MASHI NO MASHI — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Hidden on Oi Kwan Road in a quieter area of Wan Chai, Mashi No Mashi is a chic Japanese Restaurant which serves tsukenmen. You can see how chic it is from its light deco just outside the restaurant.

The paper mat is a really hearty one, which tells you the Tale of Mashi No Mashi - how the founder created Mashi No Mashi and the dishes, as well as how you should enjoy the tsukenmen. I really adore this informative, funny and artsy paper!

Like most of the ramen and tsukemen restaurants in Japan, Mashi No Mashi serves a few dishes. They specialize in what they do, and make sure their dishes are of top quality. I chose the Tokusei Wagyu Tsukemen to try.

I was amused by how they serve food! For every bowl of tsukemen or don, the chef would pose like this, let you take your picture, and say “Enjoy!” to you!

This Tokusei Wagyu Tsukemen was truly delightful! There were quite a lot of ingredients in the broth - lots of delicious beef cubes and veggies. It’s quite heavy in taste, and I couldn’t finish it after finishing the noodles (as usual), as I am more like a light-taste person.

The noodles were ordinary, not too thick. The wagyu beef was yummy! Yet, it was a bit difficult to chew off with just a pair of chopsticks…As some part of it was quite chewy…Love the onsen egg. Seaweed was a bit sloppy, not...

Somewhat like traditional ramen shops in Japan, you will need to order before you’re seated. Once seated, food arrives relatively quickly. The service was great and entertaining. It’s always nice to see staff interacting and providing well to the guests.

The tsukemen was delicious. The egg was perfectly cooked and texture of the noodle was on point. The broth that they serve with was the highlight of this dish. If you would like more of the broth, you can ask the chefs for dashi and they’ll add to the broth. The noodles are definitely worth trying. For the Wagyu donburi, each slice of Wagyu was slightly seared, enough to melt in your mouth. However as I ate more and more, I personally found it filling and overly decadent. The Wagyu gyoza are great appetizer/sides for the noodles and rice, definitely worth try if you’re into dumpling.

I would definitely come back and would recommend this place if you don’t mind spending a bit more for a smaller portioned,...

Overall I had a good experience at Mashu no Mashi. The shop is small and a bit hard to find. Only counter top seating here and the restaurant seats no more than 15 people so do expect to have a wait during peak hours and best come with a group of two.

Food: 4 stars Service: 4 stars Value: 3.5 stars Overall: 4 stars

The menu here is really quite simple. You order through a vending machine and have three choices: tsukemen ramen, beef donburi bowl and gyozas.

I had the tsukumen and added an additional slice of Wagyu beef. The noodles were cooked a nice al dente and had a real nice texture to them. I really enjoyed the dipping sauce as well which was a nice richness from the beef and wasn’t too salty which is often an issue with tsukumen. The beef is sliced really thin and I wish was thicker. I felt it was even thinner than what you find in shabu shabu. I would come back again to try the donburi which I hear is better...