Hakata tonkotsu, eighteen hours in the bowl
At IPPUDO on Tôn Thất Thiệp, every bowl starts a day earlier: pork bones simmered eighteen hours into a silky white tonkotsu, Hakata noodles pulled fresh, chashu melting over the top. Red bowl, black garlic oil, rising steam — the Hakata theater, served in District 1.

Eighteen hours, one white broth
Pork bones go in at dawn and don't come out until the broth turns the color of milk — thick with collagen, deep with umami, finishing sweet with no greasy aftertaste. This is the tonkotsu that made IPPUDO famous, and it never hurries.

The bowls Saigon orders twice
Four house favorites from the merchant's menu — priced as printed, before 8% VAT.
Pick your bite: kata-men
Hakata noodles are pulled fresh every day — thin, straight, wheaty. Then you choose the bite: four hardness levels, from soft to the famously firm kata-men. The house recommends hard: it holds the chew longest in hot broth.
- SoftFully cooked through — the gentle bowl.
- NormalThe middle path — balanced chew.
- HardThe house pick — kata-men bite, maximum chew.
- Very HardBarely kissed by the boil — for the devoted.
Your bowl is already simmering
Mon–Thu 11:00–21:30, Fri–Sun 10:00–22:30, on Tôn Thất Thiệp in District 1. Walk in, pick your bite, watch the steam.