Eating and Drinking, Hong Kong

"Arts and people" is the theme of Fringe Club. It is just a block up from the famous Lan Kwai Fong, and, there IS a bar in Fringe Club! Occasionally you can enjoy live band and drinks in an exhibition gallery...isn't that wonderful?

Most of the performances here are by younger groups/artists, they might not be the most fmaous one but surely they bring you fresh voices in this money town. The City Festival, organised by Fringe Club, is one of the most stylish events in town. In January and February, when the festival is on, there are poem reading, little shows, seminars and chats in many of the clubs around Lan Kwai Fong and Soho. Enjoy arts with good food and drinks!

Address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central, Hong Kong

Don't miss to try the local fresh fruit drink when you wandering in the streets. The shops named Hui Lau Sin you can find everywhere in Kowloon, Hong Kong island, NT. It one of the good tasty drink, see the menu, they regular changing the new drink list, keep "FRESH TASTE" it only up to HK$10 a bottle of drink.

For midnight snacks, you can choose either salty ones like noodles in soup or with dumplings (won ton meen) or sweet ones like cakes (bor law yau) - a hot bun stuffed with melted butter; and (daan tar) - a baked egg custard.

Flagstaff House Museum of Teaware in Hong Kong Park. All kinds of tea paraphernalia, some over 1,000 years old, is displayed in Hong Kong's oldest surviving colonial building, and a lovely array of teaware and teas are sold in the girft shop.

The park also holds an impressive aviary with an elevated walkway winding through treetops.

Sweet soups are offered in restaurants, tea-houses and in special dessert houses, can delight your palate as well!

These soups include ginger milk pudding, steamed milk in two layers, steamed egg, totoise jelly, dumpling made of sago and almond-tofu pudding with fresh fruits.

If you have a daring stomach and a keen sense of navigation, I highly recommend a great experience I recently had. The food is good and the adventure worthwhile!

FO TAN (SHAN MEI STREET) "Dai Pai Dongs”:
If you're willing to try hard, this place is a genuine experience. I recommend going at night when the restaurant touts are out and all the little restaurant/stalls are brightly lit and bustling like a night market.

NB - A 'dai pai dong' is a very basic type of restaurant. One were you sit at fold out tables and on little collapsible stools. Expect the atmosphere of eating at a street stall, but with tables and chairs.

Fo Tan offers famous local dishes, particularly Sha Tin Chicken congee and roast pigeon. Both dishes can be eaten at other restaurants - but as far as I know, this Shat Tin Chicken congee is a dish is not know beyond locals. Basically a whole chicken is used and slow cooked in rice porridge, with all the normal porridge trimmings. It is very good, but congee isn't to the tastes of everyone! Expect to pay $20 HK for an individual bowl, but better, pay $70 HK for a large serving to share amongst three. In the large servings the chicken comes whole and the dish tastes better. (order in Chinese: Gai Juooke)

Also available are whole roast pigeons. VERY good - and more widely available as a dish as it is more akin to Western tastes! Expect to pay around $45 per roast bird, depending on the season. 2 birds are good for three people, possibly four if you are eating other things such as the congee.

This location is far out, and a little challenging to get to. You will need to take a double decker bus to Fo Tan, the easiest bus - for not getting lost - is the double decker no. 85 - this bus terminates exactly outside the restaurants (at a bus station outside a hideous looking factory building). You can get the 85 at the bus station underneath Sha Tin Town Centre (take the KCR to Sha Tin and look underneath the complex for the bus station).

Good luck!

So, this is one for all you English beer drinkers out there. Head to Discovery Bay. In the central plaza there is a small shop selling draught Old Speckled Hen. It was the best pint of OSH I've had for years.
Go there, have some. It's also seriously cheaper than the beer in town.

SAI KUNG BAY
where CHuppies of the Film Industry, celeb strata live.
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===Scallops on Tofu with black beans
===fish head casserole in sand pots
===boiled scampis dipped in soy
===fresh steamed mud crabs
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