Rice burgers on the menu at the 2014 Night Noodle Markets in Sydney

The ramen burger was the drawcard item at last year's Night Noodle Markets, luring punters to Hyde Park with its 'frankenfood' siren call of a meat patty between two "buns" of fried noodles.

When the 2014 Good Food Month Night Noodle Markets kick off at 5pm on Friday, October 10, the ramen burger will again be there to create queues and satisfy stomachs, however this year there's a new novelty item on the block: the rice burger.

Instead of noodles (or bread), the rice burger uses compacted cakes of rice to sandwich fillings of meat (beef patty or pork rib), lettuce, tomato, and onion.

"The rice burger came about because we want to do something innovative [at the Noodle Markets] each year," says One Tea Bar and Grill storeholder David Yip.

Yip is responsible for bringing both the rice and ramen burgers to Sydney. "We use Japanese sushi rice to make the bun because the grains stick together well, and within that there's also a ramen soup sauce and some holding agent," says Yip.

Yip and his staff started rice burger preparations for this year's Night Noodle Markets in the first week of September. "We'll be going in all guns blazing," says Yip. "We've been making 600 to 700 patties a day."

Woofys gourmet hot dogs also will be at the Night Noodle Markets this year, offering more Asian-influenced western fare among all the curries, dumplings and rice paper rolls. Making its Noodle Markets debut, Woofys is sizzling Australian-style snags on rolls with Asian ingredients for $9 each.

"We're doing a pork pad thai dog," says Woofys owner Tom Gibson. "It's a pork sausage with vermicelli noodles, crushed peanuts and shallots. Plus there's some satay sauce on there to really pad thai it up."

Woofys will also have a take on banh mi, which is similar to a regular Vietnamese pork roll, but with pork sausage in place of luncheon-meat strips, and its classic "Boss Dog" with beef sausage, pickles, sauerkraut, mustard and fried onions.

"We haven't been able to give that one an Asian spin," Gibson said.

As for the rice burgers, goodfood.com.au had a preview taste earlier this week. It's different to the ramen burger in taste profile thanks to a wallop of sesame oil that gives everything a nice, nutty flavour.

There's lettuce, tomato, onion and a sprinkle of corn accompanying the patty but it's what's on the outside that counts.The rice buns are tightly compacted and golden brown on each side. They keep their form better than expected, but holding a plate underneath to capture any renegade morsels is still recommended.

Yip's rice and ramen burgers are both priced at $13.50.

Sydney's Night Noodle Markets are part of Good Food Month, presented by Citi. They are on every night from October 10-26 in Hyde Park, Sydney. Entry is free. sydney.goodfoodmonth.com