Lan Fong Yuen (2010-01-29)
"Stocking" milk tea is definitely a Hong Kong invention. Good diners make tea by pouring it several times through a fine cloth sieve to make it more silky and smooth, a process said to be invented by the owner of Lan Fong Yuen. The sieve eventually turned brown resembling a lady's stocking, thus the name Stocking Milk Tea is born.
Lan Fong Yuen finally opened its branch in Kowloon and of all
places,
Woodhouse in Tsim Sha Tsui! We didn't have to traipse all the way
to Central to try their famous tea, we just needed to walk five minutes
from Hyatt!
Woodhouse is very close to (in)famous Chungking Building which is
really easy to find. We arrived around 3:15 pm, the prime tea
time for the local people, and Lan Fong Yuen was almost full.
There's a
HK$20 minimum charge, so we ordered their tea sets. KL had milk
tea
with thick toast and I coffee (not a milk tea person) and pork chop bun.
The highly anticipated tea was good but not as great as people say
it is (to us anyway). The pork chop bun was okay too, I just
don't see what all the fuzz is about?
P.S. Before Lan Fong Yuen, we did some last-minute souvenir shopping
including
the red hot cookies in Hong Kong right now from Jenny Bakery which is
located in Chungking Shopping Mall, right next to Chungking
Building. I bought a small tin of 4-Mix cookies and pineapple
cookies for my friend and she finished both in just two days!!
She said the buttery cookies were "super super super delicious!" (her
words)
Lan Fong yuen Basement, 36-44 Nathan Road, Woodhouse Building, Tsim Sha Tsui Tel: 2316-2311
Jenny Bakery 2/F Chungking Shopping Mall, 36 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (go up the second escalator, walk straight down the corridor, turn left, first shop on the right)
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