Lin Heung Kui - famous Tim Sum restaurant - Michelin

Hong Kong - Lunch was a long queue to enter this famous Tim Sum restaurant.  There was a queue forming up to enter the lift to the 2nd Fl.  When the lift door opened, what greeted us what a crowded and noisy eating place.   This place is so famous that people were piling into this restaurant and we have to share a table with 2 groups of strangers.  

Location: 2-3F, 40-50 Des Voeux Road West, Hong Kong

Tim sum trolley

dishes from the trolley

The beef ball tim sum and the Loh Mai Kai - steam glutinous rice with chicken covered with lotus leaf. 

Fried chestnut cake

My first time trying this dish and it was a bit oily but tasty.

Big Pau

In Singapore, we call this Bao, Amy Yip Big Pau.

Tasty restaurant @ IFC Mall

Hong Kong - It is really sad to see many famous Cantonese wanton noodle shops have closed like the Wing Wah noodle shop due to the Covid and the high rental.   

Clifford and myself went to Tasty, a Michelin restaurant located at IFC Mall.   A very upmarket shopping mall that is linked to HK station.   

Famous Tasty restuarnt

I ordered bowl of wanton noodles, unfortunately the restaurant ran out of their popular dry wanton noodles but the soup wanton noodles is just as good.  It was served with smooth noodles balanced between succulence and elasticity; the wanton fillings with prawns and pork; and topped with very savoury and mouthwatering soup.

Wanton noodles

 

Beef brisket 

The beef brisket was 'heavenly' and it just melted in my mouth.  This is one of my favourite cantonese dish.

Black sesame desert

Handmade and smooth black sesame desert and it was perfect to the taste, no chemical taste of cheap and package version.  

Cheung Hing Kee Shanghai Pan-fried Buns - Michelin Guide restaurant

Kowloon - I decided to walk around Mong Kong and was surprise by the buzz around the town and it was crowded.   I happened to walk into a night market selling fruits, seafood and meats.   They even sell durians but the HK type is the Thai monthong durian - I took a sniff and there is no smell unlike the super delicious Malaysian type.

Thai Monthong durians

The night market floor is wet and smelly with butcher and fishmonger busy with the sales.

Fish seller

After walking through the night market, I walked along Fa Yuen Street is known as Sneakers Street, thanks to its abundance of shoe shops and famous brands with bright advertisements.

Shoe shops all along this road

Then the best experience was to have my dinner at this Michelin star take-away restaurant also along Fa Yuen Street.  Fortunately, it was not crowded and I took my time to order the famous black truffle bun.

Black Truffle bun

You have to be very careful eating the bun as it was one steaming hot bun which was full of broth, and putting it straight up into your mouth could just scald your tongue.

5 spices beef noodles

The beef is very tender and tasty but it was nothing to shout about.  I should have order more of their other famous steaming hot buns.

Wing Wah Noodle Shop - Michelin Bib Gourmand award

Hong Kong - First time trying a Michelin graded noodle shop in Hong Kong.  One of the famous restaurant in Hong Kong - Wing Wah Noodle restaurant.  

You must try the wan ton noodle and it is the noodle that makes this place so special.   The restaurant is nondescript with simple arrangement of chairs and have been that way for decades.  It gives an atmosphere of bygone years of old Hong Kong.

The noodles are still made by hand, kneaded using bamboo upstairs.  

Latest news is that this Michelin shop has closed operation on 31st August 2018 after 68 years in busines.   The 3rd generation own Tse Sau-Hong commented that she was 'feeling old and wanted to retire' and the business has fallen after the immigration department moved their offices away from Wan Chai.