesday). To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the birth of Ghana Chocolate, this ramen with chocolate is themed around the 60th birthday of red. I was really curious about how it tasted, so I went to try it out.



Red Ghana 2024 is served at Menya Musashi Iwatora in Akihabara, Tokyo. The address of Menya Musashi Iwatora is 1-3-9 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021 .


Arrived at Menya Musashi Iwatora.



A poster promoting Red Ghana 2024 was pasted at the store. Menya Musashi has previously announced a collaboration menu with Lotte Ghana only for Valentine's Day, and 2024 will be the 16th year. In addition, Red Ghana 2024 is a menu limited to 20 meals per day.



Purchase a meal ticket for Red Ghana 2024 (1380 yen including tax) at the ticket vending machine. You can choose the amount of noodles from three types: medium, medium, and large, and they are all the same price.



I handed my meal ticket to the staff and waited at my seat. While I was waiting for the menu to come out, the staff gave me a glass of Ghanaian milk.



About 10 minutes after taking my seat, Red Ghana 2024 was brought to me.



It is topped with vegetables such as sprouts and bean sprouts, thinly sliced sirloin roast beef, and a heart-shaped

Ghanaian ripple .



There are also white gyoza on board. This is salted chocolate gyoza.



Mushrooms and nuts were also topped as ingredients.



First, let's scoop the soup. Red spice oil and sesame seeds are floating on top of the soup, and the soup itself is reddish brown. When you drink it, the stimulation of Spicelar oil hits your tongue, but a little later the complex umami flavor spreads. It is said that one slice of Ghanaian milk is used for each bowl of ramen, and you can definitely feel the sweetness and aroma of milk chocolate, but you can only feel that it has a chocolate-like taste, and the spiciness of chili oil. I get the impression that it relieves the stress.



The noodles are medium thick and chewy. The hot, pungent spiciness of the chili peppers, the sweetness and umami of the soup, and the aroma of sesame seeds combine to create a taste that's more like dandan noodles than chocolate ramen. The spiciness of spice chili oil is quite high, and people who don't like spicy food need to be careful, so be careful as you may choke if you slurp too vigorously.



And what caught my attention the most was this “salted raw chocolate gyoza”



Inside the chewy white skin was a bit of salty chocolate. Unlike soups that have a good balance of spiciness, when you bite into these salted raw chocolate dumplings, the sweetness of chocolate simply spreads throughout your mouth. Rather than eating it as a ramen ingredient with the noodles, it seemed best to enjoy it as a tongue rest to soothe the stimulation of the soup.



Red Ghana 2024 is available at Menya Musashi Iwantora until Wednesday, February 14, 2024. There are only 20 meals available per day, so if you really want to try it for yourself, we recommend coming as soon as it opens.

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