Okay. So welcome to the Western districts. It's not nearly as hipstery as Sheung Wan (上環)/Western…read moremarket, but it's getting there. The neighborhood isn't Kennedy town - it's Shek Tong Tsui (石瑭咀). History buffs would note that this was the Red Light district of the olden days - if you saw the 1987 cinema classic Rouge (胭脂扣), well, it took place here back in the 1920s, before World War II turned Hong Kong upside down. The Belchers is where the rich folks live, and HKU is further north. Queens Road West is "little people country" where the working stiffs live, and as such, supermarket and shop stalls are still here, the local bakery still have fresh egg tarts and milk breads (方包), and you got your neighborhood greasy spoons selling pre-made dumplings and "dirty noodles" (揦鮓麵, fast cook noodle made by joints that are often noted for the proprietor's lack of sanitary prep surfaces) There are some changes to the local landscape in the area once the MTR rolled around, but for the most part, fullbore gentrification has yet to impact the area. So that brings us to the A+ kitchen...what the hell is it? Well, it's a bit of a mixed bag. It's a great breakfast diner and a mediocre Cantonese dinner joint both at the same time. So, what's with the breakfasts? The menu contain some very decent value - 31 HKD (about 4 USD) will get you a fresh omelette, a traditional rice vermicelli noodles or a bowl of pasta noodles with smoked duck medellions, along with a solid cup of milk tea or coffee. As someone who immigrated decades ago, that's one of the things I missed about old school HK...kicking back in a diner via a French toast (butter and golden syrup) and a cuppa slight bitter (pre-seasoned with some Black-and-White condensed milk, served with its distinctive cup). The place is clean, roomy, and when you compare it to the grimy noodle joints in the area slinging congee (白粥) and rice roll (豬腸粉) combos for 28HKD each, this place all of a sudden becomes a spectacular deal. The food quality is solid and the portions generous. Now, what's with the dinner experience? Well, for one, it's kinda expensive - portion sizes aren't great and your menu choices are just so-so. Second, the food quality (both ingredients and prep) are rather mediocre. We got the soup du-jour, which was some pork bone soup with pickled veggies, but other than it being salty, it was bland. The Grouper in a corn sauce simply showed off how poor the fish quality was. The kai-lan with beef was okay but nothing to write home about. The appetizer cold-dish of jellyfish and cured pigs-ears tasted like it was leftovers from a few days ago. As a breakfast joint, it's a solid 4. As a dinner joint, it's a 2. Average it out and it'll be a 3. I am not sure if it's A+, but I'll give it a passing grade, but only for breakfast.

Very typical Hong Kong style cafe in Kennedy Town…read more Food: 3 out of 5 Service: 3 out of 5 Ambiance: 3 out of 5 Value: 4 out of 5 Similar to all the other HK cafes, they have a lot of variety on their menu. Food is fairly non-descript, but you get a lot of it. I got a meal set with beef satay noodles, coffee, a ham omelette and a croissant for 40 HKD. That's pretty cheap in my book.

No one should really love a HK cafe this much, especially when it's a chain and located smack dab…read morein a semi-touristy section of Tsim Sha Tsui. Yet, I love A Plus Kitchen for their semi-diverse menu, quality execution, and overall good service. I find myself coming here time and time again with little to no disappointment. English names and Chinese ones almost never correlate in other countries, but I don't find this to be much of an occurrence in HK. A Plus Kitchen is really 讚記 (or Chan Kee) but what's in a name really? An easier moniker for the nearby tourists means there is a likelihood for more businesses. Yet, I don't ever really see many tourists here if at all. If it makes a difference, the menus are in English and Chinese. I do appreciate their breakfast options for being plentiful and affordable, but their dinner hour is where it's at. Unlike a lot of HK cafes out there that only do the usual HK style western breakfast + noodle / rice options for lunch and dinner, APK steps it up with a full fledged menu full of Canto classics like water spinach with chilis and tofu (椒絲腐乳通菜) or white chopped chicken (白切雞). I am usually here for their fish tofu claypot (班腩豆腐煲) and shrimp with egg (蝦仁炒蛋). The dinner set comes with rice and choice of drink, which ranges somewhere between $59-78HKD. The evenings are packed full of people every night. They don't include a service charge in their prices and it is strictly cash only.

Came here for breakfast when I was in zombie mode due to jet lag. Service was brisk and efficient…read morejust like any other Cha Chaan Teng, but the cleanliness did seem above average. Menu was very visual and most choices were already mapped out in set/combo format, which essentially means they throw in a drink (up charge for cold). Ordered the congee & noodle combo, and both items were pretty much decent. No complaints but nothing to write home about either. Par for the course.

I local cafe for Hong Kong style meals . It served breakfast, lunch and dinner …read more We went there for breakfast so the review is about breakfast only . I love that they opened at 8 am . The whole place is fully occupied. But the table turn over moved fast . Customers ate breakfast then went to work or other chores . Their HK milk tea tasted excellent. It used the special brand of evaporated milk . You add your own sugar to adjust the sweetness . Many choices on the menu. The toasts with butter were so good , fresh and a little crisp to enrich the yumminess. We ordered grilled pork chop , beans and ham with bread , scrambled eggs. Pork chop size was huge and still the same price in HK $ 40 . My friend could not finish the scrambled eggs and sloped the bread . ( cost $1 extra to toast it ) . We tried the cheese green onion ham and mushrooms breakfast sandwiches, toasted . Lots of ham , egg , mushrooms scrambled and I could not finish the toast . Bread was so fresh and then toasted to perfection. All the breakfast came with drinks . We both got hot milk tea . I would love to come back for beef tongue soup with macaroni . I have enclosed the menu for lunch and dinner . The curry chicken looked good , deep fried chicken leg and creamy baked seafood rice . Would return to try other dishes. I took out one star because one time my friend saw the staff using the same hand with disposable glove to throw away the food waste , he touched the plate with food for customers BEFORE he washed his hands .

Expect to queue up when you get here! They seat you at the first availability so there's a good…read morechance you'd be sharing tables with strangers. Overall experience can be summarized as controlled chaos. Constant flux of people leaving and entering... table bumping... Forget about personal space when you're here! Anyway, very classic cha chaan teng with variety of options including afternoon tea and speciality sets. I ordered their L set from breakfast menu and added a yuenyeung. Overall, thought the food was okay! Need to try more options first. This would've been a 4* but dropping it to 3* because the buttered toast had a blue string/plastic/something embedded to it.

One off the best Brunch place in hk Is my favorite , I eat…read moreeveryday there ... good quality nice price ... variety dish ... everyday new surprise and good service as well Don't miss it if u are in causeway bay

So happy that this place, one of my old haunts, survived the pandemic. Came here for breakfast and…read moreit hasn't changed. The food is great and the staff, this time was nice. Will need to go to the Peel Street location at some point.

Nice that it's 24 hrs. Food is decent. Value of the food is pretty good, especially their breakfast…read moresets. Menu's in Chinese, but with some pictures. If you're dining solo in the morning, be prepared to sit with strangers. Word of advice....don't give them big bills like 500hkd or the cashier will "tsk" you. Only 45hkd ($7.5cdn) for my pineapple bun, milk tea and macaroni soup.

1st meal post landing. LOVED! Food was served incredibly quick and the server was really funny. My…read moreentire plate was amazing. Piled w/ tender, juicy meat atop a bed of rice and veggies. Paired well w/ a refreshing cold milk tea. We also ordered the crispy fish skin. BOMB! Perfect cheap eats located across from our hotel. Will be back before I depart HK.

I am so disappointed they had discontinued after tea set 京都炸醬面和小雲吞. In fact I don't see any wontons…read moreon the menu. Aside from that the 炸醬麵 is very tasty.

This is one of the more well known quick eat spots in YMT/TST so I decided to stop in for…read morebreakfast. The popular item are the scrambled eggs so I had to see for myself. Per usual, they serve food up real quick so be ready to eat once you order. I had the following... Breakfast Set Special - (Scrambled Eggs. Buttered toasted buns. Two Sausages. Macaroni & Tomato in tomato broth. Coffee.) The stars are definitely the eggs and the buns. Eggs are cooked perfectly with a silky and smooth texture. Buns were buttered generously and had a nice crunch to it. The macaroni was ordinary and in my opinion, pretty forgettable. Breakfast Set B - Same as above, but with satay beef noodles in place of the macaroni and sausages. I thoroughly enjoyed the satay beef, but I wish there were more pieces of beef! Again, the eggs and buns were both on point and elevates the entire breakfast set. Overall, this was an enjoyable breakfast experience. Tasty items with affordable prices. I don't think it's a place where you'll come very frequently, but once in awhile is okay!

I have always gone to the Tsui Wah in Central because it was a great place to stop by for a snack…read moreafter a marathon shopping jaunt at the cut label stores. This one was new to me and I went there to meet a dear friend and her husband from Singapore who was in town. I don't eat fish noodle soup in the US so of course I had to order it at Tsui Wah. We also ordered an extra bowl of just fish balls and fish cake. Noodles were slightly soft, not soggy and fish balls were good. My friend and her husband was craving wontons in chili oil and braised beef with tendons and okra. They really enjoyed their dishes. Everything we ordered was good, but I'm docking off a star for the servers in the restaurant (who weren't Chinese BTW and we weren't sure whether to speak in Chinese or English?). Just to get someone to take our order was a huge undertaking in waving them down, trying not to get enraged from their piss-and-vinegar faces. :(

Landed in HK fairly late at night, and was in search of a spot that'd be open past midnight…read more Expected more places to be open that far into the night, but strangely there were none except Tsui Wah. Some would call this the upscale version of Denny's (for my fellow Americans out there), but the only real comparison is that it's a chain. The food here is legit. All the HK cafe staples you'd need and want. And then some. Staff is okay. Nothing terribly rude, as you'd expect from any Chinese restaurant. There's English and photos throughout the menu, so that was extremely helpful. We ordered the Shrimp Wonton Noodle Soup in Fish Broth and Scrambled Egg with Sea Bass Chow Fun. And man, both were amazingly delish. Color me impressed. The fish broth was def coming through. The wontons were packed with the shrimp. The sea bass was fresh. The chow fun had the right amount of seasoning. The hot sauce on the side gave the perfect amount of kick I was seeking. And both dishes came out to $17USD. Pretty standard pricing. As for the one star knock down, it's due to the limited breakfast menu. We were so excited from delish midnight snack, that we came back for breakfast two days later. Unfortunately, before 10:30am, there's only four meal options. None of which I could eat. 4 stars

Stopped by for afternoon tea and there was a line out the door. Wait time went by really fast…read morethough because they encourage you to share tables. I ordered the French toast with peanut butter while hubby ordered a bolo bao with butter. The bolo bao came really fast while the French toast took a while longer. But everything came out nice and warm and was delicious. We had to scoop out some of the butter from the bolo bao though because it was too much. Hubby ordered a hot milk tea while I got an iced one. It was so rich, creamy, and smooth. Honestly made me feel a little jittery though because the tea was pretty strong. Service here was so so. The ladies working were rushing us to order which was understandable since they were so busy. Don't expect to sit and have a nice chat after you're done eating though because they will shoo you out.

Walking around Mongkok, we stopped at Red Tea for dinner without looking at reviews or Yelp. The…read moreplace seemed bustling with lots of patrons. We were able to get a spot right away. The service was friendly and efficient. ***OUR PICKS*** BEEF CHOW FUN ~ seasoned just right and beef was very tender! But not enough wok hei/smokey flavor. 4/5 FRIED GARLIC CHICKEN AND RICE ~ flavorful and juicy chicken with crispy skin! Loved this dish! But if you're hungry, the piece of chicken was on the small side, though you get a good helping of rice. 4/5 BAKED PORK CHOP WITH PASTA ~ Not as cheesy as others and pasta got hard from baking. Flavor was good and tangy from the tomato sauce. 3.5/5 They also had baked goodies like pineapple buns, egg tarts, and other pastries, but we didn't try them, but we heard from a local that they're pretty good too. Too bad we were full from dinner to have dessert.