I love a typical Hong Kong breakfast! It’s basically a simplified, quickened full English breakfast. So you get scrambled eggs, ham, and toast! Plus a milk tea!
And if that’s not full enough, you can add a macaroni in soup, or a 豬仔包 bun with condensed milk! Yum!
Yay! Dinner dining-in is resumed in Hong Kong!
And I’ve always thought, one of the worst cuisines for takeaway must be Korean! The Hot Stone rice bowls, ginseng chicken soup, cheesy pizzas, spam sushi, etc.. how dou you take those away?
So coincidentally, it’s great timing that a new Korean place has opened in my neighbourhood! And Korean Loft Cafe is good! Loved the stone bowl rice with fried chicken, the seaweed roll, and the fried udon! Mmm, what a treat!
Turns out that Hong Kong’s favorite comfort foods, like baked pork chop rice (or spaghetti), a warm bowl of mushroom cream soup, and Milk Tea are great choices for takeaways!
Why? Cause they are still warm even after the half hour or so journey home! The worst enemy against takeaways is the cold, so anything that comes piping hot (or that is meant to be eaten cold) works!
And one of my favorite places for takeaways near my home? Chop Chop! It serves good, cheap, and fast comfort meals! Perfect for quick takeaways!
Oh, the newly opened Zeppelin Hot Dog makes for a great place to get an additional snack too!
In the heart of Kwun Tong, I’ve found a new sanctuary! Now, for those of you who live in Hong Kong, you know how rare that is!
Paths Koffee is indeed such a treasure! They serve really beautiful coffees (the honeycomb coffee was great!; so too my usual Iced Mocha)! Loved the Earl grey pound cake too!
Best of all, is of course the ambience. Spacious, comfy chairs and wooden tables, what a great place to spend an afternoon reading the news!
Working from home, but lazy to cook? Yup, definitely me. Yet, the foodie and travel but in me keeps biting, so what to do? Theme days, of course!
And so, to complete the Taiwanese Day theme, takeaways were bought from Tai Cha Fan 大茶飯! They do lovely bento boxes for about $60 for lunch, what a bargain!
I love their little boxes; it just shows the effort put into takeaways too! The pork chop rice with braised pork, and the sweet and sour fish were yum!
For dessert, the bubble tea shop next door A nice gift 賞茶 was perfect! They do a really authentic 芋圓 Taro Balls dessert! Great end to a Taiwanese Lunch day!
Achacha needs improving. Prices are good, location is good (megabox in Kowloon Bay, barely any competition for similar cuisine), staff are good.
Foods though, need improvement!
It has the usual crepes on order, but both the savoury salmon we had, and the dessert chocolate crepe were dry! What happened to the oozing sauces that should lie in the center of each crepe!?
The lamb stew too, was not warm. Flavourful yes, but I would expect a stew to be a warm hearty treat. Not room temperature.
A disappointing eat, but let’s hope it improves!
There’s probably no food that screams “Hong Kong” more than Dim Sum!
And there’s no place that screams “Hong Kong” more than a 公共屋邨 Public Housing.
And at 富東閣, you get both! And in addition, the foods here are the most traditional types of dim sum you can find! No fancy bun shaped like a mushroom, which I have never been a fan of anyway…
Plus, it’s dirt cheap! $10-20 a basket of dim sum! No wonder there’s a queue of customers! Oh, plus the fact that it runs with a conscious being a 「Yellow Shop」certainly helps too!
This place is definitely a must try, if you’re a Yum Cha fan like me!
Hong Kong’s weather has been beautiful this year. There’s a lot less air pollution, rumor has it that the factories up north in China are going kaput. Fact is though, the skies are lovely!
And what better place to enjoy, than at Sensory Zero in Wong Chuk Hang. Through its high windows streaming in the beautiful sun, hey, any pandemic blues are gone!
Foods here are lovely as always! The Unagi on Japanese Omelette rice was yum! Coffee, good and strong! This is a cafe that definitely can’t go wrong!
Oh, and did I mention the lovely skies… Yes yes, I love this place!
This week has been full of ups and downs for Hong Kong! Down, being the still severe threat of the Wuhan Coronavirus. The “up”.. well, just search why HongKongers this week are breaking open bottles of champagne!
Anyway, a great way to celebrate is of course to eat cake! Coffee and cake, what a great way to take a break from the hustle and bustle!
And it doesn’t get better than Lucy Coffee n Food! The cakes change regularly, they’re beautiful, tastes great, and the coffee’s good! Ooh, and if you come during off peak hours and spend some time listening the the vinyl on play… What a great break!
With the Wuhan Virus pandemic threat, everyone’s livelihoods are being pinched. Still, in Hong Kong, one of the best (and remaining recreation) is to find good things to eat (in Cantonese: 食好西）, so here’s a good and cheap eat recommendation for everyone!
The cheap (but good) place I’m recommending today is The Planet, in Mei Foo! Here, you can get a steak lunch set for under $100 (with soup/salad plus a drink!), a tantalizing chicken chop with rice set for $60! How’s that!?
Granted, this place is not fine dining at its best! But hey, for this price-point, it’s definitely worth every penny!
PS: For dessert takeaways, one can head over to Ms. wheel pie 車輪餅小姐 , just a short 5mins walk away, which serves these Japanese puff cakes! Yum yum!
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