Hong Kong - food special

HONG KONG – food special

Not long now, just another three hours till we eat

WHERE (more detailed): TIM HO WAN, the world’s cheapest Michellin Star restaurant

PEOPLE ARE: very hungry and very patient. There is an ever-changing mass of 20+ people standing on the curbside, waiting up to 4hrs for one of the 10 tables inside.

FOOD IS: amazing, without doubt the best dim sum we have ever tasted. The house speciality pork-filled crispy hot bun’s were amazing. Bizarrely the cinnamon sugar topping complimented the pork perfectly.



good things come to those who wait



HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS:

With only a single day lay-over between Japan and our return to mainland China we had to decide between a visit to the world’s largest sitting Golden Buddha and some small fluffy finger food. After the shortest debate in history we headed out to eat some dim sum. Reasoning that we could minimize our waiting time by arriving mid-afternoon we took a leisurely stroll and arrived at the end of the queue at 2.20pm. We located the matre’d and were told we were table 187. “How long do we have to wait?” asked Paul, 3 came the reply. “Great,” says Rhaani, only 40mins,” “3pm?” confirmed Paul to the matre’d as he pointed at his watch “No 3hrs, come back in 3hrs,” came the shrill reply. With that we decided Dim Sum was more a dinner meal than lunch and headed off for an alternative bite….. Fortunately we found another great Cantonese restaurant and enjoyed a tasty lunch. Fast forward 3hrs and we returned to Tim Ho Wan to find we had missed our spot by 5 tables. Luckily the board outside the restaurant that informed customers which table was being seated next hadn’t been updated and Paul was able to point to it and insist we had been waiting like good little children and it was the restaurant’s fault for not seating us….10 minutes later we were sat inside and the envy of 40 envious eyes outside…the rest has to be tasted to be believed. While the crispy pork buns were out of this world, the shrimp dim sum and spinach and garlic dim sum options were equally delightful. The fried noodles and chicken and rice that Paul ordered were surprisingly poor but as Rhaani pointed out only an idiot comes to a dim sum restaurant and orders chicken and rice.   

The best part of the experience came when the bill arrived and we discovered the total for our 9 dishes was £10.

Paul's sort of price (£10)