My first meal during my Hong Kong visit (Oct 5, 2007) was at Hing Fat Restaurant (興發燒味茶餐廳) at Ashley Road (亞士厘道), Tsim Sha Tsui. The food was decent; the price was shocking by Malaysian standards, but pretty normal in Hong Kong.
Beef soup rice-noodles, pork blood cube and some meat at Hing Fat
We found the street from a map that marked it as a food-themed street; quite true but too bad most of the restaurants were Japanese or Korean style… while we were looking something local instead.
Hong Kong people seemed to be living in a faster pace; their waiters were a bit impatient when ordering food. Some people might actually feel that it was poor service, but I guess it’s a way of life for Hong Kongers. Good thing is, the food was served very fast as well.
We ordered a bowl of beef soup rice-noodles, 2 set of rice meals (with chicken, roast pork and roast goose) and a bowl of pork blood cubes.
The meat was decent, but the rice was really good… I guess they cooked the rice with chicken broth (or something else), and the rice they used had a really nice texture. Their rice-noodles were different from most of those we have in Malaysia; theirs were chewier… my sisters kinda liked it, but not for me (I felt like eating rubber band).
It’s hard to explain how the pork blood cubes taste like… it’s basically tasteless, and it’s the gelatin like texture that matters. The first or two cubes tasted nicely for me, but it’s kinda gross after finishing the whole bowl.
