Shoyu Ramen

Preparation time : aprox 3 - 4 hours

Ok, I need to admit that I never made a successful soup noodle before. But somehow this dish came out much better that I expected.

Ingredients are

-Ramen noodle. I used fresh noodle so it's more chewy.

- 1lb Pork belly

- 1 Green onion

- 4 cloves of Garlic

- Ginger

- 1 sheet of dry seaweed

- 2 cups of Chicken Broth

- 1 cup of water

- 1/4 cup Soy sauce for braised pork another 1/4 for soup (I used Kikkoman)

- 1/4 cup of Mirin

- Sugar/ Splenda

- 1 or 2 Egg(s)

- Cabbage (optional)

There are 2 parts for this dish: Braised pork belly and Shoyu soup.

Brailed pork belly:

Before you start, if you want, you can remove the skin and scrape out the fat to be used for a soup.

- Mix garlic, ginger (about 4 big slices), 1/4 cup of soy sauce, Mirin, and probably 2 table spoon of sugar. Add 1 cup of hot water and mix together, then put the pork into the mixture. Make sure the pork are at least 3/4 submerge.

- Preheat the oven to 275F. Close the pork bowl and let it sit in the oven for 3 -4 hours. Turn the pork over probably every hour.

                  Pork is ready

The meat should be very tender.

 Shoyu soup:

- Mix 1/4 soy sauce, 2 cups of broth, 1 cup of water in a pot. Also as an option, you can breaks all the fat from the pork and mix into this soup. Heat until it boils and put on warm heat.

adding pork fat in here

Now to get a nice boiled egg with runny yolk, put the egg into the pot on high heat. When the water start boiling, leave it there for another 5 - 6 minutes then remove the egg and cool down with cold water.

Assuming the pork is ready, boil the noodle for 2 minutes, veggies for 1 minute then put everything in to the bowl and finish with a Shoyu soup. Top with sesame seeds, chopped green onion and seaweed if you like.

and then we are done. OMG YUM!