Woke up rather early and left the hotel at 7am, proceeded to take the MTR to Central and walk to Lin Heung Tea House. This is one of Hong Kong's oldest restaurant and has been around since the 1920s.
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| Cheong Fun on the left, Sesame Balls on the right Rating: 3.5/5 |
Here you do not wait to be ushered to your seat, rather you just walk in, locate some empty chairs and take your seat. Eventually, a waiter will come around and ask you the type of tea you want. You will be then served tea and given a tally card which you use to order your dim sum.
Here the tea is served in a serving cup (See pic above, cup at the top with an inscripted cap). You then pour your tea out of this cup into a drinking cup (See pic above, cup at the bottom left).
A unique and novel way of drinking tea, just like in the old days!
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| Push Cart dim sum |
There will be ladies pushing carts containing dim sum going around.
Tip: Don't be shy, you are encouraged to go right up to her, open the lid to see what type of dim sum she is carrying. Just point to the one you like and don't forget to pass her you tally card with which she will then proceed to chop.
I was waiting for the Har Gau or Prawn Dumpling to appear. Eventually it did but because I was sitting to the side, by the time I walked over to the middle aisle, the Har Gau was swept clean in a matter of minutes!
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| Meat Dumpling Rating: 3.5/5 |
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| Quail Egg Siew Mai Rating: 4/5 |
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| Turnip Cake Rating: 3.5/4 |
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| Sausage Top Siew Mai Rating: 2/4 |
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| Leng Yong Bao Rating: 4/4 |
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| Notice the ceiling fans and bird cage |
The dim sum here is pretty good. The Quail Egg Siew Mai is a traditional dish which you seldom see nowadays. The Leng Yong Bao or Lotus Bean Paste Bao deserves a special mention. The filling is not sweet and it has a piece of salted egg hidden inside!
Unlike a lot of places in Hong Kong where you are expected to eat
and leave, you need to spend some time here to experience the
atmosphere. We spent an hour or so. Was fortunate to have met an old uncle, 1st table to the
right when entering the restaurant, who helped explained how things are
run around here. Apparently, he has been coming to the restaurant for the past 15 years and have been seating in the same seat every morning!
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| Ding Ding Tram |
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| Another Ding Ding Tram |
Walked to Sheung Wah MTR Station (Coordinates:
22.286647,114.151959) to take Ding
Ding Tram to Wan Chai. You can take the Tram from anyway on it's route, just hop on and use your Octopus card. The Ding Ding Tram has been running along the northern part of Hong Kong Island since 1904 and it's name came about because of the perculair sound it makes to warn pedestrians and traffic of their approach.
Tip: Seat at the top for best view.
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| Medicine shop |
We dropped off at Wan Chai area and proceeded to walk the neighborhood. Here you can experience their wet markets, dried food stuff shops, medicine shops etc.
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| Butcher Shop |
You can even get tails (hanging), hooves (red basket on the floor) here!
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| Mcdonalds |
Over in Hong Kong, you are also likely to encounter Mcdonalds, 7-11 and Cafe de Coral at almost every district. Cafe de Coral was one of the many restaurants we have been meaning to eat, but just could not fit it into our schedule. Maybe, next time? Apparently, they serve a mean Bake Pork Chop Rice.
We proceeded to the Wan Chai Ferry Pier to take Star Ferry across Victoria Harbor. The Star Ferry since the 1800s have been plying between Kwoloon and Hong Kong and it costs only HKD2.50 per ride on weekdays.
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| Victoria Harbor view from ferry |
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The ferry deposited us at Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry Terminal, where we strolled to the Avenue Of Stars.
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| Victoria Harbor view from Avenue of Stars |
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| Avenue of Stars |
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| Jackie Chan Hand Prints |
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| Statue of Bruce Lee |
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| Starbucks |
The Avenue Of Stars was built in 2003 at a cost of $40 million as a means to pay tribute to past and present generation of film stars. Here you will find commemorative plaques, some with hand prints. See if you can recognize some of them.
At the end, we took a break from all that walking and had a Matcha Latte at Starbucks.
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| Sliced Roasted Leg of Pig Rating: 4/5 |
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| Fried Beef Noodles Rating: 3.5/5 |
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| Roast Pigeon Rating 3/5 |
Tai Ping Koon was started way back in the 1860s. The interior of this restaurant is dimly lit and the aircon was pretty cold. We ordered several of their chef recommended dishes and also wanted to order the famous souffle but was told by the waiter that it
is huge! Overall, the food was pretty good with the Sliced Roasted Leg of Pig being the best dish. This was also my one and only taste of Pigeon in Hong Kong. I did not
really fancy this as it was hardly any meat to it. Prefer goose anytime.
Bill came to HKD374, including a glass of red wine (house pour)
at HKD42.
With our bellies filled, we took MTR to Sham Shui Po and proceeded to walk Apliu Street as well as
some of the surrounding streets. This place sells a lot of
electrical/electronic stuff as well as second hand items.
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| Used Items Store |
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| HTC One Promotion |
Went back to the hotel after Sham Shui Po to touch base before coming out again.
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| Police patrolling the streets |
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| Another street performer |
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| Oyster Omelette (Small) 蠔餅 Rating: 4/5 |
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| Lettuce Rating: 3/5 |
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| Sausage with Pork Rib Claypot Rice |
Dinner was at Four Seasons Claypot Rice. Ordered the Oyster Omelette, Steamed Lettuce, Salted Fish with Chicken Claypot and Sausage with Pork Rib Claypot Rice. They are supposed to be famous for claypot rice but I
find this really lacking. Ingredients was also pathetic. Highly recommended though is the Oyster Omelette. Much prefer the Singaporean's version of Claypot Rice
Tip: If you come here, do come early as we were there around 5 plus and
the place keeps filling up.
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| Men's Market |
After dinner proceeded to walk along Temple Street or also called Men's Market for more shopping! Apparently this market has stall selling things pandering more to men than the ladies, hence the name Men's Market. There will be also be quite a number of street side hawkers where you can grab a beer and a bite.
Tip: Temple Street only comes alive at night. Best to come here after 8pm.
We took the MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui, where we visited the 1881 Heritage. It is
formerly the Marine Police Headquarters which has since been renovated and built up to house a shopping mall, hotel and an exhibition hall.
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| Clock Tower at night |
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| Night View of Victoria Harbor |
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| Another Night View |
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| Symphony Of Lights |
After 1881 Heritage, we proceeded to cross the road and spent some time walking along the Promenade leading to Avenue of Stars, before settling down to catch the Symphony Of Lights show.
The 15 minutes long show is held nightly 8pm at the Victoria Harbor. The language varies with
English on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; Mandarin/Putonghua on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; and Cantonese on Sunday.
Even though there were quite a number of buildings collaborating to put on this show, I felt that the show was lackluster and personally will not watch it again.
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| Menu |
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| Double Skin Milk Pudding 雙皮燉奶 and Ginger Milk Pudding 薑汁燉奶 Rating 4/5 |
We had our supper at Yee Shun Milk Company, Yau Ma Tei Branch. They have several branches around Hong Kong. Their
hot pudding was silky soft and really delicious. The 2 bowls costs HKD51.
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