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[title]By Time Out in partnership with Google
Rev-heads and ramen-obsessives alike can get a fix at Rising Sun Workshop – both a fully functioning community motorcycle mechanical workshop and a Japanese-leaning eatery, hidden in a garage on Newtown’s backstreets. Like much of Newtown, the community surrounding RSW is tight knit and collaborative – so when local brewery Young Henrys approached them to help launch their new black, hoppy porter dubbed ‘Motorcycle Oil’, they embraced it by creating a custom ramen. “I decided to take the black theme and run with it, creating our ‘Darker than Darkness’ ramen, a celebration of Newtown black,” the establishment’s director Nick Smith explains. This ominous-looking ramen has charcoal noodles, black wood ear mushrooms, blood sausage, pickled shiitake, black garlic oil, ajitsuke tamago, nori and blackened bone broth. The results are a Stygian-looking bowl of inky broth and condiments, contrasted against two bright, soft boiled egg halves. This ramen isn’t easy to make – the noodles are custom-made to take on the charcoal hue and like all ramen bases, the stock takes hours. To this end, the Motorcycle Oil-inspired ramen will only be on the menu until September 30.
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