This bakery chain is impressive! First the quality and variety of their products are tip-top…read moreexcellent. They are known particularly for their exquisite moon cakes, and the son always orders a big batch for us from their flagship Los Angeles location in the USA during every annual Mid-Autumn Festival. There are numerous locations and associated Yelp pages in Hong Kong, and I only picked this airport location to do a review as it was the last one we encountered on our trip, and it was also a great opportunity for the wife to spend the remainder of her Hong Kong currency. It was also uncanny how no matter where we stopped around Hong Kong, she sniffed out a Kee Wah bakery! Buy for yourself, and your relatives and friends, from Kee Wah Bakery and you won't be disappointed!

They are having a sampling and they even warm it up for us to try. I bought a box and looking…read moreforward to heat it up and eat it together with a cup of hot tea.

I remembered when Cafe Deadend first opened its doors it generated so much media hype it was…read moreimpossible to get a table without waiting in line for hours. That's enough to push a lot of people away and/or make any decent food lost its taste. Luckily they are located in a "deadend" so unless you are a determined foodie, regular people don't come here :P The media hype has since died down and there is no longer the ridiculous queue. In fact, I am glad this place is still around (as many don't). The food and coffee is still as good I remembered and it is still a cash business. However, without the grumpy (and hungry) eaters staring at you waiting eagerly for your table, I found my experience very enjoyable. I should come back more frequent now :)

For a cafe in the SoHo vicinity, I expect nothing less than 100% hipster--and that exactly…read moredescribes every component of my visit to Cafe Deadend: brunch items with liberal use of runny eggs, crafty photogenic pastries, a posh ambiance that looks like a Tumblr photoset in real life, a whimsically obscure location, limited seating that gets crowded easily, Instagramable latte art, a paper menu that looks seasonal, coffee campers with shiny Macbooks, and unfortunately, a slightly marked-up pricing for the complete hipster dining experience. [THE GOOD] The highlight was definitely the apple tart--somehow they came up with the ingenious idea of taking a whole apple and building the tart around it. It comes out horizontally sliced (and thankfully de-seeded) in a unique presentation and a nice, strong apple taste that goes great with the caramel sauce, pistachio topping, and vanilla ice cream. [THE MEDIOCRE] I got the steak salad because I always find myself vegetable-deficient and craving salads when I'm in HK. It was quite good and the portion size was okay. My friends got a BLT and a ham sandwich with which they were generally satisfied. However there was nothing particularly special about the food and it was wayyyyy pricey. At first it seemed rather normal to me coming from the exalted San Franciscan standard of living, but for this price in SF at least I would get local/organic/fair trade/etc etc and mind-blowing quality, but Cafe Deadend turned out to be rather mediocre. My friends also reminded me of how expensive HK$80+ sandos and sandwiches are when there is in all the yummy and cost-effective glory of HK food. [THE BAD] A bunch of my friends developed mosquito bites after our lunch here :/ Not sure if it's something in the cafe or from the semi-wilderness of the Mid-Levels neighborhood. [THE VERDICT] If you are into hipster things, this is your natural habitat. If you are looking for good food, try the apple tart. If you are looking for cost-effective food, Cafe Deadend might be a bit of a dead end.

They have 5 types of egg tarts but shortcrust original was sold out. D24 durian, puff pastry…read moreoriginal & Japanese cheese all seemed to have the same pastry, which was rich enough & flaky. All tarts had a very smooth custard filling. Portuguese was good with a good flaky crust. The custard was pretty rich. The sweetness was between a Portuguese & Macanese Portuguese egg tart. There was no cinnamon. Puff pastry original was good. The custard had a very light & pure flavour, apparently due to local milk. D24 durian was decent. It was better than Thai durian though still not that strong. Using local milk seems to have lightened the flavour. Cheese was good. The custard had a very rich & savoury cheese taste with a salty-sweet flavour profile. The cheese was so rich, the richness of the crust didn't matter.

Baked to perfection! These egg tarts are phenomenal. Just had to buy extra to bring back with me…read more The staff was really nice, too!

Not as famous as Tai Cheung but the egg tarts are pretty good. This little place (small chain I…read morethink) is a bakery, has HK style (i.e. Thin) sandwiches and set rice lunches. It has 3 tables so takeout is best. I left I iPad here one day & got it back he next day... So they are honest people too. Come give them business! The first egg tart was so good, I'm getting a second one.... for $4! Hahahaha

Found this place somehow on Yelp, was looking for egg tarts in the neighborhood. Ended up coming…read morehere everyday! Had other egg tarts in the city but these were delicious and the price was right. Wish I could have one now!!!!

4/5 stars! OMG--another place I came back twice within 9…read moredays of my trip. Please note this is at the bottom floor of the Hysan Place--inside the grocery store, called Jason. MUST GET THE CROISSANT!!! SO fresh and crispy!! I picked both the custard croissant and almond glazed croissant. SOOO GOOD! I also purchased the ham and egg pastry, but it was JUST OK. Bottomline: Just come here for the croissant! (about $1.50-$2.00/pastry)

Molten egg yolk custard croissant is soooooo good! Try it if you're here! It's at the basement of…read morethe mall and walk towards the right after you come down, it's at the opposite end of the escalators.

***Tasty Salad that could be fit for Mains!***…read more I've always loved their "Miso Cod & Japanese Eggplant Salad" so much that I could eat it for Main-course ! (Of course I might need TWO portions of it). The infusion of Sake makes the salad all the more splendid. It's a great combination of good taste and healthy ingredients. The Cod is obviously the star ingredient .... it wasn't very flaky (as fish can be a bit flaky sometimes), and yet not very hard either. It had a slightly chewy consistency which I found just perfect ! And the Eggplant?... well...because of this salad I've started liking eggplant because I NEVER used to eat it before . Obviously, the reason is that the eggplant comes out as very tasty when combined with all these ingredients! (I still wouldn't eat eggplant if it's a part of any dish except for this salad!) Other ingredients such as sesame and spring onion lend a bit of crunchiness/nuttiness to the salad which is definitely a welcome addition. Overall, I'd say this salad has awesome taste and it also helps me lose weight!

When it's a colleague's last day at the workplace, it's safe to say the one big question on…read moreeveryone's minds is usually: what kind of cake will they bring in? Some people go the extra mile and head over to the cake shop at the long-established Mandarin Oriental Cake Shop. Obviously, this differs based on workplace, culture, country etc - I'll never forget the look on an old American colleague's face when he was told the norm in the UK is to buy your OWN leaving cake and pay for leaving drinks! The Opera cake pictured is meant to be the signature dessert here and is a safe option with its velvety chocolate layers plus a hint of coffee and I am still thinking about how light the mousse sandwiched between the sponge was. My favourite bit was the crunchy layer at the bottom - literally like I was making music (note the very appropriate quaver musical note decoration). I'm not sure how willing I would be to part with almost HK$350 for a decadent but small 13x13cm opera cake. However, for HK$48, I'm happy to indulge in a little slice of luxury from time to time.

One thing I had to do during my visit in Hong Kong was have afternoon tea. I searched a bunch of…read moreplaces on Yelp but a lot weren't open just yet. This place starts serving at 3pm. When my bf and I arrived, it started off a bit disappointing but turned out great. So, there are three different locations in the same building. The first one we stopped at was super high class and you needed reservations (which I wasn't aware of). We decided to walk the mall (forgot the name) and ended up finding a quicker, more casual to go option. But the seating was limited and needed to be reserved again as well. Well, just around the corner was another sit down restaurant, no reservations needed and we were lucky to get seated quickly. We had to wait about 30 min before afternoon tea so we started off with some delicious fruit mock tails . The afternoon tea (we went with dai pai dong) definitely hit the spot and we of course ordered the menu option with tons of delicious little bites. It's been almost 3 months now since I had it so I can't remember exactly what we ate but I remember there wasn't one thing I didn't like. I would definitely recommend this place for a nice afternoon tea experience. Especially if you're looking for something more on the casual side and less pricy.

We were wandering around the IFC Center when we stumbled upon this unexpected eatery. I've always…read morebeen completely fascinated with Joel Robuchon's various restaurants, since I've read that his food is supposed to be amazing. They're always prohibitively expensive so I had kind of resigned myself to never trying his food. I was impressed, then, that this outlet has a grab-and-go section stocked with pastries and sandwiches. We had just eaten lunch so I decided to go with a pastry. I got a Salted Caramel Tart and it was...just okay. It looks amazing and it's clearly been made with care, and yet in terms of flavor it's just nothing terribly special. The caramel taste is far too subdued to make any real impact, and the whole thing is sweet to the point of distraction. (It really lingered on my palate afterwards, to the point where I had to eat something salty just to get that cloying taste out of my mouth.) I have to assume Robuchon's savory options are much, much better than this.

High quality food at an extraordinary price. The service was really good but the way to order was…read morenot clear so I sat at a table for a few minutes looking lost. The food was very high quality and had a great presentation. This is a must do if you're in Hong Kong. I found this place off a list titled "most Instagrammable restaurants".

I'm not a macaroon fan, so when I'm writing to give this place 5 stars for their macaroons I really…read moremean it. Stopped by for some french/American inspired sandwiches, since I didn't like the asian mayonnaise and butter sandwiches that my uncle eats. Nor do I like the asian cheap ham in my sandwich. I have up low quality when I graduated high school and left that cheap cafeteria food behind. The sandwiches are okay, but for HK, and if you want a taste of Europe or the USA then they are more than okay because they remind you of home. So, when I was looking through which dessert to get, the lady at the counter said their macaroons are well know. That sounded like a challenge so I had to try one. Wow, that one macaroon turned into 20, as I wound up buying a whole box and eating it all before I reached the end of the street. They had coffee flavors, coconut, etc, and they were all delicious. I couldn't stop eating them. One of the best macaroons I've ever had, and I don't even like macaroons!!!