Mak's Noodle () is a traditional
Cantonese restaurant
A Cantonese restaurant is a type of Chinese restaurant that originated in Southern China. This style of restaurant has rapidly become common in Hong Kong.
History
Some of the earliest restaurants in colonial Hong Kong were influenced by Canton ...
in
Central, Hong Kong, specialising in
wonton noodles
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.
History
Dating back to the 1960s, the business is now in the run by Mak Chi-ming, a third-generation descendant of Mak Woon-chi () who once served the dish to the
President of the Republic of China
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Chiang Kai-shek.
[Jessica Lam, Food, ''South China Morning Post'', 7 June 2007] It is claimed that the recipe has remained unchanged since Mak's grandfather's time.
The restaurant has its roots in a
Guangzhou
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eaterie established before World War II by Mak Woon-chi. One of his sons, Mak King-hung (), nicknamed Mak Ngan () because he was extremely skinny as a child, started an
open air food stall in Central in 1968 where his younger brother was the chef. The founder retired in 1983, and renounced his food stall license in lieu of HK$36,000 in compensation from the Hong Kong government.
[Mak's Noodles' 100-year history]
''Apple Daily''
The founder's eldest son, Mak Chi-chung (), opened his own restaurant Chung Kee Noodles (), in 1986, while Mak senior partnered his son-in-law in 1989 to reincarnate his original business in Wellington Street. He ran the restaurant himself and retired again in 1996. The business was succeeded by his second son Mak Chi-ming, the current proprietor.
In recent years, Mak's Noodle has established outlets at
Olympian City
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,
China Hong Kong City
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,
Causeway Bay
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and
Jordan
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, and one restaurant in
Macau
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. Their first Singapore outlet opened on Orchard Road in the Centrepoint shopping mall, with by a second outlet at Westgate Shopping Mall in Jurong East.
On 21 December 2020, Mak's Noodle announced it will be shutting its flagship – and last remaining – outlet in Singapore at The Centrepoint mall on 28 Feb 2021.
Gallery
File:Maks1.jpg, Front entrance
File:Maks2.jpg, The chef at work
See also
*
List of noodle restaurants
This is a list of notable noodle restaurants, which are restaurants that specialize in noodle dishes.
Noodle restaurants
* Afuri, Shinjuku, Tokyo
* Ajisen Ramen
* Bakmi GM, Indonesia
* Boxer Ramen, Portland, Oregon, U.S.
* Hakata Gensuke, Au ...
References
External links
97 Reasons to love Hong Kong ''Time''. Archived on 13 September 2010
{{Hong Kong restaurants
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Restaurants in Hong Kong
Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese restaurants
Central, Hong Kong