Cafe Seoul is not the only Korean restaurant in Tai Po, but it is probably the best. My friend Lily…read morefound this place from Google Reviews, which I suppose is a direct competitor of Yelp. (I hope I don't get censored!) Their boneless chicken comes in many flavors, and I love the sweet and spicy. The chicken also is served with pickled radish, which is one of my favorite pickles. Both of their jeon are delicious, so I often alternate between the kimchi jeon and vegetable jeon every time I eat there. I also enjoy their bibimbap, jjajangmyeon, and tteokbokki. My only complaint is that their kimbap is super dry. I would recommend going down the street to Cham if you want kimbap. Any other Korean food, I recommend at Cafe Seoul.

We came here on a weekday evening right around 7. And luckily we snagged the last table as there…read morewas a line up after that. Food-wise it's the standard Korean fare with more snack items in mind. We ordered gimbap (a bit dry), seafood pancake (delicious but not wowed), honey fried chicken nuggets (nice and juicy and just crispy enough), and the best dish was the bibimbap. They must have used a high grade rice because when it's stuck on the hot stone bowl, the rice becomes crunchy instead of chewy like most other places. Recommended.

It's an AYCE korean and Japanese Bbq place. Large selection of meats to choose from. Some of the…read morebeef were marinated deliciously. While others were not marinated to give you the option of making your own sauce. Fair selection of hot foods to choose from and sushi. Standard fair of sushi and salmon sashimi. Drinks and beer is all included in one price. Spacious, pretty clean and well ventilated. Will come back if I'm back in Hong Kong soon.

If you enjoy Korean food, you must must must visit Sister Korea Cafe!!…read more You know this restaurant is the real deal when the only non-Korean speaking employee here is the manager. Sister Korea Cafe is tucked inside an older, low-key residential area and sticks out like a sore thumb, but in the best way possible. The spot is spacious and trendy, with absolutely delicious food. Rather than serving the typical k-bbq dishes, Sister Korea Cafe offers an extensive list of what I would call "upscale family style Korean dishes and street food". The menu, to be honest, is pretty useless because it's filled with cute, but uninformative doodles of their dishes. I would suggest looking around at what other people have ordered if you're absolutely stumped. Fortunately, I don't think anything is a miss here so you can be a little adventurous when it comes to ordering. My recommendations are definitely the spare-ribs wrapped in cheese (my mouth is watering as I type), the spicy noodle hot pot (rabokki), and the abalone appetizer. Service is top-notch, serving sizes are generous, and prices are reasonable. What is there not to love?! Someone fly me back to Hong Kong, please.

Hon Wo Korean Restaurant (漢和韓國料理) is an all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ franchise popular in Hong Kong…read moreand which has 7 locations in the New Territories and Hong Kong Island. My relatives were a big fan of this place and praised how they served a huge variety of hot dishes in addition to an all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue selection of meats and seafood. We reserved a table at the Shek Mun location of Hon Wo Korean Restaurant for 8 for our lunch on a Saturday. When we arrived at the restaurant (on the second floor of the plaza right outside the Shek Mun MTR station -- so convenient), we were given a table right away. There were already many customers dining in. I browsed the selection of food available and perhaps the restaurant was overly hyped up for me, but I wasn't that amazed or impressed. There was a fruit station, dessert station, and the hot dishes consisted of vegetables, fried rice, Pig's Trotters in Ginger and Sweetened Vinegar (uncommon at buffets), spicy soup, fried chicken wings. There was a dedicated section for all the raw meats, seafood, and vegetables. There were individual tongs provided for each section of raw food. There was a lineup of people waiting for their turns. There was also a salad station with Korean cold banchan. At our table, we had two barbecue grills. I selected some fried rice, chilled spinach and black fungus. I wasn't that interested in the other hot dishes. The fried rice was quite good. For the raw meats, I chose pig intestines (one of my favourites and rarely seen at a KBBQ), marinated chicken, marinated beef, and some other cuts of beef, pork, and chicken. There was also a large refrigerator with drinks! This was actually the most impressive part in my eyes. It was all-you-can-drink with a huge selection of cultural drinks like "leng cha", Korean Milkis, Korean beers, Korean cider, and healthy drinks from the Healthy Kitchen brand in addition to the usual Coke, Fanta, etc. I hadn't had Korean Milkis before, so I took a can from the fridge. It was like a carbonated light milky drink that was refreshing. In terms of Korean BBQ, the secret to cooking the food well is patience. It takes time to ensure that the meat is not only thoroughly cooked but not overcooked either. You can't rush it. When I went back out to survey what was available, I saw that there were newly prepared platters of sushi available. I liked how they had vegetarian options for who didn't eat that much meat. All of the sushi were vegetarian. It was quite good. I also got some fried cabbage and chilled vermicelli noodles. I also tried the Pig's Trotters in Ginger and Sweetened Vinegar (豬腳薑醋). This was cooked and done really well. The vinegar wasn't too sour. After this, I went for the dessert section. The Osmanthus Flower Jelly (桂花糕) was delicious. There was grass jelly as well as tofu pudding. The grass jelly was good. The tofu pudding was down to the bottom of the barrel so it wasn't that "smooth". I was surprised to see the Thai coconut tapioca cakes in a tin foil form. It was impressively delicious as well. Although it's an all-you-can-eat buffet, there was surprisingly no seating limit. The food service ended at 3:30 p.m. so technically guests could stay from when they opened at 11:30 a.m. and continue eating all the way until 3:30 p.m. It is a very family friendly restaurant that is perfect for big groups and especially families. I say this because it is a very affordable all-you-can-eat restaurant. Each adult price for the AYCE weekend was only 133 HKD while seniors were 113 HKD. That is a huge steal for a buffet that includes so many selections of food and drinks. It's no wonder that my relatives raved about this place so much. During the weekday lunch, you can also order from the a la carte menu -- it's not all buffet style.

Just as Korean dramas have recently captured the hearts of Hong Kongers everywhere, Hon Wo has…read morecaptured my heart. Because the way to mine is definitely through my stomach. And Hon Wo keeps my stomach warm, happy, and in love. In love with ALL THAT MEAT. Forget Chako, this is a whole new level of Korean BBQ. And by that, I mean, you have a whole section dedicated to the 20 or so different raw meats/seafood that you can pick and choose from. AND THEN, you have a whole table full of cooked foods: salads, rice, soups, noodles, desserts, etc. Oh yeah, and a little table just for some sushi and sashimi. It's a KBBQ and a BUFFET! And while you're at it, grab a drink from the completely open, completely inclusive drink fridge. And no, these aren't sad, flimsy pieces of grey meat with no flavour. No. How about indulging in some pork belly...or lamb? Or sample the (at least) 5 different types of beef varying in thickness and spice level. FYI, grilled spam is sinfully good. Feeling a little heavy on the grease and protein? How about some grilled eggplant and pumpkin along with a little something from the salad station? Finish off by cleansing your palette with a soothing bowl of tofu pudding. KBBQ is easy to do but hard to make stand out, but Hon Wo did just that. Not only was the food plentiful, diverse, and amazing, it did something no other KBBQ I've been to has ever done: it didn't make me smell like a grill! Rejoice, friends, as this is a franchise so you can get your KBBQ fix in multiple locations. And with the rise in drama popularity, the quantity and caliber of Korean food will also surely rise. What a time to be alive! (92/100) - 2016

Personally I have never been too keen on cooked food stalls in wet markets- in most cases they seem…read moreto lose their flavor by moving indoors (not too sure how they happens but it just does). The place is usually quite sterile (in the sense that they have no special features, they remain filthy) and in general its just not a very invigorating experience. "3 siu jeh" is a very a different place in itself- if you note how long the queue is during dinner then you know must have something that keeps brining people back here. To start with, you can always buy seafood at the wet market downstairs and bring it up here to be cooked by these people. That's something special that you won't see much of outside of Saikung. The second thing is that they serve a lot of special dishes themselves (e.g. the crab in sticky rice is a must) and their "stir fry" items are also a constant source of joy. The seating arrangement might not be idea and half the time the staff just seem to stuff you in the most convenient corner for them to serve you. The other problem is that this place is full EVERYTIME you come here, from the carpark to the table you are constantly playing a waiting game which tests your patience even if you were a saint. Prices are not cheap either for a place that could be said be a little better than a street side stall. Would I recommend it? Yes, on account of the food here I would come here and try it but I have become a lot less enthusiastic than before and I suspect that a lot of people have joined the ranks of people looking elsewhere given Taipo's long list of choices.

As we just finished dinner, there were people smoking next to us, despite the banners asking people…read morenot to smoke inside. Since we finished dinner already, we might as well go. For the sake of the rest of the patrons still eating there, many of whom were children, I mentioned to the waiters that the people were smoking next to us. One of them pretended not to hear me, and the other was being really irate saying that it isn't their business and started swearing at me, telling me to call Tobacco Control. I asked if that is their restaurant, he escalated his swearing to pick a fight with me.