One thing the Hong Kong does well, of course being a cluster of islands and into its food, is…read moreseafood restaurants. And I think that I have found the best there is (well, in my opinion that is).
Wah Kee Seafood Restaurant in the Mui Wo cooked food centre is brilliant. Sure, it serves the same menu as every other joint in the place, standard fare including such delights as; deep fried salt and pepper squid, steam fish, sweet and sour fish, salt roasted chicken, fried noodles, salt fish rice, the list goes on. However, it just serves it better. The dishes are really well prepared, well seasoned, and, importantly, thoroughly cooked.
It looks like the food is prepared by a single chef, and can he both cook and expedite fast! The restaurant is usually pretty busy of an evening, and he still manages to get the food out in a timely fashion.
The venue itself is not the prettiest. You are in a cooked food market, and you will be sat on plastic stools at a plastic table with plastic bags as a table cloth. Remember my two rules, always rinse your crockery (fortunately, most of the table are placed over a drain which runs the length of the outdoor seating area, so you can pour your dregs directly into the drain), and never look in the kitchen. This venue actually has an open kitchen, so you can see what is going on - oh, yes, it's fine!
Staff here are generally good, they are impatient with me (looking like a native but speaking like the Queen of England), but are fine with my ex-pat buddies. I think it's more a fascination with them when the Chinese guy speaks English, the Welsh woman speaks Canto, and the American/Swede speak Mandarin - they just didn't get it, haha! There is an English menu which has decent translations in it. Oh, they occasionally wheel out the youngest of their family to help serve, which is hilarious when you see a 6 year old wandering through the restaurant with a tray of Blue Girls.
If you are not to precious about your surrounding, are happy to order using hand signals, and want a decent feed for little money, come here. Last night's dinner for five, which included beer and all of the above and more, only cost HKD200 per head. They even looked confused when we left a tip!
