Manchinro Honten

Manchinro Honten has stood in Yokohama Chinatown since 1892, making it the district's oldest Cantonese restaurant — open here since before the neighborhood had steamed-bun stalls on every corner. The current building isn't the original one: the Great Kanto Earthquake, wartime air raids, and a fire in 2002 each forced a rebuild, with the present palace-like, ornately decorated dining room reopening in 2003.

Order the kama-yaki (oven-roasted) Peking duck, carved tableside and the dish the kitchen is best known for. Course menus run from roughly ¥3,200 for a weekday lunch set up to ¥24,000 for the top dinner banquet course (as of July 2026), and the pricier dinner menus bring out whole braised shark fin and shark-fin soup alongside shrimp-and-chive dumplings and other seasonal Cantonese dishes. Executive chef Shō Tokki, who trained in Hong Kong and later ran restaurants in Shanghai before joining Manchinro in 2003, oversees the kitchen.

The dining room itself is part of the draw: private rooms require a minimum of six guests, and the restaurant also handles larger banquet parties. It reads as an occasion restaurant more than a quick chinatown lunch counter, which is why it's the address locals reach for on anniversaries and business dinners rather than a casual stop.

A few practical notes: it's a short walk from Motomachi-Chukagai Station, closed Mondays (except public holidays), and this isn't a cash-only stop — credit cards and e-money, including PayPay, are all accepted. Reservations are strongly recommended for dinner and essential for private rooms; the phone line (045-681-4004) takes bookings in Japanese. There's no published English menu, and Manchinro doesn't carry halal or vegetarian certification; shark fin, pork, and traditional Cantonese stocks run through much of the menu, so diners keeping to a specific diet should call ahead about individual courses rather than assume anything is adaptable.

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