HK Trip: Food – Day 1 to 4, Breakfast to dinner/supper
Day 1:
After hotel check-in, we headed to the nearby coffee shop (a.k.a char chan teng (CCT) as the locals call it). I had egg tart and coffee. The egg tart pastry was done the shortcrust style. Coffee was just right, does not contain sugar; it is up to you to add it on the table to suit your taste. Dinner was included as part of the tour to the Peak and wax museum later. It was in this restaurant where there’s a room with other tables filled with tourists. More like a tourist trap to me. Food were super oily. The roasted goose meat was rather tough, but it was the best dish of the lot. So you can imagine the quality of the rest of the food.
Day 2:
Breakfast in another char chan teng near our hotel. We tried their breakfast sets. Food was bad and overpriced. We felt cheated. We swear that we will never step in there again, and had to repeat the ordeal every time we passed by the shop. -_- Lunch was great! We took MRT to Central and hunt for Mak’s noodles right away. The shop is small and crowded and the customers turnover was rapid. They served the smallest bowl of wantan noodles I have ever seen. Just the perfect portion for me, as my next plan in mind was to look for Tai Cheong Bakery nearby after that.
Since the bakery was just a little further up the road, I was still quite full. There was a vast selection of pastries displayed. The sight and smell of freshly baked egg tarts from the oven sent signals to the receptors in my salivary gland. We bought 3 egg tarts, 1 lotus pastry with salted egg yolk (ham dan sou) and 1 red bean paste stick (tau sar tiu).
Tai Cheong
Egg tarts: Just the right amount of sweetness and the egg filling’s consistency are soft and smooth like tau foo fah. Pastry is thin and crumbly, made the shortcrust way, unlike the puff pastry, more flaky in nature found in most famous KL bakeries. I actually prefer the former, although the puff pastry is held in higher regard.
Lotus pastry with salted egg yolk: Thin pastry, soft lotus filling and an entire preserved egg yolk in the centre. Heavenly…
Red bean stick: Just a bite of it to try. Dad loves it that we bought another two (one of it includes lotus paste stick). Mooncake in the form of an oblong stick shape, will be how I describe it.
Dinner was actually pre-booked for 7.00 pm, but we dined at Yung Kee(YK) at 5.30 pm instead due to the bad weather. When there are no large shopping centres in sight during a sudden rain, restaurants provide the best shelter. As usual, we ordered YK’s famous roasted goose(half portion). Other dishes include barbecued pork (char siew) and vegetables. These were eaten with noodles (lai fen) instead of rice.
Goose
Vegetables
'Lai fen'
There were room for dessert since we had an early dinner. So off to ‘Hui Lau Shan’ we went (around 9.30 pm) to try the shouted about mango pudding. Doesn’t taste as great as what people describe. Probably this is not the authentic branch.
Mango platter
Day 3:
Breakfast in the 1st restaurant we stepped in HK. We ordered ‘Teng zai’ porridge. Different kinds of ingredients inside the porridge, although mum said there should be more as she had eaten it before last time.
Lunch in Mongkok. Stepped into the wrong restaurant again. Service was bad, like the frequent quote in some HK movies, “Service in this day and age is unacceptable.” Apparently, every occupied seat will be charged HK$10 if you do not order anything. So we had no choice but to order 3 dishes instead of 2 despite not feeling hungry. Never mind if the food taste good, but no it sucks. Gahh…this was worse than the cheated breakfast on the 2nd day. Dinner in some random CCT in Tsim Sha Tsui after watching Symphony of Lights. Ordered pork tendon rice, fish ball noodles and fried fish skin, Not too bad…
Fried Fish Skin
Pork tendon rice
As I have suggested on Day 1 that I want to try the potato fries opposite our hotel, we bought it after dinner, since that was our last night in HK. LARGE cup of fries and I ate most of it by myself, half an hour after dinner ~9.30 pm, and I dozed off 2 hours later after shower. Super guilty plus bloated stomach.
Potato Fries with minced meat gravy and melted cheese
Day 4:
Breakfast in Kimberly Road. Ordered 3 bowls of wantan noodles. haha..wasn’t bad, but tasted nothing special. I thought the milk tea, was good, dense and smooth. 
1 milk tea and 2 coffee
I insisted to try ‘Polo bun’ before we leave. Bought 1 in another CCT on the way back to hotel. I ate it half an hour after wantan mee breakfast too. Or else the chunk of butter sandwiched in the bun will melt…Never mind the guilt, because it’s worth it. Burrpp…
Polo bun
The end of my foodies journey in HK. Now I regret for not eating more egg tarts. -_-
