And continuing with my trend of Chinese fast food places, Fairwood is the other popular chain…read morerestaurant that has a ton of establishments littered around Hong Kong. This particular Fairwood is located in Dragon Centre in Sham Shui Po on the third floor. There's a ton of food options in the center itself - food court, plethora of restaurants, McDonald's, food carts - but you know you can always find a good deal at Fairwood. Usually people crowd around the doorway, waiting until 2 PM hits before they rush in for the deals. I suppose because of the location, there's a ton of choices that people can choose from.
Again, the menu is posted right by the entryway of the restaurant. I feel like the menu helps prevent stupid questions from being asked to the waitress who takes your order. When something is sold out, it's removed. Menu changes four times a day (I think) - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner. Despite this being a pretty busy plaza, the dining area itself is quite large. There are plenty of tables; people rush in, eat their meal, and leave so there are usually a lot of empty tables.
I came during the afternoon tea for a quick bite to eat. There are a ton of elderly people who dine here at this time. The workers are really nice and seem to recognize familiar faces. They help carry trays and bring the seniors their food if they are unable to pick it up themselves.
Afternoon tea is pretty standard and usually consists of similar items across all the chain restaurants.
Imitation shark fin soup with combo of a chicken wing and 3 egg rolls. This soup was probably the saltiest out of all the ones I've tried. Despite adding vinegar to try to get that acidic taste that I like, the soup base was too salty that it overrode the vinegar. There was a good amount of ingredients in the soup itself, but I wasn't a big fan. The chicken wing was probably the best part! Very similar to a soy sauce chicken wing, and since it was grilled, the skin was slightly crispy. Not too much meat, but enough to hold your hunger over until dinnertime. The egg rolls were pretty pathetic. Limp and tasteless.
We also ordered another imitation shark fin soup combo, but this one with sticky rice and HK styled milk tea. Soup was the same as the other one - too salty. The sticky rice was really good. The Chinese sausage and the oily rice, of course this would be tasty! And HK styled milk tea was on point for a fast food place. Smooth, but not too sweet.
tl;dr - Food will always be a hit or miss, but prices are always pretty decent. Come for the afternoon teatime special at 2 PM!