What wonderful staffing and varied selections in the buffet for breakfast/lunch/tea and dinner…read more The management, supervisors and table/waitstaff are all most accommodating and eager to please. Items that were not part of their daily offering were specially ordered to accommodate us on our 21 day stay. Hours of operation are most generous, as breakfast is served until 10:30. There is a 15% discount offered for in-house guests for all the buffets, and a 50% discount for all guests on Saturday night. Reservations are a must for dinner, especially for Saturday night!!

This branch in the Popcorn mall is closed but we headed to the close-by Po Lam's MCP Central store…read morefor lunch instead. The location of the Po Lam store is on the ground level, phase 2, next to the movie theatre. I haven't had their dimsum in 4 years and it was just as good as I remembered them to be. Affordable, lots of variety and just simply delicious. Every time I'm back in Hong Kong, I have to eat here.

Serving up dimsum all day, feels like eating at an old school HK dimsum place minus the cart…read morepushing (as in no pushcarts). Ambience not the cleanest: a hole-in-wall, re-wash all your dishes place. But great dimsum that's pretty cheap - hence they are known as the most affordable Michelin Star restaurant in the world, with 1 star for good quality tasting food for price range. This location is just one of their many Tim Ho Wan branches so if this location is too far for you, there's several other branches in HK and even elsewhere in the world (e.g. NYC). Take out is an option- especially if you have children you don't want touching all the less clean surface areas. They do have high chairs and they don't exempt tea charge for toddlers. As for the dishes, our favorites were the Baked Bun with BBQ Pork and Steamed Egg Cake, which they are known for and indeed taste delicious. Hubby liked their Pan Fried Turnip Cake. We also liked the Glutinous Rice Dumpling which was 1 huge leaf wrapped steamed rice with meat (law mae gae). The Steamed Rice with Chicken Feet and Spareribs was another tasty dish. The Steamed Pork Dumpling with Shrimp (har gow) and Deep Fried Dumplings filled with Pork (ham sui gwok) were OK but was smaller than usual and didn't stand out. The Vermicelli with Beef Roll is one to avoid since the beef in it was too chewy. Overall, great tasting dishes! If looking for elevator to take you down to the lowest level of the mall where they are located, find the elevator on the 2nd floor next to Manning Kids.

Interesting menu combined with dessert and food. The sitting area is limited for this particular…read morearea, but the food was great. Long waiting line, mediocre customer service.

I went by myself for breakfast and ordered fish filet congee and some dim sum items, had to share a…read moretable since it was the weekend and busy but overall fast service and I didn't have to wait long. Congee is by far better than dim sum on my opinion, but not bad.

Excellent dim sum place with fresh ingredients and also friendly and helpful staff!…read more You can order in advance or expect to wait around 20 min for the food. But it also means that the dum sum are freshly made!

Dined Sept 21, 2014 A little late in reviewing, but it was…read moreso positive and enjoyable, that I had to share the good news. This is an excellent addition to the varied cuisine options available in East Kowloon. This restaurant sits on the top floor of the Crowne Plaza, and has an outside, rooftop area for drinks and/or dining. We dined here three times during our stay, enjoying the afternoon tea, the antipasto buffet, and also dinner a la carte. Check out the various photos for details.

Neighbourhood gem. In Tseung Kwan O, I sure wasn't expecting to find such a classy restaurant on…read morethe top floor of a high rise with floor to ceiling windows and almost unobstructed views of Victoria Harbour! Cielo is an Italian restaurant and bar perched sky high on top of Crowne Plaza Kowloon East. It also serves as the hotel's club floor lounge. You can get there via Popcorn Mall. The vibe is chilled, quiet and relaxed. The trendy bar outside looks exactly like a classy hotel bar in Koh Samui. It's decked out in brown and white rattan chairs and tables and I felt like I was on a tropical island! Service is so-so. Nothing bad but nothing to write hom about. Food is okay. The afternoon tea set is not great (eg the macaroons were hard and chewy). But savoury courses such as lunch and dinner are alright.

AYCE Korean Fusion BBQ located in Domain Mall near the exit of the Eastern Harbour Tunnel, with its…read moreown parking at the mall, it makes a great location if you have seniors or kids in the family! Price for lunch is so amazing! HK$128.00 + 10% service charge (US$17.85 including service charge) per adult ( includes drinks: Pop, Juices, Fruit Teas, even Beer! ) after dinner you can also order freshly brewed coffee! They also have a great selection of ice cream, ice cream bars, Korean ice creams and more!! Great selection of soups to start, then you have fried chicken, tempura vegetables, Japanese Cold Udon or Soba, various kinds of salads and more! Meat are all cut to smaller pieces for easy grilling, I do think their marination is typical Hong Kong style rather then Korean style, but that is totally ok with me, as it is also very tasty and well done. Service is prompt and also staffs are helpful in clearing our plates, and offering clean ones etc. I am surprised to see such level of service in a AYCE type restaurant. For the price you pay, I am not going to nitpick too much, as long as decent service with good selection of food for you to choose from, I am already ahead of the game!

This is Korean BBQ all-you-can-eat AT ITS FINEST. This is the real…read moregrab-as-much-as-you-want-back-to-your-table buffet style. There are four buffet tables for: - AYCE marinated meat in all sorts of flavours - AYCE sushi! - AYCE soups, fried foods - AYCE ice-cream, drinks, jelly, cotton candy machine, cakes, some fruits OK OMG where do I start, because that's exactly what I thought when I sat down. Let's start with the most boring: SUSHI there is sushi in the back, 3 pieces of California sushi, 6 rolls of imitation crab sushi, 6 rolls of salmon sushi. There are two staff making sushi and sashimi is dinner only. There's cold salads, soba noodles, some other salad with a lot of dressing, two gigantic bowls of lettuce, a whole tub of wasabi SOUPS/FRIED FOODS one pot soup of the day (minestrone soup), 6 spring rolls, 10 pieces of fries, smelt fish with tons of eggs, 6 pieces of dumplings. Some fried fish (garlic and some other one). Kimchi and side dishes. The above is truly as sad as it sounds. But honestly you come here for: THE MEAT - marinated pork chop - pork belly - pork belly with herbs - pig ribs - honey BBQ pork - pork intestine with black pepper (I didn't eat this) - chicken fillet - chicken wings - chicken wings with herbs - beef with soybean paste - diced beef fillet - ox tongue - basa fillet - mackerel - marinated mini octopus - squid tentacle in curry and some others I didn't want to take photos of. VEGETABLES - mushrooms (enoki, French, and oyster I think) - lettuce - corn - pineapple - orange thing that looks like cheese DRINKS - fresh lemon tea (doesn't taste packaged) - fresh plum juice (doesn't taste packaged) - soymilk (cannot tell but doesn't taste packaged) DESSERTS - 6 tubs of ice-cream (no red bean, no green tea) - coconut jelly, jelly with herbs, jelly that looks like lego - chocolate fondue tower with two big bowls of marshmallows - chocolate lollipops - COTTON CANDY MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And whatever else I miss because my memory can only hold so much. There is a lot! For lunch 4 people, we each paid about $140. They add service charge to the bill. SERVICE OK maybe it's just my luck but they are extremely nice! They were patient, they reminded us that we need to eat by 3:45pm because they need to close the tables soon. The cleaning ladies were worried we didn't eat enough!!! THE RULES you eat for exactly 90 minutes. When your time is up, they come and pick up your plates and turn off the fire. However because we arrived at 2pm, our 90 minutes ends at 3:30pm. Sushi counter closes at 3:30pm, the rest closes at 3:45pm and the restaurant closes at 4pm. They reopen for dinner later. Technically we had more than 90 minutes because 3:30pm meant no new customers can come inside, they just let us take our time as we roast our marshmallows in the fire!!! ZOMG THERE IS A COTTON CANDY MACHINE!

Great place for shabu lunch. Choice of one order of meat and the rest is all you can eat for $89…read moreHKD. All you can eat meat is $128 HKD. Veggies are super fresh, noodles are tasty. Variety of broths. Comes with soda, coffee, tea, and frozen yogurt.

Hong Kong Cafes with a noodle focus almost always end up being my preferred places to chow down…read more Chui Hing (潮興魚蛋粉) is combines no nonsense service with killer food, along with affordable pricing and 24 hour availability to boot. The pretense is non-existent and locals (including myself!) seem to love it here. So like many noodle spots in HK, this place is fairly small. No big tables for 5+ but quite a few small'ish round tables that are good for solo eats or the invaluable food companion. The aroma coming from the semi-open kitchen should be enough inspiration for folks to know what they want upon arrival, but just in case they have the menus outlined along the wall. An easy way to start? Try a wonton and beef brisket with your choice of noodles. The wontons are somewhat pillowy in texture and full of flavor while the beef brisket is braised well while maintaining a perfectly chewy bite. The noodle variety is good, with egg / rice noodles winning over the crowd though I feel the e-fu noodles take the cake. Lastly, do not sleep on the beef tendon. It's practically butter when done right. Chui Hing does fancy itself as a HK style cafe, so other dishes like congee, fried fish skin, fried rice, may appear on the menu, focus on what to stack in your bowl instead. The staff is really helpful and welcoming.

Pretty good wonton noodle soup and milk tea. They're open 24/7 and very close to many local hotels…read more I only got takeout, but noticed great air conditioning inside. The prices are also very reasonable. I bought beef ball and wonton, wonton noodle soup. I didn't ask to have the noodles separate, but they still retained a good amount of chew by the time I got back up top the hotel. You can pay a little extra anywhere to ask them pack separate. The wontons are ok, beef balls are good, noodles are good, soup okay. The milk tea wasn't very strong but has a nice authentic back flavor. Everything was ready in under 5 minutes. Very good for takeout!