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一問 The Mon, Izakaya-style Japanese, CWB
4/F, The Goldmark 502 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay, HK Island.
Ph: 2504-3313
It started with a casual question of when we can catch up & ends up we can’t catch up with Jude & Haixin with all our travel commitments until mid September unless we do it today! So we just barged into their dinner appointment for [...]
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川滬小廚 Chuan Wu Kitchen, Tai Po
G/F Bo Fung Lau
6 Tai Ming Lane, Tai Po, N.T.
大埔大明里號寶豐樓地下
After wandering about many interesting side streets of TaiPo, selling varieties of wares, while we’re on a lookout for food places, this place caught our eyes with an open kitchen with chefs busily making xiao lon baus – thin-skinned Shanghainese dumpling with explosive! filling of juicy [...]
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囍宴廚藝 Xi Yan, Private Kitchen, Hong Kong
Our kind & generous Hong Kong friends have organized a little wedding banquet for ourselves. The restaurant is very appropriately named ‘Double happiness Banquet Kitchen (?)’, it’s not a wedding only venue, but a quite famous & established private kitchen, one of chain of 4 (all differently themed) restaurants.
As standard in private kitchens, chef’s set [...]
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札幌ラーメン Domon
First time@Domon, a Japanese ramen noodles chain. Lunch time special ramen & small dish combo with $5 softdrink ($57).
Feels more like a casual Japanese restaurant than a ramen shop. They stock fair range of alcohol & bento-type set menu. I’m not a ramen connosoir & being a Tokyoite, don’t eat much miso ramen, but it [...]
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Modern China Restaurant 金満庭
Northern Chinese Restsurant in Sunshine City Plaza, MOS. We were out for a light dinner (yumcha & seafood for lunch today at Lamma ) & I felt like hot&sour soup, so headed there. We had soup noodles & spring onion bread to share. A nice restaurant, very extensive range of food. The only thing [...]
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Rice Paper, Festival Walk
Lunch today – from the lunch time special set ($70+10%). Veg curry, pork neck & honey lime drink.
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Sichuan Private Kitchen 四川菜大平伙
Sichuan Cuisine Da Ping Huo 四川菜大平伙
L/G Hilltop Plaza, 49 Hollywood Road (entry from Graham Road), Central, H.K.
Tel: 2559 1317 Fax: 2559 3494
Our very first private kitchen experience in Hong Kong. Private Kitchens are small, usually family operated, strictly reservation & cash only restaurants. This place has a very good review on Open Rice. Being in [...]
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Penang Prawn Noodle 蝦麵店
Shop 4, G/F, Realto Building,
No.2 Landale Street, Wan Chai
Very yummy Malaysian style prawn hokkein mee noodle with spicy soup. Despite the redness of soup, there was only a hint of chilli heat & the stock was very tasty. I read on a review from a Japanese free magazine that the stock is brewed for 4h [...]
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Thai House, Diamond Hill
A Thai Restaurant in Hollywood Plaza Shopping Centre (3rd floor) in Diamond Hill. A fair bit pricier than our usual dinners – $340 all up. May be I should try cooking Thai at home
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山東餃子館, SSP (Shandong Dumplings)
There are 3 ‘Shandong Dumpling House’ branches in SSP, but this is the first time we tried here. Mike had noodles with spicy shredded chicken? 雞絲拌麵. I had noodles with mince sauce 炸醬麵. We also had homemade soy milk & shared a flakey spring onion pancake. Noodles were chewy & felt homemade (hand pulled type). [...]