Super Souper Ramen (Karrinyup)

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Before reading ❗️

The details 📝

Disclaimer
We visited Super Souper as part of their soft launch night. All opinions remain as our own and have not been shared with Super Souper prior to publishing.

Super Souper Ramen is brought to you by the same team behind Perth sushi train concept, Super Tetsudo* and Japanese homewares store, hamoni. Being associated to hamoni, means you'll find the same, beautiful Japanese made plateware from the same factories supplying hamoni (being homeware nerds, we definitely appreciate this!).

*fun fact - tetsudo 鉄道 literally means "railway" or "rail transport" in Japanese

The premise behind Super Souper Ramen is to redefine Hakata-style (pork bone broth) ramen with new world flavours, while remaining devoted to the foundational techniques of ramen. The folks behind Super Souper are no strangers to hospitality, with over 25 years combined experience.

Sides

We started with the ume pickled cherry tomato. A beautifully umami way to open our palate.

Another umami bomb that probably will typically be overlooked, is their golden floss chips, which we believe are fried radish pieces with a sprinkling of savoury seasoning.

As far as sides go, karaage is always a safe choice. But we think the cauliflower here outshines the karaage.

The cauliflower had sweet, salty and savoury notes - from the matcha salt and black vinegar glaze, not to mention, great texture too. Of the four sides, we'd probably reorder all but the karaage.

Ramen

Six different bowls of ramen are available, with all but one being tonkotsu based. A soy milk miso broth is available for vegans (note the menu does appear to have some vegetarian options too). Noodles here are made in-house, with noodle hardness being customisable (we stuck to normal hardness).

Our favourite bowl of ramen, was their yuzu shio ramen. It was a great blend of creamy and yuzu - which gave the bowl great balance. All elements were executed well. Chashu was fatty and the marinated egg was nice and runny. Probs to Super Souper for having their own branded nori (seaweed) as well.

The bowl of tan-tan ramen is suited towards those chasing spice, Dry style ramen is harder to find in Perth, so we do appreciate it being on the menu.

For our tastes, we did find the black garlic shoyu ramen to be rather tame on the garlic. The owners tell us they have dial down the garlic ratios to allow for the elements of the broth to shine - something we can appreciate and understand. Flavours for this bowl were nuanced.

Their miso tonkotsu ramen is best suited for those after a punchy, creamy bowl of ramen. We found this one pretty rich, making their yuzu shio our preferred bowl.

The Super Saiyan ramen probably best encapsulates Super Souper's philosophy of "redefining Hakata-style ramen with new world flavours, while remaining devoted to the foundational techniques of ramen".

By ramen standards, you'll find this bowl takes heavy inspiration from malatang / Sichuan Chinese spiciness. For our spice tolerance, it was a bit too much, but we're sure spice lovers might enjoy this bowl.

We love the fun and playful interior, with it reminding us of the once existing Nomstar Ramen and Sydney's Torotoro Ramen. We've been told to expect some animations on the displays too!

Has it dethroned our usual rotation of ramen restaurants - the likes of Nao, Tosaka, the occasional visit to Hakata Gensuke (when craving something super rich)? Probably not. We do think it's a strong a great addition to Karrinyup Shopping Centre's dining precinct and would not hesitate to recommend Super Souper to those in the more northern suburbs.

Menu

Disclaimer
We visited Super Souper as part of their new menu launch night, courtesy of the folks from Word of Mouth. All opinions remain as our own and have not been shared with Super Souper prior to publishing.

During our second visit, we sampled their seasonal hiyashi chuka and a number of sides.

Our favourite during our visit was the hiyashi chuka - a cold noodle. This was probably one of the more memorable bowls of noodles we've had in 2023. The noodles ran chewy / al dente, which contrasted nicely against the soft and sweet tamago and crunchy cucumber. Being a cold based noodle makes it perfect for the warm weather. The highlight of this dish was the refreshing yuzu juice and broth.

Still being a little hungry, for seconds I grabbed a bowl of the chashu donburi. The serving was fairly reasonable at the $15 price point. We did expect thinner slices of pork (perhaps that's what the miso pork don is) as this reminded us of the Vietnamese dish thit kho.

The sweet corn ribs made for a tasty, flavourful side, with hints of salt and spice.

During our first visit, pork gyoza weren't available yet. They're usually one of our go-to orders when it comes to ramen restaurants. We weren't the biggest fan of Super Souper's interpretation as we found the gyoza filling a little on the wetter side. Despite the gyoza having a nice sear, it made for a slightly soggy like dumpling.

Before visiting 🚙