Restaurant+Guide

= = On Campus:

There are several cafeterias, cafes, a Chinese restaurant, and a bistro on campus.


 * Bistro:** The tomato soup and salad is nice. The salad comes in a Mexican edible bowl, which is very interesting. It comes with free bread and roasted garlic, the garlic is great. cost for dinner 200HKD each with no dessert.

Bistro's Friday lunch buffet is awesome! It is a lot of kinds of food.


 * Chinese Restaurant:**

It is pretty good overall, the menu is slightly smaller than a normal restaurant and visitors who are especially interested in Peking duck (and some other roasted things) need to preorder a day ahead.

Roasted Piglet and Peking Duck: The duck is really good and the whole Piglet is very impressive. But it seems that the baby pig is roasted too early, and there are more skins than meat.

Appetizers: vegetables are better than meat ones there is a deep fried tofu and an eggplant. I like the eggplant, some other people like the tofu.

Main Dishes: Tofu with chinese mushroom with vegetables: I love it.. there is also one similar replace tofu with bamboo, I like the tofu better..it is the oily tofu instead of the common tofu Sweet and sour spare ribs (it claimed to be beijing style in chinese, but it is very deceptive, I think it is more like hongshao style) it is not sour at all, pretty sweet. chicken with chili: very impressive sichuan dish, on the contrast to the appetizers, this dish is very well done, although the amount of chicken is slightly disappointing (or people just eat fast before I got another chance...) eggplant and meet casserole with black pepper: I really love it, if you are big eggplant fan like me, you will love this dish meat pie with salted fish: very local food, the pie is pretty good, you don't really notice the fish though except a very small slice on top, the fish is minced in.

it is a very affordable restaurant. between 60 to 100HKD.

= **Off Campus**: =

A useful reference is: http://www.openrice.com

Reviews written by our visitors:

Near Hang Hau Station:

[|Nagoyaka Tei] a Japanese Sushi restaurant at Hang Hau MTR. Shop number 113, Floor 1. It cost between 100 to 150 HKD per person for dinner. There are a lot of interesting flavors and you can get all kinds of shellfish. The salmon belly is way more expensive than the salmon (other parts) for sushi, which seems to have more fat. I will only order the normal salmon next time. The mackerel is pretty good.

Central:

The ifc(International finance center) mall around Central (a subway station) has a Chinese restaurant (named crystal Jade) on the second floor (room number: 2020), shanghai Xiao Long Bao(little basket buns) there is pretty good and juicy. They seem not to be amazingly good in making lotus root with sticky rice. Three dishes for two people seem to be enough for lunch, maybe add one more for dinner. It cost between 60 and 100 HKD per person. There are expensive stuff like shark fin, which the price here does not include. Fish fillet seems to be way cheaper than whole fish judging by the amount of meat you eat. Americans probably would like the sweet and sour fish fillet.

Tsim Sha Tsui:

Shop 2401, 24/F, iSquare, 63 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui This is a nice restaurant that has a 150 degree view of Hong Kong romantic scene at night. (It seems to be cheaper for lunch, but we went for dinner). But I guess you don't get the window seats unless specified when making the reservation.(We did not have one).
 * Star of Canton Restaurant**

A sample of the dishes are:

Peking Duck: Really good if you are not from Beijing(they might be more picky), great experience of this traditional Chinese dish if you have it first time. Recommended for all foreigners who has no objection for ducks. The duck is nicely sliced and come with cucumber slice, scallion slice, and plum sauce (tian mian jiang in chinese). The wrapper is a very interesting triangular cut (it is round in Beijing), so you can also eat the duck in a sandwich format. Please ask a Chinese how to combine them.. it is hard to describe.

Another Duck dish, with lettuce wrappers, minced duck and vegetables. I am a big fan of Lettuce wrappers that is common in Thai restaurant. So I really liked it.

A deep fried Beef dish, comes with wasabi soy source. people who likes deep fry can try it. the source is a good combo with the meat. If you dont like wasabi, the beef itself is not as flavorful as normal Chinese beef dish.

Vegetables with wild mushrooms: strongly recommended to people who likes wild mushroom and vegetarians(since there are not many dishes for them...). it also comes with Japanese tofu and a kind of beancurd sheets. There are apparently two dishes like this, one comes in a very fancy Japanese paper pot.

Grilled fish(xue yu in chinese): very nicely grilled, tender, and it is fillet.. so it is good for people who don't know how to pick fish bones out of fish. it also comes with a small portion of salad which use mayo as salad dressing. (it is ok it sounds strange, the fish is the main part anyway.)

A very interesting dessert Fried bananas but with sugar coatings. (ba si xiang jiao in Chinese), the melted sugar is pulled in very fine thread and nestled over the banana pieces, which look like eggs. It is very nicely displayed, and the people with sweet tooth will like it very much.

Price: Estimate to be around 200 HKD if you dont order fancy stuff like [|abalone] or shark fin (each serving of which may cost between 300 to 1000 HKD)

Causeway Bay:

[|小南國] [|Shanghai Xiao Nan Guo Cuisine] Shanghai cuisine, estimated HKD 200 per person. This restaurant has the best environment among the ones so far. it looks very fancy: you get two pairs of chopsticks, one for reaching for food, one for eating them. There is a very beautiful flower in the middle of the table, but it is not edible(I thought it could be.. but Henry insists it is not....). There are few kinds of tea that you can choose from. The free appetizer has very tasty caramelized walnuts. The view is great, can see the light show on victoria bay very clearly(you dont have to take a cruise to Hong Kong from Shanghai to see it, for example) description and comments on some of the dishes there is very fine roll with beancurd sheet and wild vegetables inside which is very nice. smoked fish in shanghai style (warning: it is very different from smoked salmon) is very nice. shengjian(pan fried raw) bun (it is cooked when served) is pretty good I did not try the duck in Beijing style but the duck is cooked differently, but it is said to be not as nice as Peking duck.. everybody likes the sweet and sour whole fish. it is a bit sweet for me, but very attractive to almost all westerners i know. there is also a mock style of beijing roasted chicken, again it is not as good as the beijing one and it did not come with the feet, which is the best part of the chicken!! there is a roasted rib served in a leaf, which is very nice to display

Soho Restaurant: Craft Steak
It is 500HKD each: we shared an appetizer, a soup a salad, and two main dishes that come with 2 side dishes and a glass of wine each The cheese appetizer is very interesting, it is a kind of very soft, very mild cheese, with tomatoes and balsamic vinegar. It seems to be hard to get the cheese not in the restaurant since it is kind of flowing... The french onion soup is great. The steak and the lamb rack are nice, and it is a lot of food. the sauteed mushroom is really nice since it is with wild mushroom. the creamy spinach takes very normal, not recommended. Personally I think it is very expensive compared with a nice Chinese restaurant.. but people who like steaks and lamb and things like that could go there.

Soho Restaurant: **Gourmet Burger Union** Gourmet Burger Union (Cochrane Street, Central) | 1/F, The location is very eye catching, you cant miss it if you take the famous escalator on the mountain. It might be one of the best burgers at a reasonable price in Hong Kong. If you are missing burgers very much, this is definitely the place recommended to go. It is around 70HKD for a burger + around 30 HKD for a side, the chili there is very spicy.. unless you really like spice stuff, not recommended.

Hot Pot Restaurants Hong Kong's hot pot seems to be recently developed, since it does not have the traditional sesame sauce(it is like peanut butter but made of sesame). You made your own sauce with garlic, roasted garlic, scallions, ginger, spicy things and soy sauce. Hong Kong also put chicken in the hot pot, which is also not common in mainland china. I like the idea of Hong Kong to put sashimi into hot pot :) and all kinds of random things. Hot Pot places are alike...

1) The Hot Pot Place in social events.

2)Hang Hau: Very Fine Banquet Hall (I know, the chinese name is more reasonable) The Hot Pot is buffet like: yes all the meat and vegetables you can eat for 98HKD+ the pot (which is between 20 and 40 HKD) for the table. There are shellfishes that cost money. but a lot of things are free. There is only one kind of beer, free also. Some soft drinks. A counter full of vegetables and source to mix, and noodles and stuff.