Hi from a dedicated lurker...

Am going back to Hong Kong for a 2 week visit with a young family....
Although HK born and bred (to age 17) have not lived there for 20
years...... Have been back 3x.

Any suggestions on where to eat - am staying on Kowloon side. I am
considering fasting this week so that I am REALLY hungry when I get there.

We eat lots of Chinese/ Eurasian food - laap cheong, char sui, hor fun, etc
most of which is cooked really homestyle, so kids are happy to try lots.

Any ideas would be so gratefully received. I have some personal
recommendations, but don't like to rely on guidebooks and google.

TIA
Pat

"LeRoy" > wrote in message
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> Hi from a dedicated lurker...
>
> Am going back to Hong Kong for a 2 week visit with a young family....
> Although HK born and bred (to age 17) have not lived there for 20
> years...... Have been back 3x.
>
> Any suggestions on where to eat - am staying on Kowloon side. I am
> considering fasting this week so that I am REALLY hungry when I get there.
>
> We eat lots of Chinese/ Eurasian food - laap cheong, char sui, hor fun,
etc
> most of which is cooked really homestyle, so kids are happy to try lots.
>
> Any ideas would be so gratefully received. I have some personal
> recommendations, but don't like to rely on guidebooks and google.
>
> TIA
> Pat
>
>

I am not much better off than you are - having been living in UK for the
last 20 years, and only a few visits back to Hong Kong. The strangest thing
was that the street names seem to be the same, but the whole streets have
been rebuilt with all the high rise buildings, all the way to the New
Territories (the countryside). There are only a few landmarks which I can
still recognise.

I wouldn't know where are the best places to eat nowadays. However, last
time I was there, Lei Yu Moon, the best fishing village for seafood was
still there, with the roadside stores selling all sorts of live seafood kept
in fish tanks - different types of fishes for steaming, giant prawns,
lobsters, crabs, oysters etc. You can choose and bargain and then take them
to a local restaurant. The restaurant people will cook and serve them to
you. The more expensive seafood floating restaurant, Jun Po, in Aberdeen was
still there. Apart from that, there are a lot of ordinary restaurants
scattered in Hong Kong and Kowloon which have good supply of live seafood
and reasonable quality seafood dishes.

The Causeway Bay Food Street was still there, with small restaurants serving
different types of Chinese food.

For dai pie dong siu ye (late night meals), I think most of the dai pie dong
(roadside hawker stores) are gone, but instead there are new style
restaurants with open plan buffet, serving the same sort of food as dai pie
dong - congee (jook), noodles etc (I saw it on TV - Chinese Phoenix channel
recently.)

The other place I would recommend is the vegetarian canteen at the new
buddist temple with the giant budda at Lan Tao Island, near the new airport.
The vegetarian food (jie choi) there was very good and fairly cheap. They
also have the real doufu fa (beancurd dessert) straight from the wooden
buckets.

Generally there are a lot of good quality restaurants specialising in
Cantonese, Szechuan, Peking, Shanghainese, Chiuchow, Hokkin etc food.

The last but not least - dim sum restaurants. It is a must.

There are also various shops selling very nice pork/beef jerky, various
Chinese cakes, fresh fruit tarts, egg tarts and fresh sweet fruits (the
mangoes are sweet and lovely).

Theresa

LeRoy > wrote in message
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> Hi from a dedicated lurker...

Hey fancy seeing you here & in a.food.asian LeRoy.

> Am going back to Hong Kong for a 2 week visit with a young family....
> Although HK born and bred (to age 17) have not lived there for 20
> years...... Have been back 3x.
>
> Any suggestions on where to eat - am staying on Kowloon side. I am
> considering fasting this week so that I am REALLY hungry when I get there.

Heeheeee.... only someone who has been brought up in Asia would starve
themselves in preparation.... i use to do that too. Don't fast too much
now.... or just the thought of all that lovely food will make you faint. And
if in front of your young family... what will they think of you & food in
HK? LOL.


> We eat lots of Chinese/ Eurasian food - laap cheong, char sui, hor fun,
etc
> most of which is cooked really homestyle, so kids are happy to try lots.
>
> Any ideas would be so gratefully received. I have some personal
> recommendations, but don't like to rely on guidebooks and google.


Sorry can't help you as i've not been in ages too but what you could do is
take lots of photos & post them in a.b.food when you get back, that will
surely get threads going in this & other groups. I don't much trust guide
books too but asking family & friends or even people there is often better.
If all else fails, Taxi drivers normally do a good job & look at your map
for any markets. The surrounding areas will be full of places/tai pai tong
to eat. Hmm... i wonder if Theresa knows anywhere.

DC.

"DC." > wrote in message
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>
> LeRoy > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi from a dedicated lurker...
>
> Hey fancy seeing you here & in a.food.asian LeRoy.
>
> > Am going back to Hong Kong for a 2 week visit with a young family....
> > Although HK born and bred (to age 17) have not lived there for 20
> > years...... Have been back 3x.
> >
> > Any suggestions on where to eat - am staying on Kowloon side. I am
> > considering fasting this week so that I am REALLY hungry when I get
there.
>
> Heeheeee.... only someone who has been brought up in Asia would starve
> themselves in preparation.... i use to do that too. Don't fast too much
> now.... or just the thought of all that lovely food will make you faint.
And
> if in front of your young family... what will they think of you & food in
> HK? LOL.
>
>>
> Sorry can't help you as i've not been in ages too but what you could do is
> take lots of photos & post them in a.b.food when you get back, that will
> surely get threads going in this & other groups. I don't much trust guide
> books too but asking family & friends or even people there is often
better.
> If all else fails, Taxi drivers normally do a good job & look at your map
> for any markets. The surrounding areas will be full of places/tai pai tong
> to eat. Hmm... i wonder if Theresa knows anywhere.
>
> DC.

Hey DC

Am already salivating after reading all the interesting posts you and Teresa
have been making - all the phonetic Chinese makes me smile too!

Will take some photos and try to post when I get back - if I can squeeze
myslef into the plane after all that food..... Am looking forward to
'Authentic' Chinese food - Dim Sum, Hakka food, Shanghainese noodly things
as well as 'Chinglish' food - pork chop rice, Chinese style spaghetti etc
etc... Interesting memories as well.

Yummy!

Pat