Piping hot food

Homemade Dim-sum (Prince Edward)
Luckily I did not dine here during the summer because their food and drinks are piping hot and does not really cool down.
I tried it on a nice cool day but the food remained so hot that I had to wait ages before they cooled down.
As for the tea, it was still amazingly hot at the end of the meal.
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Fish air gas bladder and sweetcorn congee:

An average normal tasting congee with finely chopped pieces of fish air gas bladder.
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Steamed Cow's stomach in black pepper:

Beneath it were lots of Chinese white cabbage!

The taste was so sweet, it was the typical Chinese dim sum because they like to make all savoury dishes tasting sweet.

If you have tried the dim sums in the UK, they taste normal because savoury dishes are savoury and sweet ones are sweet!
The sauce did not even taste of black pepper even though it was called black pepper cow's stomach.
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Cow's stomach mixed in the congee:

After putting the cow's stomach in the congee, you can see how much orange colouring they put in the dish!
The congee was tastier and the cow's stomach was not so sweet after washing it in the congee, and the irritating chinese cabbage that was used to make it look like there was lots of cow's stomach in the dish made a nice crunch in the congee.
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Drinking bleach:

When I took a sip of the tea in the black cup, I could taste bleach, so changed the cup and I could finally taste that it was pu erh tea!

It is reassuring their cups are well sterilized with bleach!!
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Steamed buns bursting with filling!

Sun Hing Restaurant (Western District)
Only got the steamed buns because they were famous.

I have attempted to get them quite a few times before but they were sold out!
Anyway, I was lucky they were not sold out at 3:24 pm that day.

I am not really a fan of local dim sums in Hong Kong because they don't taste as good as the ones in UK or you need to go to really pricey places for good quality dim sum.

There were lots of round tables were strangers share tables with each other.

On the menu there were two interesting items:
This is not a spring roll and the deep fried crispy milk.


I decided not to dine there because tea is compulsory and you get charged for that.


When I opened the box, the steamed buns were a bit tacky, the buns were not pure white with yellow splodges on it and the piece of paper at the bottom looked like it was steamed in a dirty pan with a greasy surface.



It was really difficult eating it because the filling just dripped everywhere.


As for the taste I was not wowed by it however it was good that it was not too sweet.
The filling had pieces of salted hard yolk in it.
If you want to challenge yourself eating this bun without making a mess, this is definitely recommended!

Dim Sum at the Wan Chai market

Amazing Food (Wan Chai)

Noticed this shop because it was called "Amazing Food" but oddly they were selling Chinese Dim Sum which was a little mismatching to the name because I was not expecting Chinese food.

And yes, this shop has a Chinese name which I did not know how to type when I listed this shop but amazingly KC managed to find it listed on OpenRice through its English name which proves KC is really amazing.

Anyway, they have usual Dim Sum fare with big steamers that contain pots of rice, and stacks and stacks of dim sum.



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glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf:

This was rather nice and filling, the glutinous rice in the middle was soft and sticky with a lovely lotus leaf fragrance. As for the meat in the middle I rarely eat that because it is fat.
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Rice with chicken feet and spare ribs:


Overall this was really good, but the box concerned me because I could taste and smell CFC in the food.
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Not a very chirpy place @ Bird and Basket

Bird and Basket (Prince Edward)
Came here randomly before having dessert nearby.
It was quite gloomy upstairs and the air conditioning was extremely cold.

I was intrigued why it was called Bird and Basket and not The Birdcage or Bird and Cage because there were more bird cages used as decor than baskets .

Just ordered two items.
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Chinese radish puffs:


The chinese radish in the middle was very bitter and salty with high MSG content.
The pastry had so much lard in it that you could smell.
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Rice rolls with sakura shrimp:

The concept of this was good but they ruined the sakura shrimps because they have been deep fried to the point that they tastes bitter.
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Chili oil:

Had to ask for it twice!
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Still needs improving a year later @ Kung Fu Dim Sum

Kung Fu Dim Sum (North Point)
Since my last visit in September I never intended to go to Kung Fu again until a recent tasting at the TST branch, the food was great there so I decided to come back for the food I tried at the TST branch.
Thinking it was the same group, the food would be the same, but the food was better at TST.
The fly that was there in September probably died because its lifespan is only a month, but on this visit, there was still a fly there, probably its nth generation

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Glutinous rice balls with pork:
They looked promising because the crust was not too yellow or brown.
The only problem was the glutinous exterior was really thick, it was at least 14mm thick just like a huge Chinese style sweet dumpling with savory filling.
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Chicken feet in abalone sauce:
The chicken feet were good if I have not tried them before, because at this branch it was slightly dry and stickier.
The peanuts were really nice though, they were soft and tasted like soy beans.
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Chicken and sliced abalone with red rice in lotus leaf:

The rice was quite good but the sliced abalone was quite dry and dehydrated.
It would have been helpful if they served it in a shallow dish because it was hard eating it from a plate without making a mess.
It should have been served in the same way as the TST branch.
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Overall, I would recommend the TST branch if you want to try this place.

Delighted with dim sum at Kung Fu

Kung Fu Dim Sum (Tsim Sha Tsui)
To be honest I did not have a good impression of Kung Fu dim sum because the food at the North Point branch was not that good, but this visit changed my opinion and there are more choices at the TST branch.

Heres what we tried:

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Scallop and shrimp dumpling

In these dumplings I liked the crunch in it, because it contained Chinese celery which has a strong grassy taste to balance the scallop and shrimp.
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Prawn dumpling

The good thing about these prawn dumplings is that you order by the number of dumplings you want and they do not come in the standard portion of fours.
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Stewed conch with yam and chicken leg:
Before the pots of soup came, they gave out cups which I thought were tea cups.

The soup comes in a pot that looks like a tea pot.

Inside the pot, it was loaded with ingredients used for the soup.

We tried two soups, this was my favourite because the ginseng one did not taste strong enough.
The stewed conch soup was definately delicious, it was oil free and clear that you could taste the conch and chicken strongly.

There were so much ingredients in the pot.

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Crispy sticky rice with chicken:


The crispy sticky rice was creative, it reminded me of riceburgers.
Here they use fresh chicken in the middle so it was nice.
It tastes like pan fried wrapped glutinous rice with chicken and the crispy rice give its more depth.
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Chicken and sliced abalone with red rice in lotus leaf:

This was my favourite! I will be back for this!!
It contains red rice which is healthy and the texture of the rice is not too coarse or dry.
Each grain of rice was deliciously flavoured with abalone.
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Chicken feet in abalone sauce

This was another favourite of mine, I will be back for this again.
They were soft gelatinous chicken feet in delicious abalone sauce.
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Rice rolls:
There were two rice rolls we tried, beef and enoki mushrooms and BBQ.

Both of them were wrapped in delicately thin rice roll sheets which were silky and smooth.
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Sweet egg twist with honey

The great thing about these egg twists was that the honey was served separately and the egg twists did not have any oily odour.
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Prawn spring rolls:
They were like thin long straws which were crispy with delicious prawn inside.
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Malay sponge cake:
Usually I avoid this but here it was soft, fluffy and the sweetness was just right.
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I will be back soon for the rice wrapped in lotus leaves, soup and the abalone sauce chicken feet!

Dim Sum convenience shop by May Wong

皇點心 (Yau Ma Tei)

I rarely dine in Mong Kok but stopped by because they sell Dim Sums and no one was there.

It is not a restaurant so you either buy takeaways or eat there at the bar table.

They sell the standard dim sums served at most restaurants.

There are sauces and condiments.

One of the rice rolls I wanted to order was not available.

After asking the staff they said it was temporary unavailable and it was duck rice rolls.

At the front of their shop they had home-made fish shaomai too, the fish puree in the shaomai looked a bit grey, similar to daceballs.
I would have ordered the fish shaomai but I wasnt sure if there would be grounded bones in it.


It appears that they are a branch of May Wong's because the logo from the ordering form is the same.



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Prawn dumplings:


The prawn dumplings were ok, there was nothing overly exciting or bad about them.


The prawn meat inside was white and de-gutted with the usual taste of bamboo shoots.
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