Review | New in Causeway Bay: go the whole hog at Mokumoku Yakiton, Japanese pork skewers restaurant
Like a yakitori except that it serves pork, this Japanese restaurant, with its authentic decor and ambience, doesn't disappoint; you can be as adventurous as you like, with dishes such as pig brain and oesophagus
A yakiton is to pork what yakitori restaurants are to chicken: it’s a place that specialises in a wide variety of skewered and grilled pig parts, including lots of the innards. In Hong Kong, yakitori-yas can be found easily, but yakiton restaurants are not that common.
Mokumoku Yakiton, which opened recently in Causeway Bay, fills that gap, and is a popular place, judging by the many customers. The ambience – dim lighting, friendly staff, jazz music playing at a reasonable volume and whimsical touches like pig tchotchkes and pillows – is like what you might find at many neighbourhood establishments in Japan.
The menu lists salads, snacks and sashimi, but you’d be silly to ignore the grilled pork, of which there is an extensive selection.
We ordered one skewer each of the most interesting pork meats (the squeamish might want to stop reading here). The only dishes we didn’t like were the too-chewy small intestine (HK$34) and oesophagus (HK$34).
