Soki Soba | Japanese-Inspired Pork Ramen Recipe

Ingredients

• ½ rack pork loin ribs (about 6 ribs), trimmed of cartilage
• 800–900ml dashi
• 50ml soy sauce
• 1 tbsp awamori, shochu or sake
• ½ leek
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 star anise
• 10g ginger
• 1 dried red chilli
• reserved pork loin ribs
• 100g bean sprouts
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1 tsp white sesame seeds
• salt and white pepper, to taste
• reserved broth
• 2 portions medium-thick ramen noodles
• 2 tea-pickled eggs, sliced in half
• 2 nira, finely sliced
• 6 slices takuan/pickled daikon (about 40g)
• chilli oil or chilli vinegar, to taste
• 6 eggs – get the best quality eggs you can
• lots of ice
• 300ml dashi
• 5g lapsang souchong tea (2 teabags)
• 110ml soy sauce
• 50ml mirin
• 50ml rice vinegar