we met up with Eva at Tim Hou Wan. Tim Hou Wan is like a legendary place of MUST VISIT for many tourists. Its tip top on my list of MUST VISIT for this trip simply coz i've been to Hong Kong about 3 times prior to this trip over past 2 years yet i've only heard about this after my 3rd trip!
I heard about this place from ah yee and i went on to google about it. WOW. its apparently the cheapest Michelin star restaurant around the world. Entries after entries that i read about this place is nothing but raves AND warnings of the average queuing time of 40 minutes to 4 hours.
was pretty concerned about the 4 hours wait. especially for tourists, to have to spend 4 hours queuing up is really a big waste of time. Diana had previously advised me to reach there by 9am coz they open at 10 am. Diana told me anytime after 9.15 am, i can be prepared to queue for 2 hours (*shudder at that thought*).
luckily for us, Eva got there much earlier to get a queue number....
the queue doesnt seem very long in the picture simply because many people have already took the queue number and left.
they work in a way that....
if u miss ur number by 5 calls, u need to retake a number.
if u suddenly decide to add/minus one pax, u need to retake a number.
they sit you according to the group size who left.. meaning if u come in groups of 3 vs a group of 2, its much easier getting seats if u are a group of 2.
but seriously, u would want a bigger group so you can try most of the items.....
we were number 79.
When 62 was called, we felt that we saw a glimpse of light!
and as the man started calling out the numbers near to us and those people were not around, we were secretly chanting our number in our hearts... 79.. 79!!!
when he called out our number, it was like we struck lottery. or probably happier than lottery! haha we shouted out YAY and u can see everyone cheering us on like we were at the finishing end of the race!
a caucasian said to us as we were walking in to say " eat faster ".. hahaha
we ordered a long list of items! mainly wendy and myself because we have this perception that we really want to try like everything coz we duno when we will have the chance to try it again. i mean, even if we do come back to hong kong, we may not have the time to queue for it!
first to arrive was the century egg porridge...
its got salted egg and century egg. its nice. reminds me of what my mum cooks at home when i was young.
den was the chee cheong fun... excited to try this because they have pig liver chee cheong fun!! the skin for the chee cheong fun is soooooo thin....
i must say, the chee cheong fun is my favourite!
next is the usual dim sum we'd order when we have dim sum... har gao, siew mai, chicken feet and pork ribs...
i hate to say this but.. its all nice but they didnt exactly wow me. i mean it is nice but its not like i cant find this elsewhere.. i think a decent crystal jade one is almost there.
next is another of their specialty.. the char siew por loh bao like thingy...
this was pretty good but again i wasnt totally wow-ed by it.
and the milk custard bun and spinach dumpling...
some other dim sum...
steamed rice...
fried items...
dumpling rice...
desserts...
a whole table of items...
hmmm.. while it was nice, if u ask me, i don't think its worth a queue of 4 hours. But it was cheap for sure. i think we spent about HKD$300 odd for a table full of items which is only about SGD $50. Damn cheap!
and service was unexpectedly good as well.
did meet an irritating taiwanese couple who sat beside us. kind of rude coz they took pictures of our dim sum without asking (which is still fine) and it obstructs our dining and the stupid guy tried to mock and laugh at us for ordering too much. seriously, what business is it of yours? we already kept quiet when he kept targetting our food to take pictures yet he doesnt know how to bloody keep his mouth shut. we don't need your opinon and if we had really ordered too much we can always take away. stupid asshole. i think its so stupid to queue for so long and order only 4 items!
2 comments:
I meet before irritating ppl too while have my dim sum on Ipoh last time,we sharing table with them n they shoot photo of our dinsum without asking us too,n most over is that they even drink our pot of tea,absolutely ridiculous ppl,btw,thanks for your post as I wil b visiting hk tomorrow ,good guide!!
Enjoy ur trip!! I love Hong Kong !
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