Hong Kong Eat: Tsim Chai Kee Noodle (沾仔记) @ Central

Tsim Chai Kee Noodle (沾仔记) is well-known for its specialty noodle dishes with ping pong-size wanton (shrimp & pork dumplings), beef slices and dace balls. The Michelin-recommended restaurant has its main outlet along Wellington Street, in Central, with a couple of branches in the Kowloon Peninsula. The main outlet is located right next to the Central Mid-Level Escalators and easy to find.

Tsim Chai Kee has a simple menu with few dishes. Their noodle dishes use thin egg noodle, in soup or dry-tossed, and added with either wanton (招牌云吞), fresh beef slices (鲜牛肉), dace fish meatballs (鲮鱼肉球) or mix-and-match of the 3 main ingredients. Wanton noodle is their signature dish. There is a vegetable dish too.

The Wanton & Beef Noodle Soup (双拼面) has the noodle in soup with two big wanton, generous amount of fresh beef slices and topped with spring onions. The thin noodle is nicely-cooked, springy and with nice crunchiness in rich, flavourful broth. The wantons, as big as ping pong balls, have fresh, crunchy whole prawns and minced pork in soft wrapper skins. The thick slices of beef are very tender with nice beef texture and flavour. This dish is quite hearty and really delicious.

The Three Treasures Dry Noodle (三宝捞面) has similar wanton and fresh beef slices and added with dace fish meatball (鲮鱼肉球) on dry thin noodle with a thick dark sauce for tossing. Although not exactly in the shape of a ball, the large piece of dace fish meat has near-similar texture to firm pork meatball with bouncy tenderness. This dish is very filling and should be tackled on an empty stomach.

Tsim Chai Kee's three treasures with either noodle soup / dry noodle is definitely not to be missed.

Address:

98 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong

Opening Hours:

11am to 9:30pm | Daily

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