Noka Ramen in Oakland is known for its Power Ranger-inspired tiki cocktail and now its hero bartenders
Last Friday, at Noka Ramen in Oakland, the Power Rangers came to life and helped save a woman who was being attacked, reported ABC7.
Around 8 p.m., in front of the recently-opened ramen shop located at 90 Franklin Street in Jack London Square, a woman came running into the restaurant pleading for help from a man who was allegedly attacking her.
The man then ran in after her and put her in a chokehold, according to Ploi Pirapokin, a patron that evening who described the entire saga in a Twitter thread that went viral. It garnered over 103,000 likes and nearly 14,000 retweets.
The restaurant workers — who dress up in Power Ranger suits every Friday to add to the experience of ordering the Noka Ranger cocktail that come in tiki mugs inspired by children’s action show — quickly sprung into action to help the woman. Restaurant patrons also helped the woman, according to the account of the attack posted on Twitter.
“Once the woman had expressed she wasn’t safe, and she didn’t want to go home with this man who was choke holding her, the black power ranger (the manager with a kickass bob) and the yellow ranger, told the man to leave,” Pirapokin wrote on Twitter.
Pirapokin wrote that the assailant began yelling racial slurs at the employees before the Yellow Ranger took him by the collar and dragged him out of the restaurant.
Outside, the man allegedly threw chairs, baby seats and salt and pepper shakers at the restaurant’s windows.
The Oakland police confirmed to ABC7 they arrested the man and transported him to a local hospital believing that he was undergoing a mental health crisis.
