03/10/2013
華御結 Hana-Musubi
灣仔軒尼詩道302 至308集成中心地下 G7
Shop G7, G/F, C.C. Wu Building, 302-308 Henessey Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/musubi-paradise-e2323697
Before this tasting, I have already been to Hana-musubi numerous times.
It has become my one of my regular meals each week when I crave for flavoured rice.
Hana-Musubi introduces the latest "Nutritionally Balanced" sets. Customers can follow their preferences and appetites to make their own combination. "Nutritionally Balanced" sets consist of two omusubis, a selection of soup, and options of other dishes or salads.
All of their omusubis and side dishes are labelled with a clear indication of calories for the health conscious.
Mr. Muneo Nishida, the Director of Hyakunousha International Limited, arrived in Hong Kong three years ago to devote himself to establishing Hana-Musubi as a specialty retail business that promotes Japanese food culture by serving genuine omusubi made with Japanese rice.
Within two years of opening its first store in 2011, the brand has launched a chain of shops in the heart of the city’s commercial districts to provide busy workers with more healthy food choices.
Situated in another prime location in C C Wu Building, Wan Chai, the ninth Hana-Musubi outlet is surrounded by a densely built-up area of office buildings, schools and residential blocks. It offers people from all walks of life the chance to enjoy its healthy, delicious and authentic omusubi.
The Omusubi expert – Hana-Musubi carefully selects only the finest ingredients for its more than 50 varieties of omusubi. The company therefore uses only freshly milled Niigata Koshihikari rice, the most famous in Japan, which contains a high water content. This type of rice cannot easily be bought in Hong Kong supermarkets.
Hana-Musubi travels around Japan to select assorted delicious ingredients from Hokkaido to Okinawa to make the best omusubi with health benefits.
These include Hokkaido kombu (seaweed), Hakata mentaiko (spicy cod roes, an indispensable item in Japanese family dining), and Kishu umeboshi (pickled plums) to help overcome tiredness and combat ageing.
There are two types of omusubi, one with seaweed wrap and one without.
The one without is mixed with ingredients to make it tastier to suit Hong Kong people and it is convenient for children who can just dig in by tearing open the bag and using a spoon.
The other omusubi can also be opened easily without getting your fingers dirty if you know how.
I finally learnt the art of opening the omusubi at the tasting.
Here was what we tried:
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Satsuma-age fish cake:
The fish cake was nicely complemented by the light sauce drizzled on top.
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Simmered chicken & veg "Chikuzen-Ni":
This was surprisingly nice because it was packed with lots of vegetables, the balls are mini taros which had a nice slimy texture.
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Teriyaki chicken:
The chicken was nice and tender with delicious julienne cabbage beneath it and the Teriyaki sauce was not too sweet.
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Japanese style tomato pork curry:
The pork was nice and tender with delicious tomato and curry sauce.
If you like this, there is also a main dish which is Japanese style tomato curry that has roast potatoes with it.
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For Yukuri (akajiso – purple perilla) musubi, Mentaiko musubi, Wasabi octopus musubi, Scallop in vinegar musubi, Soybean, chicken meatball collagen Soup, Brown sugar warabi.
Please see:
http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2221219
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For Konbu musubi, Tazukuri musubi and Octopus salad please see:
http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2308119
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For miso chicken musubi, and salad with choice of sauce see:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2314339
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For Pizza musubi, please see <>'s review
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2217080
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I would love to see them opening more branches at the MTR stations so I could just grab one for breakfast and another good suggestion by Food and Crits is that they should label the vegetarian ones to make it clearer for them.
It would be great if there was more variety because there are 50 different types of musubi but I keep seeing the same ones.
The ones I would like to see again are: Pizza musubi, Curry musubi, minced chicken, Yukuri (akajiso – purple perilla) musubi
