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2012-10-23
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以三蛋飯獨步江湖蛋味不錯，火侯一流爽快有禮的服務環境整潔$26- 抵食!Hong Kong stylePossibly the best sunny-side up in townGreat valuePolite serviceClose at 6:00 p.m.!Worth a try.I wanted to try here as I'm a fan of sunny-side-ups on rice. Took the chance to come here for a late lunch (about 1:45 p.m.) so I got a seat easily. It's right next to Ryotei ramen at Sheung Wan. Old school cha chaan teng:The place is a typical old Cha Chaan Teng with an open shop front (i.e. no glass doors, no partitions - just a cashier, a lot of tab
蛋味不錯，火侯一流
爽快有禮的服務
環境整潔
$26- 抵食!
Hong Kong style
Possibly the best sunny-side up in town
Great value
Polite service
Close at 6:00 p.m.!
Worth a try.
I wanted to try here as I'm a fan of sunny-side-ups on rice.
Took the chance to come here for a late lunch (about 1:45 p.m.) so I got a seat easily.
It's right next to Ryotei ramen at Sheung Wan.
Old school cha chaan teng:
The place is a typical old Cha Chaan Teng with an open shop front (i.e. no glass doors, no partitions - just a cashier, a lot of tables and an open kitchen). It had about 8-10 tables for 4.
The tables were reasonably tidily spaced apart and the whole place was dated but clean.
Just grab a seat anywhere. I sat right next to the cashier.
Plate of rice?
They serve a decent number of ...hmm... is there an English word for it? Various different toppings placed on top of steamed rice - 碟頭飯，蓋飯. Literally "Plate Rice" or "Covered Rice". This is a very Hong Kong type of cuisine. A meal in one in which all the sauce or gravy of the toppings is mixed with the steamed rice. Anyway, they have different types of rice and fried noodles.
You can mix and match between: Sunny-side-up, Scrambled eggs, Char Siu, Sausages, Spam, Beef, Pork... and various other combinations. The menu is in Chinese only. I suppose if you're a non-Chinese Hong Konger, the fact that you know how to look for restaurants on OpenRice means you must know how to get by. Well, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. .
The signature dish here is sunny side up with char siu rice. Without further ado, that's what I ordered. I was told that char siu was out of stock - it doesn't matter as according to other reviewers, their char siu is sourced from other suppliers anyway. The egg's the real deal. The polite waitress suggested spam so that's what I ordered.
I can hear the sizzling sound of my eggs being cooked from the open kitchen.
It came after a short wait. The chief handed the dish to me, politely.
A very pleasant surprise. He's a good egg:
Just HK$26 for three pretty large eggs with luncheon meat (a.k.a. Spam.) with some dark sauce splashed on it.Looks wonderful.
I don't want to sound like I'm teaching grandmothers how to suck eggs, but there's a million ways to tackle this dish. Some forward planning is required if you don't want egg on your face (i.e. embarrass yourself) so you won't waste the egg sauce.
What I did was to dig a little hole in the middle and slowly push the three egg yokes nearer to the centre before cutting the egg yokes and egg white up, then mixing the rice, the egg "sauce" and the soy sauce as I eat.
Egging you on:
The size of the egg yokes were pretty big and those had decent egg taste. Possibly from Thailand. (* Different brands of eggs from different countries do taste wildly different from each other, so it's like walking on eggs whenever I want to try a new brand.)
Normal dark soy sauce with a pretty thick texture. I suppose they might have heated up the dark soy sauce and added a bit of sugar in it. The texture was thicker than normal.
The three rather large pieces of luncheon meat were crispy on the outside and soft inside. It's quite sweet. Good balance with the soy sauce and eggs.
The rice was a bit on the dry side, which was just fine for mixing the egg sauce into it.
I finished the whole plate in 10 minutes. A satisfying lunch at just HK$26, and this was already the more expensive dish. Other options were between $15-$31 for a whole set lunch. Great value.
It's very popular amongst officer workers.
I also saw many workers stopping nearby, spending their butter and egg money on a takeaway and then hopping back onto their trucks.
High cholesterol ?
It's a rich man's decease.
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