Yung Kee (鏞記) is one of the most famous restaurants in Hong Kong. Founded in 1942, the restaurant is located on Wellington Street in the Central District; and is fame for its roast goose, barbecue pork, and perhaps for their expensive price as well.
First Chinese dim sum (點心) during our Hong Kong visit (Oct 2007) was at Hon Po Palace Restaurant (漢寶皇宮酒樓), located just beside our hotel in Austin Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.
Hon Po Palace is part of Hon Po Group, famous for its seafood… lobster in particular. Although not fame for its dim sum, we decided to give it a try because it’s so convenient from our hotel.
Dined at Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant (好好海鲜火锅) in Sri Petaling on Nov 8, 2007. The restaurant was packed with customers, which was a good sign about their food quality.
We ordered the standard set for 6 and some side dishes; would have ordered more but their menu choices were quite limited.
The food turned out to be just ok. Their seafood was not as fresh as anticipated despite branding themselves for Ketam seafood, and their fish balls weren’t the best that I’ve tasted.
They did offer something special with their fried taro cube and bean curd, but special doesn’t necessary mean tasty.
The bill was around RM110 - reasonable. To be fair their steamboat is not really bad, but I know better places for steamboat… it was my first visit to Ho Ho, probably the last as well.
I am quite impressed by their website though (with location maps and reservation number); there are not many restaurants in Malaysia that have proper websites like theirs.
Kau Kee (九記甜品) is a dessert shop at Parkes Street in Kowloon’s Jordan area. We decided to look for some dessert after having a nice meal at Mak Mun Kee, and Kau Kee was just next door… there were some customers inside the shop, so we thought that it shouldn’t be too bad.
We ordered 2 sweet soups (糖水; Tong Sui) - a red bean soup and a barley soup with lotus seed and tofu skin. The desserts were just ok… not too sweet, but we preferred thicker sweet soups instead.
The price was reasonable, around HK$8-12 for each bowl.
Mak Mun Kee Noodle House (麥文記麵家) is quite famous in Kowloon’s Jordan area for its dumpling noodles (雲吞麵; wonton noodle). It’s located at Parkes Street; just next to Australia Dairy Co. where we had our breakfast the same morning.
Our lunch and snack during our visit at Ocean Park Hong Kong…
We found this stall at the north end of the Temple Street (廟街) selling curry fish balls (and some other food) on our first day in Hong Kong (Oct 5, 2007). Good stuff for supper.
