Ryo's - Crows Nest, Sydney

There’s got to be something in the soup. After all this time, the queue is just as long as ever. What is drawing everyone constantly back to this ramen house located in the middle of nowhere? I ponder as I wait patiently in the queue. I don’t have an answer.

The menu is hand written on bits of paper stuck randomly on the walls. There’s also a top sellers list written on a blackboard hung high up in a corner. The décor is aged but it doesn’t seem to bother the loyal clientele.

My dining companions ordered a couple of ramens from the popular Tonkotsu (pork bone broth) category and I stuck with my usual Tsukemen (cold ramen with dipping sauce). We also throw in a serve of gyoza (dumplings) to share.

Salt flavour tonkotsu soup ramen

Spicy hot flavour tonkotsu soup ramen

Tsukemen

Gyoza

The noodles are fresh and elastic but not rubbery. It also has a spring to it which lacks in pre-packed ramen served in some ramen houses around town.

Ryo’s recently opened a sister restaurant in Hong Kong and it is already causing a little bit of a stir in food forums. The shop front is identical, I wonder if the ramen is as well…

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