Snacks and In-between Meals (2006-01-28)
As usual, the time we spend in Hong Kong seems to fly by. This trip is no exception. We didn't go to all the places we set out to go, didn't eat all the food we said we would, and didn't have time to buy everything we put on our shopping list.
There are so many delicious light food in Hong Kong that we cannot
possibly eat them all unless we spend a month there. We were
however able to sample some of the traditional and totally fantastic
snacks such as wonton noodles, egg tart and cakes.
The almost cream-free and slightly sweet fluffy cakes from Maxim's
and Kee Wah were awesome. The old style sweets-- lotus seed
paste and salted yolk encased in a flaky shell-- from famous Hang Heung
was so good I ate at least one a day and bought a box back to
Japan.
The flaky and barely sweet (my kind of taste) egg tart steaming hot
from the old-fashioned diner in Mongkok (Hong Lin) was absolutely
mouth-watering. I ate one and a half even though I knew we were
about to eat dinner soon after. They were too good to resist.
I don't know if there were better tasting wonton noodles and congee
than those we ate, but what we had were superb. I just loved the
congee with raw thinly sliced fish which got cooked in the scorching
congee. If we had more time, I'd definitely go back for more.
Hong Lin Restaurant 143-145 Sai Yeung Choi St, Mongkok
Yuen Kee Restaurant 12 Humphreys Rd Tsim Sha Tsui
Chui Ming Yung Restaurant 44 San Fat St, Sheung Sui
Aberdeen Fishball & Noodles Restaurant 148 Sai Yeung
Choi St, Mongkok
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