Our Shio Tanmen and Spicy Shio Tanmen Leave the Shop on August 23 — So We Froze Them. Orders Open Today, 100 Bowls Only
On August 23, our Shio Tanmen and Spicy Shio Tanmen come off the shop menu. We couldn’t bring ourselves to let them disappear — so we froze them.
Since they arrived on our Toronto menu, our Shio Tanmen and Spicy Shio Tanmen have quietly become the bowls regulars order when they want something clean, vegetable-heavy and still deeply satisfying. On Monday, August 24 our shop menu changes over to Taiwanese Mazesoba and Aji Fry, which means Sunday, August 23 is the last day you can eat Shio Tanmen or Spicy Shio Tanmen in the shop.
A shop menu has to keep moving. A good bowl doesn’t have to disappear with it. So we did what we’ve been doing for six years now: we took the exact recipe we serve at the counter and turned it into frozen ramen you can keep at home.
Orders open today. First deliveries go out from Tuesday, August 18. And because every bowl is built by hand in our own kitchen, we’re only making 100 of each.
| What’s new | Frozen Shio Tanmen & Frozen Spicy Shio Tanmen |
| Orders open | Today — Wednesday, August 12, 2026 |
| First deliveries | From Tuesday, August 18, 2026 |
| How many we’re making | 100 bowls of each flavour — that’s the whole run |
| Order limit | Up to 3 of each flavour per order — a maximum of 6 bowls in total |
| Size | 700 g per bowl, both flavours |
| In the shop | Shio Tanmen & Spicy Shio Tanmen leave the menu after Sunday, August 23 |
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What is Tanmen, and why we make it
Tanmen isn’t a specialty-ramen-shop bowl. It comes from machi-chuka — the small, unpretentious neighbourhood Chinese-style diners you find on any street corner in Japan. The kind of place where the menu is laminated, the TV is on, and the cook has been making the same bowl for thirty years.
A tanmen is a mountain of stir-fried vegetables over noodles in a clear, salt-seasoned broth. It’s the bowl you order when you want to feel better afterwards, not heavier. Nobody photographs it. Everybody finishes it.
RAMEN RAIJIN has been cooking in Toronto for 14 years, and most of what we’re known for is the opposite of restraint — deep tonkotsu, chili oil, bold bowls. Tanmen was our chance to show the other half of the craft: how much flavour you can build without hiding behind richness. A clear broth has nowhere to hide. Every gram of the tare has to earn its place.
Clean-tasting is easy. Clean-tasting and deeply savoury is the hard part — that’s the bowl we wanted to keep.
That’s why letting them vanish from the menu on August 23 felt wrong. Freezing them wasn’t a fallback plan. It was the point.
What’s actually in the bowl
Both flavours are built on the same foundation, and it’s the same one we use behind the counter.
Clear chicken soup, finished with chicken oil
300 cc of clear chicken broth per bowl, rounded out with chicken oil for body and aroma. Light on the palate, but with the kind of savoury depth that only comes from cooking bones properly.
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Clear, but never thin. A broth with nowhere to hide.
Our shio tare — layers of umami in one spoonful
This is where the bowl is won. Our salt tare layers kombu, bonito, clam, shrimp and shiitake, with fresh grated ginger stirred through it. Individually, none of them shout. Together they give a clear broth the kind of finish you normally only get from a heavy one.
And there’s one more thing in there: a small splash of Japanese rice vinegar. You won’t taste it as sourness — it’s our hidden accent. It lifts the salt, sharpens the vegetable sweetness and keeps the last mouthful as bright as the first. It’s the sort of detail nobody notices until you take it out.
Not a garnish — the main event
Cabbage, bean sprouts, carrot, kikurage mushrooms and green onion. Kikurage in particular is why the bowl keeps its bite: it comes back from the freezer with its snap intact. This is one of the few frozen ramen bowls you’ll finish and feel like you’ve actually eaten your vegetables.
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Cabbage, bean sprouts, carrot, kikurage and green onion — the reason it’s called tanmen.
Fresh noodles, ground chicken and pork shoulder chashu
140 g of fresh noodles — not dried, not instant — plus ground chicken stirred through the vegetables and slices of pork shoulder chashu on top. Two proteins, two textures: chicken through the vegetables, pork on top. 700 g in the bag, and a full meal in the bowl.
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Spicy Shio Tanmen
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140 g of fresh noodles — not dried, not instant.
Two flavours. Which one is yours?
Frozen Shio Tanmen
Clear chicken broth, aromatic shio tare, and a generous pile of vegetables, finished with sesame oil. Comforting in a familiar, everyday way — the bowl you could eat once a week and never get tired of.
Taste profile: clean · savoury · aromatic · vegetable-sweet
Frozen Spicy Shio Tanmen
The same bowl, finished with RAIJIN’s own chili oil, ichimi and cayenne pepper. The chili oil brings richness and aroma; the ichimi and cayenne bring a clean heat that builds rather than burns. It doesn’t bury the broth — it makes the vegetable sweetness stand out against it.
Taste profile: clean · savoury · aromatic · spicy · balanced
Honestly? Most people order both. That’s the whole reason we set the limit at three of each.
How to order
- Ordering is open from today, Wednesday, August 12, on our online shop: Frozen Shio Tanmen and Frozen Spicy Shio Tanmen.
- First deliveries start Tuesday, August 18. Orders are prepared and shipped in the order they come in.
- Only 100 bowls of each flavour will be made. When they’re gone, that’s the run — there’s no second batch scheduled.
- Maximum 3 of each flavour per order, so up to 6 bowls total (3 Shio + 3 Spicy Shio). We’d rather 100 households got to try them than a handful of freezers took the whole run.
At home, it’s a few minutes
Frozen Shio Tanmen
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How it arrives: everything portioned and frozen, ready for the night you don’t want to cook.
Everything arrives frozen and portioned: broth, fresh noodles, vegetables, ground chicken, chashu, tare and the finishing oil. Heat the broth, cook the noodles, warm the toppings, and stir the tare and oil through at the end. Full instructions are printed on the package — and there’s no prep, no shopping list, and no stir-frying five vegetables on a weeknight.
Keep it in the freezer and you’ve got a shop-quality bowl standing by for the night you don’t want to cook.
Product details
| Shio Tanmen | Spicy Shio Tanmen | |
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| Net weight | 700 g | 700 g |
| Broth | Chicken broth 300 cc | Chicken broth 300 cc |
| Noodles | Fresh noodles 140 g | Fresh noodles 140 g |
| Vegetables | Cabbage, bean sprouts, carrot, kikurage, green onion | Cabbage, bean sprouts, carrot, kikurage, green onion |
| Protein | Ground chicken, pork shoulder chashu | Ground chicken, pork shoulder chashu |
| Seasoning | Shio tare, chicken oil, sesame oil | Shio tare, chicken oil, RAIJIN chili oil, ichimi, cayenne pepper |
| Storage | Keep frozen | Keep frozen |
Leaving our menu. Staying in your freezer.
Order from today, delivered from Tuesday, August 18. Up to 3 of each flavour per order — 6 bowls maximum. 🍜
ORDER FROZEN SHIO TANMEN ORDER FROZEN SPICY SHIO TANMENFrequently asked questions
When can I order, and when will it arrive?
Ordering opens today, Wednesday, August 12, 2026. The first deliveries go out from Tuesday, August 18, 2026, and orders are fulfilled in the order they are received.
How many are you making?
100 bowls of Frozen Shio Tanmen and 100 bowls of Frozen Spicy Shio Tanmen. Every bowl is portioned by hand in our own kitchen, so that’s the size of the run.
Is there a limit per order?
Yes. You can order up to 3 of each flavour in a single order — a maximum of 6 bowls in total (3 Shio Tanmen + 3 Spicy Shio Tanmen). With only 100 of each being made, we want as many people as possible to get one.
Is this the same Shio Tanmen you serve in the shop?
Yes — it’s the same recipe we serve at RAMEN RAIJIN Toronto: the same clear chicken broth, the same shio tare, the same vegetables, ground chicken and pork shoulder chashu, portioned for one and frozen.
Can I still eat Shio Tanmen or Spicy Shio Tanmen at the shop?
Only until Sunday, August 23, 2026. Both the Shio Tanmen and the Spicy Shio Tanmen come off the shop menu that day. From Monday, August 24, Taiwanese Mazesoba and Aji Fry take over that spot on the menu. After that, the frozen versions are the way to have them.
How spicy is the Spicy Shio Tanmen?
It has a clean, building heat from RAIJIN chili oil, ichimi and cayenne pepper, but it is balanced rather than punishing — the broth and the vegetable sweetness still come through. The frozen version is made to one fixed recipe, so there are no spice levels to choose from.
How big is one bowl?
700 g per bowl, for both flavours — including 300 cc of broth, 140 g of fresh noodles, the vegetables, ground chicken and pork shoulder chashu. It’s a full meal for one.
What allergens does it contain?
Contains wheat, soy, sesame, fish, crustaceans (shrimp) and molluscs (clam), and also contains pork, chicken and mushroom ingredients. Please read the full ingredient list on the package before eating.
What if it sells out before I order?
Press the “Notify me” button on the product page. There is no second batch scheduled, but if we are able to make more, everyone on that list is emailed first.
Who is RAMEN RAIJIN?
RAMEN RAIJIN is a ramen shop that has been cooking in Toronto for 14 years. We’ve been making frozen ramen from our own kitchen for six years, so that the bowls we serve at the counter can also be eaten at home.
📅 Orders open today · first deliveries from Tuesday, August 18
⚠️ 100 bowls of each · max 3 per flavour per order
Thank you, as always, for eating with us.
