HK 2007- PART 2: ON FOOD
While stores are closed early in the morning, restaurants aleady serve breakfast. I’m so amazed to find a big big buchi… large enough for my 1 breakfast meal. Soya milk is also everywhere.
They have bakeries selling eggtarts, which are different from the “Lord Stowe’s” eggtart. Theirs is so yellow and no burnt top layer. I also found a chocolate chip version of the coffee bun, but it’s just so so.
A visit in Hong Kong is never complete without eating in Café de Coral. This fastfood chain is an institution. I love their porkchop baked rice with serving big enough for 2 people. They also have my favorite HK style milk tea.
It’s quite difficult to order your favorite dimsum in Hong Kong if you’re not familiar with Chinese characters. Years back, you can order dimsum by choosing from the dimsum cart which goes around the restaurant. Now, you have to READ, check the items that you want and give them to the service attendant.
This little store in the Fortress Hill MTR station sells the best tarts and pies I’ve tasted!!! Though I normally hate hand carried luggage, these pies and tarts are so good that we brought some of them home. Wish I can afford a franchise here in Manila.
STREETFOOD
Isn’t tapioca the English word for sago? Along Paterson Street in Causeway, there’s a store selling mango sago labeled as “mango sago”. They also have coconut milk sago and water chesnut beverages for 5hkd per serving.
Yakult + pineapple. Out of curiosity, we tried this drink. Though I’m not a fan of pineapples, I love this drink! We went to another fastfood where there’s a stall selling fruitshakes. Sally bought strawberry and mango milkshakes. We wondered why those drinks taste quite sour. Later on, we realized that there are piles of yakult on the display shelf of the stall. I assumed it’s a HK way of making fruitshake to use Yakult instead of the ordinary milk.
The sidestreets in Causeway offer crunchy sweet waffles. It’s tabi-tabi food but it’s way better than the waffle served in restaus here in Manila. We tried their best seller peanut butter + condensed milk waffle and their plain bubble-looking waffle.
There are side street version of dumplings, which of course we cannot resist.
AMUSEMENT PARK FOOD
One thing I hate about amusement park food is the price that doesn’t correspond with the quality and vice versa. This is quite true for food at Ocean Park. Another bad thing is that we went there on a Chinese holiday. We really have to line up, wait for our food, only to have a bowl of expensive noodles with ungenerous serving. We even have to move fast to get some seats for our mealtime. On the other hand, I’m very satisfied with the food at Disneyland. Their fast food is literally fast, no need to line up for a long time, no need to struggle to find some seats. It’s my second time to eat their burger and fries in Disney, coz it’s quite decent for an amusement park food. The price is almost the same as in Ocean Park. Hmmm… just a thought… maybe we don’t have to line up for burgers and fries coz we’re competing with the Chinese nationals who are in HK for the holidays.
INTERNATIONAL FOOD
I forgot the name of this place. It's a mall in the station after Sunny Bay. It has malls with outlet stores in it and a fast food which offers different kinds of cuisine. We decided to have Korean food to reminisce the good ol' days in Xiamen with our Korean friends.
They have bakeries selling eggtarts, which are different from the “Lord Stowe’s” eggtart. Theirs is so yellow and no burnt top layer. I also found a chocolate chip version of the coffee bun, but it’s just so so.
A visit in Hong Kong is never complete without eating in Café de Coral. This fastfood chain is an institution. I love their porkchop baked rice with serving big enough for 2 people. They also have my favorite HK style milk tea.
It’s quite difficult to order your favorite dimsum in Hong Kong if you’re not familiar with Chinese characters. Years back, you can order dimsum by choosing from the dimsum cart which goes around the restaurant. Now, you have to READ, check the items that you want and give them to the service attendant.
This little store in the Fortress Hill MTR station sells the best tarts and pies I’ve tasted!!! Though I normally hate hand carried luggage, these pies and tarts are so good that we brought some of them home. Wish I can afford a franchise here in Manila.
STREETFOOD
Isn’t tapioca the English word for sago? Along Paterson Street in Causeway, there’s a store selling mango sago labeled as “mango sago”. They also have coconut milk sago and water chesnut beverages for 5hkd per serving.
Yakult + pineapple. Out of curiosity, we tried this drink. Though I’m not a fan of pineapples, I love this drink! We went to another fastfood where there’s a stall selling fruitshakes. Sally bought strawberry and mango milkshakes. We wondered why those drinks taste quite sour. Later on, we realized that there are piles of yakult on the display shelf of the stall. I assumed it’s a HK way of making fruitshake to use Yakult instead of the ordinary milk.
The sidestreets in Causeway offer crunchy sweet waffles. It’s tabi-tabi food but it’s way better than the waffle served in restaus here in Manila. We tried their best seller peanut butter + condensed milk waffle and their plain bubble-looking waffle.
There are side street version of dumplings, which of course we cannot resist.
AMUSEMENT PARK FOOD
One thing I hate about amusement park food is the price that doesn’t correspond with the quality and vice versa. This is quite true for food at Ocean Park. Another bad thing is that we went there on a Chinese holiday. We really have to line up, wait for our food, only to have a bowl of expensive noodles with ungenerous serving. We even have to move fast to get some seats for our mealtime. On the other hand, I’m very satisfied with the food at Disneyland. Their fast food is literally fast, no need to line up for a long time, no need to struggle to find some seats. It’s my second time to eat their burger and fries in Disney, coz it’s quite decent for an amusement park food. The price is almost the same as in Ocean Park. Hmmm… just a thought… maybe we don’t have to line up for burgers and fries coz we’re competing with the Chinese nationals who are in HK for the holidays.
INTERNATIONAL FOOD
I forgot the name of this place. It's a mall in the station after Sunny Bay. It has malls with outlet stores in it and a fast food which offers different kinds of cuisine. We decided to have Korean food to reminisce the good ol' days in Xiamen with our Korean friends.
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