Hong Kong Eats

I LOVE Hong Kong. It’s a beautiful place where you can run along the harbor, find some great views of the high rises, and eat phenomenal food of all cuisines! Here are some of my favorite eats in HKG.

Megabox is known for a great place to eat lunch. Once day we went on the 10th floor and found this restaurant. I had rice with eel, cheese, tomatoes, and of course a fried egg. LOVE

At Tiffany’s, they served Hainanese Chicken. This is basically succulent steamed chicken, served with 3 sauces: plum sauce, scallion oil, and a chili sauce. The dish was accompanied by bok choy, pickled veg, rice, and soup.

A good friend of mine took me to Discovery Bay, a quiet island where a lot of foreigners live. We sampled Korean BBQ at First Korean Restaurant! As our meal, we had a sample of marinated meats, scallops, and an assortment of sides (look at the kimchi)!

    

Per my boss’ recommendation, I went to Maxim’s Palace which is on the second floor of City Hall. This restaurant is one of the few places that still serves dim sum by the carts, and it is AMAZING. Look at these braised chickens feet, pork shumai, and rice noodle rolls filled with shrimp!

For my birthday, we went to Brotzeit German Bier Bar & Restaurant. My friend and I split the Cheese Spatzel (which I could eat every single day of my life). Imagine mac and cheese but with misshaped pasta and a gooey-er cheese sauce. What more could you want in life?!

Of course I had to have garlic sausage with sauerkraut.

There’s a horse race track right in the middle of a city in Hong Kong called happy Valley. It was a great place to bet as little as $1-2 USD per race, as well as eat fried potato wedges with sour cream, cheese and bacon. I ordered the rice, bbq pork, and bbq duck (when in Hong Kong, amiright)!

Now for the star of the show - real Hong Kong food where the servers do not speak English and the menu has pictures of the food. I would recommend going to Chung Chung Food Shop with someone who can speak the local language to help order. My recommendations: clams in the black bean sauce, fried squid, fried garlic tofu, and pigeon.

Yes, you read that correctly. Pigeon. Now I know this in the U.S. is considered a bird that eats the trash on the streets. But these pigeons are raised to be eaten. The meat is similar to duck but has more flavor. Promise me you’ll give it a chance, you won’t regret it!