Spicy Girl restaurant in Hong Kong wows with authentic Sichuan noodles to suit all spice levels
- Authentic, affordable and full of options, Spicy Girl, in the backstreets of Mong Kok, is a winner whether you can handle the heat, or shy away from it
- Dishes are inspired by China’s spicy heartland: Sichuan and Chongqing
Finding Spicy Girl in the heart of Hong Kong’s bustling Mong Kok district requires dodging down a side alley behind market vendors hawking handbags and home goods, and keeping a lookout to make sure you don’t miss it. But it is worth the search if you are looking for spicy, affordable noodles.
The restaurant’s focus is noodles inspired by China’s spicy heartland, Sichuan and Chongqing, but served your way. So despite the name, there are also non-spicy options.
The menu is a little bit confusing at first glance, regardless of whether you are reading it in Chinese or English. Once we worked it out, we realised there were many options to customise your noodles.
After choosing the base, either a non-spicy pork bone broth or the Chongqing style spicy broth, we could pick thin rice noodles, sweet potato noodles, thicker potato noodles, or a “twist” of the two potato noodles.
Both broths came with bean sprouts, sauerkraut, spring onions and fresh coriander, but it was easy to opt out of any of those.