November 9, 2026
What you are looking at is a dish called “JB’s Porky Noodles.” It was made by a dude named Jadyn Bonham-Gomez and he is enrolled at NICHE in Downtown Wichita. NICHE is a WSU Tech school and it stands for “National Institute for Culinary and Hospitality Education.” And NICHE has a little bistro called “Envision Bistro” that is open to the public for lunch Monday-Friday. That’s where I ordered JB’s dish.
The dish is a pork broth with rice noodles, chashu style pork ribeye, marinated soy eggs, pickled ginger, vegetables with chili soy sauce and sliced scallions. He decided to do this dish because when he was a kiddo pork ramen was his favorite dish.
The pork ribeye was cooked perfectly as were the eggs. I love those soy eggs — some people call them “brown eggs.” I liked that the eggs were boiled over medium. I feel like they were more yolky than many restaurants out there and it worked well with this broth. I also loved the texture of the rice noodles and they were cooked perfectly as well with just a slight crunch. I do think if I were to give one recommendation it would be to increase the amount of scallion and ginger in the broth. The broth was incredibly “soy-based” and that would have given some nice balance to the heavy soy flavor. But it was fantastic and I ate all of it.
Make sure to give the students at NICHE your business every once in a while. Who knows—the next James Beard nominee may just be in there preparing your meal the next time you swing by.
— TKG
