I visited this amazing ramen store a few years ago and ever since I have been chomping at the bit to get back and do a review on what I consider the most authentic pork ramen this side of the equator!

On a cold and stormy Sunday my dining partner and I headed to China Town in Sydney. Walking down Dixon St we avoided the tourist traps selling overpriced peaking duck and other Asian fare and headed straight to where the locals go... the Eating World Food Court. While it might feel like a less fancy option than the restaurants on Dixon St it is all the traditional food, with the same or better quality and at a fraction of the price!

At the far end of the food court, tucked away in an unassuming corner is the Gumshara Ramen Store.

This is a real, fair dinkum ramen shop that makes the traditional pork broth from boiling up the pork bones and extracting the rich, thick and delicious bone marrow. They even close between lunch and dinner each and every day to cook up a fresh batch of soup base.

Gumshara only prepare pork ramen. Because of this focus their ramen is on point and probably the most authentic you will find in Sydney.

They have two styles of pork soup one lighter but still full of flavour and a thick soup that coats the inside of your mouth and is super rich and hearty.

If you are a fan of meaty pork and that classic umami flavour then you need to try one of their offerings!

I went for the ultimate in ramen pleasures, the Super Mega Ramen Noodle Soup. This dish is true to its name and at $30 a serve is worth every dollar. This hefty bowl of pork gluttony packs a lot into the bowl. You get the standard noodles, spring onions and marrow soup with seaweed garnish but the pork is loaded into this dish in three different and tantalising ways. There are the slices of pork that circumnavigate the bowl, a huge slab of BBQ pork sparerib and a BBQ fatty pork skewer!!

If I haven’t painted a good enough picture for you then let me back up the description by saying just how deliciously perfect this bowl of pork really is. ITS REALLY GOOD!! Everything is cooked to perfecting and the pork is just amazing, full of flavour and a fantastic messy journey into pork perfection! I am a big eater and I couldn’t finish my serving. I probably didn’t need the addition of the second perfectly cooked runny egg but how could I resist, amazing!

The store provides a number of house made condiments to go with your meal and it is worth trying the pickled ginger and garlic toppings.

I washed the meal down with a Fuji Apple soft drink which was quite good considering there wasn’t a nice Japanese beer available in the food court.

Totally worth the money defiantly worth trying if you are ever near China Town.