Genki Ramen

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3944 Geary Blvd.
San Francisco, CA
(415) 752-2663 View the Menu

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Description: Genki Ramen is a Japanese and Noodle Bar restaurant where most Menuism users came for a family meal, paid between $10 and $25, and tipped between 15% to 18%.  Tags: , , and
   
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July 30, 2009

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Disappointing experience

I’m on a constant search to find the best ramen in San Francisco, and my family and I finally made it here for lunch the other day. I was instantly struck by the Chinese shows on their TVs and by the Chinese wait staff. I have had some truly excellent Japanese food prepared by Chinese chefs, so I didn’t pre-judge. It was simply hard not to ignore the fact that the environs were much more Chinese than Japanese.

The place was a little unkempt – the seat along the booth where I sat was torn so tufts of sponge-like stuffing were sticking out. There were pieces of meat on the floor beneath our table. I’m a bit of a germ-freak, so I also didn’t appreciate the fact that they provide wooden chopsticks already plucked from their paper sleeve, sitting atop the napkin.

Service was lackluster. And there was a communication gap. I seemed to know more about the menu items than our server, and continually had to repeat myself.

The food was disappointing, not authentic in presentation or flavor, and not well executed.

I was really hoping to like this place, especially since they deliver. We’ll have to keep searching…

Dishes I tried:

fried oyster appetizer

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Remember the commercial for Burger King with the old lady shouting, “Where’s the beef?” Well, we felt like shouting, “Where’s the oyster?”
There was soooo much thick batter surrounding the oyster that it was at least three times larger than the actual shellfish.

beef stew ramen

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This ramen has braised beef brisket, spinach and red ginger in tonkatsu broth. The spinach was the best part, nice and tender. The broth tasted very watery and the beef was surprisingly bland, too. The noodles reminded me more of thin spaghetti pasta than ramen.

saba

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The grilled saba was so overcooked and dry that we couldn’t eat it. And I’m a saba addict, so I will eat practically any kind of saba even if it’s not quite up to snuff, but this was not edible.

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