It was raining in the afternoon and I was wet when walking to Gurney Plaza for lunch. Suddenly, I felt like eating those Hong Kong’s instant noodle or what they called it the Gong Zai Min 公仔面, with sausage, ham and egg. At first I walked to the food court to look for something cheap and then I remembered that the instant noodle meal at Kim Gary Hong Kong restaurant on the third floor is not very expensive too. So I went there myself.

It was so crowded during lunch time and I, a person waited for like 15 minutes until I get a seat. There’s no need for me go through the menu as I had already know what to eat.

As you might say, I can cook my own instant noodle at home. Though, I still can’t make it looks like the one I eat at Kim Gary. It has nicely cooked egg, a ham, a sausage and a fried chicken wing with mixed vegetables. The soup is cooked with sesame oil, it doesn’t taste like MSG that much but it’s better not to drink the soup.

For RM8.90++ for this set meal with a cup of drink, I ordered Ying Yeong (Hong Kong style coffee mixed with tea), what do you think?

After a trip to Hong Kong, only now I realized that the people there loves to eat instant noodle. Almost every char chan then (their coffeeshop) serves instant noodle. The most famous and favourite of all is the instant noodle with beef and eggs or sometimes sausages. We call it Maggi/Cintan Mee here where they call theirs Gong Zai Mee (公仔面）.

A bowl of above noodles cost about HK$15. We were too hungry that time and we got no time to look for restaurants at Central already, and so we just went to the little food stall at the roof top of Queensway Plaza. Surprisingly, the place is filled with working people during tea time. It’s either noodle or buns, and I ordered a beef noodle. Never knew that it’s those instant noodle until it have been served. If it’s just plain noodle, it will not be good, but with beef and eggs, not bad.

Maybe it is the hectic life in Hong Kong, so that everything must be fast and so instant noodle it is. Taking too much of instant noodle is not good by the way.

One of the must-eat street food in Hong Kong is the curry fish balls. It’s so famous in Hong Kong and you happens to see it at a lot of places selling on a stall or shop by the roadside. I didn’t know much about what to eat in Hong Kong after my brother who went there earlier and told me about all the nice foods. Now, it’s my turn to tell you guys.

The curry fish balls is actually just a fish balls on a stick which you then dip it into the provided hot curry sauce. Well, it’s curry but it’s not that spicy as our local curry. It taste so much different with our curry, it’s like taste of curry powder and that’s all. Not authentic curry with a lot of cooking ingredient though. Selling for like a stick with 4-5 balls at around HK$10, it’s cheap.

The one above was at Times Square area and also I had tried another one near to our hotel at Pitt St, Yau Ma Tei. They taste almost the same, just the size of the balls were different.

So during your visit to Hong Kong, look out for it at the road side. Don’t be surprise to see working people in tuxedo standing there eating fish balls, it’s so common there where a group of students, peoples in uniform standing by the road side eating street food.

I learnt about this Stinky Tou Fu or known as Chao Tao Fu in Cantonese from those Hong Kong TVB series. Back to my first Hong Kong trip few months ago, I was in search of some exotic nice Hong Kong food and one of these I found was the Stinky Tou Fu.

Just plain looking at the Tou Fu from the television, I imagined that it smells like rotten cheese or sometimes the smell of a shit. Food critic in the TV keep talking how delicious it is, how nice it is very placing it into the mouth makes me tempted to try it in Hong Kong.

I was walking along Mong Kok area at the Kowloon peninsula in the night and on of the street by the roadside, I found a stall. It should be I smelled a stall. A food stall that gives out a strong smell of I-don’t-know-how-to-describe, it’s very strong, smell of rotten food. It attracted me to go and take a look.

I tell myself I gonna buy the stinky tou fu and have a try. It’s not expensive though, it’s only 10HK$ for 2 pieces of it. Placing it in a soft paper bag, with a few toothpick or sticks for you to eat it. You wouldn’t want to eat it with your hand because it’s pretty oily. Dip it into some sweet sauce and eat it.

It was not just the tou fus were selling there. They have plenty of foods around. Fish balls, sausages, not stinky tou fu, pig’s head skin, etc etc. Most of them are deep fried.

Personal thoughts is I don’t like the Stinky Tou Fu. Smells is not that bad but very strong sense of it, it’s maybe I didn’t put a lot of sauce on it, which eventually tasted very salty.

If there’s a second chance for me to visit Hong Kong, I’ll definitely remember to dip in more sauce for it.