It was a bright sunny afternoon when we arrived at Mongkok. FIrst thing when we reached the popular ladies street, we kept searching for "多寶齋廚" which appears first on my veggie list. Located at 旺角 通菜街154號, it was an easy search. We ordered beef noodle, mushroom noodle and a claypot tofu +eggplant+rice. OOps, we totally forgot that we should have ordered 2 servings instead of 3! Nevermind, since we travelled all the way from HK island to Kowloon, we would try more of the HK local dishes! We also ordered the "gluten based zhai lou" which came as cold dishes. The Hong Kongers just loved the "zhai lou mei!" They are the very traditional type of gluten based vegetarian dish. It's fully flavoured, taste quite good, though I did not fancy at all :P .
When the dishes were served, wow, again, so big a portion. Nvm, the tofu eggplant and the mushroom noodles looked good. But the beef noodle was a bit too oily for me. THat's alright since the lady boss was super friendly hahaa. She could recognise that we were not the locals since our cantonese sounded very "Malaysian" laH ~ haha. She was just too kind to tell us where we should go. ONe of the places is one of the temple situated at Diamond Hill. However, regrettably, we did not have time to make a trip there. Nevertheless, we will be back, HK!
AFter our lunch and some shopping and sight-seeing at Mongkok, we headed to Tsim Sa Tsui for dinner!
Friday, March 30, 2007
Hong Kong - Day 1 at Central
I spent about 1 week at Hong Kong, exploring the island mainly looking for vegetarian food! keke.. Thanks to the veggie list such as this http://www.veg.org.hk/shops/vegilist.htm
The first dinner I had in HK was at this restaurant called 素食坊, located at West Central - West Queen St. 西 環- 皇后大道西 216 號. Had spent about 45 minutes searching for this location! Luckily my bro's gf brought us a prepaid phone card so that I can make local call. It's really cheap to call local. I made one call to the restaurant asking for the direction! It was fortunate too that I could speak Cantonese - cuz me Msian, hehe. Guess my hubby - Singaporean would have a hard time getting his way out from the maze as he understands zero canto!
Ok, back to the restaurant , it was simply a small and crowded one, but I guess it was quite a popular restaurant as I saw a Hong Kong actor waiting in the queue too.. Well, not a popular HK actor but I could recognise him, though I never bother to know what's his name! hehe..
Food wise, since it was the first day in HK and it was already pretty late - 8+, we did not really go through what's in the menu and decided to get a set dinner for 3pax. It came with a big bowl of sharkfin soup, one fried yam fish, one big serving of stir fry enoki with vegetables. I think the portion is SOOO BIGGG. We had a very full dinner, and I realised that eating in HK is never cheap! Then we decided for our next makan, we would order servings for 2 pax which is definitly sufficient for 3 person, keke.
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