No Time to do any review in these days....

Very busy for work stuff and other personal stuff ....

Hokkaido Tokachi Katsu Restaurant

Hokkaido Tokachi Katsu Restaurant

Rating VS Price. 2.5/5
Price HKD 60-70 per person (for Breakfast)
Address: Zone C, 521-526 Ground floor,Tai Po Mega Mall, Tai Po
Opening hours: M-S 11 am to 10:30pm
Parking: Public Tai Po Mega Mall

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Went there for a quick dinner after playing tennis tonight. This place used to be crowded when it first opened about 2 years ago. I guess it is not a "new" place anymore, therefore we did not need to wait for getting a table tonight.

Cold noodle with Japanese pork. Ice Apple Soda.

I have come to this place many times, and ordered the same thing. But tonight was a bit disappointed.

Cold noodle: Not bad, same as usual and very chewy and not soft. It is mixed with sesame sauce and lettuce. Gives you a fresh taste and makes you want to eat more.

Japanese pork: This is the disappointed part. Usually it is cooked very soft. But tonight, i guess the have put it on the warmer for too long. The meat is a bit dry and hard. So, it took me some time for finishing one piece... taste is not bad, cooked in soy sauce and with scallion on top.

Seaweed: A bit upset about this. Usually the seaweed is crispy.... but not sure why tonight's is a bit soft

Drink: Ice green apple soda. Well, I bet you can tell there are a lot of color in it! :P

Fairwood

Fairwood

Rating VS Price. 3/5
Price HKD 30 per person (for Breakfast)
Address:Wan Tau Tong Estate, Tai Po
Opening hours: M-S 7am to 9:30pm
Parking: Public parking lot at Wan Tau Tong Estate


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As a local Hong Kongers, Fairwood is a name that everyone is familiar with. There are 3 big chain fastfood stores in HongKong. Maxim's, Cafe de Coral and Fairwood.
Went there for breakfast this morning:

Main Menu: 

Chicken steak with Eggs and toast. Ice Ovaltine

Typical Hong Kong style breakfast. You can choose fish, beef, pork or chicken with Ham/Eggs or sausages.
There's not much you can complain for this type of breakfast. The meat is from chicken leg, so, it is meaty, but a bit small. Fried egg is the best of Fairwood breakfast. he best part is sunshine eggs, because the edge is crispy and good!

Ice Ovaltine, a drink that you cannot usually find in USA. It tastes like ice chocolate, but with less chocolate favor but richer milk taste.

A breakfast is breakfast, right? If your hotel doesn't give you free breakfast, you should go give this a try.

Wo Cheong Congee and Noodle

Wo Cheong Congee and Noodle

Rating VS Price. 3.5/5
Price HKD40-80 per person (for dinner)
Address:Shop 3, G/F, Po Wah Building, 9 Tai Ming Lane,Tai Po Market, Tai Po
Opening hours: M-S 11am to 9:30pm
Parking: Public parking lot behind the restaurant


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Just want to say sorry that I forgot to take a pic of it's front door(had to rush to meeting after dinner). The back door is behind those motorbikes.

This place is a more like a home-style Chinese food place in HongKong. You can order individual dishes, or bowl noodle. Tonight, I had to rush to meeting after dinner, so, I ordered more "instant' style food.
Food for tonight:

"Baby Bak Choi" in soup

Beef and preserved egg with "golden" oyster in rice soup 

Another view of the rice soup: 

This is rice in soup, not congee or rice porridge. Basically, you put cooked rice in a fish/pork based soup and eat it. Congee or rice porridge is something when you cook rice for a long time, and you cannot see the shape of rice anymore.

This is a simple dish, with preserved duck ege (the black one, century egg ) and a golden oyster. Cooked with ground beef and soup together. You may wonder what does those black egg taste like. I can tell you that the texture is like a cooked egg. The eggyolk is a bit like half-boiled egg, with the smooth texture. The taste? not much actually. It is a bit sweet with wasabi favor.
The golden oyster, you need to pay extra HKD10 for it. Basically, it is a dried cooked oyster. So, it give you a very strong smell and oyster taste.

With everything together with parsley and the soup, just made the dish taste refreshing and delicious. And you can drink everything with the soup ( if you want to!)

The Bak Choi , you may find a bigger version of it in a USA grocery store. But they are not as soft as the small one.

Hub Wa

Hub Wa

Rating VS Price: 3/5

Price: HKD 20-30 per person

Address: Fun Shin Food court, Fu Shin Estate, Tai Po

Opening Hours M-S 7am-6pm

Parking: Fu Shin Estate


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This is another old style "Cha Chan Tan" of HongKong. This place is located on a rooftop of Fu Shin market. It is behind the trees in Google Map.
Again, it is a place that foreigners usually would not go for a visit unless they are looking for some local Hong Kong style atmosphere.












I had a big breakfast, so, I went to Hub Wa for an afternoon tea. I ordered Egg and Ham with Nissin Noodle (出前一丁). Also ice lemon tea. Typically afternoon tea food for locals.

You may wonder why I specified Nissin noodle. You can have the original plain noodle with HKD $3 less.
However, Nissin noodle is classified as "high-end" noodle when comparing with local brand one. Customers usually need to add $3 - 4 more if they want to switch to Nissin Noodle. I can tell you that the Nissin noddle is totally different than the one you can buy in a USA grocery store. The HongKong Nissin is soy sauce based, with dried scallion(some MSG for sure). The noodle is more chewy and harder than the USA version. The best part is, it comes with a small pack of sesame oil. That oil make he noodle smell so good and you cannot resist! So, it is a bit like Japanese ramen (if you think so). Nissin Noodle in "Cha Chan tan" is a must try when you get to Hong Kong.

Another thing you may notice is the lemon tea. It comes with half of a lemon, in yellow/red tea. Again, this is also a must try if you don't like mike tea. The tea is sweetened, if you request, they can make it without sweet.

Overall: Not bad for a HKD 27 afternoon tea. Small enough for leaving some room for dinner, big enough for filling my hunger.

Enjoyment

Enjoyment

Rating VS Price 2.5/5

Price: HKD 20-30 per person

Address: Tai Yuen Estate Food court, Tai Yuen Estate

Opening Hours M-S 7am-6pm

Parking: Tai Yuen Estate

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This is not one of those restaurants that foreigners would go. The restaurant is located in a public estate of Hong Kong. And it is not in a tourist area, so, you would rarely see foreigners in there.
This place can be considered as "Cha Chan Tan" (Cantonese diner), and most of the local HongKongers go there for daily meals because of cheap price (quality ... depends on which one you are going to). So, if your hotel does not offer you free breakfast, you can go to a "Cha Chan Tan" nearby and try it out. The price should be much cheap than your paid hotel breakfast
Went there for a breakfast. This is the first time I went there, because I always see many people waiting outside during meal hours. So, why not give a try. Lucky, I did not need to wait for a seat for breakfast today.

I ordered a breakfast set for this morning:

Beef with rice noodle in soup

Cheese and ham omelette

Mile Tea

The beef rice noodle is ok...The beef was too a bit chewy, so you need to eat it very slowly... which is not what I like. There were about 5 -6 pieces of beef, and only 1 is soft enough for you finishing it at one time. Rice noodle was a bit over cooked, I like it if it was a bit harder. The soup... for sure it has some MSG in there :P

Omelette - Under my expectation. There are not many places in HongKong that serve cheese omelette. This one, after I have eaten a quarter, there was no more cheese!!! :( . The egg was a bit hard and thick. I like the omelette with a thin layer of egg and more stuff within. The egg of this omelette did not have much taste of egg .

Mike tea - Mile tea is what foreigners should try when they come to HongKong. This one was OK, not too sweet, but need more tea favor. 

Overall: Cannot complain too much for a HKD 22 breakfast, most other similar places usually cost around HKD24-29. But would pay for extra 2-3 bucks if there is a better quality place. I guess I wasn't too enjoyed in Enjoyment for this morning :P.

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The food review part is in English, because I want foreign can enjoy real ordinary HK food~!
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