Wong Kee Restaurant @ Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
While I and LY are walking around from our hotel, I accidentally saw this. Is this not some place where in Hong Kong drama, where they will come here and to have some nice food and drink?!
Hence, since both of us haven’t have our dinner yet, we head straight to it!
The menu is full of dishes, and I totally don’t know what to order. Everything is ordered based by instinct. And luckily, no waiter stand besides us, using his mind force to push us to order ASAP. I slowly read around the menu, but still I am being overwhelmed on what to order.
Australian Dairy Company @ Parkes Street, Jordan, Kowloon
Before taking the MTR all the way to Disneyaland Hong Kong, we had our breakfast at Australian Dairy Company. We found this shop easily as it was located near to the MTR station. A good start for the day!
From what I read, the smooth egg white milk pudding is good. And although I know that I does not enjoy this during my visit to Yee Shun Milk Company @ Macau, I still decided to give it a go, before finally admit defeat and admit that I won’t enjoy this no matter how good what others say. 5.0/10
Milky ice tea to let me forget the taste of the pudding.
Honolulu Coffee Shop @ Wanchai, Hong Kong
It’s been since almost 3 months since my last update here. My Hong Kong trip is still yet to be updated till now and hence here I am back and punching again. No, not using fist ya…
After finish visiting the Hong Kong Electronic Fair at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, both me and LY are tired. The Convention Centre is HUGE and we tried to have some snack before back to our hotel.
While trying to walk to our target destination, the Honolulu Coffee Shop at Hennessy Road, Wanchai, we failed yet again in finding it. So after some walking, again, I decided that taking a cab is the best way. I really spend too much money on taxi fares during this Hong Kong trip.
It was around 4PM, and the shop is still full with customers, and we still need to share our table with others.
The drinks are nice.
One bite on the French toast makes me pull the poker face as it’s almost tasteless. Then only I noticed that I need to pour the syrup which is available on the table itself then it taste gooding! 7.0/10
Tim Hou Wan Dim Sum @ Mong Kok, Hong Kong
People are always talking how good the dim sum in Hong Kong, and how it will smoke’s those in Malaysia and such. However, I only remember how sucks the dim sum are when I follow a tour to Hong Kong at 2009.
Hence, this time, I make sure myself visit the single most popular and opted as the best Dim Sum in Hong Kong by many people, Tim Ho Wan Dim Sum, which is also a Michelin starred restaurant.
Oh, they are the cheapest Michelin starred restaurant too from what I search.
I also had read about the long queues to dine here. Luckily, you don’t need to be in Queue. Just go and grab a number, and come back at a later time.
Oh, a thing to note yes, nearby the shop, is a boy’s heaven. Boys? Well, it sold loads of toys that guys like, especially RC cars and guns. Yes, those air guns. Man, just look at those superbly crafted guns is an art. Ranging from pistols to snipers. Too bad, I can’t bring it back to Malaysia or else I will DEFINITELY get one!!!!
Oh….look at how small our tables are!!
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Macau Tsui Yuen Restaurant @ Mong Kok, Hong Kong
For the past 3 visits, I visited Hong Kong with absolutely zero research. Hence, I am absolutely fed-up with the sub par food I tried at Hong Kong. Hence, this time, I came prepared……sorta.
1 particular person helped me a lot on planning my itinerary, which is Northasian, the forum + blog owner of AllAboutHongKong. Just go over her (I think….) forum, and you can ask her for advice, all for free and most importantly, prompt and good advice. Thanks again, Northasian.
It’s a food court in the Mong Kok Cooked Food Market, and finding a place to sit is real hard…..even when ‘dap toi’ aka sharing table with others.
The first thing 1 should do at Hong Kong is definitely getting the Octopus card. It’s something similar as our Touch n Go card, but far more convenient since many vendors are accepting it. I get 1 each for me and LY for the sake of convenient purpose of KTM rides.
I also straight away reload HKD500 for my octopus card since I heard that many restaurants accept Octopus card for payment. Also, I can use it at 7-11, and best part, by paying just a bit, I can cash back all the leftover amount in the card anytime I want.
For most of the food stalls here, you were need to collect your food yourself. But I was told that they will sent it to me when it was ready. However, the wait is so long (around 20 minutes) that we wonder, is it that I listen wrongly? LY went and asked again, and we are assured that they will sent it to us when it’s done.
It’s usually easy for me to hunt for food since I am using GPS ( Thanks a lot to guys from Malsing and Malfree). Just set it and go.
But it’s totally different in Hong Kong. Without Papago, I am helpless. I did subscribe to the PCCW wireless, where there are over 9000 hotspot in all over Hong Kong. BUT it’s still not convenient at all. The range of wifi is so short, and hence I can’t really use google map with it. 3G is so much a win over wifi.
Wifi Boutique Hotel @ Wanchai, Hong Kong
We stay in Zhuhai for 3 nights, which we never really have much time to explore. LY do have some time to do some shopping at the huge underground shopping centre (拱北地下广场) which is located under the Gongbei border. We also went to Lianhua Lu (莲花路), while LY continue her shopping while I went for a foot massage.
4 days 3 nights in Zhuhai (include 1 day in Macau) end so fast, and we are back to the Zhuhai Jiuzhou Ferry Terminal (九洲港) to take a ferry to HK-Macau Ferry Terminal (港澳码头), Hong Kong.
Our ferry is 9am, and hence after we purchased the ticket, we have our breakfast at KFC. The pork burger tasted amazingly good, even better than the one I had at Macau as it’s juicier! Yummy.
Foods around Senado Square @ Macau
After all the hotel visits (without picture….I will try to make this more like a travelling blog instead of food blog soon), here we are, at Senado Square. A place you can’t say you been to Macau if you never visit here.
Thanks god too, after raining for the whole morning, it’s finally stopped at around 2 PM and we can explore around here.
While there are many historical buildings around here, there are many food stalls around too. I just love the bubble milk tea here, and I especially enjoy their smaller than usual bubble. 8.0/10
Typical Portuguese – Macanese Cuisine @ Venetian Food Court, Macau
Macau and Zhuhai is very very near. Both city are just beside the border, and hence, everyday thousands of people pass by this border to the other side.
We left our hotel early at around 8.30AM, and prepare to spend 1 full day here at Macau. However, the weather destroyed my plan totally. It’s raining heavily and well, I just have to shift my plan here and there, leading to many of my initial plans of eating cannot be met.
One thing good about Macau is, since there are so many mega-casinos here, once you are out of the Gongbei border (拱北口岸) and step into Macau, there are just so many casino bus around willing to give you a free ride to their casinos. Buses available are from Wynn, Venetian, Sands, MGM, City of Dreams and many many more. The bus won’t wait until they have full capacity, instead they leave every few minutes hence the down town is actually very small.
Since it’s raining heavily, we went to Venetian first and have our brunch here.
One of the most famous dishes in Macau is the Portuguese Curry Chicken. I had a very bad experience on a super tasteless and extremely expansive version of this dish the last time here at Venetian, but at another restaurant. However, since LY did not try this before, I decided to order for her to try and see the difference between Malaysia’s curry and Portuguese.
However, this particular stall served good Portuguese Curry Chicken. It’s very fragrant and thick. Besides, they also give a whole 1/2 chicken to us. 7.0/10
Hong Yu Xuan Xiang La Xie @ Zhuhai, China
As a Chinese, I absolutely love Chinese food. I would love to try all the Chinese food around in China as each places in China, they will have different type of speciality that’s might be totally different from the other.
However, almost 99% of my friend who went to China, they all came back and whine about how sucks the food there is. However, that’s also because 99% of them who went to China, they all follow tour, and as far as I know, if you follow a tour for any trip, the food is usually 99% sucks to the max.
Most Malaysians also complaint that food in China is wayyyy too oily, but you might have to take note that in China, they uses chopsticks and rarely use spoon. They don’t pour the gravy on their rice like what we always do.
And hence, I always have faith for food in China. Luckily, even since the first time I visited Zhuhai, I am in loved with the food here. This particular restaurant - Hong Yu Xuan, which served authentic Szechuan （川菜）is my absolute favourite restaurant when I am in Zhuhai.
Century egg, also being listed as 1 of the most disgusting food by CNN is 1 of the must order appetizer here. I am not a huge fan of century egg back at Malaysia, mainly because we either eat it plain like that, or fried it when eating lor bak.
However, the century egg here are dip with the chilli oil and chillies on top just make this an amazinnnng appetizer. Absolutely perfect! 8.8/10
Their steamed grill fish is also 1 of the signature dish here. The fish itself is briefly grilled before it was steamed. It’s a bit spicy and taste a little sweet, but overall, very nice. However, since most of the fish here are grass carb, a freshwater fish with loads of bones, it’s a minor setback. 7.0/10
Zhuhai Holiday Resort Hotel @ Zhuhai, China
It’s been some time since I went oversea for holiday. Well, I do went over to Zhuhai, China around twice per year, but every time it’s purely for business and usually I don’t have time to explore around at all.
Finally, 2 weeks ago, I am able to squeeze a small trip to Zhuhai, Macau and Hong Kong.
Well, since the name Zhuhai appear again, it just means that this is not a pure holiday trip, but it’s a combination of holiday + business trip. I wonder, when only I will have a pure holiday trip out of Malaysia eh? My last pure holiday trip is also in Hong Kong, which was 2 years back, and no…..Danok is NOT overseas, neither that I counted it as out of Malaysia too…….
Chee Cheong Fun with some shrimps and soy sauce only. It will be wonderful if inside have prawns and char siew, too bad. 6.0/10
Hong Kong is basically the country I visited the most, even more than Thailand. Although I only went to Hong Kong for holidays 4 times up till today (twice during my secondary years), but almost every time when I visited Zhuhai, I will take a flight from Penang to Hong Kong, and then only take a ferry to Zhuhai, China.
Har Ji Mee aka shrimp roe noodles. While the noodle itself taste good where it’s really hard to find noodles with this type of texture in Malaysia, it really tasted too bland. It’s just plain noodle with some shrimp roe on it, which makes it quite tasteless in my opinion. 6.0/10
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