A visit to HK Café

I went to HK Café in the East side with J last Sat and it was an “all right” experience. I thought it would be something quite different with HongKong cuisine but I was not very satisfied with the menu there. On hindsight, another similar café called “Central” is better, be it prices or variety of food.

For one, the prices at HK Café are like $2 to $3 more expensive than Central even though Central’s in Takashimaya. The “Yuan Yang” and the normal milk tea (though very smooth) were VERY EXPENSIVE at $2 per small tiny cup. If you like your stuff very sweet, you would like it but I like my tea sugarless. Then I had the macaroni with ham, which is supposedly a traditional HK dish. Well, perhaps it’s not to my taste as the macaroni came with a piece of ham, pork, egg sunny side, 1 stalk of veg and bland soup. Hmm.. I think I can jolly well cook that myself and not pay $7 to $8 for that.

J had fried beef horfun, nothing different from Singapore’s version save for the size of the noodles but it was not bad. Hmm.. I think the best was the mango pudding. I love mango pudding though this was as usual, a tad too sweet. All in all, the mango pudding was the best dish as it was natural and fresh. Again, the size is too small, I think it cost about $3. Oh, they have cheese baked rice with chicken, beef or seafood or even pasta. Hmm.. Isn’t that Italian? Well, those dishes came in metal round trays which look weird. It looks like a tray prisoners have – but that’s just my personal opinion. And the famous lemon with coke? They just provide you a cup with some slices of lemon and a can of Coke. Is that called authentic? I was quite pissed off at it. I thought in the Straits Times report they can ALSO serve it WARM but this was ONLY cold. Anyway I wont pay $2 or more to drink Coke, with or without lemon, in this place! In total, we spent $24 for 2 pax.

The conclusion is, I would visit this place for the experience or even better the one at Taka but I probably won't make it a frequent haunt.

Should we start a food blog??