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Hong Kong: The food
Here's now a sum up of what we ate while in Hong Kong.
We got there late Wednesday last week, so our first meal was breakfast on Thursday morning. We found a sort of large restaurant (kind of Hong Kong-style famiresu), not far from our hotel, where they were serving breakfast for about $18-20. I had instant noodles with a scrambled egg, crab sticks and luncheon meat (spam!), which was pretty good. The breakfast came with coffee or tea, a very good deal!
Later, for lunch, we went to a dim sum restaurant. There was a lot on the menu and we had a hard time making up our minds, so some guy came and recommended us about 5 plates which all ended up being great!
From left to right: white radish (daikon) cakes, shark fin dumplings, shrimp dumplings, sweet meat in steamed buns (sort of like nikuman), and something else.
For dessert we had mango pudding.
Later, we had a break at a food court in Times Square and ate mango pancakes (these things don't have much to do with any pancakes we know, but they're very good nevertheless) and black sesame and tofu pudding.
In the evening we went to walk around Soho and resisted entering any foreigner-packed restaurant, rather we walked down to Sheung Wan where we ate at a dumplings (sui gyōza) place called 餃子園 (would read gyōza-en in Japanese, meaning "dumplings garden") I think. We had three plates of 10 dumpings each.
The service was pretty bad there, we were practically being ignored by one of the ladies who didn't seem to understand English (not something that could have prevented us from ordering by pointing at the menu), until another one came by.
On the next day (Friday), we went to have brunch at another dim sum restaurant in Mong Kok, where we had been to a year and a half ago during a one night stay on our way back from Europe. At that one, food is carried around the place on wheeled carts, you catch one "vendor"'s attention and ask them to show what food they have, you pick what you want and they stamp your card accordingly, which is then used to pay when you're done. A fun system.
Later we stopped by 許留山 (Houlaisan?), a chain of delicious ice cream and mango desserts. We had mango pudding with mango ice cream, and the black and white (black sesame and coconut) ice cream combo.
Last but not least, on our way back to the hotel we went to 池記 (Chee-Kee), just across from Times Square, to have good and cheap wonton noodles for dinner.
Posted on March 23, 2005 at 00:13 | Tweet
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Looks like you had yourself some good local food there. One thing about dim sum though is that there are usually 4 prices depending on which category the dim sum falls under. It could be priced under small (小), medium (中), large (大) or special (特). The stamp itself usually will not say which type of dim sum you ordered since the server could be selling any type of dim sum. It is where they put the stamp that shows how much you will be charged. I am usually the one to keep an eye on the card when our company goes dim sum. No one will try to fool a Cantonese speaker at a dim sum place. ;-)
Posted by Tania on March 30, 2005 at 16:30
That's good to know!
The place we went had a morning special at the time, where almost everything was $8, so any regular numbered stamp on our card counted as $8. A few however had a different fixed price and were stamped as the price itself like "10元". :)
Posted by Patrick on March 30, 2005 at 16:42