You can have ramen and a rice bowl, or are you feeling adventurous? This Rexburg restaurant also serves fried octopus, and it’s popular. 

Miso ramen, left, and pork katsu atom vessel astatine Banzai Ramen successful Rexburg. | Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com

REXBURG — You tin person your prime of a delicious atom vessel pinch pork loin that’s packed pinch flavor, ramen pinch a tasty miso, aliases moreover fried octopus if you’re emotion adventurous. 

Banzai Ramen successful Rexburg, astatine 248 South 2nd West, opened successful March. It’s owned by Asa Hatch, Kjell Jones, and Darren Gealta. 

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Jones sat down pinch EastIdahoNews.com and fto america effort a fewer dishes, including 1 of their newer items: nan pork katsu atom bowl. 

“(It’s a) pork loin that has been breaded and fried and past prepared complete a furniture of rice. It comes besides pinch corn, legume sprouts and 1 soy ovum and past we person tonkatsu condiment that’s drizzled complete it arsenic well,” Jones said.

The thought down creating a crockery for illustration this successful nan restaurant, which chiefly serves ramen, is nan truth that it’s different prime durning nan warmer months. 

“To immoderate people, eating a vessel of crockery mightiness not beryllium thing that they’d want conscionable because of really basking it is outside, truthful a atom vessel adds different action for group that aren’t rather into ramen,” he said. 

Speaking of ramen, EastIdahoNews.com sewage to effort nan miso ramen. He explained what’s successful it.

“Miso is nan flavoring, 2 soy eggs, greenish onions, legume sprouts, and past what’s called chashu — it’s pan-seared pork belly — and past besides immoderate corn,” Jones said. 

The thought of nan different types of nutrient offered came from 1 of nan partners and immoderate of nan labor who person worked and lived successful Japan.

“All of nan recipes are authentic, and they travel from Japan itself,” he said. 

Then, there’s nan very celebrated takoyaki — fried balls made of octopus.

Takoyaki | Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com

“So connected nan inside, location are a mates of octopus tentacles. It’s expected to beryllium gooey connected nan wrong and past person a crisp connected nan outside,” Jones said. “A batch of people, they get caught disconnected defender by octopus, but that’s decidedly an point that’s for nan adventurous, for those that want to effort thing new.”

There’s besides gyoza, which are pork potstickers that tin beryllium steamed aliases fried. It comes pinch a saccharine chili sauce. 

A specialty portion called ramune besides adds immoderate nosy to nan meal. It’s a Japanese carbonated soft drink. The bottle’s apical is sealed pinch a information ball. To unfastened it, you popular nan ball. Watch really it’s done successful nan video above. There are different flavors, including melon, strawberry and orange. 

Banzai Ramen is unfastened from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday done Saturday. 

“We are decidedly trying to beryllium thing different, thing authentic and really a caller acquisition for anyone that’s coming in,” Jones said.

 Gyoza | Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com