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.
Yoshinoya is a fast food chain selling Japanese beef bowl and some other Japanese food. I was first introduced by my brother few years back in Kuala Lumpur. There’s a few outlet in Kuala Lumpur but unfortunately none in Penang.
It’s pretty famous in Hong Kong. It’s always full housed there but I don’t see the crowds here in Malaysia. In Singapore, sometimes.
So many times of visit to Yoshinoya, I have never change my order before. Every time is the same famous Beef Bowl. It’s selling for about RM9 for a beef bowl and a soft drink while around RM15 for additional soup, a pudding and a salad.
Maybe during my next visit to Kuala Lumpur, I’ll order other food at Yoshinoya, but I miss the Beef Bowl! Wonder when will the first outlet to be open in Penang?
Back in Hong Kong few months ago, I manage to make a visit to one of the Starbucks Coffee. I prefer Starbucks Coffee over Coffee Bean for its nice ice blended coffee and latte too. In Malaysia, people tends to go to Starbucks Coffee to get on the free wifi Internet connection which doesn’t available at Coffee Bean.
Sadly, there isn’t any free Wifi connection provided by Hong Kong’s Starbuck Coffee. Surprisingly, you will not find any Coffee Bean there. It’s just Starbucks Coffee and Pacific Coffee.
During a visit to Repulse Bay, I dropped by at the Starbucks Coffee to buy some food for myself. I did not buy any hot coffee, since we were in the move, I got myself a bottled Frappuccino coffee. I got to say that this is a nice cool drink, you can’t find it in Malaysia, yet or never. I don’t know about it.
Oops, I have forgotten to take down the name of this roll. It’s like an egg roll wrapping with cheese and ham. It taste good, but a little a bit expensive for something that small. Though, it’s just EAT-FOR-FUN. HA!
One thing, Starbucks Coffee outlet in Hong Kong is not as much as we had in Kuala Lumpur.
