Winza

I love HK style snack food. Everytime I visit HK, I would indulge myself in curry fishballs on skewers, red bean ice creams, sweet condensed milk with peanut butter on toast, HK style milk tea, mixed milk tea and coffee, wonton noodles, the curry radish/turnip/pig skin and cart noodles. And here is another favourite - the Gei Dan Tsai. Gei Dan Tsai - one of my vivid memories was when I tripped over (or PK-ed) in HK while me and my brother were fighting over a bag of Gei Dan Tsai.

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I couldn’t remember the exact location of this place, except that it was near the F entrance of the Causeway Bay MTR station, in an old building. The Mary and Jane cafe is not very big, but it provided us with a small, cozy and quiet environment for us to chat. The only two things that annoyed me though was that the prices was too costly and the lady who was sitting behind me smoked non-stop (despite the place was poorly ventilated). I thought the drinks there had similar prices to that from PCC and starbucks, but they were twice as expensive. The green tea latte I had was $45 and it was just green tea powder mixed with steamed milk. I guess the food and drinks there had to be at that price because it is in a great location and the rent had to be higher and therefore, the cost of rent had to be passed on to the customers. Apart from the rip-off prices and the smoking bit, I quite like the cafe and it would have been better if it had Wi-Fi access.

Update: I have googled for this place for the address and here it is…

Address: 2nd Floor, Po Ming Building, Foo Ming Street, Causeway Bay

Phone no.: 2805 6678

The food that I was longing for prior my trip to HK were curry fish balls on skewers and wonton noodles. This bowl of wonton noodle soup was from Sam Yik (please correct me if my romantization of Cantonese isn’t right), at one of the corridors in Tai On Estate in Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong. The wonton looks wonderful as the flour pastry is semitransparent and the prawns haven’t been crushed into prawn paste, like what my mum does for her restaurant here in melbourne. Most importantly, these wontons were not frozen before it was cooked, so that the freshness is preserved. The egg noodles are generally thinner and sharper compared to the ones seen in Melbourne and they have more elasticity when you eat it. The soup had a moderate savoury taste, although not as strong as the ones you would get in Vietnamese Pho. Despite this, it is best not to drink too much of the soup as it will make you even more thirstier. These noodles are also best served with chilli oil if you wanted to add an extra spice to it. You’d get about four pieces of wontons per serve, which is about two-thirds of what they serve in Melbourne, but $10 for it is a good deal.

Dish: Pig skin with Radish served with mustard and chill
Type: Chinese snack
Price: $10 HKD
Place: A food stall in Tai On Estate, Sai Wan Ho.
My two cents: Cheap and yummy, but rather unasethetic and unhygenic. That being said, I still prefer fish ball skewers.

Dish: Bibimbap
Cuisine: Korean
Price: $28 HKD
Place: Jusco in Kornhill Plaza, Quarry Bay
My two cents: Sweet and mouthwatering. The corn tea that came with it was cold instead of hot.