Frustrating. My wife and I were gifted a Lee Garden voucher loaded with the sum of 2000HKD. I…read morevisited Feather & Bone to book a meal for three but was told that the voucher could not be redeemed. Feather & Bone are on Lee Garden's official list of dining venues where such a voucher can be redeemed. Alas. I was informed that while they should accept the card, and yes, are on the list, they do not have a card reader that can handle it. Utterly bizarre. I usually frequent the Sai Ying Pun venue. I have been a customer for two years. But Feather & Bone have now lost my business. Poor.

Yet another amazing food & beverage venue in my neighbourhood of Happy Valley, Hong Kong. I always…read moredescribe Happy Valley as a village within a big city! And I am sure when you walk into F&B you get that feeling even more so! Staffs are all very friendly and have a smile on their faces, we even get a wave from the staffs whenever we walk past the store! Concept is simple: bring the food directly from the growers to the customers with as little middle person as possible and also to ensure freshness and quality, this is how they started, with focus on bringing prime quality meats and other delicacies into a small retail store so to ensure freshness. On location is also an open kitchen where you can have your purchased meats cooked to your liking, skipping the dishes at home. Both of our items for today were done perfectly, Chicken Caesar; fresh crisp Romaine with succulent Chicken and a crispy bacon, perfect item for lunch!! Steak & Eggs, on menu is hanger steak, but I was lucky to get a Rib-eye instead, as you can see from the photo the meat was done perfectly medium rare as I have requested. With all things considered, if you want to have quality meats to bring home or enjoy it at the restaurant, F&B is on top of my list!!

So interesting to visit the Wan Chai Market with Jacky from This Is Asia Tours…read more Wan Chai was established in the 1930s as a wet market, or a local market for fresh fish, fruits, vegetables and meat. Today, you can still choose from a wide variety of fresh fish or other seafood. That is fish that are alive in a small tank swimming and thrashing. You choose your fish, or other amphibian dinner choice, and they kill, skin and scale it for you to take home and cook. Can't get much fresher than that unless you caught it yourself. Apparently they used to have poultry as well in the past. Fears of avian flu have made that market offering virtually obsolete. The selection of baskets and baskets of fresh fruits and vegetables was quite impressive. Rambutan. Longan. Durian. Cherries. Mangosteen. Water spinach. Choi sum. Grab some spices, too. There are also bakeries filled with egg tarts and pineapples buns (that don't have pineapple) and a shop that sells snake soup that does have snake. Did not sample that one. Shop like a local at the Wan Chai Wet Market.

Some fruit vendors only sell by the case, but shop around and you'll find everything & some. Tons…read moreof fresh fruit and veggies. Japanese grapes and Australian mangos are ginormous. Definitely recommend if you're not grossed out by the smell of raw meat. Some vendors speak English or they're type it into the calculator for you to see.

Compared to other grocery stores in the same category - the luxury, super segment in HK - Gourmet…read morejust isn't on the same level. And you'll know it because the store was practically empty on a weekend afternoon. The produce, beverage selection, prepared deli foods, and salad bar (if you can call it that) can't hold a candle to what you'll find at the Great Food Hall or City Super. Mind you, I do most of my grocery shopping at the Fusion store a quick walk away from my flat - and it's more than fine, though nothing special. I'd say that Gourmet is more of a 'regular' grocery store and less of a gourmet supermarket. Basically, it comes down to this: I'd have a difficult time leaving my neighborhood and making Gourmet a destination. Conversely, as long as my checking account gives me permission, I'm always happy to jump neighborhood ship to purchase special treats at the Great Food Hall or City Super.

Gourmet is one of my favorite grocery stores to kill time at - not because it's super convenient to…read morego to or terrifically well-stocked, but because it is always empty. I mean, it's location along Leighton Road makes it just a five-minute walk from Times Square, and it's got quite a good variety of international products, but can we just talk about how empty this place always is? Located at the basement of Leighton Centre with not a lot of obvious signs pointing to it, I guess that's no surprise. I find that this supermarket has a pretty large variety of, well, junk food. There are chips in every possible flavor and candies for the pickiest of snackers. In fact, the chips and chocolate aisles are the first things you see when you enter the supermarket, so this is a great place to hit up if you're planning a party and need lots of snacks. If you're looking to do some serious grocery shopping, you might be disappointed because there isn't a great selection of things like meat and vegetables, and even if you find what you need, you can get them cheaper elsewhere. They seem to have more international products than local produce, hence the higher prices. The cashier is a little hard to find here, and you enter and leave at different spots too. If I remember correctly, the cashiers are close to the cleaning products. You won't normally have to line up for long, and not all the cashiers are open because there just aren't a lot of shoppers compared to other supermarkets.

Goodwell is a gourmet shop specialized in olive and grapeseed oils but once you step in you realize…read moreit's much more than that. In fact they only have a small corner devoted to them (and other oils). Of those olive oil is the only 'gourmet' item though. They carry some extra virgin olive oils at very good prices, but they only have Italian ones which is a bit shortsighted for olive oil specialists. Besides that shelf by the entrance they have all kinds of confectionary, nuts, dried fruits, spices, some wines, canned food (fish, meat and vegetables) and pasta. Most of them are from European origin, mainly Italy but Spain, Germany or Austria are also represented. The staff let you browse around, in fact in the three times I've been there, no one has ever offered any help or advice. That's okay with me because I knew what I was after but some people may appreciate a bit more customer service. What I like the most about the shop though is that I can find special products not so easy to spot at supermarkets and definitely better priced. I love their sundried tomatoes (not only their taste but their price!) and the big cans (3 Kgs) of jalapeños and chopped tomatoes. These are not for me because I don't cook in bulk but it may be worth for families. Their spicies are also good - no fancy package but who needs that when they are more than half the prize than Taste of Fusion? And who needs that for spicies anyway...! They also have some good coconut oils, at reasonable prices and their nuts are also okay, but Prizemart beats them! They carry both well known brands and their own brand. I guess if you're not comfortable with that you can ask them about origin, etc. They were initially just traders and have an important wholesale business behind. Retailing came later and that's why you can see some good prices and variety on their shelves. So this is my place to stock up on pantry items. For nuts I still go across the street!

I never thought I would review a place like this but actually, there are a couple of things to note…read moreabout it. Yeah, it looks crappy and in fact, it is crappy inside, but it's tidy and it sells some good stuff. I only walked in because there was a bunch of people at the entrance crazily buying something and was curious to find out. It's a pretty big space (a lot bigger than the ParknShops and Wellcomes around) and it sells fruit, vegetables, frozen meat, fish and processed foods (for frying), milk, oils, canned foods, sauces and pasta, mainly. The fruit and veggies section could make you cry though - they always look so...'expired' really. So please head to Causeway Bay wet market, 5 minutes walking, for those. The big deals here are the oils (olive oil - extra virgin, 500ml for 37HDK...!!), the canned tuna and possibly the milk. I also found some very cheap smoked trout and Anchor butter (from New Zealand, grass fed). These items are not only cheaper than in other supermarket, but they are also good quality so their value for money is really amazing. If you are into frozen foods, this is your paradise then as they have huge counters around the shop floor...I am not so keen and I would only buy some fish, every so often. It's definitely not a place for weekly shopping. I never buy everything in the same place - but for those items above, it's the best place.

Small store but has decent selection of wines from around the world at reasonable prices. Also…read moreoffers some specialty foods like cheese, meats, etc. A few closeout specials on wine available.

I could see the sign 'Castello del Vino' every time from the tram on my way to and from work and…read morewondered exactly what it was. Today, as I walked down Anton Street with a friend I came into a winery and surprise! It was 'Castello del Vino' shop! It's a lot smaller than I had imagined but they have a great variety of wines, especially Italian ones, from everywhere in Italy in fact. The guy at the shop was busy on the phone so my friend and I started to look around for some smooth red wine. Not only they have wines and some food, but also some hand-painted ceramics from Deruta, Italy, which really caught our attention as they didn't seem to fit in. Besides Italian wines, they have some shelves devoted to Spanish, New Zealand, Australian and French wines, among others. The Spanish selection is good and the prices range from 80HKD to more than 500HKD per bottle. What I liked the most about it though is that they have some traditional Spanish and Italian products like olives, canned fish, vegetables and legumes. As it is more Italian-focused, pasta was expected to be there too. And finally, they have a refrigerator with different kind of French cheeses and some Italian cold cuts. They carry monthly discounts on selected wines and you can check them out online. So I had finally dismantled the mystery...and now I may actually come back as some of the Spanish wines seemed very reasonably priced for their quality.

I wish I could say I look forward to shopping at my neighborhood grocery store, but it's usually…read morethe opposite - I find myself going here only when necessary. Compared to Jason's Marketplace which is only a few blocks further, Fusion is actually larger. But I've also noticed some of the key items I purchase are markedly more expensive at Fusion. No bueno! Often, the produce looks rather sad and not-so-fresh. The staffers at the deli counter sometimes look put out when I make a request for sliced meats or cheese. And no matter the day or the time, there are always long queues. But...they're so close! Also, their Portuguese egg tarts are surprisingly good.

This place has a good enough selection for local and imported food for its size. For imports, I'd…read more80% of the time I can find what I'm looking for. But of course, you can't compare to the larger markets like city super or Jason's at repulse bay. For local and produce, they do a fair job in terms of selection and quality, but if you have other convenient options, I wouldn't recommend coming here for produce. They often run out of basics produce like lemon, onions so you never know if they will have what you need. They do keep adding new things to the shelves so that makes it interesting for regulars like me. The down side is that they may one day decide to stop stocking the things that you have been expecting to find on a regular basis: for example i now go elsewhere for yogurt, tomato soup and orange juice. There are perpetual long line at check-out so you might want to avoid going there in the middle of the day on the weekends for small things.

Every time I come to Hong Kong, my favorite snack to get is egg puff waffle. Making it at home just…read moredoesn't compare no matter how hard I try. The Causeway Bay location is conveniently located by Hysan Place and Sogo, sorta in between. It's probably always the most crowded place on the sidewalk because there's always a huge crowd waiting in front since their waffles are made to order. Mine took 20 minutes but trust me, it is worth the wait. I should try different flavors but I'm a purist, and always stick to original. It's so nostalgic! These waffles are perfectly crisp on the outside, while be warm and fluffy on the inside. It's best to eat them while they're still steaming hot.

My friend and I could not visit HK and not get a bubble waffle. This was the place we saw the most…read morereviews from and they had a good assortment of flavors. We ended up getting the banana chocolate chip and it was such a great choice. There was banana band chocolate chips in every single bubble bite. It had the lightest crisp on the outside but still fluffy on the inside. We did have to wait for like 15-20 minutes as they make them fresh to order but totally worth it. I still think about this and have yet to find similar quality or this flavor in the LA area sadly.