Kinton Ramen North Vancouver [Review]

I’ve enjoyed the Kinton Ramen brand offerings and have visited their locations in Point Grey and Surrey locations over the years. This time around, we visited their North Vancouver location for a quick lunch and ordered some of our favourites.

About Kinton Ramen

If you’re unfamiliar, the Kinton Ramen chain is operated by the Canadian-owned KINKA FAMILY restaurant group. First established in Toronto in May 2012, the award-winning ramen chain now more than 20 locations throughout Canada and the United States.

Kinton Ramen Menu

The menu includes a range of hearty ramen bowls prepared with slow-cooked pork, chicken and vegetarian broth in four distinct styles — Original, Shoyu, Miso, Spicy. Ramen bowls are served with a choice of thick, thin or shirataki noodles and finished with traditional and modern toppings like seasoned egg, bamboo shoots, wood ear mushrooms, nori, and sweet corn. Bowls start at $16.99 and you can order additional protein and toppings.

What We Tried

We got the Pork Original ($16.99) with a extra half noodle ($1.90). It came with sea salt, pork, bamboo shoots, nori, wood ear mushrooms, seasoned egg, and scallions

We also got the Chicken Original ($16.99) with sea salt, chicken, bamboo shoots, nori, wood ear mushrooms, seasoned egg, and scallions along with shirataki noodles ($5.90) and a side bowl of rice ($2.50).

They’re one of few spots in Metro Vancouver offering a gluten-free noodle option – that is, shirataki noodles which are made of konjac yam. I do think that they should cut up the noodles a bit more because they came as a big lump together.