Ooink is a
ramen shop
A ramen shop is a restaurant that specializes in ramen dishes, the wheat-flour Japanese noodles in broth. In Japan, ramen shops are very common and popular, and are sometimes referred to as ramen-ya or ramen-ten . Some ramen shops operate in s ...
with two locations in
Seattle
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, in the
U.S. state
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of
Washington
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. The business is owned by chef Chong Boon Ooi and his wife Jiaxin Wang. The restaurant's logo depicts a pig.
The original restaurant operates above a
QFC
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...
store at the intersection of Broadway and East Pike Street, where
Capitol Hill
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meets
First Hill
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. A second location opened in the
Fremont neighborhood in 2022.
Reception
In 2018, Aimee Rizzo of ''
The Infatuation
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'' wrote, "Ooink is a small ramen spot in a neighborhood packed with lots of other places to eat noodle soup. But this one stands out because the sliced pork on top is the most tender in town, and the gyoza dumplings are pretty massive. Both of those things make up for the fact that a) this place replaced Vostok (a dumpling place we loved), and b) you could probably never eat with a group in here. So, pop in alone or with one other person when a hot bowl of broth feels right – like when you have a cold, or need to steam your face." She also included Ooink in a 2022 list of the city's best dumplings.
Chelsea Lin included Ooink in ''Seattle Magazine''
's 2018 list of the city's five best new ramen restaurants. Jacob Uitti included the business in ''
Seattle Weekly''s 2018 list of "The 9 Best Soups for Surviving Winter in Seattle". ''
Seattle Metropolitan
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'' included Ooink in a 2022 list of the city's 100 best restaurants.
See also
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List of Japanese restaurants
*
List of noodle restaurants
References
External links
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Ooinkat
Zomato
{{Restaurants in Seattle
Capitol Hill, Seattle
Fremont, Seattle
Japanese restaurants in Seattle
Ramen shops