RaRa — Restaurant in Sydney

There are few things better than a hot bowl of ramen on a cold, rainy day ☔. Rara ramen serves a mean hearty bowl of traditional Japanese ramen 🍜. Their thin Hakata styled noodles are made in-house along with their top secret 14-hour slowed stirred tonkotsu broth 😮. Their menu features a limited number of speciality ramens, including 2 vegan ramens 🍃. Featured in this post - Tonkotsu Ramen with housemate black garlic and chilli🍜 ————————————————————— (Check my profile bio for a description of the 🍽️🤩💵 emojis) 🍽️ - Very very filliiinng...... The heavenly combination of noodle and meaty broth is heavy . Tbh, I would've struggled to finish this bowl of the ramen didn't taste this good! The bowl contains Hakata styled noodles, Tonkotsu broth , seasoned bamboo🎍, chashu pork🐷 (sorry halal foodies 😢), one seasoned egg 🥚, shallots and shredded black fungus 🍄. 🤩 - Their rich and creamy house-made Tonkotsu broth has a rather smooth and milky finish to it. Unlike most other ramen places in Sydney, it doesn't leave a fatty feeling in your mouth! The Hakata styled noodles are thin, long, chewy and quite slurpable 😋. In terms of taste notes, the killer combo of the black garlic🧄 and chilli🌶️ hit me right in the spot and gave me a warm homely feeling in my little curry belly 😅. 💵 - $18.80 for the black garlic and chilli oil option ($16.90 without it, but would highly recommend spending the extra $1.9 on the black garlic and chilli combo). ————————————————————— *PRO TIP: Prepare for at least a 15 to 20 minute wait⏳. Also they do not accept phone bookings 📞. A fair trade-off for such...

They are too stingy for their soup. I went there with my husband and ordered one ramen with extra noodle and one mazesoba. Ramen came first with extra noodles on the side. Soup seemed too less for noodles so I asked lady for more soup if possible (I didn't mind to pay extra) but she said they measure the right amount of soup for the noodles so can't give us more.

If they are only providing right amount of soup for one serving of noodles, why are they selling extra noodles? And it's $4? Even without extra noodles, their soup is just not enough to be called noodle soup.. It was more like dried noodles.

And mazesoba came after 15mins ramen was served. We went there at 12 (their opening time) and were only 4th customers, not sure why there was such time gap in between.

They take pride that their noodles are hand but guys.. They really need to work on noodles. It's was too floury, not chewy at all. That's probably why their noodles absorb soup a lot more than other shops. I'm a big fan of Japanese ramen. I used to travel Japan alot and Ramen is always in my To Eat list, also I have been to those famous and popular ramen restaurants in Sydney. For me I don't think there will be second visit at RaRa, it's over rated. Ippudo ramen is way way better in terms of flavour and price isn't too different especially if you eat alot, ippudo charge only $1 for extra noodles and yet you will still have...

29 Jan 2023 review: Beware - disappointing and quality has gone down, clearly whoever was at the kitchen did not care or was just sloppy. We ordered the Chicken ramen (tori paitan) and 3 x pork ramen (RaRa tonkotsu). Soup base is the same great quality as before, no issues. But the pork char siu was so tough and chewy I only ate 1/2 of it. This was the same with the other 2 bowls of tonkotsu ramen we ordered. The chicken was only seared on one side (they used to always do both sides) and same issue with the char siu - they were tough and chewy. RaRa also changed their bowls to a tacky white bowl. Aside from its presentation, the new white bowls do not retain heat of the noodles (at least the white part of the bowl) so the noodles cool down more quickly than before. In addition, the shape of the new white bowls is not as steep as the old black bowls so the noodles are not able to soak inside the bowl as they did before which affects the overall taste of the ramen) Paid for extra corn and the corn was not cooked well enough.

Tables were also very sticky - a sign that it hasn’t been wiped properly. There is a theme of laziness/ sloppiness here. We hope RaRa will take this feedback and return to the quality of what they stood for.

2020’s review: Best Ramen I have had in Sydney. I have tried both their pork and chicken ramen and both are awesome!! Their gyoza is...