I love this restaurant. It is on the border with Admiralty and close to the pacific place…read more The poeple serve very good cantonese food. At lunch time you can get tasty lunch menus. Ming Garden have two menus. One in cantonese language and the other one in english. The cantonese one includes more dishes. Sad for me :-(, I dont like westernized meals. But the poeple was so kind and serve me always what I want. I saw dishes - at other tables - show it and thats it. I got it :-). The dishes are not expensive and the food was always fresh and good flavored. For example: I love the classical Hainan Chicken Rise Dish. The soup is tasty and the chicken is cooked very gently. The sauces are perfect. Try it! You can get this dish also at the lunch time. The restaurant is very busy at the rush hours like lunch and dinner time, which is a good sign. But you can reserve a table. Most visitors are from Hong Kong. Sometimes I was the only european person. This restaurant was one of my favourites. It was close to my home - 3 minutes - it was always tasty and they serve the dishes very quick and the people was nice to me. TRY IT!!! Thank you Ming Garden for the good food and time!

This place is always packed! Especially with locals - which is normally a good thing…read more I have been here for dinner and had their crazy lobster over noodle dish (out of this world) and their steamed fish (delicious as well). Their dim sum is pretty yummy. One of their best dishes were their ha gau (shrimp dumplings) and the ma tai gou (water chestnut pudding).

3.5 mostly famous for their view. banquet food such as the rice with abalone but a little chewy,…read morewalnut shrimp, veggies over steamed, taro paste ribs, lots of fried, squab a little dry

We missed dim sum at the Peninsula and came here as a back up. The view of the harbor was excellent…read morebut food and service just so so. We ordered a dim sum platter for two and the fried wide noodle. The dim sum was pretty meh but the noodles not bad. We paid about $40 usd which seemed pretty high for what we ate... But I guess the view is what we paid for. Plus 1* for their careful attention they pay to lost items- my wife left her sunglasses and they were super good about taking care of them until we can back to get them.

Very affordable and lots of variety. Expect to be seated with other patrons, family style. One…read moretime, I was at a table by myself, and a pretty young Chinese girl came to my table and sat across from me. It was a little awkward at first, but we had a nice time chatting once the ice was broken. You will be handed an English menu with lots of pics that show what the dishes are. A cup of lukewarm tea is the standard beverage, and anything else will have to be ordered. One odd thing I noticed is that no napkins are on the table, and you have to ask for one. No big deal. I've been adventurous and tried a number of different things. Their specialty is tripe on top of noodle soup or over rice, but I haven't gone there yet. I have had the tendon, fatty brisket, salted duck egg, and pork belly. All have been delish! If you want to stay on the tame side, crispy roast pork, roast duck, and char siu style pork are very good choices. I've never left here paying more than ten bucks or so. This is my "go-to" joint when I'm in Hong Kong.

My friends have been raving this place non-stop so we came when we finally had a chance! A very…read morepopular place indeed (not to mention it's been around forever)! We missed out on the signature roast pork belly (燒肉)!!! It is a good place for a larger crowd but since there were only 3 of us, we sticked to the basics. Can't wait to return to try more of their dishes!

This place is packed! This is actually my first time to come for dinner (I usually go to their…read moreKowloon Bay location for lunch). Food is good (loved the chicken!) and service is typical for an old school Chinese restaurant (i.e., you have to share a table with strangers, endure the crude servers, etc). It's better if you come as a large group since their portion is huge (There is only one size!) We ended up taking a lot of the leftovers to-go.

I was looking forward to a good dim sum in HK! I can't say anything impressed me! This place…read morereminded me of a typical dim sum restaurant in Vancouver from the 1970's when I was a kid. I was expecting more given that this is HK! This place won't impress or disappoint! $600HK or $100CAD might be a bit high for not ordering all that much in my opinion compared to Vancouver.

The fam bought of bunch of seafood from the scalpers downstairs.. I mean fishermen!…read more Lobster, razor clam, scallops, mantis shrimp. Their BBQ Pork was indeed quite good. The roasted goose was pretty good compared to US junk. I can't blame the restaurant if the source material wasn't the best to start with, so I'll lay off the smack down on this place. Just remember, their award for Best restaurant or whatever was from 2008. Over 10 years ago. Overall, this place didn't blow me away, the flavors above average, meaning you can find it anywhere in HK. And HK and GZ are the mecca of Cantonese cuisine. Read my GZ reviews.

This restaurant is located in the seafood village where you can buy the fresh seafood and tell the…read morewaiter what and what you would Iike to cook. So you will need to pay once( buy the seafood) & pay twice( pay the cooking). Freshness is guaranteed and its relatively cheaper than Sai Kong. Locals come here more often. I particular like the fish in 2 ways which they use use the fish filet to sautéed fried. And using the fish bone to deep fried. Quite a smart way to cook the fish all. I recommend to people who really want to try local seafood in a proper restaurant. We have 10 people and the bill is around hkd $5000. But so full!

BOTTOM LINE: Come for the char-siu, roast pork, and roast goose, and you won't be disappointed…read more Many hidden gems in this town and this place is up there. Quite a hole in the wall, especially if you get seated upstairs, but I always try to stop by when I'm in town. Part of it is nostalgia, but the other (more legit) reason is that they make an amazing char-siu/roast pork/roast goose on rice. I can't attest to the other dishes bc this is all I ever order here bc it's so bloody good (figuratively speaking)! And all for $50 HKD! You can't go wrong!

Very tight space, so you'll be very cozy alongside every other patron. Roast pork is good, would…read moredefinitely get that for takeout. Peking duck was okay, there are better ones elsewhere. Due to the tight space and a second floor, they will put receipts on your food to keep track; wasn't much of a deal breaker for me, but might be for others. They like to turn tables really quickly, so don't dawdle after your meal or they may get annoyed. Because of that, it's a good place to get in and out really quick. A lot of people come here for lunch, so it's just courtesy to those waiting for a table. They won't let you buy anything less than 35 HKD after 11:30am, since that's their peak time and they'd rather you actually sit for a meal than chill out for a drink.

"The horror...the horror..."…read more That's what I thought as soon as the roast chicken arrived. The chicken was on top of a metallic basin with a rod stand attached vertically in the middle. Said poor bird was forcefully put through the rod, so that the end of the rod protruded out of the breast area. It looked like something out of a bad scary movie...or Doom. While there were some good aspects of the dinner I had here, plenty of it left much to be desired, and hence the lower grade. The theme of most of the food involved that night was this: tasteless. Everything surprisingly tasted bland. I expected spice. I expected umami tastes. I definitely expected "wok hei". I expected flavor. The roasted pork was absolutely disappointing. There was barely any meat, barely any layer of fat, and the skin was rubbery, not crispy. Oh and I did mention it was tasteless? Oh and back to the chicken. I ended up doing the carving and did a decent job, grace of God. They gave me one plastic glove to aid me in getting the job done. I could've moon-walked after that. While the chicken was tender as all get-out, it was, get this...BLAND. There was a flavored salt that accompanied the chicken and you needed to apply copious of that stuff to make seem somewhat tasty. The clay pot rice with Chinese sausage was decent but not amazing. Again, it lacked flavor. The sizzling pork knuckle in black pepper sauce could have used more flavor as well but it was passable. At least it was warm. There were raw oysters ordered but...raw shellfish at a dai pai dong??? Ummm...hepatitis, much? For me, the highlight of the entire dinner was the garlic shrimp, but because it was one of the only dishes that actually had flavor (albeit it was overwhelming garlic). The shrimp were cut symmetrically and cooked with a crapload of garlic. Yeah, I wasn't expecting to kiss anyone that night, so I just ate quite a few of those tender crustaceans. We were given a variety of desserts and they were a mixed bag. The fried taro/egg balls were amazing and almost single-handedly brought this restaurant up from 2-stars. Yeah, anything fried is good but these were brilliant. They came really hot and the outer fried section was crispy. Inside was half taro paste and half egg-milk custard. Both flavors were excellent. We also had a variety of herbal jellies and dessert rolls. The durian cream roll stood out the most, as you could imagine. I guess if you wanted to try durian, but were scary crapless to try the raw, unadulterated version of the sometimes reviled fruit, the roll would be a good idea. My relatives had reserved a VIP room, which was creepy-looking going up. I was concerned I would need to bring out my non-existent "particular set of skills" to protect myself from the nefarious. Maybe because we were given a VIP section (table, real chairs, in a room, tablecloth), the price didn't seem quite as impressive as I was led to believe. And I still needed to bring tissues too! (oh and bring hand sanitizer)

Tai Chung Wah is probably the most well-known dai pai dong in Cheung Sha Wan. The restaurant…read moreoccupies the whole "block" and is divided into sections. Come with a local or anyone who can write Chinese because you write your order here! It's great for large groups and you actually want to come with a large group because that's they only way you can sample the different dishes. It's loud, it's fun, and it's cheap! It may not be the cleanest but it is definitely a good representation of what a real dai pai dong should look like.