Wednesday, 26 June 2019
It was a day for winding down and exploring yet another Market, Stanley Market. But first, we had to have our first meal of the day.
We travelled to Wan Chai for this world-famous roast meat shop, Joy Hing
It's a must-eat, as recommended on TripAdvisor. So we did.
A small shop, as usual
but we got a shared table like this very quickly
I spotted the roast pigeon
"Not available in Singapore. We have to have it." I instructed William.
The uncle at the shop proudly declared that their specialty is rice with roast goose and char siew, so we placed an order for 3 plates.
The char siew looked dry and thick but it was tender. I wouldn't say it was 'succulent'. Just tender.
The roast goose was a tad dry and mediocre. Nowhere close to Yat Lok.
Roast goose at the foreground with char siew at the back
Coco and I each tried a piece of the roast pigeon and William had to down the rest.
Firstly, the wing had a lot less meat than a regular chicken wing. It was harder to tear apart compared to a chicken wing so it was harder to get what little meat there was out into your mouth.
Secondly, it had a slight odour to it when we bit into the meat. In fact, William said, after eating the pigeon,"Anyway, my mouth is so smelly now. It doesn't make a difference to me whether I eat smelly tofu now!"
Yeah, we didn't like it.
Despite all the glowing reviews, I don't think we will ever return.
We felt that Joy Hing's char siew was just average and didn't justify all the wonderful reviews on the internet.
I am always intrigued by Hong Kong's disarrayed buildings
Hong Kong is also called the Pearl of Orient but it doesn't feel delicate or elegant like a pearl. The buildings are often old, run-down and in need of a facelift (like me), yet it's supposed to be a prosperous city. Why can't a Chinese-dominated 'prosperous' and affluent city be like Italy, London or Paris, with old but beautiful apartments?
So we took a train to Central MTR where banners and a video on the recent protest silently protested against the protesting public greeted us at the exit.
No, we did not witness any form of protest or had a whiff of any hint of protest among the public.
We followed the Google map directions and walked to Central bus interchange (5 to 10 minutes' walk) to look for Bus Number 6 and the kind Indian gentleman holding the plastic bag took his initiative to ask where we were going. He recommended taking 6X but I said that I wanted a scenic route so we queued up after him.
And we were off in five minutes
That's the ding ding that I told myself was a must-do for this trip
It was a 50-minute journey and some parts of the journey were winding.
Coco felt sick in the stomach, literally, from all the winding.
The bus also goes to Repulse Bay
We had to figure out which stop to alight at.
I googled and found that we should stop at 'Stanley Village'.
I followed the internet instructions to 'cross the road and walk down the slope to the market'.
Coco felt that Stanley Market was a better Market than the other markets that we had been to.
"It's not full of pirated goods," she quipped.
The biggest haversack we ever saw
We crossed the road for the small bus interchange and took 6X back to Central bus interchange.
We were too tired to explore Repulse Bay
A Christian cemetery in the city
We went for a 'must-eat' for our dinner at Kau Kee Beef Brisket
A short queue.
We were in the queue and I was looking elsewhere when Coco asked me,"What's that?" while pointing at the lady at the counter. Apparently, the lady had knocked at the glass panel and pointed to a table available to us. Wow, she expected us to understand mute code!
Rules for eating here:
- Minimum spending of HKD55 per person
- No change for HKD1000
- No outside food and drinks
- No luggage
- No strollers
- Wait in line on the left (for eating in)
-Wait in line on the right (for take-outs)
A small shop too
Beef brisket e-fu noodle soup
The beef brisket was just the way I like it: tender and not-too-lean.
I had read online that half of it was fatty meat and I was looking forward to it. It wasn't the case, but it didn't taste lean like most beef brisket I have eaten. I am not a noodle person. I would take rice anytime over noodles but I didn't mind the efu noodles at all. The broth was hot and flavourful. Everything in the bowl came together nicely for a wonderful eating experience!
Coco asked,"How did you know about this place?" which goes to show that she enjoyed her bowl of noodles too!
I must say, though, one man's meat is another's poison. The two younger China ladies sharing the table with us had differing opinions about the same noodles. One finished hers till the last drop of broth while the other left more than half the bowl of noodles untouched.
Beef brisket kway teow soup
After a few days in Hong Kong, I have grown to like iced milk tea.
I have never liked milk tea. I drink earl grey at afternoon tea, but not with milk. I remember feel nauseous as a child when I tasted milk tea and that feeling locks in with age. However, I enjoy the Hong Kong iced milk tea as a thirst-quenching drink.
Coco and I were tremendously satisfied with the experience at Kau Kee. Not so for William though.
He said after I had gone out of the shop to look for HKD 1000 change, the lady at the counter kept staring at him, hoping to stare him away so that she could admit a new batch of customers.
He insisted that it was a form of abuse and no matter how delicious the food is, he would never have returned to the place for all the abuse he has to endure.
We returned to Jordan's Temple Street Market for a last-minute shopping for Baby's favourite cousins' souvenirs.
Interesting aprons
Where to go:
Joy Hing Roasted Meat
Block C, G/F Chong Hing Building, 265-267 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai (Wan Chai MTR Exit A4)
Opening Hours: 10am - 10pm (Mon - Sat)
Closed on Sundays
Stanley Market
Take Citybus services 6, 6A, 6X or 260 from Exchange Square Bus Terminus (Central MTR Exit B) to Stanley Village (50 min)
Kau Kee
21 Gough Street, Central (about 15 min walk from Central MTR)
Opening Hours: 12.30pm - 10.30pm (Mon - Sat)
Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays
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