Mensousai Mugen

Did a walk-in on Saturday night and the waiting time was 1 hour. We were happy to wait at the bar across from the restaurant. Once our table was ready, we were welcomed by friendly staff and amazed with the atmosphere. Ordered the tsukemen and it was very delicious and tasty. Great portion size and value for money. Highly recommend and will come back! We received a 10% discount at the restaurant since we had drinks from the bar.

My first visit, didn’t realise the queue would be so long! The wait time was almost an hour. After being seated, my partner and I immediately understood it’s popularity! Ordered their famous, “Wafu Tsukemen” sukiyaki - incredibly creamy and so tasty! Highly recommend! Since then, have repeatedly and happily returned to try their other menu items!:)

This place was a huge let down as it had been recommended by many food bloggers, and websites. Not only was the food below average, but the service was lacking as well. We arrived around 8:30pm when quite a few people were leaving so there were not too many customers. It still took them 20 minutes to take our order and another 40 minutes to serve the food. I’m pretty sure they’d forgotten we hadn’t been served our food based on the antics going in the kitchen. When the food finally did arrive, the soup was one noodle dip away from being cold. When we asked for the soup to all be reheated they were just microwaved. I have no issue with them microwaving the soup if the SOUP is hot. Instead it was lukewarm soup in a hot bowl. The soup was not as flavourful as some other reviews had claimed either. The chashu was thankfully quite delicious (hence the 2 stars instead of 1). Getting the larger bowl with extra noodles does not get you extra soup which is a huge disappointment considering how light tasting the broth was. Could not recommend a place less

I really wanted to like this place, especially with some of the positive reviews. But the experience here was so disappointing I found myself needing to share it, especially for anyone who was planning to go out of their way to eat here (like I did). To those who had a great experience here, I am JEALOUS. I can only wish that was us, but honestly this place was the worst we had in Melbourne. Not worth it. TLDR: TRUST THE OTHER REVIEWS. DO NOT COME HERE TO EAT. Came here last week with my friends on a Saturday night for dinner. We were from Sydney and I wanted to introduce them to a nice tsukemen place (HUGE tsukemen fan here). We were at first super excited: the place had nice music and vibes, plus they had a promotion where you could get 10% off drinks at the bar across from the place if you show your receipt. We were keen, but the night ended with disappointment and a sour mood. We didn't even get drinks. When we entered, there was some miscommunication so we ended up going up and down before being seated in front of the kitchen. Had to ask for table water service and utensils twice. But up to this point, we were okay. It's chill, people can make mistakes. After 40 minutes, we started to wonder where our food was and can hear from the kitchen that they were playing around. Staff were speaking in Korean but I understood what they were saying, and some were clearly playing around/flirting with each other, asking "am I cute?" to one another. That's nice and all but I don't think its enough reason to wait so long for food (?). Please flirt after bringing out our food? One of the waitress noticed our staring and went to ask the kitchen about our orders. The next moment they were hussling and the waitress came to tell us that our order was delayed because there were too many other orders before us? We were literally in front of the kitchen and NO dishes left in the past half hour. Clearly our order was forgotten. The food came and they forgot to put seaweed on my friend and I's plate (we ordered the large one too) and the soup was lukewarm at best that we had to ask them to reheat it for us. Even reheated, only the bowl was warm and I ended up with a mouthful of watered-down, cold soy with some noodles. The noodles remind me of this Korean knife noodle rather than ramen, which was interesting. I agree with the other reviewers that the soup was quite watered down, but I wondered if it was just the soy style in comparison to the usual meaty tsukemen broths we're used to? Either way, was not nice. Honestly quite disappointing, considering they only had this and one other tsukemen item on the menu?

Recommended by locals + sites for best tsukemen. Arrived 5min after opening time. Waited 1hr to order food - Wafu tsukemen is the most disappointing. Dipping sauce was very bland, felt diluted. Chashu was too dry. Egg was under marinated. Noodle texture was good though. + Housemade gyoza was very good. + Mazesoba decent Would be great if they had a max seat time especially with the limited seats.

Stopped by on a Friday night with two friends, the staff very were friendly, helped us with our order and accommodating to our needs. The dipping ramen is my absolute favourite way to eat ramen and I wish I lived closer so I could have it all the time. It’s a tight space but it echos Japan’s ramen scene and feels genuine. Highly recommend!