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| Chef Haru Inukai - super excited for Ramen Ikkyu's opening day |
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| Ramen Ikkyu's touch pad ordering system |
Ramen
Ikkyu is located at the Sussex Centre Food
Court, Haymarket. This humble ramen bar aims to produce around 150 bowls of
ramen a day. The ordering system starts with a touch screen pad where one
chooses his/her choice of ramen. Then options of extras and sides like black
fungus, chashu, egg etc. is also available to add with your order of ramen.
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| Ikkyu (shio) ramen |
The Ikkyu
(shio) ramen ($10.50) has a paitan broth base with salt to give extra
flavour to the broth. Ikkyu's paitan broth is made from boiling chicken and
pork bones. It has more of a chicken and light ginger-like taste, followed by
subtle pork flavour. It has a similar consistency to tonkotsu broth but not as
thick. The pork chashu is very tender with a slightly sweet roast flavour. I
love the bouncy type egg noodles (made by Chef Haru himself) that they use. The
flavoured soft-boiled egg, black fungus and a sweet-ish bamboo shoots complete
this excellent bowl of ramen.
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| extra black fungus ($1.50) |
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| Ikkyu (shoyu) ramen |
The Ikkyu
(shoyu) ramen ($10.50) has a paitan broth with a touch of soy. It has the
same toppings as the shio ramen but the soy sauce used gives the broth a deeper
flavour. I personally prefer this over the ikkyu shio ramen.
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| Team Ramen Ikkyu |
Traces of Chef Haru’s French cuisine
training and Japanese cooking roots are very noticeable on how the broths are
executed and the toppings (such as the pork) are cooked. Ramen Ikkyu is
definitely one of my top favourite places for amazing ramen in Sydney!
Ramen
Ikkyu
Shop F1A, Sussex Centre Food Court
401 Sussex Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Trading hours:
Monday to Sunday 12pm - 8:30 (at
present, subject to change)
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Love how you got the first scoop - well done!
ReplyDeleteThe ramen looks amazing, particularly the noodles. Very impressive that he makes it all himself.
Can't wait to try this place out!
Yum! I had the salt based ramen loved it, especially the pork and ultra tasty bamboo
ReplyDeleteWoot! Can't wait to try this place out
ReplyDeletelooking forward to trying this ramen place :). i like the food court setting as well!
ReplyDeleteSimply the best!
ReplyDeleteI remember you posting about the Blancharu ramen but never found the time to try it - this place is much more convenient and looks really good!
ReplyDeleteNice shot of Chef Haru. Looks like it was a fun opening day :)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to trying his ramen there soon.
hehe Chef Haru reminds me of Mario in that first pic lol. Can't wait to try cause I never got to make it to Blancharu for lunch to try!
ReplyDeleteoh oh and my mum makes paitan broth when she makes ramen at home!! never knew it was called something, just thought she made it up lol
ReplyDeleteOhh I just want to give Chef Haru a hug - can i? Read this last night and dreamt about Ramen.. If its as good as the Blancharu ramen then I'm gonna like it. Thanks for sharing so quickly.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to try this place out! It's making me hungry just looking at the photos hehe
ReplyDeleteCan't wait either. I'm not fond of this food court but there's now a great reason to visit.
ReplyDeleteDude, it was soooo good! Can't wait to go again!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to try it! Would you know what the difference between the Ikkyu Shoyu Ramen and the Tokyo Shoyu Ramen is..? Thank you :)
ReplyDeleteSandra / FW
The Tokyo shoyu ramen broth is lighter than the broth used for the Ikkyu shoyu ramen :)
DeleteLooks awesome! Definitely on my 'to eat' list. Never got to try the ramen at Blancharu
ReplyDeletecool. i must try :-)
ReplyDeletei want to eat ALL the ramen! teehee that pic of Chef Haru is so cute!
ReplyDeleteOMG we have to go!
ReplyDeleteAH fuck got a stomach ache after eating the pork ramen 10.50 thingie. I had to go to the toilet for the whole day
ReplyDeleteGot to try!What a cool ordering system! :D
ReplyDeleteblancharu ramen has been on my list forever but the timing just didnt work for me, it is so much more accesible now! cant wait to try it. thx for the review!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to try this! Lucky that this is just down the road :)
ReplyDeleteDropped by and ate a bowl. This was great. Delicious and cheap. They might have possibly sold themselves short selling the Ramen for $10.50. I'd have paid more.
ReplyDeleteFabulous bagus
ReplyDeletebuhahahah! love the photo of Chef Haru Inukai's grin!
ReplyDeletewas the worst ramen ever. you guys really think this is good? sigh...
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to try Ramen Ikkyu though I am a little gutted that Chef Haru Inukai has left my hood!
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