we went to this really local place, around it it's a ghetto village. it's a big surprise to me…read morebecause i haven't seen such a local place for a long time. the toilet is very dirty, many mosquito, and don't expect any tissue paper from the restaurant. we ordered 13'' super spicy pizza - it's quite spicy, the flavor is quite good, which reminds me of the KFC St. Louis BBQ Chicken wings. but the dough is very hard, not fluffy at all. any american pizza can make a better dough than this. speghetti with eggplants - too much cream and butter, cheese. very heavy. i was trying to find a little piece of speghetti without cream, but it was impossible baked clam with butter and cheese - it was also very heavy, too much cheese. i had to move away all the cheese on top to eat the clam at the bottom we spent $90 for 3 orders.

I have to say that the last time I ordered from Pizza Box was when I was still studying at CUHK. As…read moresome of you may have known, I lived in the farthest hostel in the entire campus - International House. Going out for dinner and coming back can take quite a while and too much of a hassle. Therefore, my roommate and I often ordered from Pizza Box. Why Pizza Box but not Pizza H*t? First off, Pizza Box does not offer crazy choices, instead, they have my favorite - meat lovers; second, Pizza H*t does not deliver to secluded places like ours; third, it is much cheaper, and it has buy one get one free promotion. (Fun fact - I tried calling in Cantonese and the staff said they do not have that promotion; so try English if you want this - not sure if it still happens though) So around HKD$150 can get you 2 huge boxes of pizza in less than an hour. Where else can you find that? The delivery normally does not take too long and the food is super hot when they get served. The crust is crispy with melted cheese all covering the slices. You may try to order online but I prefer calling in person. Though I do not see myself a computer idiot, its online system fails me still - and I do not see the promotion online unfortunately. Therefore, give them a call, which is definitely much faster and more convenient. There are so many stores around Hong Kong and I can guarantee you they do delivery everywhere.

Last night a pizza saved my life.. well, not literally, but Pizza Box has been a source of…read moresustenance for me on some many lazy evenings. There is of course, the million dollar question of which is better: Pizza Hut or Pizza Box? Some would say Pizza Hut does a better all-round and that their pizzas are more interesting. Then you have the school of Pizza Box where the pizzas are done properly and to be honest nothing else much matters. For me- the Pizza is the main thing in the meal and I don't care if the pasta is a bit soggy and the soup tastes like PVA. You are ordering a pizza after all so that's what should be done properly. Pizza Box's menu has a traditional list of pizzas- nothing too fancy but enough to keep a pizza buff like me happy. I am not a fan of the pizza hut take on dumping every single known ingredient to mankind on the pizzas. The are 3 choices for the crust and I think that's the proper way of doing things- none of that nonsense with cheese and everything else. They deliver or you could choose to pick up a pizza from their shop; doing it the latter way would usually mean a 40% off or a concession to a similar degree. I always choose to go pick it up as its cheaper and quicker. Their service has always been top notch and I really cannot A Manhattan would do me quite well at this time- thank you very much.

A friend and I were meeting up for lunch at New Town Plaza and since she told me she was going to…read morebe a little late, I walked around first to look for a place where we could have a nice and affordable meal. After scanning the menus of restaurants like School Food, Bene and Parkview, I decided that the lunch set menu at Pizza Express looked the best. Since it was lunchtime, Pizza Express was full (as were most of the restaurants there), so I had to join the others waiting outside and take a number. Our number was about fifteen away from the number it currently was, but surprisingly it didn't take that long - a little over ten minutes later, I was given a table. My friend still hadn't arrived, and I was glad when they let me in anyway and didn't say that the entire party must be present before being given the table. My friend and I both got the light lunch set, which includes a main and a drink. We decided to get different mains each and share between the two of us, and we mutually agreed on the margherita pizza and the salmon farfalle. For drinks, my friend got the raspberry cooler and I got the lemonade. The drinks arrived almost immediately after we ordered them - my friend's raspberry cooler was really refreshing and sweet, and my lemonade was super sour! It was definitely the sourest lemonade I'd ever tasted - well, the sourest drink I'd ever had, period! I liked it though, because I really love things that taste sour. The food didn't take long to get here. The margherita pizza came in one round piece and we split it in two to share. The pizza was really good - it was a thin-crust, so it was light, and it was nice and cheesy. The salmon pasta was pretty good too - they were generous enough with the salmon, and the pasta was really creamy. I was no doubt happy with the food, but not so happy with the portions! The pizza and the pasta were both pretty small, and I was still left feeling a little hungry after it all. I can definitely see myself back here again - and when I am, I'll be sure to order the executive lunch set, which includes an appetizer!

If you are tired of local and other Asian foods, PizzaExpress ain't a bad choice for lunch or…read moredinner. I've never been disappointed with the pizza nor pasta here.

TLDR: A hole in the wall serving great Indian/Pakistani food…read more The dish I usually would use to gauge an Indian restaurant is the lamb or mutton biryani. This usually takes hours to cook and can make or break a meal. The rice needs to be deeply fragranced from being slowly cooked, and the texture needs to be perfect. In this case, the rice was near perfect. Very, very long-grained, intensely flavorful and spicy. It was spicy like a Hyderabadi biryani but the flavor of the lamb did not infuse into the rice. so I was a little confused if it was a dum cooked biryani. Perhaps being a small place, and offering vegetarian, chicken and lamb biryani, the meat was cooked separately and mixed in. Nevertheless, a place I would be back to should I be craving Indian food again while in Hong Kong. Service was good, with the masala chai being hot and in a proper tin cup! As a hole in the wall, it was tiny - seating for 12 would be tight, and most patrons I found to be taking out during the time I was there. Not a place I would bring a group to, but may be better as a take-out.

I wasn't sure what to expect from the country side of Hong Kong, but the results were definitely…read moresatisfying. This is more of a western restaurant and the staff is so welcoming, you feel like you're visiting relatives. At one point, the waitress noticed my mom and I taking pictures of food, so she tried to help set up the food as aesthetically as they can after setting it down on the table, haha! They have a lot of appetizing things to choose from, but I got the pasta and mocha (and also tried a bite out of everyone's dishes lol) honestly everything tasted pretty good and you're definitely going to feel full right after!

Dining options at New Town Plaza are aplenty, ranging from Shanghainese (Din Tai Fung, Crystal…read moreJade) to Korean (School Food) to western-inspired Japanese cafes (UCC, Pokka). If you're in the mood for Italian food, and authenticity isn't something you particularly care about, then give Spaghetti House a go. I love the interior of Spaghetti House - it's a little dim but everything about it looks very warm. The stained-glass ceiling lamps add a colorful but subtle touch to the restaurant and makes the place look more upscale than it prices suggest it to be. I was here for lunch with a friend the other day. We were here pretty early -around 12:15 - and it was a Tuesday, so we didn't have issues getting a table. The lunch set sounded pretty good, with choices of main courses including pizza, noodle, salad and the rest of it, being the Spaghetti House, different kinds of spaghetti. The soup of the day was mushroom soup, and while I adore mushroom soup, I decided to add $9 to upgrade to the lobster bisque with scallops. $9 isn't a lot to add for lobster bisque, so I figured why not? My friend did the same. The lobster soup was actually really good - very creamy, and there were a couple of pieces of lobster meat inside, although I'm pretty sure that some, if not all of it, was imitation lobster. The scallops were pretty good. And then our main courses - my spaghetti bolognaise and my friend's linguine with beef ribs and red wine sauce - came. I quite liked my spaghetti and found the sauce thick and meaty. There was enough of the sauce to go around with the spaghetti - nothing annoys me more than when they skimp on the bolognese sauce! My friend complained that her beef was a little hard though. Our sets came with a drink and I got hot coffee while my friend got the iced lemon tea. I wasn't too impressed with the coffee because it was too strong and bitter for my liking. Overall, this is a good place to come to for lunch if you're at New Town Plaza. The lunch sets are quite affordable and my meal set me back just under $90, which is pretty good considering I left feeling very full and satisfied with the food. Just a word of caution that if you come a little later - or worse still, if you're here on a weekend, you're going to have to wait for a table! If you don't have much time to spare, I would advise you to get numbers from the different restaurants on the same floor and just go for whichever one calls your number first.

We came here for a late dinner after a long day of sightseeing. Normally, I wouldn't have chosen…read morepasta, but we were really hungry and went for the place that seemed to have the shortest line (we ended up waiting 20 minutes anyway). We started with their 5 Stars Platter appetizer. The crispy spring roll was excellent and reminded me of a deep fried scallion pancake. The rest of the platter wasn't well prepared. The french fries were cold and soggy; the chicken wings were dry and overcooked. There was a fried mushroom thing that I didn't realize had mushrooms until I reread the menu. Stay away from this platter. The main courses were redeeming. The squid ink pasta was acceptable, but the accompanying scallops were cooked perfectly. Be forewarned that the seafood is rather tiny. Tasty as they were, the scallops were the diameter of a U.S. dime (about 17 mm). My wife's baked spaghetti with shrimp was also pretty good, with nice al dente noodles in a savory cheesy sauce. The surprise was my daughter's cheese pizza, which rivalled some of our favorite places in Los Angeles. The cheese was burnt just enough to impart a gooey crust atop a spicy-sweet pizza sauce. And the crust! It was satisfyingly crunchy with a hint of saltiness. And nary was a drop of grease to be found. Maybe we had very low expectations, but regardless, my wife and I were genuinely surprised at how good the pizza tasted. Finally, despite this being a western restaurant, the service was more typical of a Chinese restaurant. That is, you have to flag a waiter down for every little thing (such as giving your order). I'm torn between a 3 and a 4, but lean towards the lower mark due to poor appetizer, tasty-but-tiny scallops, and service.

I shared a pizza with 3 other colleagues and everyone was disappointed. I normally can eat my…read moreweight in pizza and when I say the "large" size I assumed we would have to order more. However, after eating the first slice I was certain we wouldn't even finish it. Everyone left behind pieces and we did not finish it. We had the pepperoni pizza which should be pretty much foolproof but apparently not. Not worth your time!!

Came here for afternoon tea…read more A cute selection of entrees and desserts. The chicken was delicious, very tender and the cream sauce was good. While the egg tarts, and mango mousse was delicious, my favorite was the bowl of fruit. Service was a little lacking during the meal, but at at the end of our mel, our server finished the meal with attentative service when bringing an included beverage (I chose milk tea). Total Bill: $118/person