Hong Kong Food (part 4)

Hing Kei (兴记)
This outlet is famous for its claypot rice. It is located at the Templer Street, exit C of Yao Ma Tei station. We ordered one with pork-neck meat, and a plat of fried clams.


The clam is tasty, but the rice is just so so. It comes without any seasonings, and we have to add them ourselves.


Maybe we didn't know the technique to mix the sauces, it wasn't tasty at all. We checked with the owner before doing it ourselves, but she said 'just add them based on your own taste'.


I think our claypot chicken rice in KL taste better. So, you can skip this outlet, unless you don't trust my taste bud or my mixing skills. :P Oh, maybe you still want to try again, coz before we left we then found out their famous is with glutinous rice. We ordered normal rice (didn't know about it earlier). So, maybe still worth you a try?

乐园牛丸王
This 'Beef Ball King' is pronounced as 'Lok Yuen Ngao Yuen Wong'. Located at the Garden Street (花园街), nearby the Women Street (女人街). This restaurant specialises in all types of beef balls, but also sells other stuff like fish balls, sliced beef, etc. It is most famous for its 酱暴牛丸 (soup filled beef ball).

We ordered a bowl of black pepper beef ball and beef ball with fish maw (花胶酱暴牛丸).


They look the same from outside, except the one with soup and fish maw filling is slightly bigger. We have to be careful when eating, coz the soup/filling can literraly burst out, hence called the 'sauce-burst beef ball'. Look inside this beef ball, you can see a piece of fish maw and soup... :)

Well, actually I don't find this filling making the beef ball more tasty. It is just the experience - fun. That's it. I won't go back again. ;)


Different types of 'balls'.

Road Sides
There are a lot of road side stalls selling fish balls and other snacks. Worth trying. My sister is crazy over the curry fish balls. Sorry no photos, coz situation not condusive for photo taking while walking rapidly.

We found this 'bake cake' (烧饼) along the roadside near the Beef Ball King, tried it... very tasty. Soft texture, with very nice custard filling. Not too sweet, not sticky. It is just like omochi, but fried omochi. :)


恭和堂
Pronounced as Gong Wo Tong. It is a small outfit specializes in Chinese herbal stuff. It is most famous for its 龟苓膏, a type of black colour jelly made of Chinese herbs, very good for cooling the body and detoxification. Theirs already sweetened, unlike ours which we have to add sugar. Nothing special though. But I liked the 龟苓茶, which is the liquid version of the same herb. To my surprise, it is not bitter or sweet, but savoury. Just like normal soup! That is new to me.