Raramen - Box Hill

For once all the dishes ordered was satisfactory. Not too salty or too bland..it was right! The service staff were attentive as the eatery wasn’t too packed. The portion size is quite good for the price charged. Shall be back again if I’m near the vicinity.

Nice roodles reasonable price, suitable for any culture.reconmended for a try.noodles are very tender.

Disappointed last time we came ... thought we'd give it another chance as this has been our favorite noodle/dumpling shop for YEARS. Sadly it has changed for the worse. Table service gone, queue out the front gone, once packed out now 1/3 full, slow to serve now, food very different .... sad, sad, sad.

I used to work in Box Hill and often ate in the place now called RaRaMen. I think the texture of the handmade noodles might have improved in recent months, but the place is too chaotic for my liking. It 's OK to have access to frozen drinks and sweet bean soup for 'free ', but if the meal you pay for is not as good as in other Asian places in the area, I 'd prefer to go somewhere else. There were seven of us at the table and the total bill came to about $70 so no complaints about the cost. We shared a beef soup, a spicy noodle dish, three lots of dumplings, a serve of buns and some fried rice. We were certainly not hungry at the end of the meal! I asked for spoons, so we could lift a dumpling with chopsticks and balance on a spoon which is the only way three of us, as a Westerners, can manage either ramen or dumplings. A surly member of staff handed me a couple of large serving spoons and said there were no small spoons. No forks either. You have to be prepared to eat with chopsticks. Admittedly the majority of people in the place were Asian, but we are in Melbourne and even in China small spoons are provided. I 'd encourage the place to cater for Westerners a little bit better.There are lots of other places to eat at Box Hill Central.

We went for lunch and tried the hand-made noodles, which were of superior quality and melted in our mouths. They were much better than ready-to-eat noodles. We ordered the stewed beef and stewed pork ramen dishes. The beef came with the broth served separately, which I appreciated. It was also spicy. The pork dish had a clearer, milder broth. The dumplings were also delicious. Overall, it was a good experience, but we felt that the air conditioning was not sufficient.