Tak Cheong's Fish Balls and Noodles is a famous snack bar in Hong Kong. Fish Balls are the specialty of the restaurant, which has won the highest honor in the snack category of the 2001 Gourmet Awards.

We went to the hour according to friends in Hong Kong, it is already past the peak, but the house is full of people, the store is surprisingly simple, about can only be described as our impression of the "big stalls". The small store is only eight or nine tables, four or five people who do not know each other crowded at the table, if you order a little bit more, the table can not fit, you have to eat as soon as possible.

It seems that many years ago the kind of state-run stores, this side of a few people to eat, standing on the side of a few waiting for a seat. The owner doesn't rush you, and the people who wait are extremely patient. Fish skin dumplings soup is very full, wonton noodles in the shrimp is big and full, enough to complete two or three. Hong Kong people love fishballs, and the ones here are big and sinewy and made with real ingredients, unlike some families' which use flour to mix.

So far, there are only two stores in Tak Cheong. Hong Kong is a place that emphasizes professionalism, and it's not about the number or size of the stores that make the fishballs, as long as they are famous, and the owner is satisfied that he is the top dog in the fishball industry.

The biggest and most expensive is not necessarily the best, take Tak Cheong, open chest, neck hanging a thick wobbly gold chain taxi drivers, will stop in Tak Cheong, dressed in sophisticated uniforms, the face of sophisticated white-collar workers also side of which, and there is not the slightest sense of discomfort. Restaurants that are ridiculously expensive on the mainland, with poorly presented dishes, or that rely on packaging themes to attract customers, seem to have a hard time getting a following in Hong Kong. The pragmatic taste in oral pleasures can more or less reflect the qualities of Hong Kong people. As Hong Kong's famous food critic Alan Choi said, "The most primitive and basic common dishes are the best flavors."

Recommendation: Tak Cheong Fish Egg Noodle

Address: G/F, 75 Electric Road, North Point, Hong Kong

G/F, 88 Ka Fook Court, Fuk Lo Tsuen Road, Kowloon City, Hong Kong (I initially thought it was a basement when I saw "underground", but later realized that "underground" is actually a floor. Golden Phoenix, featuring Scottish beef tenderloin and garlic beef tenderloin; the long-established Wing Lai Yuen, famous for its homemade Sichuan dan dan noodles; Sanyuan House, named after Hong Kong's earliest famous eatery, offers a wide range of nostalgic dishes; and Wonton Noodle, an expert in congee and noodle dishes, has been awarded "the highest honor" in the "Culinary Awards". "

Gold Medal"; "Old Hong Kong" offers nearly lost street food ......

Address: Phase 8, Whampoa Xintiandi, Hung Hum, Kowloon

Consumption index: Low-end restaurants, low-floor restaurants and restaurants of the highest quality. >Consumption index: from low-grade to medium-high-grade is complete

Theme No. 2: Tradition blossoms undefeated

That said, Choi Lan Gourmet Place has a "spicy crab place" (Hanji typhoon shelter food) is famous, Causeway Bay "typhoon shelter" in the seventies and eighties is a nightly entertainment center, and the city is the best place to eat. The Causeway Bay "Typhoon Shelter" in the 70's and 80's was a place where food was served night after night. Celebrities, couples and tourists enjoyed the breeze of the Victoria Harbour and the seafood on fishermen's boats, accompanied by the songs of the singers, which made the place a delightful place to visit, but it was closed down by the Government in the mid-1990s due to reclamation. The crab fryer of "Spicy Crab Place", Mr. Kei, is a master who has been frying crabs for decades in the "Typhoon Shelter". The crabs here are imported from Vietnam, large, fried meat white shell red, the fire is just right, a little more will have a garlic paste flavor, a little less will not taste. The ancient method of fried crab is Kei's specialty, delicious flavor, not accustomed to eating spicy Hong Kong people love to eat, if you are a spicy people, choose the "hot, wildly spicy" flavors must be very addictive. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer masters who can fry authentic "typhoon shelter" fried crab, which is a pity, but also a rare thing is precious.

There's another snack store, "Old Hong Kong," in Choi Lan Gourmet Place, which specializes in sweet and sour snacks made from mango and lemon, as well as a kind of "ding ding" candy. Older Hong Kong people said that they loved to eat this kind of candy when they were young, because it is very long, every time you have to use a tool to knock it into a section, because knocking up the jing jing jing, hence the name. It's rarely available now.

Besides childhood, what else does eating remind you of? Probably my hometown. Half a century ago by a barbecue stall development to today's Hong Kong's famous Chinese restaurant - "Yung Kee", roast goose is the most famous, some emigrants overseas Hong Kong people can not forget, every time before leaving Hong Kong on the plane, have to take away "Yung Kee" of roast goose, "Yung Kee", "Yung Kee", "Yung Kee", "Yung Kee", "Yung Kee". Yung Kee" roast goose, so also known as "flying roast goose".

Recommendation: Yung Kee Restaurant

Address: next to Lan Kwai Fong, Central, Hong Kong Island

Consumption index: medium-high-end

Theme No. 3: seascape meal

Blessed with a unique geographic location, so that Hong Kong year-round to eat fresh and cheap seafood, there are local, there are the mainland coast of the, and from Southeast Asia. There is a wide variety of seafood practices, and they are constantly evolving. There are three traditional places to eat seafood in Hong Kong: Sai Kung, Lamma Island and Lei Yue Mun. Eating seafood with a view of the sea is not only fresh, but also flavorful.

Sai Kung used to be a fishing port, but now, in addition to some of the fishermen's descendants, it is also a relatively upscale residential area, with private yachts parked in the bay, ranging from a few million to tens of millions. There are many European-style bars along the roadside. Seafood restaurants have big fish tanks outside their doors.

Lamma Island is one of the outlying islands of Hong Kong, quiet and peaceful, full of natural atmosphere, characterized by a number of fishermen's villages are very rustic and simple style, the big movie star Chow Yun Fat was born here.

Recommendation: Sai Kung Quan Kee Seafood

There are many movie stars like to patronize, has its own special fishing boat, colorful lobsters most photogenic, Pei Pei shrimp is amazingly large.

Address: G/F, 53 Praya Street, Sai Kung

Consumption index: the better the seafood, of course, the more expensive, with more than $40 a catty for kippers.

Jumbo Seafood Restaurant

Jumbo Seafood Restaurant is the world's largest sea food restaurant. There are boats at Wanchai Ferry Pier or Aberdeen Ferry Pier to shuttle guests between the pier and the seafood court. When night falls, the lights on the boats illuminate the sea brilliantly.

Address: Deep Bay, Wong Chuk Hang, Aberdeen

Consumption index: High-end

The Rainbow Seafood Restaurant

Transportation: You can take a 30-minute ferry ride to Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island, at either Central Pier 5 or Aberdeen Ferry Terminal, which is free. Famous dishes include "Dragon's Spit" (boneless fresh fish) and "Baked Lobster with Cheese".

Consumption index: medium to high-end

People's Shark's Fin Bowls of Shark's Fin

Theme No. 4: Unlimited Creativity

Hong Kong's businessmen have a keen sense of smell of the market, and the smallest eatery is no exception, so if you're interested in taking a closer look, you'll often be able to find some interesting clues in a meal. After the Asian financial crisis, Hong Kong's common people's food has become very popular. Bowls of shark's fin, known as the "common man's shark's fin", tastes and looks very much like shark's fin, except that the strands of silk between the tongue are not quite smooth, so it turns out to be a chicken cut into thin shreds "pretending" to be shark's fin. Legend has it that in the past, large families in Guangdong invited chefs, interviews do not want them to do the delicacies of the feast, pick vegetables and tofu such as home cooking for them to do, the usual materials can make delicious, only to see the chef's ability to do, as for this shredded chicken to do the bowl of shark's fins like the "Dream of Red Mansions" in the eggplant to make the taste of chicken, you have yet to be appreciated. The so-called Che Chai Noodle is more about eating the ingredients inside, on top of the noodles and soup . There are radish, mushrooms, pungent balls, squid, pork rinds, fishballs, beef brisket and dozens of other ingredients to add at will, the soup is thick, literally "rich and frugal by the people", less than a dozen dollars, more than two or three hundred dollars. Material or those materials, but changed the way, will be different up, and by extension, the bullet Hong Kong, six or seven million people, if there is no diligent creativity, how come the economic development, so think, the mouth of the beef brisket will feel significant up.

Hong Kong has 18 districts, from the beginning of last year to the present 18 months, each month is a district carnival, each week and a street a community carnival, there are food and drink and performances and sales, not lively, similar to this kind of activities organized by the Government's creativity all year round, not only attracted to the first time or many times to Hong Kong's business guests, but also to make the Hong Kong people enjoy themselves. The event was organized by the Government. The mansions on the Peak and the life of the upper class are unimaginable to the urban commoners living in public housing estates in the New Territories, and it is this kind of low-cost entertainment that is within their reach. Compared with the mainland's tourism resources, Hong Kong's are really limited, but the professionalism and innovation of their professionals is admirable.

Recommendation: Kung Tak Lam Shanghai Vegetarian Restaurant

Address: 31 Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay

Consumer index: mid-range

Chung Kee Cheddar Noodle

Address: Choi Lan Gourmet Place

Consumer index: low-grade

Man's Desserts There are now a number of branches of Man Kee Desserts in Beijing alone!

Theme No.5: Desserts in the House

Sai Kung is a good place for a restful vacation, with less hustle and bustle of Hong Kong and Kowloon and the oppressiveness of skyscrapers, and more of a quiet and relaxing atmosphere, and Man Kee Desserts adds a touch of sweetness to the place. The most famous dessert here is "Yang Zhi Jin Lu", that is, to take the sago and mango boiled into the sweet with a little acidity, mango sticky aroma and soft wrapped in sago from the tip of the tongue warmly slipped into the mouth, where all of a sudden soft, indescribable pleasure. There is also a very nice name "step on the snow in search of plums", what is it, do not know, try it yourself.

The small "Manjee" but there are many interesting places, "Manjee" adjacent to two stores, the decoration is a little simple that a full house, a little more sophisticated one only a few of us, is surprised at the time, my friend explained that this is a non-durian area, that is the durian area, the other side is the strange. I was surprised when my friend explained that this was a non-durian area and that the other side was a durian area. I've only heard of "smoking area" and "non-smoking area", durian but also eat separately, just because it is too stinky!

Manjee's wall has a plaque, antique, on the book of four regular script characters "high friends full of records", is appreciated by this writer's ingenuity, but glimpsed the inscription, was shocked: "Wong Fei Hung thirteen aunts gift", did not think that thirteen aunts left here! Ink treasure, not an antique, but also considered a treasure it, think carefully, although not famous in China and abroad, but is also a reputable old store, and Wong Fei-hung, thirteen aunts have a relationship, it is not surprising, so curiosity overflowing, chasing the store fellows aunt to ask non-stop, but a few people do not speak Mandarin, have a friend in the side to do the translation, upside down, it turns out that this plaque is the owner's neighboring neighbors sent, and why did this neighborhood dare to give, and why is the plaque a gift, but it is not a gift. As for why this neighborhood dared to risk the great name of the Yellow Warrior and 13th Aunt, it froze and could not be explained clearly, so this "impostor" copyright lawsuit has been plaguing me, perhaps the next time back there will be an answer to it.

Hong Kong people's love for desserts is really as strong as the river, and it goes on and on. "The Hsu Liushan sign, with its big dragon in gold letters on a red background, still stands out on the streets of Hong Kong, where signboards abound, and the popularity of the chain of more than 50 outlets across the territory is a testament to its popularity. The small store is filled with fluttering dessert flyers, and the colorful peeled fruits are as fresh and stacked as a traditional Chinese medicine store.

Mango, papaya, durian with sago, ice cream, milk pudding combination of a thousand variations of desserts perfect match, like to eat a sweet tooth MM ate a lot of pain, but also in the heart of the anxious, this is going to eat all the day.

Recommended: sugar Chao

Guangdong people like to drink sugar water, sugar water is a sweet soup consumed after meals, the function of moisturizing fire, thirst, balance of hot and dry and regulate the intestines and stomach. Sugar Chao not only has a variety of sugar water, but also a variety of congee and snacks set menu, the portion is small, refreshing and exquisite.

Address: 88 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon (opposite Harbour City)

Specialties: fresh shrimp ball congee with tangerine peel, salty and lean meat congee with preserved egg, fresh shrimp wonton noodle, beef brisket noodle with original sauce, coconut milk and snow fungus undersea coconut, fresh mango jelly pudding

Consumption index: low to medium

Hsu Liushan Dessert Shop

Address: Hong Kong, Kowloon, and the New Territories.

Consumption index: delicious and inexpensive, a bowl of fresh milk and fruit pudding is about $20

Man Kee Dessert Shop

Address: G/F, 10C Ordinary Road, Sai Kung

Consumption index: from $10 to $30

Lan Kwai Fong and SoHo in Central are the collection of western food

Theme No.6: Romantic Western

Theme No.6: Romantic western

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Lan Kwai Fong and Soho in Central are home to a collection of Western food, with flavors of all shapes and sizes, from Spanish, Russian, Scandinavian, Malaysian to Nepalese.

Lan Kwai Fong is the center of Hong Kong's trendy nightlife, with its L-shaped winding streets filled with bars and restaurants, and neon nights filled with men and women looking for a good time, Chinese and foreigners in equal proportions, where you're likely to run into Hong Kong's entertainment stars, and, of course, paparazzi ambushing you. At Lan Kwai Fong's Carnival, it's even more crowded, with police officers guarding the entrance, and only a limited number of people are allowed to enter. Powerful dance music is hot and provocative, this side of the hot dancers just flaunted beautifully, the other side of the lion dance team and lively play, Hong Kong people always come up with a variety of ways to play, the rich people spend money like dirt, the common people but also can enjoy themselves. Lan Kwai Fong is less wild by day than it is by night, and this time of year is dominated by tourists and families.

Built in 1844, Stanley's Murray House was originally located on Garden Road in Admiralty (the current site of the Bank of China) and was used as a dormitory for the British army stationed in Hong Kong at the time. When it was dismantled in 1982, the more than 3,000 granite stones were numbered, and it was rebuilt in Stanley in 1988, and it now houses four fine-dining establishments, including Spanish and Thai cuisine. The golden beach is warmed by the setting sun as you face your lover's eyes, the corridor lights come on, waiters in snow-white uniforms serve you the first course of your candlelit dinner, and the sea breeze stirs the coconut trees.

The Repulse Bay is the most famous beach in Hong Kong, with fine sand and clear water and a wide beach surface. Repulse Bay Shadow Bay Garden formerly known as the Repulse Bay Hotel, aristocratic colonial mood, people naturally reminiscent of the "Love in a Fallen City", Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan's love story is still alive and well in the modern man and woman interpretation, this romantic Repulse Bay and elegant English afternoon tea became their best stage. When the old English ceiling fan in the terrace restaurant slowly swings up, the palm trees send the breeze of the sea, a look, a love word will have a different flavor, a good play belonging to only two people began.

Recommendation: Stanley Murray House

Address: Stanley Main Street

Consumption index: upscale

The Repulse Bay Terrace Restaurant Afternoon Tea

Address: The Repulse Bay Shadow Bay Gardens Terrace Restaurant

Consumption: per capita $128.

Address: Central, Hong Kong Island

Features: All-night partying makes you physically exhausted

Peak View Restaurant

Sitting at the Peak View Restaurant at the top of the Victoria Peak overlooking Hong Kong through the floor-to-ceiling glass is a memory you'd like to freeze for the rest of your life. The restaurant, which includes famous dishes from India, Mexico, Italy and the Pacific Islands, has become a popular choice for marriage proposals because of its elegant setting, and is said to have a high success rate.

Address: The Peak

Consumer index: fine dining, upscale spending