Where do I start? The view of Victoria harbor/Hong Kong skyline from my table was unbelievable!…read moreMatch that with post dinner light show and this was a great night! I enjoyed the food and the staff was excellent.

Amazing restaurant, fabulous service and superlative view. Yan Toh Heen was recommend by a…read morefriend. It is located in the Intercontinental hotel in Victoria Harbour in TST. We did not know it was a 2 star Michelin restaurant, and I was a bit apprehensive at the beginning, because we did not want to spend too much money on food on this trip. Upon our request, we were seated right in front of the Harbour view and were able to see the light show that start around 8pm. The most beautiful view of HK at night! We opted not to order the duck, which needs to be ordered 24 hour in advance and although I am sure quite delicious is quite pricy (HK$1,438+10%). Reservation in this place is a must! Highlights were the Wok-fried Wagyu with Green Peppers, Mushrooms and Garlic, Wok-seared Chicken Fillet with Lemon Sauce The server was so kind as to give us half servings so we could "sample" some of the more expensive items, add fried rice for substitution with the meat dishes and free desert. This flexibility in providing half portion and substitution is something i've rarely experience in a Michelin restaurant. Overall, we payed $US240 (1,900 Hong Kong Dollar) which includes the 10% service charge for two people for a michelin 2 star restaurant for an unforgettable meal! If I return to HK, I will definitely come back and try their dim sum.

Come with someone who can read Chinese as everything is in Chinese. But food is good and like most…read moreChinese banquet style restaurants. My favorite was the roasted quails. Decor is clean and modern. Staff was super nice and fast.

Fresh off the plane and after driving through HK traffic, I found myself in Tseung Kwan O with my…read morerelatives already looking for a place to eat. It's early for dim sum for us in the States because we usually have dim sum for lunch around 11:30/noon but here, dim sum is great all day long. The place was already packed when I arrived and we had to share tables for a while until the gentleman we were sharing it with was ready to leave. Afterwards, we ordered off the menu, marking what we wanted and waiting for them to steam the items so that they come out fresh! We ordered a ton of dim sum, which is why you always need to go to dim sum with a group of people so that you can have a taste of everything. Of the things we ordered, I loved the chicken feet, the BBQ pork buns, and the fried turnip cakes the most. The chicken feet was extremely flavorful and meaty. The flavor was great and will definitely turn doubters into lovers. The BBQ pork buns were packed with filling. The meat was also not as red as the ones you would find elsewhere which is great cuz I'm pretty sure it's all food coloring anyways. You bite into it and expect a ton of fat but nope, it's all meat. Finally, the turnip cake was lightly fried and and stacked on top of each other. Also packed with turnips so you aren't getting jyped with a flour cake. Comes with some hot sauce to add that punch of flavor but not necessary even for spicy food lovers like me. I always say dim sum in Hong Kong beats dim sum in the States and this proves it. Everything was better IMO. (Except for maybe the Egg Yolk Buns that were supposed to be runny...they came out kind of solid and lacked that oozing filling I was expected) But besides that, the food was great, which makes up for the subpar service. Our empty dim sum dishes were not quickly picked up and they were slow to refill tea but besides that the service was OK. If you are in the area and looking for dim sum, you should drop by. It gets packed in the morning with the elderly getting their breakfast on but if you are willing to share a table, you will get a treat with the dim sum.

Wing Lai Yuen is a Sichuanese restaurant located in Wong Tai Sin. It is a short walk from the MTR…read morestation of the same name. This restaurant is a bit out of the way and the kind of place you wouldn't know about unless you knew a local. I learned of this spot from my aunt who lives in HK and has brought me here for dinner a couple times. The storefront does not have an English name so you will need to look for the Chinese title. Look for a red color sign. The restaurant interior has a feel of a hole in the wall. When you enter, grab a table if there is one open. Though be forewarned that you might need to share it if the restaurant fills up. It is best to get in early (5-ish) before the crowd at dinner time. There isn't an English menu, so it helps if you come here with a Chinese speaker. But there are menu item photos plastered over the wall so you could simply point to what you want here. The signature menu item here are their dan dan noodles. They are also a very good deal since it is just HK$24. This dish is spicy, though you can ask for a less spicy version but it is a bit watered down in flavor. On my recent trip, I had a few other items in addition to the dan dan noodles and all four of them were great. They have this fried fish appetizer which are crunchy that I couldn't get enough of. Then there were the two Sichuanese standards, chili green beans with ground beef and ma po tofu. The green beans were nice and crisp with plenty of garlic and chili pepper. The ma po tofu was silky and comforting. They also have xiaolongbao here which are HK$50 for an order of 8. For a restaurant that does not specialize in Shanghai cuisine, I thought these were quite good. Not the best I have had, but solid. The service is great here. And the chef was quite accommodating despite all of the special requests we had. The restaurant is a bit off the beaten path, but if you are looking for good Sichuanese food, Wing Lai Yuen is worth seeking out.

My ex-co-worker took me to this off the beaten path Sichuan restaurant located few minutes away…read morefrom 黄大仙 station for our reunion. She used to live in this neighborhood when she was a child and this was one of her favorite restaurants back then. It's very popular among the locals and there are hardly any foreigners. I've been living in China for over 6 months but this Sichuan restaurant serves more delicious food than what I had in Mainland! I especially liked their 擔擔麵 (dandanmian) and 小籠包 （this is not really 川菜 but who cares? 好吃！）, so good! 不錯！For desserts, I recommend 炸銀絲卷 (sweet fried bread which is crunchy on the outside, you eat it with a condensed milk like dip), 雷沙湯圓 (hot mochi with black sesame cream inside) , and 豆沙鍋餅 (Awesome pancake with sweet red bean paste! H-A-O-C-H-I!! ) Fast, inexpensive, & delicious. Highly recommended!

Very nice dim sum place. Not traditional but they make it very pretty. We just stopped by for…read moredrinks and a small treat after a long day. Got a kumquat and lemon drink with sweet potato and a cookie swan. The view is nice from the restaurant and is a nice environment.

We had a great meal here. Their dishes are really flavorful and are presented beautifully. I…read moreespecially enjoyed the buns with mushroom and truffle and the nian gao. The sesame noodles were also great.

Ho Choi (好彩海鮮酒家) is located on the 5th floor of Millennium City, smack in the middle of all tall…read morebusiness buildings in Kwun Tong. There are two lift areas to go up - one in the main lobby and one off to the right side, down a narrow hallway (best for when the main lifts are too busy). When talking to my friends about the best places for dim sum, establishments such as Maxim's Palace, Tim Ho Wan, Lei Garden, Dim Dim Sum and One Dim Sum pop up. But not many know about Ho Choi... Why is that? I'm actually not too sure myself. They have two branches in Sheung Wan/Sai Wan, which could be far for some, and one in Kwun Tong (which I frequent because it's close to where I work). Some say the original Ho Choi in Sheung Wan/Sai Wan is OK, nothing to special, so I decided to take a visit out to see if they were correct. (A separate review for the Sai Wan one will be posted soon!) But I can definitely vouch for Ho Choi in Kwun Tong to be one of my favorite places! The tables in the main area - that is, not in a "room" - are up for grabs, first come first serve. Get there before 12:10pm to beat the lunch crowd, or risk waiting for a while. The best thing, if you want to skip the wait, is to make a reservation for one of the tables in the "rooms" for ordering main dishes (小菜). You must order 3 or more main dishes when seated at those tables. But of course, you can still order dim sum there. Win-win! Also, because it's sectioned off from the main area, it's much quieter and more conducive to business lunches. While the prices for dim sum and main dishes have gone up in recent years (inflation, rental increases, etc), rest assured you are still getting your money's worth of delicious food! They used to have different price tiers - cheaper in the morning, standard rates during weekday lunch times, and higher prices on the weekends - but upon checking the prices during my last visit, it looks like they are now fixed. For 5 people, with 4 main dishes, and 6 dim sum plates, the total came to be just under HKD 700. Excellent bang for your buck! The tea charge is $12 per person, which is fairly standard. Dim sum plates are tiered, starting at $17 for 'small', up to $32-$35 for 'specialty' plates. Ordering the dim sum is very easy, as you just need to fill in a Scantron-like sheet (college throw-back eh?), with dishes listed in English and Chinese. I was asked to order for the table: - Crispy chicken (half) 脆皮雞 (半) - so crispy, so good! - Sweet and sour pork 咕嚕肉 - my first time ordering the 咕嚕肉 here and everyone raved about it! The freshly prepared sweet and sour pork is a game-changer here and puts those found at a buffet to shame. - Sauteed broccoli with scallops - need those vegetables and seafood! - E-fu noodles with shrimp and egg whites - I appreciate the lack of salt and strong flavors in this noodle dish, as it helps to balance out the other salty and heavy dishes. Thankfully no MSG! Dim sum on point. I'm already hungry for more, even from writing this review. Top favorites here are the BBQ pork buns, chicken feet with black bean sauce (my absolute favorite!), Chiu Chow dumplings (潮州粉粿), and Jin Deui sesame balls (煎堆). If you still have space for dessert, go for it. If you don't, still go for it.

Lately a lot of chained Chinese restaurants have been very disappointing, but Ho Choi has not…read morefailed to keep up the standard with surprised me with a very reasonable price. 12 people we have ordered an Alaska king crab, a roasted goose, a steamed grouper, 2 veggie dish and a pork dish. The king crab was huge, cooked with Chinese yellow rice wine which was just perfect. We have ordered a noodle to mix with the wine sauce. The goose was tender and meaty. Most of us were satistfied and full after these 2 dish cos of the huge portion. Then the Grouper was super fresh. The bill, which was just HKD 28xx only. Service is okay, which was comparatively better then the other Chinese restaurants like Lee Garden at Kln Bay.

Everyone wants the Dai Pai Dong experience, so who can blame visitors of the Temple Street Market…read morefor wanting to take part in a place like Tong Tai? They're conveniently located on Temple, loaded with fresh seafood swimming in buckets / tubs, and semi-aggressive wait staff recruiting tourists by the handful to take part in the outdoor communal Chinese food experience. The two things that stuck out the most within the food, specifically how salty and how expensive everything was. Our list of dishes included: Yeung Chow Fried Rice (揚州炒飯), Black Bean Clams (豉椒炒蜆), Salt and Pepper Fried Fish (椒鹽魚片), Shrimp w/ Eggs (蝦仁炒蛋), Tea Egg + Tofu (茶葉蛋豆腐), and Mantis "Pissing" Shrimp (攋尿蝦). The most underwhelming was the pissing shrimp, which a little meat and a lot of shells. When our bill ($780HKD) came out, there was a little bit of sticker shock. Not all is terrible. Despite the greasy and salty food, they were constantly coming back to make sure we had what we needed. There was no shortage of help and they took our feedback well, but chuckled when we noted the salt (Could it really have been MSG?). They have a bunch of tables and the turnover is quick enough to where even waiting isn't a big deal. Heck, there's even unlimited napkins here. Any HK'er would surely appreciate that. Anyone who is looking to drink will surely have it here -- there are beer girls walking around looking to sell by the bottle or by the bucket. Perhaps next time (if there even is one), that'll be the route I choose when I feel like people watching and drinking along Temple Street.

Come for the experience, not for the food! Mediocre seafood overseasoned at relatively high prices,…read morebut the seemingly most popular spot offering you the chance to get fresh seafood and beers outdoors while people watching at Temple Market. The fried chili crab was ok, fried chili shrimp was ok, fresh scallop was better. Fast friendly service. Great option for a larger group as well.

Jade Garden or 翠苑 has been in HK for a long time. Semi upscale, clean & high quality. It's the main…read moreResturant in the Maxims group. Complete trust in it to do a great job. Hadn't been to this location before but it was exactly like I imagined it would be. Opens early on a Monday.... And it fills up!

As with most things in Hong Kong, family style eating here is king. The restaurant is located on…read morethe 6th floor of this huge mall smack dab across from an Outback Steakhouse, so it's good for a post-shopping refuel. In order to be seated, you have to request a ticket. We had to wait quite a while, so we started off grabbing a few drinks at the Outback because they had a bar. No rules, just right...because they had a full bar. There are no carts in this dim sum joint (at least when we came) and grabbed a few items from each page of the extensive menu. Tried the fried won ton skins, stuffed bell peppers, these really dense balls of gluten, dumplings, buns, lots of rice, flat noodles with beef and veggies, vermicelli with octopus and pork, and short ribs (tasted like chicken). Overall, it was pretty good. I had no idea that ordering a glass of water with your meal wasn't a common thing, so if you do ask, be prepared for the perplexed looks from the waitstaff. It's worth noting that we came with people that spoke the language, so that helped. Four chopsticks up!

Standards are high at the Pacific Club (https://www.yelp.com/biz/CziEWJQPj9e30GE_cPCuBg) and one…read morething they've managed to do well is feature one of the better Cantonese establishments in Kowloon, Bauhinia (紫荊閣). Specializing in Dim Sum and Cantonese fare, this place does a fabulous job executing classic dishes with flavor and excellence. Like most things Dim Sum in Hong Kong, ordering here is exclusively a la carte. Their version of char siu bbq pork (叉燒) is among the tastier experiences I've had in Kowloon, for it juicy, nicely charred on the outside, and even has a sweet finish since it's sitting in a bath of juice. Their har gau (蝦餃) may look standard but it's hardly case when one takes a bite: succulent juices remain within a nicely soft, pillow like texture of the dumpling skin, and the natural flavor of the shrimp reigns surpreme. My mouth gets watery just thinking about it. Other standouts include their turnip cake (蘿蔔糕), tofu skin roll (腐皮捲), and a surprisingly very good Teochew dumpling (潮州粉粿). I haven't had too many amazing renditions of the latter, but the impression was too real. Their lotus wrapped glutinous rice (糯米雞) was so stupid good that I was actually sad to know they ran out after 12:30pm. Considering lunch only opened 90 minutes earlier, this means they're either in super high demand or there just aren't enough during lunch hour. Either way, both would certainly apply in this case. Their dinner options are also excellent. To be fair, nothing on the menu constitutes as fancy (despite the aggressive pricing), but trust that almost everything is very good. Their roasted squab (燒乳鴿) had me sucking the bone at some point because the meat was so tender and succulent. I sing high praises for their roasted goose (燒鵝) as well, which doesn't rival the big names on HK island per se, but is still *very* good. Even the simple things like XO rice noodles (XO炒腸粉) or stirfried pea shoots (炒豆苗) with roasted garlic were excellent. Service is impeccable. They're efficient, polite, and extremely courteous. Tea is always refilled without asking and they're quite good about honoring substitutions for specialty dishes. The ambiance is a bit more quiet than I would like, but I like to think everyone is busy eating and has little time for conversation. The only drag? This place is only accessible to members of the Pacific Club and their guests. I am blessed, no doubt. I am hoping to be invited back to Bauhinia one day because good food, great company, and a view are things I can always get behind.

Food (***** out of *****); Everything here is cooked as good as any Cantonese restaurant in Hong…read moreKong that has been in business for many years. What sets this restaurant apart is that they are willing to bend over backwards to accommodate special requests. One person in my dining party cannot eat sugar, another cannot eat pork, and a third person in my dining party cannot eat beef. The chef artfully changed all his recipes to suit our dietary needs. All the dishes tasted just as good as the normal versions, but they cooked them to our specifications. The only dish that is special that I haven't found in any other Chinese restaurant so far is the deep fried Chinese bread buns. They're nice and fluffy on the inside because it is baked with yeast. However, because it is also deep fried, it has a crispy exterior, too. Service (***** out of *****); Unlike most Cantonese restaurants, they have impeccable service here. Dishes are cleared after every course. People check up on you often. There are several waiters for every large party instead of the usual one overworked waiter. Atmosphere (***** out of *****); Average Cantonese restaurant decor, but with a nice ocean view. Conclusion (***** out of *****); If you have special dietary needs, this is the place you want to dine in. However, it is a restaurant in a private club, so you may need to find a friend of a friend who is a member to reserve a table for you. You may need to do a bit of networking in order to land a table here. Bon apetite!