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American cuisine, for one. Piss clams

HK$20? More like US$2.50 !!

Here are some photos from a meal at Chuen Cheung Kui (泉章居) near Times Square. I mistakenly said in a previous post that the photos from a North Point Beijing-style restaurant were from this restaurant- those photos are actually Chuen Mei Kui (津味居). Hence the problem of restaurants using crappy transliterations for their English names instead of standardized ones (e.g. Jyutping). Anyhoo, I think hzrt8w recently posted some photos from this Hakka restaurant, Chuen Cheung Kui, or possibly another location with the same name. Here are photos of a bunch of different dishes: Pineapple water Yuen yoeng (coffee and tea with cream) Chicken rice Left to right: kidney with pickles, congealed blood soup, jellyfish Gai lan with two kinds of lap chong Braised pork belly with preserved vegetables Seafood noodles Fried tofu with salted chilies Singapore noodles Meatballs with crispy bits I would describe Hakka food for those who haven't had it as an insane man's version of Cantonese or Fujian cuisine. It's simple, savory soul food that's somehow totally uncomforting to my palate due to the odd use of preserved and smoky flavors. --- Down the street, a couple steamed milk puddings at Yee Shun Milk Company "double steamed milk" chocolate flavor

Pictures from Peking Garden, Tsuen Wan Cucumber, tofu, and roast peanuts in sesame oil Cold fried fish in a sweet and salty sauce Jellyfish Cold roast pork in vinaigrette Deep fried jumbo shrimp coated with raw egg yolk Sweet and sour pork Deep fried sweet and sour fish Chicken and dumpling soup Mushrooms and yook gua Here comes the duck Duck was dry Steamed vegetable bun Interior Stir-fried duck meat etc.

Some photos from Chuen Cheung Kui (津味居), a Beijing style restaurant in North Point. Highly recommended if you're in the area. Baby bak choy Boiled lamb dumplings, lots of lamb flavor and wicked spicy Lamb haam beng (savory pie), like the scallion pancakes you can get in the US but crispier and filled with meat ------- Chicken faan-tastic: not good ---------- Some various Maxim's food Japanese curry Bad Western-type foods

Here's some more photos from Cheers Restaurant. Steamed mantou The infamous fish maw... this one tasted awful! Thin, tender slices of squid fried with yook gua and red pepper Lobster noodles... sounds elegant but the shell makes it hard to eat Some fried things: crispy nests of some sort, and deep-fried lumps of pandan pudding More sucking pig... this is the good kind, with jellyfish (sometimes it has intestines instead) Sweet and sour pork (gu lu yuk) --- And a few tidbits: You can get chocolate popcorn at movie theaters in HK. It's not super chocolatey... it's more like chocolate breakfast cereal, like eating dry Count Chocula. Some delicious sweet bread with chocolate inside. They're some kind of "face bread," which is a pun in Cantonese, because the words for "face" and "bread" sound the same.

That's not the whole pig- they just put the head there for effect. The platter was pretty big, maybe 1.5 feet long. Mango pudding (the traditional dim sum item) is basically like a very rich gelatin containing cream and mango puree, plus some mango chunks. Now, on to more photos: Sun Keung Kee (新強記) roast goose restaurant, right near the Tai Wai MTR, Sha Tin Can't go wrong with a half-liter beer for US$2 Complementary or mandatory? The infamous egg drop soup! (with corn) Oyster pancake An unusual hor fun that's cut in thin strips... delicious Fried mantou to dip in condensed milk Fried soft tofu with a very thin batter Croquettes of corn and fake crab It was like eating battered mayonnaise Lemon chicken Roast goose Goose brain, on a dare In an alternate universe, the goose survived to serve us a fish.

hzrt8w: I live in the U.S. Dianabanana: flavor? hm... not sure. Savory? Nothing too pronounced. ---------- Dim sum at a divey local place in Tai Po Centre Typical chachaanteng junk food Noodles with ham Pork chops Mushy spaghetti with hot dog and lettuce Instant ramen with omelette Pork chop sandwich at a mall restaurant Mostly flavorless gelatinous blob... no idea what this is called Mostly flavorless spongy cake ----- Cheers Restaurant, Tai Po "Mega Mall," Tai Po Centre Suckling pig Hollowed-out daikon filled with dried scallop Shark fin type soup Mango puddingfish!!!! Red bean and coconut soup

Here's a few shots of home-cooked food. Steamed shrimp Siu yook (from the market) Abalone and vegetable Strawberry sai mai lo Gargantuan mango pudding (from the market) Tong yuen (glutinous rice balls with sesame/peanut paste, from the market)

The tomato layer has some kind of meat in it... in the ADC version it has some kind of chunky meat sauce stuff. Other versions I've had usually contain some kind of sliced roast meat (chicken breast or beef).

This photo post features that fried milk dish. It's not really "fried milk" as much as it's a milk pudding (with cornstarch, and probably some eggs too) that's fried up like scrambled egs. Also, although nobody really drinks fresh milk in HK, steamed milk (with egg) pudding is popular... I'm sure some pictures of it will appear in that thread eventually...

Lunch at a chachaanteng in Mongkok Chicken rice and complementary soup Instant ramen with beef and an omelette Pineapple french toast ---- A different home cooking Sichuan-esque type place at Kwai Fong Metro Plaza Beefy meaty rice Fish and lobster ball noodles Wontons buried in garlic Pile of cabbage with oyster sauce More delicious gai dan zai ----- Australia Dairy Company, Jordan Milk tea, lemon tea, superb scrambled eggs and toast HK-style club sandwich ----------- Rainbow Dessert, Tai Po Centre Mango pudding Fruity sai mai lo ------------ A couple other tidbits: A stall selling bean pancakes and such at Tai Po Market I think this was in a mall somewhere, or in a MTR station... same thing, really

Here's some photos from Fung Shing restaurant near the Prince Edward MTR. Like hzrt8w, I found it to be fairly unimpressive. It seems to have a strong reputation even though the food is just about average. Complementary pickles This is a soup I would describe as "egg drop soup" Chopped pigeon with pine nuts, to be wrapped in lettuce here Fish, celery and snow peas Delicious roast chicken... needs shrimp chips Suckling pig Choy with dried scallops and roasted garlic "Fried milk," which is a savory milk pudding. Not as exciting as it looks. Has sort of a chalky taste. This is the dish discussed here. Shrimp toast Complementary bean soup --- B仔涼粉 Dessert Restaurant, Yuen Long These are some kind of rice-and-bean-based paste with a Malteaser in the middle, and bad chocolate on top... not great The most mind-blowingly awesome mango pancake I've ever had... fake whipped cream and all

A guy selling jackfruit in a Tai Po street market Very large wonton noodles at Sing Zai Gei (成仔記) in Tai Po Centre

Some photos from the Tai Po Complex: The previously described stalls, tables, and chairs Fish ball noodles at Ping Gei (平記). This is the place run by the old guy who makes his own noodles with the big bamboo pole, as featured on No Reservations. The noodles were good enough, but the dish was seriously bland overall... Some dim sum items from one of the other stalls. Cheung fun Chicken congee Fish congee Jaa long Chow fun, mei fun --- Some photos from the markets in the Complex

It's right down the block from the KCR (now MTR East Rail) station, about 0.5 km if I remember correctly. And yeah, it's a huge set of standard-size stalls with tables and chairs in front. I've got some pictures I haven't uploaded yet from some of those stalls. The other floors of the Complex are a wet market and small stalls with vegetables and dried stuff and so forth. I think the idea was to build this complex so the wet market would have more sanitary conditions and the food vendors would have to get off the street.

Lunch @ Mum Chau's, Lan Kwai Fong I thought it was cute that the little "this dish is hot" pepper clip art was obviously used to draw the plate of peppers. Yibin noodles Sichuan-type wontons with chili sauce Cabbage with dry chilis Dry, chewy Sichuan ham in a delicious chili oil --- Macarons and caramel tea @ Le Gouter Bernardaud, IFC Mall. Expensive, yes, but you get comfy chairs to sit in and a nice view. --- Steamed chicken and mushrooms over rice, Tai Po Market. Some choy The most massive ha gao ever Wontons At a dessert place around the corner, milk-covered mango pudding Fresh, frothy sai mai lo (coconut tapioca) The really cool sign for the Cooked Food Centre, Tai Po Market

Daan taat 蛋撻 "egg tart" is the name for the regular kind. Po taat 葡撻 "Portuguese tart" is the kind with the caramelized top. I'm just guessing here... but like 5 or 6 HKD at KFC? I don't really remember.

hzrt8w's recent megapost of Hong Kong food photos inspired me to start putting my own HK photos online. I'll be updating this thread as I get more of them up... Here's a few to start off: Beef ball noodles @ Haiphong Road Temporary Market Mango pancake @ some food court in Harbour City "Sausage" pastry that is, of course, hot dogs @ somewhere near Tai Po Market Trip to Khyber Pass in Chungking Mansions. I couldn't find anyone with good first-hand knowledge of the desi restaurants in the Mansions, and several internet sources seemed to suggest that Khyber Pass was one of the better places. "Better" might just have meant cleaner or safer, because the place was rather clean and safe-feeling, but the food was a joke. Maybe if you're the right skin tone you get better food, but what we got was straight-up Fake Indian for Cantonese Tastes. There wasn't really much flavor to speak of. Bhindi masala, chicken something, saag something, samosas with... ketchup? Downstairs in the Mansions, a guy selling sweets. A trip to the vegetarian prix-fixe restaurant at Po Lin Monestary (near the Big Buddha). The food was superb, and was really bursting with flavor without leaning too heavily on the salt + MSG + oil crutch that most tasty vegetarian restaurants tend to use. They really managed to crank a lot of flavor out without being too obvious about the seasoning. Some typical watery soup to start. Mushrooms and bak choy Peas, corn, and soft tofu on top of ho fun type noodly stuff. As someone who usually doesn't care for the peas & corn combination, I would say this is much better than it looks. Mushrooms, carrots, wood ear, fried tofu, some other soy product, and cabbage underneath. Fried spring rolls containing similar vegetables Stir-fried celery, firm tofu, pepper, zucchini, and my favorite vegetable, yook gua (jade melon). Yook gua in my bowl. After seeing the Big Buddha, we headed back to the Tung Chung MTR mall area and grabbed some surprisingly good po taat at KFC. Dinner at a fake-Sichuan-style-for-Cantonese place in the food court at Metro Plaza, Kwai Fong Fried fish paste Of course, had to end the evening with some gai dan zai (egg shape waffles).