Tempura Ippoh in Central

"This is a specialized restaurant which serves only tempura. Their lunch menu has just two choices: an 8-pieces set and an omakase set. The tempura is prepared in front of you by a Japanese chef over a bar table. Service is very attentive and food is very scrumptious - making it easily the best tempura restaurant in Hong Kong."

"Tempura "OG" Seki san's restaurant. Lunch is great value for money. Signature dishes including maitake mushroom, thick cut ika and tendon are the best in Hong Kong"

"This place was great! We ordered the tempura set. There were many pieces of tempura such as the sweet corn, scallop, prawn, and many more! At the end, we had the tempura rice. For dessert we had a ice cream sandwich along with fresh fruit. On top of all this, the staff and service was great."

"The best tempura omakase in town. Authentic Japanese Chef and the best cooking. Not for fancy and innovative dishes, but just the best traditional way of cooking. Dinner is the best experience."

"Ippo is located below my favorite Pho restaurant, Buncha, so I've always been curious about this tempera place. In Japan, traditional tempura restaurants are on the high end so I was a bit hesitant to come into this place. But on my business trip, I was looking for a place I can have a business lunch meeting and thought of Ippo. I was right to choose this place! Ippo has been in business for over 150 years and at this Hong Kong location, the 5th generation chef has flown all the way from Japan. The chef had studied abroad in the United States during his high school years so his English was fluent. I was happy that I can have a conversation with him. The lunch set includes an appetizer, 8 pieces of tempura, soup or salad, and tempura over rice or ochazuke, hot dashi over rice. The lunch set is 480 HKD. All the ingredients are shipped from Japan so everything is delicious. At high end tempura restaurants, they change the frying oil after every use and I saw that they changed the oil after they had prepared my lunch. I had such a delicious and great experience, I want to come back here for dinner next time. I had a peak into their kitchen and saw a water tank with fresh shrimp swimming around, and it looked so clean!"

"Very nice food, good service and the typical japnese tempura atmosphere. Authentic. Slightly expensive but worth trying!"

"Been here at least 4-5 times over the past few years and it’s always so good. The tempura is always fried to perfection and premium ingredients used make the taste absolutely spectacular. This is my favourite tempura place in HK that I always find myself coming back to. Service and ambience is great here. Highly recommend trying their omakase lunch menu if you have not."

"Toyo San is one of the most impressive chefs ever. The food was unbelievable and will be a meal we remember forever. Tempura was spectacular. Couldn’t recommend enough!!!! A treat for sure but worth every penny"