Ryo's Noodles

Last day of 2009, last post of 2009. Should've kept the Assiette post for a big close of 2009 :) Oh well, doesn't matter. Some ramen to wrap 2009 is fine too, right? 

Here's the cold dipping noodle with roast pork, vege and egg. Didn't get to try this, but looks interesting enough. Might get this the next time when I visit Ryo's. 

Spicy hot flavour with roast pork, eggs, shallot - $11.50. Looks extremely hot, but it really isn't that hot :) Just looks scary with the chilli oil floating on top. Taste good, soup is not as thick as Gumshara, but the spiciness certainly adds some points to it. 

Wasn't quite in the mood for hot soupy stuff, so I ordered a Japanese style beef curry with pork cutlet - $14.50. Pork was a bit dry, plenty of curry gravy to soak the rice the way I like and the nicely pickled ginger to go with it. Simple and tasty :) 

After the egg incident that happened at Gumshara, Robin ordered 2 eggs this time. 1 for me, 1 for him at $2.50 each. The yolk is not as runny as I would prefer, but still not totally cooked yet. However, what happened was that his spicy noodle came with an egg too!! haha.. so this time we ended with too many eggs :p 


So, 2009, what have I done? First half of the year was just gone without knowing/doing anything constructive, did a bit more in second half of the year.  Decided to have a wedding (which is already big enough on its own), decided to move to the Shire and become a hobbit, and of course started a food blog, went to fancy restaurants with multiple chef's hat and my first degustation meal! All in the second half of 2009. Which is also why the 2nd half of 2009 just flew past too. Anyway, Happy New Year to everyone! Hope there will be more food, more posts and a good year ahead :) 

Gumshara

I know I've been slacked off a bit with my blog. There are still tons of photos to process and but I got distracted with Glee instead. Anyway, here's a short 1 which I did the photos before I started watching Glee but just never got to the writing bit because I was distracted :p 

Been always wanted to go to Gumshara since I saw some reviews about it on other food blogs. It's a small stall inside a food court. Nothing fancy. Main attraction = pork bones - more than 100kg of them each day in the soup of the ramen. You can imagine how rich the flavour is. Right above the counter is a big white board that says NO MSG is added in the soup, it's all just pork bones and water. 

Robin ordered the Tonkotsu Noodle $9.50 The soup is very different from all the ramen soup that I've had before. First thing you will notice is the soup is very thick. Overheard another happy customer of Gumshara kept on stressing that "the broth is so thick!". Robin was surprised that even though the soup is very thick, but it's not oily. It's just feels 'sticky' from all the collagen. After drinking the soup you'll feel like your mouth is covered with a layer of gel or something. 

I ordered the Garlic Tonkotsu Noodle $10.50. Lots of garlic and garlic oil over the top. Comparing these 2, I prefer mine with the extra garlic taste to it :) Extra - Soft boiled seasoned Egg $1.50. I always wonder how did they make sure the egg comes out perfect EVERY SINGLE TIME. Egg white is firm, but egg yolk is still little bit uncooked. Gave Robin a hard time for stealing 1/4 of my egg though :p He didn't order 1 for himself and took a bite of mine - AT THE YOLK. Not impressed :p 

We were so hungry when we were looking at the menu, so we got some gyoza too. The ramen were so rich in flavour and so nice that in relative to that these gyoza feel rather average. Not complaining though, still good, we did finish all of them too. 

This is 1 very satisfying dinner :) 

Gumshara
Eating World Harbour Plaza
Shop 209, 25-29 Dixon Street
Haymarket Chinatown, Sydney

Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am-10pm
Closed on Mondays