Fung Shing Restaurant

Though casting itself as a classy Chinese restaurant, Fung Shing Restaurant does not pay too much attention to its appearance.  To me, it's an old-folks' restaurant.   My parents love the restaurant a lot because the restaurant make what old folks, like my parents, eat at home - nothing heavily seasoned, nothing fancy, never taken by surprise.  Still a twenty-something, I am too young to be able to appreciate the food.  

I do not know why my girlfriends suggested to have our monthly gathering there.  Strangely enough, I wanted to give the restaurant one last chance to impress me and did not oppose to the suggestion.

The first dish we had was Jellyfish and chicken shreds served with sesame oil, a very traditional Chinese appetizer.  This cold dish was very delicate.  The jellyfish was very crunchy and chewy.  The ratio of the sesame oil was just right.  Some restaurants are too generous on the seasoning, making the chicken and jellyfish too greasy.

Then came the stir-fried milk, which I once thought was a wholly-foreign dish.  It was a very authentic cooking idea and perceivable a very difficult dish to make.  The milk and egg white was smooth and delicate.  The addition of pine nuts gave the mixture its rich sweetness and interesting texture.

The steamed luffa was fine... well, you can never go wrong with this dish.  Luffa is tasteless.  The chef only needs to give a generous helping of minced garlic and take care not to put too much soy sauce.  

The Pan-fried lotus cake was their signature dish.  My friend stressed this is a must-have item of this restaurant.  Nothing surprising again.  It tasted like the boring meat cake my mom pan-fries at home.  The cakes came with a very strong odor of meat, a smell which I dislike most.  yuk.  I guess it is a love'em or hate'em dish.

This pork chop with orange sauce was abysmal.  It's like... a failed attempt to resurrect some pork leftover with orange juice.  It was the only dish we could not finish.  

After the evening, I still regard Fung Shing a restaurant for the old folks. No plan to go back in the near future.  But I may want to go back when I grow older Lolz.

Fung Shing Restaurant
2/F, Pearl City, 24-32 Paterson Street,
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

In Sa Dong Korean Restaurant

Tokwawan may not be the first place you think of when you want to have Korean food.  Tsimshatsui is.  Korean establishments sprouted like mushrooms in the area.  You can find a lot of groceries, restaurants and general merchandise stores there.

In Sa Dong Korean Restaurant enjoys the benefit of low rent of the Tokwawan district and therefore can dedicate all its effort (and capital probably) to its food.   I can't find any other Korean restaurants that offer better cheap eats.

I had lunch in this restaurant when I was running a few errands in the district.

Their mixed rice was mightily awesome.  The waitress poured a lot of the spicy-sweet chili into the bowl, stirring and mixing the rice, the shredded vegetable and the minced beef until all the ingredients were coated with the interesting sauce.  Just look at the delightful color of red, yellow and green.  It tasted even better than it looked.

My friend ordered Ojingeo Bokkeum, i.e. Spicy Stir-fried Squid.  The squid was bathed in the very interesting Gochujang sauce, sprinkled with some sesame .  Ahem, the sauce was a bit too spicy for me.  My friend liked it a lot and said it was very 'korean'.  To be fair, I think it is an acquired taste.

I definitely want to go back and try their barbecue sets too.

In Sa Dong Korean Restaurant
Wei Chlen Court Wyler,
335 To Kwa Wan Road,
To Kwa Wan

Happy Together

Not quite a sweet tooth, yet, I cannot resist chocolate.  I like visiting Happy Together once in a while to satisfy my chocolate craving. Molten Chocolate Cake is a mainstay on their sweets menu.  I dare say, their Molten Chocolate Cake is one of the best in town!  Their cake has that slightly crisp shell, and inside it's practically molten and never too sweet.  It is paired with vanilla ice-cream which helps toning down the sweetness.  Simply decadent!

This evening, I decided to try out their Chocolate Souffle.

The Chocolate Souffle came to the table pipping hot, delivered straight from the oven.  It's very chocolaty but light and fluffy at the same time!    Its lightness made it an even better finisher to dinners than Molten Chocolate Cake, which is usually very heavy due to the molten chocolate sauce. Unlike Molten Chocolate Cake, the Chocolate Souffle was pleasantly moist too.

The white chocolate ice-cream was fantastic.  It came with a very rich egg yolk flavor, not very sweet, but complemented well with the heavenly airy parcel.  I am pretty sure the ice-cream was homemade because it tasted like none of the scoops I had in my life.

My friend ordered this very exotic dessert - fried mango ice-cream!  A gigantic mango ice-cream ball was enveloped with a thin pancake; and the whole chunk was deep-fried for a few seconds.   My friend generously offered me a bite.  The ice-cream was good, but not spectacular.  It offered what you expected from a fried ice-cream - the outer was soft and melting, the inner was hard as rock.

But be warned, anytime in the evening period would be very full.  The waiters diligently cleaned your table  when you just barely finished your dessert.  They even left the bill on our table (as a gesture) to shove us out the shop.

Otherwise, the evening here was perfect.

Happy Together
Shop 2, G/F, 5-6 Hau Fook Street, Tsim Sha Tsui