
TAISHOKEN
47 E 4th Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94401
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Featured Items
Tokusei Tsukemen
Cold thick noodle and rich dipping soup made with pork, chicken, dried anchovy, and dried bonito. All tsukemen comes with pork chashu, menma banboo shoots, nori seaweed and green onion. *Contains buckwheat It also includes Jidori soft boiled egg and sous-vide Berkshire pork chashu. Tsukemen is cold thick noodles with hot fish-flavored dipping soup. Please don’t dump soup over the noodles; just dip it.
$21.00Tokusei Ramen
Our signature ramen. Tokusei version topped with rare chashu, roast pork chashu, and ajitama. Also topped with green onion, sesame seed, nori seaweed, and kikurage mushrooms.
$20.00Niku Spicy Ramen
Our new spicy ramen. Niku version topped with 2x chashu and ajitama. Also topped with green onion, spicy pork miso, nori seaweed and kikurage mushrooms.
$20.00
Dipping Noodles (Tsukemen)
Tokusei Tsukemen
Cold thick noodle and rich dipping soup made with pork, chicken, dried anchovy, and dried bonito. All tsukemen comes with pork chashu, menma banboo shoots, nori seaweed and green onion. *Contains buckwheat It also includes Jidori soft boiled egg and sous-vide Berkshire pork chashu. Tsukemen is cold thick noodles with hot fish-flavored dipping soup. Please don’t dump soup over the noodles; just dip it.
$21.00Tsukemen
Cold thick noodle and rich dipping soup made with pork, chicken, dried anchovy, and dried bonito. All tsukemen comes with pork chashu, menma banboo shoots, nori seaweed and green onion. *Contains buckwheat. Tsukemen is cold thick noodles with hot fish-flavored dipping soup. Please don’t dump soup over the noodles; just dip it.
$18.00
Ramen
Tokusei Ramen
Our signature ramen. Tokusei version topped with rare chashu, roast pork chashu, and ajitama. Also topped with green onion, sesame seed, nori seaweed, and kikurage mushrooms.
$20.00Ramen
Our signature ramen, topped with roast pork chashu. Also topped with green onion, sesame seed, nori seaweed, and kikurage mushrooms.
$17.00Niku Spicy Ramen
Our new spicy ramen. Niku version topped with 2x chashu and ajitama. Also topped with green onion, spicy pork miso, nori seaweed and kikurage mushrooms.
$20.00Spicy Ramen
Our new spicy ramen, topped with roast pork chashu Also topped with green onion, spicy pork miso, nori seaweed and kikurage mushrooms.
$17.00Yuzu Shio Ramen (vegetable)
Our signature Yuzu Shio Ramen, Made with clear kelp and shiitake mushroom broth topped with fried tofu, mitsuba herb, green onion, nori seaweed and kikurage mushrooms.
$17.00
Bento
Chicken Karaage Bento
Japanese fried chicken with rice, roast pork, red cabage, toamato, potato salad, edamame, half soft boiled egg, dried parsley, mayonnaise, lime and house made dressing over cabbage. *Contain soybeans, sesame(sesame oil), fish and egg.
$16.00Gyoza Bento
5 pcs of veggie and pork gyoza with rice, red cabbage, tomato, potato salad edamame, half soft boiled egg, dried parsley, Chashu roast pork, gyoza sauce, and house made dressing over cabbage. *Contain soybeans, sesame(sesame oil) egg, fish and wheat.
$16.00
Appetizers
Edamame
$6.00Deep Fried Gyoza
4 pieces of deep fried gyoza with special soy sauce.
$6.00Potato Salada
Potato salad with half soft-boiled egg and salted mullet roe
$8.00Takoyaki
6 pieces octopus balls with jidori tartar & okonomiyaki sauce.
$9.00Hiyayakko
Cold tofu with green onion, deep-fried niboshi with lard, chili oil, ponzu sauce, sesame, and ginger
$8.00Karaage(Fried chicken)
Classic Japanese fried chicken with mayo
$12.00SAND STORM CALAMARI
Fried calamari, spicy panko, crispy garlic soy sauce, koji ranch. *Plain option is also available.
$14.00
Extra Toppings
Extra soup
Soft Drinks
RAMUNE
$3.00KIMINO UME SPARKLING JUICE
Made with hand-picked and whole-pressed Ume Plum with charcoal filtered Hyogo mountain water and organic sugar cane.
$6.00KIMINO YUZU SPARKLING JUICE
Made with freshly squeezed Yuzu juice from hand-picked fruits, sparkling water from Hyogo prefecture, with a hint of organic sugar cane.
$6.00Calpico (non Carbonated)
Original flavor non carbonated soft drink. Product of Japan. 335 ml
$3.00Green Tea (Unsweetened)
Japan's #1 ITOEN Oi Ocha Unsweetened green tea. 340ml
$3.00Coke
$3.00Diet-Coke
$3.00Sprite
$3.00Shonen Elderberry
Original Carbonated Ramune Drink; Refreshing
$5.00Shonen Orenge Soda
Original Carbonated Ramune Drink; Refreshing
$5.00
Meal Kits
Omiyage Tsukemen
Our signature Tsukemen in DIY meal kit form! One set comes with 4x noodles and 4x soup base.
$40.00Deluxe Omiyage Tsukemen
Our signature Tsukemen in DIY meal kit form! One set comes with 4x noodles, 4x soup base, 4x Rare pork chashu, 4x pork chasu, 4x Menma bambooshoots, 4x Nori seaweed and 4x Ajitama soft boiled eggs.
$62.00OUT OF STOCK
Sunday | 10:45 am - 8:45 pm |
Monday | 10:45 am - 2:00 pm, 4:45 pm - 8:45 pm |
Tuesday | 10:45 am - 2:00 pm, 4:45 pm - 8:45 pm |
Wednesday | 10:45 am - 2:00 pm, 4:45 pm - 8:45 pm |
Thursday | 10:45 am - 2:00 pm, 4:45 pm - 8:45 pm |
Friday | 10:45 am - 9:15 pm |
Saturday | 10:45 am - 9:15 pm |
Founded in 1951, Taishoken is a shop specialized in Ramen and Tsukemen. The San Mateo location will Taishoken’s first shop in America.