蔦拉麵 - 大叔的飲食隨筆 (三)| Tsuta Japanese Soba Noodle- Old man's food blog...

辦公室附近的商場剛剛有一家日本拉麵進駐落戶。在其正式營業之前早已留意到它外牆的廣告 : "世界第一碗米芝蓮一星拉麵”. 當時已經很想試一試。終於下天午餐之時，同事說不如吃拉麵去，我就立即提議去這新開張的 ~ 蔦拉麵。

A new ramen restaurant just opened near my office recently. I was aware of it before it started business because of its advertisement slogan "The World's First Michelin-starred Ramen", very attractive. That's why I decided to came here, Tsuta Japanese Soba Noddle, when my colleague preferred to have ramen for lunch yesterday.

到了拉麵店門口，見到這設備就知道店家預計不時會有人龍出現。還好當時時間尚早，只有幾個人在我們前面排隊，應該不用等待太久。排隊時當然最適宜拍照。

There was facility for queue up setup outside, probably the restaurant expects long queues quite frequently. Luckily when we arrived, there were only a few people waiting. I took a few photos while waiting.

下一輪到我們了，侍應先遞上餐牌讓我們先選擇食物。麵食的種類不算多，只有醬油，塩和味噌3大口味。不同價錢只是有沒有蛋和多少片叉燒的分別。還有可以選擇另加不同的飯類和燒肉作小食。

When we moved to beginning of the line, we were given the menu for us to choose our noodles. There are only 3 main varieties, Shoyu, Shio and Miso. each with different no. of pieces of BBQ pork, with and without eggs choices. There are also a few choices of rices and grilled meat as snacks.

這間拉麵店在日本應該會是那種先到店內的自動售賣機買票之後再坐在店內來個速食，短時間就離開的一類。不過來到香港尖沙咀這黃金地段，似乎不適合使用自動售賣機而改為直接在櫃檯點餐和付款。最後依然是拿到一張票。等到侍應安排我們入座之時就會收取我們的票，送到廚房去。

Based on the way it operartes, I believe in Japan it should be like those traditional ramen restaurants, using a vending machine for customers to purchase tickets for their ramen and snacks. Then customers will enjoy the noodles in limited space, which could move the customers fast. When it moves to this premium shopping centre in Tsimshatsui, it has to adapt to the environment so vending machine cannot be used. Instead, customers pay at the counter and get their tickets. Waitress will collect the tickets when leading us to our seats, then pass them to kitchen.

我們被安排到面向酒店大堂的落地玻璃位置。枱面就只有簡單的一個餐盤上面就只有一對筷子，湯匙和紙餐巾。

Our seats were directly facing the Macro Polo Prince Hotel lobby. The is only one service plate on the table. On top of it are one pair of chopsticks, one spoon and one piece of napkin.

等了幾分鐘，主角終於出場，就是我點的味噌味玉拉麵。

Ramen was served after a few minutes. Mine was Miso ramen with egg.

味道不俗。麵條有彈性而不黏，熟蛋煮得剛剛熟，蛋身柔軟，叉燒不帶脂肪，是我喜歡的類型。味噌湯底厚而不濃，不會因為飲了這個湯底而整天都覺得口渴。整體而言，這裏的確是在香港能吃到的日式拉麵中最好的之一，假設日本的本店水準更高的話，那米芝蓮一星之稱號絕不過譽。可惜因為成本的問題，價錢肯定是偏貴，要求性價比的人士就可以忘記這家拉麵店了。如果只想吃個好的拉麵，這裏是個不錯的選擇。

The taste was good. Ramen has a springy texture, the boiled egg was soft and tender. BBQ pork was not fatty. The Miso soup was tasty but not too thick, which won't make you felt thirsty after drinking it. This ramen deserves the Michelin One Star merit if its Japan local version is better than what we can have in Hong Kong. Only drawback was about the portion, it was too small when compare to ramen you can get in Japan at similar price. So this restaurant is definitely not for people looking at CPR. However, if you are looking for good ramen, this is a real good choice.