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No bowl of soup on earth is worth a two hour queue in the rain.

The creamy broth videos did their work and the queue at Ramen-Kingdom now reaches waits of up to two hours at peak, a number that belongs to theme parks, not noodle soup. The ramen itself is fine, rich and photogenic, which is the whole problem: fine plus two hours is a terrible trade in a city with real ramen counters. There is an order-ahead option that softens the pain if you must. But you must not. Walk twenty minutes west instead and eat better noodles with no line at all.

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Skip the line, eat this insteadGifu Ramen Bar · 8.1/10 →Gifu in the Jordaan scores an 8.1 in our guide: deeper broth, no queue, and a counter you can actually sit at.