Vermicelli and flat rice noodles are boring that’s why the noodles here attracted me.
There are so many different types.
The last time I had some decent noodles was at Happy Noodles in Happy Valley because they had Laksa and Tom Yum Kung soup base.

Anyway I came here especially for the noodles with abalone and fish maw which cost $138.
The udon with garoupa and the noodles with prawns both cost over $100 per bowl.The rest of the choices could be ordered at other restaurants so I chose the abalone and fish maw.
However I felt the noodles were rather expensive because at Maur's Kitchen in wanchai you can order abalone or parma ham noodles for $88 excluding service charge.

There are five types of noodles which can be seen in the picture below.
I chose the bottom most one which is a flat noodle sheet cut in triangles.★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Fish maw and abalone noodles
For a bowl of noodles costing $138 you could imagine the most important item is the Abalone, so I was expecting to see the abalone or the presentation as good as their product picture above.
But all I could see was the vegetables on top.Anyway, I found the Abalone and fish maw in the end underneath the noodles.The noodles which were cut in triangles reminded me of wonton skins cut in half.But overall the noodles tasted great, and the soup was nice and gelatinous.
The fish maw was nice, but it was slightly too fishy.
The abalone was soft and fresh.
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Chili sauce
They make their own chili sauce and you can also buy jars of it to take home.
The chili sauce tasted really nice.★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
While I was waiting for the food I noticed so many abalone shellsFor improvements I think they should improve on the presentation before serving it, but then I did not see the noodles when it left the Chef's hands, the abalone and fish maw may have sunk beneath while it was being brought over to my table.

I have been holding on writing Comments for these restaurants.

I saw a couple newspapers clippings ~ and a few magazines about this place, and as all of you Central WORKERS~ you all know how hard it is for us to get a seat during lunch hours. I mean, WE GUYS are ok, we can eat anything anywhere, (lunch box~ me likely when only have 1 hour to dine and towards the End of the month~)

HOWEVER, if you want to go on to a Lunch date with your better half, and you want a respectable place to begin with, AND without reservations and TIME (and Money) More than Noodles is one option.

I have lunch with my wife and dinners with a couple friends there.
I love the design of the place. Looks like a Japanese restaurants, clean and neat~ and quit roomy compare to a lot of other Soho/ Central place. Also, the place gives out a very h

Service was good, I wouldn't say GREAT, nothing unusual happened, but it is GOOD ENOUGH. Everyone are Prompt ~ Smiles~
That's all I need.

I should have said it up front that I am a Big guy~ and I eat about 1.5 time more than the normal Hong Kong Chinese dude.
My wife on the other hand loves to order a full table full of stuff, especially in a new restaurant, just to see if they were any good.

This time, we ordered the 鮑魚花膠烏冬 ( Wife)
And 薑蘭粒瑤柱咸肉炒飯 ( Me)

We also ordered the 雀巢鍋貼 and 小籠包

The 鮑魚花膠烏冬 was GOOD! GOOD amount of Noodles, Good AMOUNT OF 花膠+ 鮑魚~ the taste was not as heavy as I imagine~ My wife was very happy about it. And the soup has NO MSG! My wife kept telling me how it's good for her skin~ and You can't really have enough of 花膠 in a meal... I did not pay much attention to that~ to tell you the truth, Cos For me, the taste alone did me in for coming again.

The Fried rice was a good size plate of food. You can taste the meat and the egg white Rice. It is NOT as oily as the fried rice out there (Which was Great) NOT heavy, (I think that is what they aiming for here.) but a bit healthier.

I Asked for Chili Sauce~ They Gave me XO醬, and it Turns out they Make their own XO sauce getting More impressed by the minute.

The 雀巢鍋貼 and 小籠包 were tasty HOWEVER, they are not cheap, cost 68 and 58 ( I think ) respectively. BUT the pricing really gets me ... The 雀巢鍋貼 cost more than 小籠包. Hum... See, the usual noodle set cost 88, the 鮑魚花膠烏冬 set cost 138...
I just wonder if they can lower the price of the sides so, I could order more... I hope there is something cost about 30 HKD. (I think that is reasonable for a noodle shop)

I also went there during dinner time~ this time with a few friends from College. We drunk a lot of Wine ~ Beer~ Order things from the Grill~ cost us about 250 HKD ~ and came out with a belly full of meat and beer and WINE...

Ask me to find another place in central where I can drink and eat the same amount of food with that price Hard~ Ask me to find a place with "SPACE" where we can "CHAT" with a small baloney you can smoke outside~ EVEN HARDER.

I think this place is design more with the women in mind. The meals are light~ the in house music are softer~ and the food on the meal~ as My wife puts it, " I can eat this every other day"

For me~ the place is great when I want to drink something and have a meal with a couple friends.. with a small setting.