My last visit was about 10 years ago - before they got more commercialized partnering with various…read moreorganizations and supplying vouchers. I dropped by mid afternoon on a weekday and there was only 1 person ahead of me. Service was not great - they didn't seem that interested in taking orders and I had to wait a bit until they were settled and ready. To their credit, the bubble waffle came out quickly and hot - the first few bites were crispy on the outside but almost a bit too hard. I only ate about 1/3 of it. It was nothing special. Too bad because it is a local joint and my go-to when I visit Hong Kong as I generally stay in the same area.

雞蛋仔 has always been my comfort snack food when I was a child. Especially during the colder months,…read morenothing beat holding and snacking on an order of freshly made 雞蛋仔. Back then most of the ones I had was just some random places on the street. I don't recalled that 雞蛋仔 from北角being the best? But seems like now it is a franchise all around Hong Kong. After eating 永華麵家, we ended up coming here to continue our Wanchai food crawl. There was no lines so it only took around 10 minute or less for my order to be ready. I love that freshly prepared smell. Crispy on the outside and soft/chewy on the inside with just a hint of sweetness.... and of course the aroma of egg! Just the way I like mine!

If you are looking for no-frills comfort food and a unique Hong Kong experience, you need to visit…read morea dai pai dong (big license stall, which is an open-air food stall). Sadly, the number of dai pai dong has declined over the years as licenses for them are no longer issued, but Sing Heung Yuen is one of the few remaining ones. I came to Sing Heung Yuen for lunch with my friend. There was a line, but it moved relatively quickly. I ordered a Hong Kong-style milk tea and a tomato noodle soup with sausage, luncheon meat, and egg. I was told by a few people that the soup is best with macaroni noodle, but I prefer instant noodle, so I got that instead. The food hit the spot. It was simple, delicious, and super filling. I was told by some local ladies that the toast is a must-try, but I was way too full, so I skipped it. Aside from being a unique experience, Sing Heung Yuen offers a quick and affordable meal to tourists and locals. Avoid though if you are not a fan of tomato soup or toast since the menu is as limited as the space.

This is a hole in the wall "dai pai dong", quick service restaurant. It's busy and there's always a…read moreline but it moves fast because you're basically squished together with other random people in a couple of long tables so you'll want to quickly finish your food and leave. They are known for their tomato soup base and you can choose the type of noodles and there's various toppings to choose from. I ordered their tomato macaroni soup with beef and spam. The soup is on the sour side and I would have liked it to be a little more savory and hearty. The macaroni was a little overcooked but that's basically Hong Kong cafe style. It came with 2 half pieces of spam, one of it was overcooked and dry, the other one seemed undercooked. The beef was decent texture wise but it didn't have much flavor. We also ordered their toast with condensed milk and the toast was over toasted and too crunchy to my liking. Overall, it's an unique experience but don't be expect the food to be superb. You also won't get over the top service but everyone was very courteous and friendly.

I really enjoyed my meal at Ancient Moon and was really close to giving five stars rating. The…read morerestaurant serves Singapore and Malaysian dishes that are tasty, affordable and some of the best you can find in Hong Kong. The restaurant is a pretty small spot and is best to come with a smaller group of people. Service is quick and efficient which makes it perfect for a quick lunch. Food: 4.25 stars Value: 4.5 stars Service: 4.25 stars Environment: 3 stars Overall: 4.25 stars Recommendations: Malaysian bak ku teh, teh terik, laksa, nasi lemak They serve hands down the best bak ku teh I've had in HK. The broth is ridiculously fragrant and if you like garlic you will love this soup. The meat is tender and is really a great dish. The laksa here is solid with a delicious creamy broth. Wish there were some fish cakes which would have really added to the dish. Nasi Lemak is also great...fried chicken was nice and crispy. Don't forget to order the drinks. Both the Hk style and Singaporean drink options were great. Lemon ice tea just as good as a local shop and the teh terik was awesome. The only dish I didn't like that much was the chicken rice. The poached chicken is served with a gravy which is odd and if it added to the dish I wouldn't mind but I didn't like it much. Also, the rice was too wet and clumped together.

I absolutely LOOOOOOOOOVE this place!!! The most delicious food ever and the portions aren't…read moreoversized! We came with a group of 6, we each ordered our own dish and a drink. Plus 2 appetizers for the table to share. Total was just $100HKD each!! There is a photo for everything on the menu (except appetizers and drinks) so you can pick by photo! Which was what I (illiterate Chinese) did. I chose curry noodles: taste like laksa ramen, super flavourful and mildly spicy. It's not spicy if you enjoy spicy. There is a lot of food inside this bowl of soup, it's not just plain curry and noodles. Highly recommended. I had a taste of my friends' dish and they were all really really good. The two appetizers we shared were extremely delicious. Both are curry and pancake bread. The bread is very soft and already good, to dip in FREAKING DELICIOUS curry. Omg The yellow one is mango curry. It's sweet mango like dessert but with curry flavour. As strange as it sounds, it was soooooo good together. The red one is plain spicy and thin curry (not creamy like the yellow one), honestly you can make this a meal by ordering rice on the side. It's so good!! I want to drink it! Service is nice!!! The restaurant is extremely small and we had to wait a little bit at 8pm to be seated. If you come as 1-2 people, you'll be seated right away. However for big groups, tough luck! But definitely risk your luck because it's SO GOOD.

Still love the pomelo salad and raviolis. The pork belly this time was a plus. Wish i still lived…read morein Hong so I can come here more often. With so many great dishes here, I would not restrict myself to just having the pho.

After a failed attempt at getting Bún bò Hue (BBH) at Nha Trang in TST, I manage to convince my…read morefriend to go to the Nha Trang in Times Square instead, much to my friend's opposition to Causeway Bay crowds... It wasn't too bad, a fairly tame 'crowd' on a Friday night... No lines thankfully, as we arrive fairly late - almost 9:20pm - for dinner. We decide to share the Spicy Hue Beef Noodle Soup (Bún bò Hue), the Pork and Shrimp Spring Rolls (Cha Gio), and the Cold Vermicelli Bowl with Grilled Lemongrass Pork Cutlet (Bun Xuong Nuong). Within 5 minutes of placing our order, a steaming hot bowl of BBH comes out. "THIS?!" we shout out loud at the same time and burst into simultaneous peals of laughter. It does not look like the BBH we are used to seeing in Southern California --- which, for your information, is supposed to be bright deep orange in color, with LOTS of thin beef shank slices, thick round noodles, and a cube (or two) of congealed pork blood (ha, not for everyone...). We call over the waitress to double check, "Is this the Bun Bo Hue?" I ask. "Yes, number 409 right?" she confirms. Okay okay, here comes the taste test. I kid you not, it was spicy. Perhaps my taste buds have subsided in their resistance to spices ever since leaving California (where bottles of Sriracha, Cholula, Tabasco, Tapatio were the norm for any college student). Was it that soul-searching, soul-satisfying, soul-edifying bowl of BBH we were looking for? Ehhh...to fulfill our BBH craving, I'm afraid not. But it was a solid bowl of noodles, nevertheless. We'll have to keep looking, even if it means scourging the entire HK territory for this special BBH. But hey, that means more food adventures! And who doesn't like those? I don't consider myself an expert at Vietnamese cuisine (although I absolutely love its intricacies and multitudes of flavors), so to avoid making a fool of myself, my friend demonstrates how to eat the spring rolls with lettuce leaves -- break off some basil and mint leaves, dip or douse your spring roll in nuoc cham (Vietnamese fish sauce), and assemble your roll with the lettuce as your wrap. The vermicelli bowl with pork was quite refreshing (think of it as a summer salad with fish sauce as the dressing) and provided a nice balance against the spicy BBH. Overall, the meal was healthy and very filling!

Bing Kee is a fast food street stall tucked away in a quiet back alley in Hong Kong. It is one of…read morethe last remaining "cha dong" (茶檔) which has been in business since the 1950s. I've been visiting Bing Kee frequently since high school. The hygiene is questionable and the dining environment is not ideal, but this is where you can fully experience down-to-earth food and blue-collar life in Hong Kong. ＊Spam, Egg and Spiced Beef Instant Noodle 餐丁蛋麵 My go-to order is the sunny side up egg and spiced beef cubes (五香肉丁) combo. The chili oil of the beef cubes gives a spicy kick and pairs well with the sesame oil soup. They also offer a variety of classic HK cafe food toppings. The popular options include marinated pork chop, soy sauce wing, corned beef and red sausage. ＊Butter Toast with Evaporated Milk 奶油麥多 My favorite breakfast item. The toast is thickly cut and fluffy. They toast both sides of the bread, generously spread some butter, then drizzle evaporated milk over it. Very crispy and sweet snack to kick start your morning. ＊HK Style Milk Tea 港式奶茶 Their hk style milk tea used to be top notch. Unfortunately the quality was disappointing this time. The milk-to-tea flavors were unbalanced and tea base was overwhelmingly bitter. Hope it was just an off day.

Hong Kong food quality changed after COVID. Their HK style milk teas are excellent hot old style…read more Bitter but smooth and strong. The noodles and 茶餐厅 style food not special.

The location of this place is a little hard to find, but just keep walking along the building and…read morecheck if you see a poster of this place on the wall, or an opening where there are stairs with a down escalator next to it. You'd have to take the elevator to the 3rd floor to step foot in this establishment. This restaurant is an all-you-can-eat sushi/teppanyaki place. How you go about this place is that you have papers (listed A-F) that you fill out. All the foods on the papers have english translations, but parts of the papers do not have certain English on it, so you'd have to ask a waiter what it means. You can order as much as you want on the first go, but mind you the amount of space you have on the table. It's also quite cramped here. I didn't think this place was all too bad, but obviously, based on my three stars, you know something isn't amazing. It's great that this place also has all you can drink too! But there are only so much liquids that I can hold in my stomach without needing to use the washroom so much. They have green tea (hot and cold), cream soda, lemon ice tea (in a can), etc. As for the food, I don't remember everything, but the highlights were... -I don't suggest you order the scallops. It's tasteless, and it really tastes as if it came out of the freezer. Sorry. -Don't order the fried strawberry ice cream because it tastes like medicine (yuck). -The mochi ice cream that you can order in the end were melted. -My relatives liked the honey chicken, and I didn't think it was bad. -The sashimi dishes were okay. I think only the salmon and the abalone were the best ones I've tasted out of all the other sashimi dishes. Oh, I think I came here at the best time. Why? There was a customer squealing very loudly that day because the customer and her friend ordered so much food that the table couldn't hold much plates. In the end, the waitress placed one plate on top of a wall platform, and the customer went nuts telling the waitress in a sharp tone of voice, "What are you doing?!" Then the customer wanted to see the manager, and she still squealed. Oh my goodness. The customer and the waitress were both wrong, but of course, that's just from my perspective. Anyway, because of this, there were hardly any waiters around to grab our papers to order. So service for that day was not good. Overall, this place was okay. Sometimes there's a person just outside of the restaurant passing out coupons for 10 HKD off the bill!

We found this place when looking for the sino center arcade. It's a building or two next to it…read more It's on the 3rd floor and we weren't quite sure what to expect. The greeter welcomed us in and saw patiently explained everything to us saying everything is all you can eat and drink. You just need to mark it on the paper. Thankfully they had some English on the menus. Some of the menus were Chinese only but we were able to ask the waitresses for translation. The food was delicious and the selection was great. It even came with a dessert selection. It rounded to be about 187 HKD per person. Not bad at all!

SUMMARY After a disastrous first few hours in HK, this was…read moreour first meal in HK and it was better than expected. It definitely cured the hangry in all of us! Would recommend, but don't expect great service here...or in HK for that matter. ATMOSPHERE (5/5) While I could look this up, I believe this is a licensed theme restaurant as evidenced from the cute, cartoon like atmosphere TeaWood restaurant. The place is adorned with cartoon characters in a woody setting. It's very well done and hat's off to the people who put this together. FOOD (5/5) Wife says this is a Taiwanese character that serves Taiwanese meals and maybe because of this, we were very happy with our meal---mostly because we had a really crappy time getting to our AirBnB and the general attitude of people who we encountered along the way (unhelpful and rude). I ordered a tripe based soup with noodles in a beef broth and it was a 5/5 for me. The broth was very clean, not oily. Noodles were perfectly good. Tripe was not over or undercooked. Vegetables still had a bit of snap to it. Really happy with my meal. My wife ordered a red bean dessert that I took a few bites as well. One of the things I liked about that was how perfectly cooked the mochi balls were. All around delicious. SERVICE (2/5) Perhaps this is a cultural thing, so HK people don't beat up on me too harshly for saying this: but even in a more pricier corporate type of restaurant like this, the service is not friendly was not friendly here and especially at smaller mom and pop shops ***anywhere*** we went in HK. Any time we asked a question, there was this sort of disbelief or umbrage that we would ask a question about what was in a dish, what a certain type of ingredient was, etc. RETURN VISIT? If we do return, we'd probably go back or at least I would. Sans the service, the restaurant is good and tourist friendly to a certain point.

Can someone say YUM up in here?!…read more View of the streets from high up and good food. Taiwanese Pork Chop bento was pretty darn good. They made the minced meat rice correctly. Milk tea was nicely flavored, though we forgot to request an iced one! Chocolate strawberry brick toast was not the best I've had but it was still good. Rocky road ice cream, slightly chewy and not so fried bread, whipped cream and strawberries! Yum! A cute place, food came out quickly and servers were polite (you may need to flag them down). Great for a date or catching up with a girl friend!

Worth the hype, super tasty, and exactly what I wanted from a timeless regional dish of Hong Kong…read more Once I figured out it was inside the Sheung Wan Market on the 2nd floor, I just headed for the tables on the right that had people at them at 10a on a Monday. As someone who speaks no Chinese, I was able to rely on the fact that no other restaurants on the floor were open. I cannot believe how luscious the French toast was. How has no one popularized in the US condensed milk instead of syrup?? The bottled chilled milk tea was sensational too. Strong flavor, cut by creamy milk. Outstanding. Make this a stop on your Hong Kong journey.

This place is located at the Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, specifically in the Sheung Wan…read moreCooked Food Centre/Sheung Wan Market. Quite unassuming of a business, but they don't need to be when the food is good. I came here during the COVID pandemic when social distancing only allowed two people at a table. There were three of us however, as I visited this place with two new friends, but we somehow made our seating arrangement work. We were seated on plastic stools around simple round tables that seemed to belong to the market and could probably use some wiping. We split a few items between the three of us, and everything was super tasty and traditional Hong Kong. Milk tea in a bottle, French toast, and an egg and beef sandwich. One of my friends is a local, so he was able to order in Cantonese for us. He also happened to have recommended this place to us. Shout out to him for being such a good foodie friend.