Ebiko prawn paste shrimp ramen ($16.60++) @ Le Shrimp Ramen!
Le Shrimp Ramen's Ebiko Prawn Paste Shrimp Ramen, $16.60++: handmade ebiko prawn paste in a rich orange shrimp broth with la mian, cabbage and spring onion.
A warming bowl of Ebiko Prawn Paste Shrimp Ramen at Le Shrimp Ramen, $16.60++. 🦐🍜😋
What we had ($16.60++ each):
- Ebiko Prawn Paste Shrimp Ramen, $16.60++
Le Shrimp Ramen is Paradise Group’s shrimp broth la mian concept, and the idea is a mash-up rather than a straight Japanese ramen: Chinese hand-pulled la mian noodles sitting in a shrimp-based soup, served in their own outlets in malls around town. The whole menu is built around that broth, from the signature bowl to the trio with big prawns.
The shrimp broth is what you are paying for and it delivers. It comes out a deep orange, thicker than a clear soup and properly concentrated, with that sweet, slightly briny prawn-head flavour that reminds you of a good prawn noodle soup, just richer and more rounded. It coats the spoon a little, which is always a good sign.
The ebiko prawn paste is the topping to order. Rather than whole prawns, you get soft handmade lumps of prawn paste dropped into the soup, pale orange and bouncy, springy in the bite with actual chunks of prawn through them rather than a smooth processed texture. They soak up the broth as they sit.
Under it all are the la mian, thin and springy with a good chew, plus soft cabbage and a heavy scatter of spring onion that cuts through the richness. We had a bowl each and finished the soup.
At $16.60++ it is restaurant pricing rather than hawker pricing, but the broth is genuinely good and the prawn paste is worth ordering over the plain version.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Rich, sweet shrimp broth and lovely bouncy prawn paste. Would re-order.
