Sunday, 3 November, 2013
There is no formal function scheduled until this evening, so JV and I decide to explore and get something to eat. We had been given a recommendation for a Noodle place by a Hotel staff so we headed out to find it. We did discover where it was and it appeared to be a Michelin rated restaurant. However, as you can see, it wasn’t ready for us.
Noodle Restaurant
So we selected another place, down the road a little bit, called Tung Yuen Banquet.
When we enter we find that it is a Yum Char type place. It is totally full, it is Sunday morning after all, and we share a table with a few other groups. We are the only white faces in this very large restaurant. Hardly any body spoke English. We did managed to get a Dimsum menu with English on it.
Julie found another flyer with some English featuring Hairy Crab which we found out was quite popular but a lot of work for not much crab meat.
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After a conversation which it was clear that neither side understood the other, we finally order one of each of the first 4 Dimsum and the last one, Stewed Oxtongue.
The Chicken Soup in dumpling was the clear success of the order, shown here in its wooden container. JV loved it. Also shown was the Siu My which was advertised as containing Black Truffle sauce and I could taste some truffle flavour.
The Chicken soup, uncovered.
The Har Gau and the Supreme Scallop dumpling, which was very good. We waited for ages for the Oxtongue, which never came so eventually we left. Still, it was a really good choice of a restaurant.
Julie went prancing across Hong Kong while I returned to the room for a nap as I had not slept that well last night. While there, I get a call from Selena asking us to go to Yum Cha in the Hotel’s restaurant. It turned out to be a bit more than Yum Cha but was very good.
Notice the Rose with lunch as is a Roy Moorfield specialty.
A very nice lunch so I had back for another nap as we have our first function this evening.