Tonbe     豚兵衛  

New colleague joined the company, to show friendliness and get to know each other, 5 of us went to have lunch together.
We choose to eat at 2 pm so there is not much customers around, the atmosphere was cosy and comfortable.
First we order:Wasabi octopus - taste is good, I always like those gluey stuff, this one got a hint of wasabi, but other restaurant got similar thing too.螢光魷魚 - This one is great, you can see the whole squid and taste very fresh2 colleague ordered this: Kagoshima pork set 鹿児島 - the meat is very juicy, flavorable and tender, very different from ordinary Tonkatsu.... a bit oily, not good for my figure (not that I got any good figure)Another colleague ordered this: Cutlet pork chop with egg rice and udon set - this one has a really reasonable price, with rice and udon - rice and udon are not local cheap stuff, and the pork chop is great as well.I order this: Marukatsu with miso set 千層豬柳定食 - very popular nowadays, I always saw it in magazine and wanted to try. Crispy outside and tender inside, more interesting then ordinary pork cutlet. ( I like special interesting dishes)

All of the set comes with rice, potato salad and cabbage - the sesame sauce for cabbage taste very good! I wonder if they sell it by bottle or not, so I can buy and make salad at home.

We also ordered: (too lazy to take photo)
Friend fies- looked ordinary but taste good and very very cripy
Cheese ball - interesting but I don't like it much
Tonbeyaki - good but I need to add more sauce
Barbecue pork in stick - very big, can share with everyone.At the end of coz we could not finish it, so I brought a takeaway box and took all the leftover home...hehe

I like the atmosphere of the store and there was one waitress with very good service, might come again with my family.

I love tongatsu so much that, it is a good news to have this restaurant in Wanchai.
I have tried this restaurant for a few times and they serve decent tongatsu.
However, I always find their robotic and zombie-like service intolerable.
No matter how authentic you try to make and serve the Japanese food, one important element is the warm and sincere service.
Yesterday I have booked a table for 2 to recommend my friend of this restaurant. They never mentioned the table will only be reserved by 5 minutes. Today when I arrived 10 minutes late, The waitress said that she has called me 2x times without anyone picking phone. But strange my call history on phone didn't prove they have call me. Anyway, they took away my table. Of course, the waitress did not try to do anything to help me to get back the table, except to tell me I need to wait for another 30 minutes.
I can understand they do not want to waste the opportunity to earn money by avoiding any emply table. But I also want to say after today, I will delete this restaurant on my list. I will NEVER vist this restaurant, I will NEVER bring anyone to this restaurant. I will NEVER recomment this to anyone else. Anyway, HK people are now more acceptable to tongatsu, recently there is another new tongatsu restaurant from Shinjuku opening there first restaurant in HK. With now more choice, why I need to feel sorry about not going to Tonbe anymore?

Here concludes my last and final experience with them, bye bye.

The shop didn't open until 12:00pm. They was empty but don't allow me to seat in at 11:55am. Order was very slow, service very bad.... Don't go there again!!!!

Walked past it several times, thinking want to tried it since the day it opened. Ordered pork cutlet with purée turnip rice. The pork is crunchy and juicy, goes well with the cutlet sauce and also the mustard mayo but the pork flavour is a bit plain on its own. The sweet fresh turnip reduce the fattiness of the fried food. The cabbage is thinly sliced and quite crisp and fresh. Rice is ok. The miso soup got a good helping of seaweed. The staff...ok but not of superb services, intimidate customer with their bleak look.

It's definitely not as good as Tonkichi at world trade, but for a fraction of the price, and 0-wait time vs hour (can reserve even at lunch), Tonbe definitely worth trying.
I was there for lunch, price of lunch sets are very reasonable, starting at around $50.
Pork meat itself, you can tell it's not the best of breed, but more than acceptable. At least, it's fresh and the cut has good thickness. Tenderness... acceptable. Taste is natural, taste of meat is not strong.
Udon is quite good, depending on which style you prefer. It's thinner than normal, not chewwy as many others (such as OOToya).

Pork with Egg on Rice is recommended. Egg is not 100% cooked, little bit of raw egg white still can be seen, which i like.
I hate those with tons of sweet sauce and soaked the rice... this is just right.

All in all, not the best but you get far more than what you're paying for, in my opinion.

There are a few famous deep fried pork place in HK. This restaurant is definietly better than the one at IFC, better than the one in TST The One.... If this restaurant can improve the sauce of the vege , then I will give up queing up at CWB World Square.

Tonbe can do nice deep fried, the outside was crisp & the inside was juicy & tender.

Can u image they only charge $40 for that ??? Why we have to pay $150 ...for the name or just for the unlimited rice & vege....

This restaurant is worth to try.

Pretty yummy food!

We had a shrimp salad, cheese balls and a prawn / oysters set.

Shrimp salad: V. fresh shrimps. Generally a great salad. Next time I will ask to have the dressing on the side cus it was a bit heavy.

Cheese balls: Awesome!!! My favorite! It brings back great memory from Tokyo when I had cheese dog on a daily basis.

Prawn / oysters set: V. fresh and HUGE prawn and oysters!!!!! Yummmmmmm except a bit 熱器

One thing that I really like about the restaurant is their Japanese white rice - v. v. v. yummy - even to someone like me who do not normally eat rice.

So full... zzzzzZZZZZzzzz