元祖札幌味噌拉面;味噌不浓酱油突出;使用爽滑西山面条,暂时仍能站稳阵脚。如不介意偏咸的汤底, 可以一试。Springy thick ramen from the famous Nishiyama factory;Decent but fairly salty miso broth;Remember to add butter.Worth a try.Location exchanged:This, together with Hakodate, is one of the more well established ramen joints in Hong Kong. It used to be located near Exchange Square but is now across the road. Fairly spacious. About triple the size of Hakodate. About 10 counter seats facing the wall and a number of square tables with standard condiments such as pepper, shichimi and soy sauce. Menu:As the name of this place suggests, they serve Hokkaido style ramen, i.e. Miso soup base with thick curly noodles. What's surprising is that they also do tonkotsu ramen, shio ramen (salt) and shoyu ramen. Largely with the same toppings, i.e. char siu and menma. You need to add about HK$20-30 for an egg. They also have a fair amount of other cooked dishes such as stuffed squid (with rice inside the grilled squid), gyoza, kakuni (pork belly in a stew) and some rice dishes as well. I choose what I assumed to be their signature ramen - Miso ramen with butter ($10 dollar extra). It came after a short wait. Looked pretty mild:Broth: The miso soup had more more shoyu taste than miso. This felt like slightly a watered down version of Hakodate and Baikoken. Mind you, the shoyu taste was not weak at all. I won't recommend drinking the whole broth. Fortunately, the piece of butter significantly enhanced the whole broth. In fact I couldn't imagine eating miso ramen without adding butter. The piece of butter was nice. Could do with at least double the size though. The butter helped bring out the taste of the miso as otherwise the miso would be overwhelmed by the shoyu.I think the broth here was relatively better than Bishamon Zero (though I chose the spicy version at Bishamon which did not have a butter option.)All in all, a bit too salty but acceptable. I added some sichimi and pepper to balance the flavour out.Noodles:The main reason why I came here was because I wanted to have the famous Nishiyama noodles again. The first time I tried Nishiyama noodles was at Inari (it's now replaced by "RON ramen"). It's supposed to be a "premium quality" noodle.As expected, the noodles were good. :) Those were smooth and springy. Hakodate's were springer (at it's best). I prefer the noodles here than Baikoken.Char Siu: Not good at all. Tough and tasteless. Menma: This was OK. Fairly crunchy. The chopped onions and spring onion stems added more flavour to the broth but the konbu was fairly salty. Gyoza: A bit oily but the taste was fine. The pork and onions inside were relatively fresh. Service: The waitresses were very efficient and polite.Conclusion:The bill came down to HK$121 (including service).Their Nishiyama noodles still give them a slight advantage but they really need to do something about their salty broth.Adding more miso, more butter but less shoyu should enhance the taste significantly.Because of the noodles, I might return again to try other broths or Hiyashi Chuka (cold Chuka noodles with a number of toppings like ham, cucumber, crab meat and eggs).…查看更多
我每次来吃拉面都是吃浓味味噌,所以以下内容讲的都是这个拉面。四年前第一次来吃拉面时(当然那时在IFC The Forum),汤非常热,热得烫伤了舌头,汤简直是滚的程度面非常适中,汤的层次及感觉非常浓郁浓厚,真正的味噌感觉。好吃得停不了,一直连汤也饮光才停止,我相信是日本的味道,当时也有很多日本人客,日本人待应。直至搬之前,汤是差了,但还有那个很好吃的感觉。搬了之后,每两三个月也去一次,见证著水准不停下降。(服务我一直也觉很好,我只是指食物水准)感觉越来越本地化,感觉是做中环友Lunch的水准。前天去吃时,简直感觉是很普通,非常难才吃很完,吃面时连汤也不想饮。感觉像四年前1:99的味道,完全不浓,完全没有了那种层次感,和以前那味噌差天共地。以前曾经为"终于找到香港有便宜又好吃的拉面"而感动。(不要告诉我一风堂好吃,一风堂感觉是普通,连横纲也比一风堂好吃)现在很痛心一间如此出色的拉面店弄到如此地步,还见到他们现在连外卖送上门都做就知越来越不行了。这间的拉面已不用再吃,不过,各种饭定食还不错的。下次去,吃饭好啦。…查看更多