High quality food at an extraordinary price. The service was really good but the way to order was…read morenot clear so I sat at a table for a few minutes looking lost. The food was very high quality and had a great presentation. This is a must do if you're in Hong Kong. I found this place off a list titled "most Instagrammable restaurants".

I'm not a macaroon fan, so when I'm writing to give this place 5 stars for their macaroons I really…read moremean it. Stopped by for some french/American inspired sandwiches, since I didn't like the asian mayonnaise and butter sandwiches that my uncle eats. Nor do I like the asian cheap ham in my sandwich. I have up low quality when I graduated high school and left that cheap cafeteria food behind. The sandwiches are okay, but for HK, and if you want a taste of Europe or the USA then they are more than okay because they remind you of home. So, when I was looking through which dessert to get, the lady at the counter said their macaroons are well know. That sounded like a challenge so I had to try one. Wow, that one macaroon turned into 20, as I wound up buying a whole box and eating it all before I reached the end of the street. They had coffee flavors, coconut, etc, and they were all delicious. I couldn't stop eating them. One of the best macaroons I've ever had, and I don't even like macaroons!!!

I'd give Lady M a solid 4.5. Apparently, Lady M is from New York and it's been a popular trend for…read morethe local Hong Kong people - so much so, there ships have opened in different cities. I'm a local Bay Area native from San Jose, so suffice to say, I was really curious about Lady M when my HK cousin was raving all about it. Taste wise? The first half of the cake slice was very satisfying. However, it is a bit too rich for my taste and I find myself getting a little overwhelmed by the time I get to other half of the slice. This is the first time I've ever tried a crepe Mille cake, and I'm very interested in the concept. Lady M is definitely upper scale at about 9-10 USD per slice. My cousin and I ordered the earl gray while my mom ordered the original. I did love the ambiance and the simple, classy decor of the place as well as the bags/boxes. Hopefully, they'll bring a Lady M to the Bay Area!

Known for their mile crepe cakes, I think they're good but definitely not worth the constant line…read moreup at all of their locations. Thankfully the hype has died down a bit since.

One thing I had to do during my visit in Hong Kong was have afternoon tea. I searched a bunch of…read moreplaces on Yelp but a lot weren't open just yet. This place starts serving at 3pm. When my bf and I arrived, it started off a bit disappointing but turned out great. So, there are three different locations in the same building. The first one we stopped at was super high class and you needed reservations (which I wasn't aware of). We decided to walk the mall (forgot the name) and ended up finding a quicker, more casual to go option. But the seating was limited and needed to be reserved again as well. Well, just around the corner was another sit down restaurant, no reservations needed and we were lucky to get seated quickly. We had to wait about 30 min before afternoon tea so we started off with some delicious fruit mock tails . The afternoon tea (we went with dai pai dong) definitely hit the spot and we of course ordered the menu option with tons of delicious little bites. It's been almost 3 months now since I had it so I can't remember exactly what we ate but I remember there wasn't one thing I didn't like. I would definitely recommend this place for a nice afternoon tea experience. Especially if you're looking for something more on the casual side and less pricy.

We were wandering around the IFC Center when we stumbled upon this unexpected eatery. I've always…read morebeen completely fascinated with Joel Robuchon's various restaurants, since I've read that his food is supposed to be amazing. They're always prohibitively expensive so I had kind of resigned myself to never trying his food. I was impressed, then, that this outlet has a grab-and-go section stocked with pastries and sandwiches. We had just eaten lunch so I decided to go with a pastry. I got a Salted Caramel Tart and it was...just okay. It looks amazing and it's clearly been made with care, and yet in terms of flavor it's just nothing terribly special. The caramel taste is far too subdued to make any real impact, and the whole thing is sweet to the point of distraction. (It really lingered on my palate afterwards, to the point where I had to eat something salty just to get that cloying taste out of my mouth.) I have to assume Robuchon's savory options are much, much better than this.

It was nice to have a Kee Wah nearby where I was staying. At least I knew there was an…read moreabove-average Chinese bakery that I can just grab a light breakfast. Sometimes, just having a coconut or pineapple bun was enough for me in the morning. The breads are fresh here the bakery has more fancy baked goods if you needed to do some gift shopping. The place is clean and well-lit. Service was generally attentive and non-obtrusive.

There are a variety of breads, cookies, Chinese pastries, mooncakes, and more. My go-tos include…read morethe almond cookie, salted egg yolk with lotus seed paste pastry, and the traditional wife cake. I used to be a fan of this bakery but the attitude that I get from the staff is outrageous. The store set up is typical of Kee Wah bakeries and the store is packed with customers, making it hard to navigate through the store. The staff don't help either with little to no interest in assisting customers to the cashier end of the store. Do you get the picture yet? When the store is crowded and no one can make turns or walk over to pay without pushing one another, that's a problem. I almost gave up shopping here because I found it annoying. Worst part is, the "greeters" standing at the store front literally just stand there. No "hello" or anything. Once I found all the goods I wanted and made my way over to pay, the cashier acted like she didn't want to do her job. Honey, you're in retail and need to spice up your customer service skills. Needless to say I'm not coming back to this location.

Finally get around to writing a review on one of my favorite cafes in SYP…read more - Great coffee with a selection of milks (soy milk, and they even almond milk which seems to be a latest hipster trend). - Free wifi. Speeds quite good (after all this is HK). Wifi also works outside in the courtyard. - Power at some of the tables, including USB outlets too. - Very spacious (which seems like a luxury in HK) - Outdoor Courtyard. Which is nice in the cooler months. And a lot of people overlook it so it's a nice quiet work space. - Pet friendly. There's even a puppachino for the pets. - Good food also. I like the pasta here. - Cheap co-working space upstairs (which may or may not be related). But they use the same bathrooms anyway.

THEY HAVE REALLY COLD AIR-CONDITIONING HERE! This is a luxury during the hot months in Hong Kong…read more(which is about 9/12 months of the year). Also they have really good coffee and the prices are cheaper than a lot of the coffeeshops in Hong Kong (especially the ones by sheung wan that I like). I always get their iced coffee with almond milk along with their smoked salmon sandwich! Their coffee is a lot more aromatic and stronger than a lot of other coffee shops in hk. Also, their coffee is less acidic too. I mean there's not a lot of good coffee in hk. One more thing I like about this place is that they have a lot of milk options. They let you pick between almond milk, soy milk, low-fat milk, and whole milk! Tip: they have wifi, a lot of space, and their bathroom is huge (upstairs)

I had extremely high hopes for this cha chaang teng and after not having enough time to visit…read moreduring our last trip, we prioritized Honolulu Coffee Shop for breakfast. The restaurant is pretty spacious and when we visited, it was pretty empty. We had no trouble getting a table for our large group of six people. Staff speak some English and they have English menus available so we had no trouble ordering. I believe they're most known for the pineapple buns and egg tarts so of course, we ordered several to share. It's also an incomplete visit to a cha chaang teng without the coffee milk tea and on top of that, I also got a side of scrambled eggs. The pineapple bun was kind of dense and dry, even with the slab of butter. The egg tarts were also dry with a plain-tasting custard. The coffee milk tea was fine but we didn't realize until visiting another cha chaang teng that hot usually means unsweetened. And the scrambled eggs were so plain...I just remember cha chaang teng scrambled eggs being super silky and creamy. This was just disappointing and I didn't need to order normal, regular-tasting scrambled eggs. They're saving grace is how cheap everything was. For that price, it just felt like we got what we paid for...lower quality food. I was very confused because I feel like I read a lot of raving reviews about this place so maybe we visited on an off day. But out of every place we tried, this was pretty low on our list.

After visiting some great cha chaang tengs during our visit to Hong Kong, I was excited to get…read morebreakfast at Honolulu Coffee Shop! Unfortunately this did not meet my expectations, and was definitely my least favorite out of the restaurants we went to. Lots of seating available, for parties big and small. They have English menus available as well. The pineapple bun looked promising, but once I bit into it, the bun itself was not very fluffy and rather dense, and the crust didn't seem to have enough flavor to it. The egg tart crusts were also dry, and the custard itself was just ok. I tried a piece of my friends french toast, and that was pretty good, although they took the syrup away pretty early on even though we were still eating. The coffee milk tea was also just ok, nothing special and didn't really have a strong taste in either direction. I'd skip this spot and go to a different cha chaang teng.

They have 5 types of egg tarts but shortcrust original was sold out. D24 durian, puff pastry…read moreoriginal & Japanese cheese all seemed to have the same pastry, which was rich enough & flaky. All tarts had a very smooth custard filling. Portuguese was good with a good flaky crust. The custard was pretty rich. The sweetness was between a Portuguese & Macanese Portuguese egg tart. There was no cinnamon. Puff pastry original was good. The custard had a very light & pure flavour, apparently due to local milk. D24 durian was decent. It was better than Thai durian though still not that strong. Using local milk seems to have lightened the flavour. Cheese was good. The custard had a very rich & savoury cheese taste with a salty-sweet flavour profile. The cheese was so rich, the richness of the crust didn't matter.

Baked to perfection! These egg tarts are phenomenal. Just had to buy extra to bring back with me…read more The staff was really nice, too!

A hole in the wall shop that you can find the famous wife biscuits! I also tried their char siew…read moresou, not bad but since they're not baked here. It's not so fresh. This is just a distribution center. The wife biscuits are 51HKD For 6 biscuits and the egg rolls are 45HKD for 10. Everything mostly has a life span of 1 week

Surprised nobody has written a review on this place yet! Hang Heung one of the most famous Chinese…read morepastry shops in Hong Kong. Just ask any old local person and they will recommend this place. Though they sell all sorts of traditional Chinese pastries and cakes, their most popular item is their Wife Cake. Wife Cake is a round-shape traditional delicacy with puffy pastry and a sweet winter melon filling. Its definitely became my favorite place to get Wife Cakes. I always pick up some every time I pass the area.