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Eat alone at Eat Together 大家食
Late lunch@3pm after few hours of exploring SSP fabric/beads streets. I was sooo hungry, but didn’t think I could stomach street noodle shops at the market, so when I saw the first Eat Together, I walked right in I had the original soup base + thin handmade noodles + beef, tomato+egg topping. The [...]
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Liu Sam Kee? Noodles, SSP
Sham Sui Po is a great place to shop for market type stuff, factory second clothes (lot’s of kids’ clothes), electronic gadgets (from famous Golden Computer Centre), and to eat some great noodles. So many shops are scattered around SSP & lot’s of choices on the main streets of 福栄街 Fukwin, 福華街 FukWa, 北河街 PeiHo and 桂林街 Kwilin [...]
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漁米之鄕 Food Village
漁米之鄕 (Food Village), inside Sunshine Bazzare Shopping Centre, Ma On Shan)
Another of our regular eatery, it’s quite a big Cha-chaan-teng (Chinese cafe) inside a small shopping centre annex to a bigger shopping mall (Sunshine City Plaza). We love their 中式牛柳 (Chinese beef steak), so we usually go for that + sometimes their giant prawn egg [...]
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王家沙 Wang Jia Sha, Festival Walk
Wang Jia Sha is a restaurant in Festival Walk shopping centre in Kowloon Tong. It was our first time there, and they specialise in Shanghai style dimsum (上海點心). As usual, we left the ordering to the very capable hand of the hosts (as I would’ve got lost looking at all the delicious looking morsels in [...]
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景德镇 Jĭngdézhèn?
Back in October 2006, we took a somewhat adventurous?, train ride from Hong Kong to Shanghai. It was our first long-distance train ride in China (so, longer than Hung Hom to Dongguan or Guangzhou East trains). We left HK at 3pm, and arrived Shanghai at 4pm (that’s 25hours). We had the first class delux sleeper [...]
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Superfood Series: Shungiku (Chrysanthemums leaves) 春菊
Known as Crown daisy in English, edible chrysanthemum leaves & stems (or shungiku 春菊) are only eaten in East Asia. It has a distinctive fragrance (of course not dissimilar to daisy leaves), and full of vitamins, calcium and folate. It’s commonly used in Japan as greens for hot pot, particularly fugu or blowfish hot pot, [...]
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深水埗 Sham Sui Po
Sham Sui Po (affectionately called SSP by us) apparently is a Hong Kong Tourist Board’s answer to Japan’s Akihabara… Now, there are similarities (electrical components shops, computers etc), but ummm… I’d say you’d have to go to Akihabara to experience it yourself – it’s more like combination of Mongkok & SSP, with a bit of [...]
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日本の麺 Noodles Japanese style
There are many varieties of Japanese noodles; soba, ramen, udon, somen & different name for wheat noodles with different thickness (much like pasta). My parents are really into the soba (buckwheat noodles) now, which are very popular in Tokyo as ‘it’ food to eat & enjoy. So much so, they make their own at home! [...]
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西貢 Sai Kung
Sai Kung, a waterfront ‘garden’ of Hong Kong, is on the east side (despite the name) of Kowloon/New Territories. No longer a small fishing village, it has developed along with the rest of Hong Kong, but due to its seaside location, distance & limited public transport (no MTR station here… yet), there is a nice [...]
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馬鞍山餐廳 Ma On Shan Restaurant
Affectionately called ‘MOS-R’ by us, it is a cha chaan teng (茶餐廳) near our home (open from 7am to 2am! so you never go hungry).