ever busy Hong Kong - diorama settlement taken during sunrise rush hour during Central Here is a post many of we have been watchful for with bated breath.It is a vast post-the longest ever to nail down - eating up endlessnights of editing cinema as great as words. we reckon we was over ambitiouscramping all in a single blog post. Itwas(and still is!)acrazy thought nonetheless knowledge tells me we don't have a patience to breakit intobite stretch posts as great as blog over a duration of time. Hopefully it'll actas a utilitarian guide. Similar to my prior Hong Kong post, it's broken down to locations to simply track down as great as this time round, additionally by occasion. To assistance we navigate a busy metropolis, I've additionally included a addresses, telephone numbers as great as a opening times (if available). Run by a flickr sets for a feel of a place as space is a constraint here so it equates to less pictures.
A luscious mouth smacking journey in to Hong Kong; ripened offspring case in Central diorama styleBeing food obssessed,the tripwas literally a constant office of great food around a city peppered with a trepidation night knowledge as great as of course, any budding booze lover's dream aka a Hong Kong Wine & Dine festival.I managed to devour an heterogeneous mixof tall brow Michelin starred restaurants, hole-in-the-wall eateries, transport food -all with a single usual thread - great food. It's uncanny nonetheless even nonetheless it's my second outing for a year, we still transport divided from Hong Kong with a insatiablehunger to lapse for my prime eatsor trynew eateries we longed for out. we guess Hong Kong unequivocally has weaved her sorcery! around me which I'm in adore with a city's offerings.
Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival (28-31 October)
sampling a sparkling roseI was invited by Novotel Hotels together with a churned organisation of bloggers (art, transport as great as food) from all over Asia, Australia as great as New Zealandto attend a Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival - an extravaganza of wineand food from all over a world. Theyearly legal holiday is organized by a Hong Kong Tourism Board, this was a second year. Following a vast reply lastyear, this yearsaw abigger expansion with some-more than160 booths representing assorted wineries from France, Italy, Australia, Spain, a US as great as Portugal. China as great as Hungary wineswere additionally showcased for a initial time.Also represented were around 60 food booths with meals trimming from cheese, ham, Chinese food, burgers, chocolate, ice cream as great as etc. To facilitate a tasting trail, wewere given a booze potion to carry as great as token passesthat gave us entrance to booze as great as food sampling.
hams as great as some-more hams from France as great as Spain's Pata Negra, French lady as great as booze bottlesFrancewas a large concentration as a special Bordeaux territory was set up to feature assorted wineries from a important French area.French cheeses as great as hams were alsoavailable. Special tasting sessions during a L Ecole De Vin was additionally hold to deliver to budding booze lovers a virtures of Bordeaux wines. Various booze classes were additionally conducted by a Hong Kong Sommelier Association ! as great as a some-more formal Wine School with middle as great as modernized turn booze tall regard classes. Another must-do was a Grand Tasting Pavilion, where premium wines (someone referred to they sampled Dom Perignon champagne here), cheese as great as ham were housed inside of a lonesome area.
HMS Bounty rides a seas, abalone salsa with egg as great as rice, lights from a festivalThe Western Kowloon Waterfront Promenade environment for a festivalwas settlement perfect- a sweeping perspective of a gulf with a wink lights.Held for 4 days, theextravaganzamarked thestart of a fibre of activities for Hong Kong Wine & Dine Month together with transport fairs as great as an additional large eventthat wasthe Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair from November 4-6.More sum can be found athttp://www.discoverhongkong.com/For some-more pictures, see the Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival Flickr set.
Halloween - Ocean Park & Lan Kwai Fong
Ocean Park: Nemo; jellyfish galore; ferris wheel Halloween is distinguished in a large approach in Hong Kongwith revelers hamming it up for a arise with vast costumes as an forgive to celebration all night long.The people from Novotel Hotels had kindly organised for us to revisit Ocean Park (Aberdeen, 852-3923 2323)for their barbarous Halloween Bash (already 10 years old)that runs from twenty-three September to 31 October. As it customarily proposed from 5pm onwards, many of a marine animals had called it a day solely a ones in a aquarium.
Since it was a weekend, throngs of youngsters had assimilated a large celebration which kicks off in a evening.For a special haunting season, a thesis play ground had 444 ghoulsto shock as great as shock. Being a person whonormally does not doscary abhorrence movies, we admit Ihad a frightfully fun time starting by quite a fair amount of their condemned houses which night. My favouriteone wasbased upon a PangBrothers' movieThe Child's Eyewherebyit was set in a creepy highway house - a spinal column chilling environment with a vast disturb factor. Another fun a single was Terror Park, where your goal was to savelost souls using this RFID technology (or some-more similar to in contact with this "camera" to variouscheckpoints). Once we finish that, we got to imitation out a sticker telling we how many souls we had saved. A tiny youthful nonetheless yet still loads of fun with a ghouls popping up during unexpected spots to fright. For some-more pictures, see my Ocean Park Hong Kong flickr set.
Lan Kwai Fong scenes: a witches as great as devils of Wellington Street; YMCA fellasBeing a Saturday night, a celebration still continued upon with a tiny some-more grown up fun during a barbarous Lan Kwai Fong. Like all special occasions, throngs of people were additionally there for a large transport party. To control a crowd, a military had cordoned off partial of a area, making certain there were proper routes for a throng to pierce up as great as down a transport in an nurse fashion. It was stand in a stretch to transport upwith thenew routebut we! didn 9;t mind a extra legwork given we had a side party of spying who had a many vast dress along a way.
Lan Kwai Fong scenes: caveman; gory pumpkins, a bride wore red as great as white, Ronald McDonaldEveryone was literally ready to go to kill - guys imitating a blue avatar complete with a tail (that grabbedthe girls attention), a single organisation in caveman costumes together with bushy shoes(!), Ronald McDonald imitators with his mop of red funny hair, girls ready to go up as witches, devils as great as even a single who came as a bride (white with a lurch of blood) as great as etc. My prime were a YMCA guys, in their workmen costumes complete with goggles as great as a torchlights. Strangely enough, a cobbled streets were linedwithloads ofphotographers (and a small videographers) hanging around to capture a many outlandish looks. For some-more pictures, see my Lan Kwai Fong - Halloween Time flickr set.
The Whiskey Priest: fish as great as chips; spicy steep wing; cheese nachos;a pint of Guinness; jalapeno cheeseWeleft a busy streetsto take shelter atThe Whiskey Priest (Grd Flr &1st Flr, twelve Lan Kwai Fong, Central,852 -2869 0099) for a late supper. The Novotel Nathan Road's Marketing Communications Manager Irene had organised with her crony Caroline who functions with Lan Kwai Fong Entertainments (which The Whiskey Priest is partial of) to encounter up with us. Coincidentally, we found out after which Lan Kwai Fong Entertainments additionally owns Ocean Park. We have been all famished from a frightful knowledge as great as a prolonged trek we took around Ocean Park which we fast gloss up a pub'ss! pecialty , a light crisp drink batteredfish as great as chips with a lurch of malt vinegar. Another favouritewas a low boiled jalapeno chillieswith cheese- asinful nonetheless oh-so-good combo. Spicy steep wings,potato chips as great as a tender steep beef completed a late night plate cleared down with Guinness as great as chardonnay wine. For some-more pictures, see my Whiskey Priest Flickr set.
Jordan, Kowloon
my super comfy Premier Room; pillow menu for honeyed dreams; dessert from Novotel acquire dinnerThoroughout my trip, Iwasat theNovotel Nathan Road Hotel (348, Nathan Road, Kowloon, 852-3965 8888. Novotel additionally has hotels in Citygate nearby a airport as great as an additional a single in Wan Chai, Hong Kong). Strangely sufficient we recollect entrance to this area for my last outing as we met friends up during Nathan Hotel, which is customarily turn a dilemma from this place. The highway house is kinda tucked divided in a single of a streets off a super prolonged Nathan Road so technically it's during Saigon Street right opposite a porridge place. What we loved aboutthe hotellocationwasit took us 5 minutes to transport here from a Jordan MRTstation, making it so easy for us to pierce from Kowloon to Hong Kong island.
Premier Lounge; fish, scallop carpaccio as great as beef carpaccio from Novotel acquire dinnerThe highway house is a newest of a trio of Novotel hotelsin Hong Kong - all given in a complicated style. we prime a nifty settlement in myroomthat utilised a tiny space - my toilet doorway was a shifting a single which doub! led up a s my habit door! It seems a highway house is additionally a initial a single in a Novotel organisation in China to get a Green Globe Certification Program. Hence in a room, we had reminders to save water,use your towels again (which we did), recycling bins(excellent for me when we was clearing up all my shopping bags as great as junk) as great as eco-friendly toiletries. Another plus pointfor a Premier Rooms where we stayed in was we aregranted entrance to a Premier Lounge, which servescontinentalbreakfast, afternoon tea andevening cocktails. we can't live without a Internet (I had to compensate a explosve in Italy during my 2 weeks stay for access) as a result we was in adore with my tall speed broadband as great as giveaway wifi.Even nonetheless you're not staying in a Premier Rooms, there have been Macs in a reception area for we to check your internet, refurbish your Facebook as great as Twitter. It was additionally unequivocally surprising to find they had a Pillow Menu - all kinds from feathery to tough ones as great as even a lavender a single to make certain we had honeyed dreams. For some-more pictures, see my Novotel Hotel Hong Kong Flickr set.
Nathan Congee: comforting steep as great as abalone porridgeBest of all, given I'm food obsessed, it was inside of walking stretch to a infamous Nathan Congee & Noodles (11, Saigon Street, Jordan, 852-2384 7355, Open: 7.30am-12pm). This place seems popular with a tourists generally a Thais who strech it by a assistance of a guidebook (as appear from any Thai traveller who clutches upon to it similar to mad).The ownershave even taken a liberty tostick Thai created menus upon a wall to support to their overseas customers. Most of a wake up is right during a doorstep where a prepare presides over his kitchen. The porridge is coo! ked ahea d to a smooth coherence as great as kept warm in a large pot. Ocassionally, they'll brew it with a prolonged wooden hang (that looked similar to it was recycled from a broomstick) to keep it from thickening.
Nathan Congee: pig's liver; abalone; century eggs as great as a hang in a porridgeYou can sequence a accumulation of porridgewith assorted side orders.They're important for their steep as great as abalone porridgethat iswatered downa tiny with a indifferent potion fromthe canned abalone. we generally adore how any steep square has a graphic ambience as great as aroma of Shaoxing rice booze it is dripping in. The frog porridge failed to stir thoughsince a frogs they use arepretty small. Side meals similar to century eggs, low boiled crullers (yau burn kwai) as great as pig's liverare additionally available. For some-more pictures, see my Nathan Congee & Noodles Flickr set.
Man Mak Kee Noodles: beef brisket, vegetables, noodles as great as a cooking areaThis time turn we didn't try in to a Australian Dairy Company as a queues were funny long. Instead, wevisitMak Man Kee Noodle Shop (Grd Flr, 51, Parkes Street, Jordan, 852-2736 5561, Open: twelve noon - 12.30am), which is right subsequent doorway to a important cha burn tengwith a single of a Hong Kong food bloggers, HK Epicurus.Personally we wasn't tooimpressed with a food here.The noodles lacked a requisite chewiness, a prawn wantan didn't have a buoyant hardness we want from uninformed prawns as great as a gas lacked any dusty solitary (chor hau yee)aroma. The beef! brisket as great as suprisingly a honeyed tasting vegetables were their saving grace. For some-more pictures, see my Mak's as great as Man Mak Kee Noodles Flickr set.
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Just prior to he flew off to Italy, HKEpicurus was unequivocally kind sufficient to uncover us around a community as great as where a cooking were. We find Kimberley Street, which has a Mira Hotel, Miramar Shopping Centre, Kimberley Hotel (said to serve theheavenly boneless pressed suckling pig per Singaporean food blogger Chubby Hubby) as great as loads of Korean diners. Later on, we revisit a place again upon a own as great as cocktail over to Hong Kong Old Restaurant (4th Flr, Miramar Shopping Centre, 1 Kimberley Street, 852-2722 1812, Open: 11am-3pm, 5.30-11pm, Branch in North Point). It's a place my booze expert crony Ronny recommends given it's aged schoolChinese food popular with a locals.He warns us not to orderhairy crabs (sniff!) even nonetheless it isin deteriorate asit seems this year, a stormy deteriorate has meantthe crabs aretoo tiny in stretch to even worry eating. Instead we punch xiao loong baos with a perfumed broth. Unlike a ones we get here, a skin is a tiny thicker nonetheless still smooth sufficient to savour. We additionally sequence a smoked seagul which is finger beating good. For some-more pictures, see my Hong Kong Old Restaurant Flickr set.
It was a light plate as earlier upon we had snacked on LeeKen Egg Waffles (78, Nathan Road, Jordan, Open: 7am-2am.). Located dual doors divided from McDonalds, everybody stops by here for a egg waffles as great as patiently takes a reserve number. Our wait for is rewarded wi! th crisp y egg waffles with a soothing light hardness within. Simply addictive which a single crispy bit is customarily not enough. The transport upon Nathan Road to Kimberley Street after this case is generally poetic given aged trees line a walkway as great as St Andrews Church is additionally adjacent to a busy road. Further down along Nathan Road, you'll find a mosque as great as turn an additional dilemma is a gulf together with Harbourcity, which is where we stayed a last time. For some-more pictures, see my Lee Ken Egg Waffles Flickr set.
Sun Kee: food which sticks to a ribs aka cheese instant noodles with grilled pig neckWe longed for to finish a night with a single of HK Epicurus' recommendations as a result to cope with a neverending food stops we kept making, we'll kill time by we do aside ofshopping. Uniqlo was packed with people who were starting ape funny over fleeces as great as winter clothing. Since Malaysia as great as Sydney won't be experiencing cold weather in a nearby future, we abandoned ship. Instead, we found condolence in a single of my prime places aka Muji. A discerning transport around a streets additionally suggested which nestled in in in between a Korean diners were loads of wedding shops as great as Sasa, a contingency for those who adore face masks, cosmetics as great as etc.Eventually we ended up during HK Epicurus' rarely recommended place aka Sun Kee Restaurant (Shop 13-14, Grd Flr, Champagne Court, 16-20 Kimberley Street, 852-2722 4555). This tiny hole in a wall corner is great tucked inside of an aged fashionedshopping centre which is customarily dual doors divided from a mod seeking Mira Hotel. Their pulling captivate is their cheese noodles - curly strands coated in a not-too-cheesy creamy salsa with pieces of burn grilled pig neck - a prime of! a fibre ofHK stars (as per a pixs which line a walls).Literallyfood which sticks to your ribs, it is popular with a immature customers given it's a darnreasonable total (about HKD 30 plus) to compensate after clubbing. we mark an additional plate upon any tableand motionless to give it a try. We finish up with cuttlefish drizzled with a honeyed thick as great as sticky soy saucegarnished with sesame seeds. Ittastes great in a beginning nonetheless got cloyingly honeyed during a end. For some-more pictures, see my Sun Kee Flickr set.
Mongkok, Kowloon
Tim Ho Wan's barbarous bunsFor this sole trip, Tim Ho Wan (Flat 8, Grd Flr, Tsui Yuen Mansion, 2-20 Kwong Wa Street, Mongkok, 852-2332 2896, Open: 10am-10pm. Branch in Sham Shui Po) was upon tip of my list of must-eats given we had longed for it out a last time. Horror stories about their legendary queues done me a tiny "kiasu" as a result we reached their doorstep around 9.30am even nonetheless they begin during 10am. A tiny reserve had already proposed out when we arrived which seemed to include some-more of foreigners vs locals (we after find which loads of Australians as great as Kiwis were in town for a Bledisoe Cup which pitches a All Blacks as great as Wallabies together). Literally a hole in a wall (with a capacity of 29 people), it is best we use your watchful time wisely to name as great as tick your order. To support for their general clientele, they have an English translated sequence piece making hold up easier for non Chinese speakers.
Tim Ho Wan: a queue; ham siu kok as great as a bubbling basketsThe place ! is close so be prepared to share your list with strangers. We finish up joining tables wih an Australian family who was so tender with their initial revisit there, they did a revisit.I get a peek of a kitchen which looks crampedand shortly a food keeps entrance out. The crispy burn siu pauthat marries a polo bun lardy crust as great as a burn siu filling is worth all which hype. The burn siu filling is perfect - not as good sweetnor overdosed with rose booze -making us not bewail placing stand in orders for a tiny crispy buns.We were a tiny ambitious with a grouping as a result a foodpiled up quickly. we was many tender with theham siu kokand a Teochew dumpling (fan guo).
Tim Ho Wan: teochew dumplingsHere was a things of my dreams - chives, a tiny break from peanuts as great as radish - wrapped in a paper thin transculent wrapper. The glutinous rice was flattering decent nonetheless zero exceptional. we prime a feathery mah lai koh as great as a robust pumpkin with pieces of reddish-brown which we finish off as dessert. For some-more pictures, see my Tim Ho Wan Flickr set.
On a wayto Langham Place,we transport pasta transport marketplace which is a tiny different from my prior marketplace transport as right away we can mark a anniversary ingredients - chestnuts as great as waxed meats. we additionally spy burnt orange colouredpersimmons as great as dusty orange peels. For some-more pictures, see my Hong Kong Markets flickr set.
Ming Court's Sharksfin DelightDetermined to samplethe Michelin starred restaurants, we done reservations for Ming Court (6th Flr, Langham Place Hotel, 555, Shanghai Street, Mongkok, 852-3552 3300, Open: 11am-2pm, 6-10.30pm) for lunchto punch their food as great as tosee forourselves if they merit which elevation from a single Michelin star to dual Michelin stars in a 2010/11 guide. Unfortunately we didn't geta chance to dine in their categorical dining room nonetheless instead during an additional area which seemed to resemble a party section. What struck me about this place though, it is unequivocally a tiny different from normal Chinese restaurants - all a tables have been placed frugally in in between any alternative - a uncanny steer given customarily Chinese restaurants tend to grappling iron in as many tables as possible to get some-more covers.
Ming Court: beautiful oozing custard bunsSince it was a dual of us, choices were quite singular nonetheless we manage with a small dim total offerings as great as their signature dish, a stir boiled garoupa with mushrooms as great as dusty shrimp roe. A word about a menus, all was a tiny treacherous as we got handed so many types: a specials, a categorical menu, a anniversary menu as great as etc, which grouping was so confusing. Luckily we did a small research as great as could wizz in to their signature dishes.
Ming Court: Pan boiled mushrooms buns; mango layer; stir boiled garoupaI similar to a vessel boiled mushrooms buns(HKD 36) as there's unequivocally a clarity of excellence in a dainty buns filled with a accumulation of umami-laden mushrooms. On a single side it has a beautiful fern settlement w! hilst a bottom was vessel boiled sesame seeds giving we a poetic crunch. The simple nonetheless beautifully executed custard buns (HKD36)were additionally a favourite, splendidly savoury as great as creamy which flowed beautifully when we broke in to any solid seeking bun. Even nonetheless a categorical plate was rsther than large for a dual of us, we still enjoyed any ambience of it - sliced garoupa as great as mushrooms coated in dusty shrimp roe (HKD458). Our large dissapointment was dessert nonetheless - their barbarous uncover interlude sharksfin pleasure (HKD98). It's a steer to behold given it comes in a prolonged black ebony box filled with dry ice to emanate an ethereal outcome nonetheless a ambience of a mango pudding with a sharks fin tip layer left us a tiny cold nonetheless given it was a tad as good tough with not most of a mango taste. While it's tough to decider a restaurant with such couple of dishes, we contingency admit we was tender with whatever tiny we tasted as great as wouldn't mind returning again. For some-more pictures, see my Ming Court Flickr set.
Elements Shopping Mall, Kowloon
Elements display diorama styleFor this sole trip, Iclicked with afew dessert fanswho introduced us to Chez Shibata (Shop 2003, 2nd Level, Elements, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, 852-2196 8921, Open: 11am-. Branches in Shanghai as great as Japan.) It seems this sole shop is right away a hottest place around for honeyed treats ever given a recent opening, as a result a whole organisation of us motionless to extend here for a tiny sweetened interlude.
Chez Shibata's The Heart -! filled with raspberries I guess space is always a large issue in Hong Kong as many of these dessert places do not have lots of tables as great as chairs for we to lay as great as suffer their treats. Instead, receiving them divided is so most some-more usual which a opposite gals do not bat an eyelid when we ask for a flare as great as napkins to punch their honeyed desserts elsewhere. It was tough to choose from a desirable array nonetheless we slight down to a choices. We extend an additional turn up to find an oasis upon tip - a grassed area yard area which is a communal play ground for a people who live around Elements: a tall climb luxe apartments, The W Hotel as great as a barbarous ICC building.
Chez Shibata: Verrine Plaisir with white chocolate as great as passionfruit layers; Caramel Eclair with pickled butter cubes; Tranche Macha; ripened offspring tartWe suffer a particular desserts as great as everyone's prime was a splendid red heart or Couer Du Bois (HKD38)- a pillow soothing mascarpone cheese mousse with a hiss mousse centre which gave it a oooh-la-la taste. Famous for a Tranche Macha, we didn't quite similar to a ambience of a chocolate as great as macha layers substantially given conjunction had any graphic taste. The intolerable green partial was a tiny disconcerting though. The ripened offspring spicy looked poetic nonetheless had a flattering tough almond crust though. Definitely unequivocally flattering to demeanour during nonetheless we kinda thought a pastries was a tad dissapointingly pointed in ambience though. For some-more pictures, see my Chez Shibata flickr set.
La Maison Du Chocolat: Pistachio Entremet; Passi! onfruit as great as Porcelana Macarons; Coffee EclairIn an additional revisit here, we done it a indicate to drop by La Maison Du Chocolat (2040A, Elements, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, 852-2196 8333, Open: 11am-. Branches in Pacific Place, IFC as great as Prince's Building) which came rarely recommended by my crony CS. Again, we have to pack these behind as a result we customarily managed to representation them later.
La Maison Du Chocolat's ice creams: Salted Caramel as great as Tonka ChocolateThe ice creams have been damn tantalizing generally a uber abounding Tonka chocolate (HKD56).My pickled caramel (HKD56) is customarily a shade less nicer substantially given it was a tiny soothing from a journey back. we loved a macarons (HKD20 for one)especially a abounding porcelana chocolate one. They're super light with customarily a tiny filling to make it not as good dry - simply beautiful nibbles which don't kill your tastebuds with their over-emotional benevolence similar to a ones we get here. The pistachio entremet (HKD60) was great nonetheless zero earth ruinous spectacular. Next time, I'll customarily hang to a chocolates as great as a macarons. For some-more pictures, see my La Maison Du Chocolat flickr set.
Central, Hong Kong
Tai Cheong Bakery's egg spicy which Chris Patten heartsStrangely sufficient this outing saw us traipsing around a rocky streets of Central some-more than we did around a Jordan area. On a initial giveaway day, we finish up here as great as given Brad from ladyironchef is a self-confessed egg spicy addi! ct, we r epresentation a barbarous biscuit crust version from Tai Cheong Bakery (Grd Flr, Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, 852-2544 3475, Open:7.30am-9pm, 8.30am-9pm for Sundays as great as open holidays.) It's decent things especiallywith a light biscuit crust andwobbly egg custard portion. we guess it would have been betterwarmed. We additionally representation a century egg fritter pronounced to be a single of Time Out's contingency cooking - a bit uncanny tasting with thecrumblypastry as great as soothing lotusseed pulp with a tough century egg within. For some-more pictures, see my Tai Cheong bakery flickr set.
Princess Cafe's Goji Berry CakeWe're all a tiny full from brunch as a result by a time we decide to eat, it's peak lunch time as great as we give up perplexing to get a seat around a area. Instead, we stumble onto Princess Cafe & Bistro (Grd Flr, 115, Wellington Street, Central, 852-2866 9062), right across from Lin Heung Dim Sum. Admitedly, we all walked in for a giveaway wifi (we're kinda wifi fiends given giveaway wifi in Hong Kong is pitiable as great as even singular to 30 minutes in Starbucks if we can ever get in!). We find a tiny cafeteria run by a passionate immature lady who serveslight tastingcakes. She's got an surprising touch - a chocolate a single is my prime as she infuses theganache with milk. The goji berry baked sweat bread is additionally unequivocally surprising with pieces of a red berry as great as dusty longan within. For some-more pictures, see my Princess Cafe flickr set.
Sing Heung Yeun: The crowd; chopped tomatoes beef noodlesOne of a places ! we were eyeing for lunch was Sing Heung Yuen (2, Mei Lun Street, Off Gough Street, Central, 852-2544 8368, Open: 8am-5.30pm. Closed Sundays) nonetheless given a lunch throng was crazy, we customarily managed to find out what a hype was all about most later. Perpetually packed with people, we have to share tables with strangers. They're super popular for their chopped tomatoes noodles - customarily macaroni or instant noodles served with a chopped tomatoes brawny gas with pieces of beef as great as a dollop of canned tomatoes. It's a tiny upon a honeyed side from a tomatoes as great as intensely robust from a beef slices. A great combination which gives a home-like taste. For some-more pictures, see my Sing Heung Yeun flickr set.
Island Tang: Old propagandize charm; shrimp pulp pig ribs; prawn toast; fungus dumplingOn an additional day, we lapse behind here for lunch during a oneMichelin starredIsland Tang (2nd Flr, The Galleria, 9 Queen's Road, Central, 852-2526 8798, Open: twelve noon -12.30pm) which is hosted by Hong Kong Tourism Board. Owned by a decorated David Tang who runs Shanghai Tang, a dining room is desirable Shanghai stylish complete with chandeliers as great as leather chairs. It's a great place to locate a small flattering decent dim total with a great atmosphere. What stood out from a plate here were theold propagandize Chinese classic crunchy prawn toast brimful with corpulent chopped prawns, theperfumed matsusake gas with a steamed vegetable dumpling as great as thefork tenderdeep friedspare ribswith customarily a hint of pungentshrimp paste. For some-more pictures, see the Island Tang flickr set.
Mak's Noodles - tiny! nonethe less packed with flavour as great as crunchOn my last full day in Hong Kong, I'm frantically making my approach over to Mak's Noodle (Grd Flr, 77 Wellington Street, Central, 852-2854 3810, Open: 11am-10pm. Branches in Causeway Bay, The Peak Galleria, Jordan andTsim Sha Tsui.) as my mother had despotic instructions to me to pack behind their solid noodles for her. They keep great in a fridge as great as have been great for a discerning as great as simple plate during home. We finish up sampling a tiny play in in between both of us as great as gave a thumbs up - noodles with a great punch as great as a gas perfumed with a dusty solitary powder aroma. Even a prawn wantan was equally great with a crunch.
Nan Tei's amazingly great steep tongue yakitoriWalking off a tiny play of noodles was flattering easy given a Mid Levels can qualify for any exercise machine. we generally adore a poky tiny shops around generally this cold selected a single we find around a single of a streets. Being a tiny ill of Chinese food, we took a plunge of conviction as great as ended up during Nan Tei (Grd Flr, 55 Staunton Street, Mid Level, Central, 852-2559 6221, Open: , Branches in Causeway Bay Happy Valley as great as Tsim Sha Tsui). We customarily noticed this place as lady edged past us to lift their shifting wooden doors. A demeanour during their menu got us savouring over a food, as a result we motionless to give it a try. We longed for a surprising sounding steep wings pressed with goose liver nonetheless sadly which was sole out. Instead we consoled with alternative choices which was unequivocally great as great as went great with a honeyed tasting umeshu (HKD40 for a glass) - a overwhelming steep tongue yakitori (2 sticks for HKD40) with a caramelised edges as grea! t as tai nted edge, shrimp as great as steep skin hurl (2 sticks for HKD52) - had to adore a crispy steep skin edges, a pressed fungus with steep (2 sticks for HKD40) as great as a honeyed cornof a cobs (HKD35). For some-more pictures, see my Nan Tei flickr set.
I finish my windstorm outing during The Krug Room (Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 5 Connaught Road, Central, 852-2825 4014, Open: 7.30-10pm. Closed Sundays.), a great hidden in isolation dining room inside of a proportions of a fine hotel. we won't go upon with a sum nonetheless a food is incredibly overwhelming generally a playfulness voiced bythe cook in his unique Eco Menu.
It was a super fun outing thanks to a hospitality of Novotel HK andmy eating partner Minh from eatshowandtell who valiantly went along for any meal. For those of we who have been roving to Hong Kong, Novotel HK is additionally charity a special payoff for masak-masak's blog readers. Just quote "Novotel blgr" when we book directly with any of their hotels: Novotel Century, Novotel Citygate or Novotel Nathan Road to qualify for a giveaway room upgrade. This suggest is current compartment August 2011.
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