Restaurant review: The Ramen Bar Okoro Bento, Dublin

Leslie Williams reviews The Ramen Bar Okoro Bento, Dublin.

They don’t take short-cuts in Japan. To take one example, my guest for this review was a Japanese friend who trained for seven years as a couture kimono designer. She didn’t just learn how to sew and cut the material, she learned how to make thread from nature (banana leaves mainly), and how to weave that thread into intricate patterns before she ever got around to cutting a piece of cloth.

A trainee sushi chef may spend several years washing and preparing rice before they are ever allowed near a fish and once qualified they would only work in a sushi restaurant just as a tempura chef would concentrate on tempura.