hong-kong-10-30-2017

Woke up early and worked a little on updating this web site.   It's now 5:30am I'm planning on hopping on the MRT when it opens at 6:00am to head from Causeway Bay Station, just a few blocks from The Excelsior to 

Kennedy Town, about a 20-30 minute ride away.    There I plan on having Dim Sum at "Sun Hing Restaurant" which is a place that opens around 3am and closes at 4pm -- servicing the late night (or early morning) crowd.

MRT was pretty empty in the morning (just after 6am) so it was easy to get on and ride to the Kennedy Station:

Google maps "more or less" worked on my iPhone (the scale was a little bit off so I overshot the Sun Hing Restaurant by a block and had to loop back, but

I found it!

No one really spoke english but I mimed party of 1 and was seated at a small table across from a nice older guy who was eating his Dim Sum breakfast.

He was helpful (even though he didn't speak english) in helping me to figure out the "process".    They delivered a big bowl full of hot water with a soup bowl

and a tea cup and a soup spoon in it.    Also a kettle of tea for me.

You are supposed to remove these items and put the water bowl aside (I guess the idea is the hot water keeps it sterile?) They come and take the bowl away.    

He got the lady who was shuttling new steamers from the kitchen to the front of the building to help me out in picking out the steamers that I was interested in.

Unlike "cart" Dim Sum you actually get up and goto the front and pick out what you want, then (at least in my case) she took them back to my table and

marked them down on my bill.   They did also carry around a few plates and offer them, but I got all but one dish up front.    These were

pork buns (char siu bau), shrimp dumplings (har gow) and pork dumplings (siu mai).

Front of shop where you go and the person in the red apron helps you pick out the steamers you want:

The ones I got:

The one other bau I really wanted was an "egg custard bau" (nai wong bau)  as it had been written up as being really good at this restaurant in Yelp.

I wasn't able to easily communicate this to the lady at the counter, but I showed a picture of one (on my iPhone) to the nice guy sitting across from me

and he literally yelled at her to bring me one :-)     Here's what they looked like - inside was a mix of egg custard like in the typical egg custard tarts and a soft 

boiled egg.   Served warm and yummy!    I was getting a bit full so I took two home with me.

I'd filled up, so I took the other two (the Nai Wong Bau came in sets of 3) home with me.   Paid the bill - about $85 HKD or around $10.85 USD for all of the above and walked back towards the

MRT station.

One the way I found a building that housed an open air meat market on the ground floor and a fruit/veggie market up one level.   I took the following photos as it was interesting:

headed back to the Excelsior to post all of this.   In a while I'm going to go down to their coffee shop which has some "famous" custard tarts from Macau and get one.

Alas, they are out they say UNTIL MONDAY!   Ack!

So I walked around for about 40 minutes just to check out what is in the neighborhood.   Seems that very little opens up until 10am, much like the rest of the places I have visited in previous trips to

South East Asia.    Ended up right next to the Excelsior at a place called "Boxcar Cafe" to get more food!

They had milk tea, something I really enjoyed in Malaysia.    Theirs was a little less sweet and made with a stronger tea, but was the "right stuff" made with condensed milk.

I also tried to order Hong Kong style french toast, but I'm not sure they understood (english was not really spoken there!) so I think I may have ended up with just regular French Toast.

Nothing all that exciting, but the tea was good and that was what I was after.

As I was updating this web site there was knock on my door and they hotel delivered a complementary little fruit plate!  How nice of them (more food!)

Just an apple, a pear and a banana -- but nice of them none the less.