Aoba Ramen - Ion

Aoba ramen has had the most incredibly long queues since Ion opened, and the queues are mad during the peak periods. Finally managed to get a seat (without queueing) on a Sunday evening, and got to try my ramen. Hailing from Hokkaido, it serves 3 different kinds of soup bases namely shoyu, Shio and Miso.
Frankly, there's nothing spectacular about it - the soup base is rather insipid, salty and lacking the richness and robustness of how good ramen soup should taste. The ramen noodles are passable, bordering on soggy (but not quite there yet). Service wasn't too bad - a few blur waiters - but at least they give free iced water, cos the Green Tea costs $1.90++.
I had the Miso Corn Ramen, which came with a dollop of butter, some sweet juicy corn kernals, 2 slices of charsiew as well as a piece of seaweed. The soup base was slightly garlicky, oily and sweetish because of the butter.
The Shio (Salt) Seafood Ramen had a nicer taste than Miso, so I think if I do come back, I'll be having either the shio soup base, or the shoyu (though I don't really like the shoyu base since it's clear).
I much prefer Noodle House Ken's ramen, probably because it's tweaked to our local taste or Tampopo's famous black pig ramen, which has an incredibly rich soup base. I'm not sure if they boil the soup themselves, but I'll be heading over to my favourite Tampopo at Wisma the next time a ramen craving hits when I'm in town.

Omg I was checking out ramen on wiki, and it says that Tonkotsu is LARD?!?!?! I've been thinking that it's pork bones for the longest time... shall reconsider the next time i see tonkotsu...