Near Hirosaki City Library On August 1st, a ramen specialty store "Pitan soba15 ICHIGO" (Hirosaki City Motomachi) was opened.

This store uses Kumamoto's local chicken "Amakusa Daio" as a base for dashi. This is the fourth store of the "15 (HIGO) Group", which operates restaurants in the city, and the second ramen specialty store is "Jidori Soba Jugoya" (Castle Tohoku). The owner, Ryoto Okumura, is from Kumamoto and shows that he uses Amakusa Daio at all stores.

"We will provide something that has never been seen before," he said, using aged flat noodles and using ingredients such as potatoes and pumpkin in the soup to express the taste of potage soup. Soichi Funamizu, the store manager, said, “We are constantly making improvements to make our customers happy.”

The store area is about 10 tsubo. There are 15 seats. The menu is "aged chicken white hot water" (800 yen), "the strongest meat soba" (1,000 yen), "Black" (850 yen) with aged garlic oil flavor based on aged chicken white water, blended spices Added "Red" (900 yen), "Yellow" (950 yen) with butter chicken curry sauce. Toppings and drinks are also prepared.

Three weeks have passed since the store opened, and Funamizu shows that "it is gradually expanding to the customer base such as office workers around the store. In the future, we will work to create stores that are easy for women and women to enter."

Business hours are from 11:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 22:00 (17:00 to 19:00 until August 31st). Closed on Sundays.