Good customer service depends on what time you go @ 北方餃子源

After reading the reviews, it was considered lucky if the waiters did not treat you with a bad manner.

Knowing that, I went on a weekday during off peak hours late in the afternoon but just before dinnertime started.
It was on Queen’s road near the blue house, the outside of the restaurant looked very old.
When I went in, the interior and everything was old too, there was only two customers when I arrived so I sat down on one of the tables because there was no waiter there to tell me where to sit.

 

It was really good because they had an English menu and I could take my time deciding what to order.
Usually HK waiters’ rush you to order, but since it was off-peak hours, I had to wait for the waiter to finish his duties before I could order.

I wanted to try this place especially because of the donkey meat, fish dumplings, shredded chicken with vegetable rice and the spring onion sauce.
They didnt have the fish dumplings so I ordered: sliced donkey meat, lamb and spring onion dumplings, Hawthorn drink, shredded chicken with vegetable rice.

I do not know who the famous bad tempered one is, but the one who served me was smiling.

The food arrived fairly quick and was served in the typical blue white chinaware.

 

The bowl of rice was huge which was enough for two people, I have never seen a big blue white china bowl in that size before.

massive china bowl, regular size on top corner

 

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Sliced donkey meat
The donkey meat was flavoured by the so-called Chinese Five-spice powder.
Five-spice powder is basically a mixture of five spices star anise, cloves, Chinese cinnamon, Sichuan pepper and fennel seeds.
The texture of the meat looked and tasted like Pastrami, however it was sliced thickly, the gelatinous layers were thick too, and there was some jelly on the edges as well.
I was expecting it to taste gamey, but it wasn’t, it tasted exactly like pastrami.
I think it would also taste good with western mustard sauce.

donkey meat

 

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Lamb and spring onion dumplings
I wanted to order the fish dumplings as well, but the menu has changed.
The lamb was good as well, the lamb was not gamey and the strong spring onions complemented it. The spring onions were not over cooked and had some crunch to it like raw onions. The skin was just right and not too thick.

Spring onion n lamb dumplings

 

 

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Hawthorn drink
Just tasted like Chinese Ribena!
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Vegetable Rice with shredded chicken

 

I was not expecting the portion to be so big but it was enough for two people, luckily I did not order too much. I was originally going to order the fish dumplings but it was not on the menu.
Anyway it was fairly big pieces of chicken on top of rice mixed with chopped Chinese choy sum.
The chicken used was thigh meat.
On the side there was some finely chopped spring onion sauce, which I had been longing to try.

delicious chopped spring onions, garlic n chili

 

The rice and chicken accompanied by the chopped spring onion sauce was really nice.
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Overall the food was good, and I'll be back if I happen to be around during non-peak hours.

THW anyday anytime under any weather conditions @ Tim Ho Wan, the Dim-Sum Specialists

添好運點心專門店

I have always wanted to try THW, but the one at Mong Kok has a long queue and I don’t fancy going to the other branch in Sham Shui Po.

Thankfully one has opened in Central.
The location is brilliant because it is located on the lower level of the Airport express.
People who have just arrived or leaving HK can dine there for Michelin class dimsum.
Not only that, you are sheltered from the sun, heat, heavy rain or cold encountered at the long queues in MK.

I was slightly disappointed because they did not have crispy thing with wasabi.
Ended up ordering four dishes.
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Crispy BBQ bun

 

 

This was the famous crispy BBQ bun.
The top was crispy as advertised, similar to the mexican bun, however the BBQ pork was too sweet.
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Prawn dumplings

 

This was slightly disappointing because it is Michelin grade yet the skin was not intact.

 

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Satay potstickers

 

 

This was quite creative because it was satay beef inside.
However it was too oily.
The dish had lots of oil that drained from the potsticker.
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Liver cheung fun

 

Same as the potsticker, you can see the yellow pool of oil on the top of the cheung fun.
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Overall I was slightly disappointed because I have had better dimsums elsewhere and there is too much oil on some items and some items are too sweet.