Sing Heung Yuen     勝香園  

Macaroni with egg, luncheon meat, sausage in tomato soup
Very rich soup base that keeps you wanting more! Peanut butter and condensed milk toast
SIMPLE yet IRRESISTIBLE, SO HK SO GOOD!Lemon Crispy Bun
They toasted the bun for a several times before serving, no wonder the bun was SO crispy!
It simply crumbled in my mouth! A little effort makes a great difference! *clap clap*

Came by for lunch the other day. Arrived ~11:15 am and the wait was ~15 minutes for a table. The restaurant is merely ~8 long tables in an outdoor setting with an awning.

Tables need to be shared with others. The waitress was stern and confused with our large order.

Upon arrival, the restaurant mixed up the order but insisted that they were right... The staff was rather obnoxious and rude.

The iced milk tea was good, slightly on the sweeter side.

The tomato beef chicken wing ramen was okay. The ramen was mediocre and the chicken wing wasn't too fresh. The beef and tomato was okay.

The crispy crispy was also okay.

Seating is rather cramped and the environment is rather poor.

Service is also quite poor.

I remember reading previous posts that mentioned that the service here is really good even though they have gotten so famous now. I definitely didn't see that on the day I was here. The ladies were yelling at customers for not responding quick enough or not knowing what they were doing. Didn't bother me much since I already know what I was going to order, but the atmosphere was different from what previous posters said.

I came here on a Saturday afternoon so I expected to wait. Didn't have to wait too long though and I was directed to squeezed into a seat at an already crowded table. Ordered the tomato and beef macroroni, lemon honey crispy bun and a salted lemon 7 up drink.Thought the macroroni was pretty good. They use plenty of tomato (paste I think) in the soup and it was very tasty. I walked by the back and saw plenty of huge empty tomato cans. I was looking forward to the lemon honey crispy bun but thought the taste was a bit funky. Bun was definitely very crispy but not sure if the lemon and honey worked well together. I enjoyed the salted lemon 7 up (it was my first time trying it), but I was really thirsty afterwards.

Good food for the value but not sure if I would endure the wait again.

Haven’t been Sing Heung Yuen for age, as the weather goes better in autumn, so we would like to visit this small stall these few days. We came a bit late at the lunch hour to avoid the peak hour, there are not so many people at around 2pm and we finally got seats within 5 minutes.

As I had a salad before, we just order a bowl of macaroni and one crispy bun to share. 番茄碎牛炒蛋鮮牛通 came first, the macaroni is small and easier for eating with the tomato . Although they simply use the canned tomato puree instead of the fresh one, its sourness and sweetness are always fine-tuned and make it always good in quality. There were quite a lots fresh beef and presented in a natural form without too much artificial treatment. I do love the fresh beef rather than the corned beef this time.

I was headed for Kau Kee across the street, when I saw that there is no line in front of Sing Heung Yuen. And since it got so many positive reviews, I decided to give it a shot.

I ordered the tomato soup with chicken wings. This was not bad but nothing worth waiting in line for. But not bad if you didn't have to wait in line. At only $22HKD you cannot complain too much. I may be biased against this as I make a kick-ass tomato soup, but I digress.

The toasted bun with lemon flavor and condensed milk. It sucked. My bread was over-toasted to where it was like eating a cracker. This is no excuse for this as Sing Heung Yuen was not even busy at 3:30pm. The taste was meh as well.

My lemon ice tea is also below the HK standard.

I would return if there is no wait time for the tomato soup and if I am too lazy too cook. The tomato soup is about 7/10 for taste. But honestly if you don't like tomato soup, there is no point in coming here.

No english menu but the waitresses are friendly, just point at what other diners are ordering.

I finally got to try 勝香園 this summer and have revisited it over over and over again since then! I even brought my Swiss friend here to let her experience a very local experience ... eating and sweating in the heat

I got to say, they really deserve their place in Openrice. It's amazing how simple their food is, but also how well they make it. Really shows that places don't necessarily need creative, extensive, expensive menus. How great to find a place which can do small things and do it right.

I came a bit later than lunch hour, at almost 2PM and was worried that I'd have to wait in line. Thankfully, there weren't too many people and we got seats on a big table with other customers. I ordered the 蕃茄蛋腸麵. As I said, simple yet delicious! Most importantly, we got to talk about their soup. Even though I know they simply use canned tomato puree, the soup is very tasty and intensely-tomatoey. It was hot enough and serves as a perfect combination with noodles, especially 公仔麵. Regarding the noodles, I heard that they no longer use 出前一丁 and that it makes a big difference. Unfortunately, I've never tried this place before they changed and I cannot compare. Nonetheless, I felt their current noodles were decent - cooked to just the right texture, not too hard and not too soft. They were more towards the thin type, but tasted good. Next ... the egg, is just an egg. Again, cooked well - the yolk was still slightly runny and went well with the soup and noodles. Their 腸仔 was so good! Not sure what brand it was, but definitely the yummy kind of cheap chicken sausage. They fry it before they put it into the noodles, ensuring that the texture is good! My friends and I also ordered 脆脆s to share: 奶油脆脆 and 咖央脆脆! I loveee the texture of their bun so crunchy, warm and fresh ... but the inside stays so soft. Also have to praise them for the way they spread their 醬 - so evenly distributed, unlike some places when you usually find that the side of the buns have no sauce. That is not the case here! What they could do is maybe add a little more 醬 on their buns. My friends ordered a 2nd 奶油脆脆 because it was so good ... but they asked for additional 醬 which meant an additional $1. The restaurant itself ... nothing more than tables, chairs and some fans. Definitely the type of restaurant you would want to stay after having finished your food. You arrive, order, eat and leave. The chairs are hard, typical local wooden folding chairs. There is no air conditioning so imagine how hot it was to eat a hot bowl of noodles on a hot summers day with sunshine down your back! A true HKG experience to dine here! The service is the same, no more than what you need for a place like this. Foods came on time, they were the things we ordered, all I can ask for, in a place like this! No rude staff, all relatively friendly.

Overall, really admire this place for their ability to perfect the small things, which makes the different in their food. Lovely! One more thing is their pricing. With the reputation its gained and the amount of loyal and new customers they have, this place can easily increase their price by a lot. I'm not sure how much they use to charge, but it is still a very cheap dining option for the good food they serve. I understand that their 環境 is a problem, but I can guarantee that isn't a problem for those who dine here. Respect!

Likes: 蕃茄蛋腸麵, 奶油脆脆
Dislikes: Nothing that I've tried.
Come Again? YES!

Sing Heung Yuen is always my favourite spot for breakfast. Despite its outdoor setting and so-so hygiene, I am always more than happy to eat there. The reason is simple: they serve simply the BEST toasts and chui-chuis in HK.

I always prefer thick slabs of toasts over the paper-thin ones. Although more and more chaa-chen tengs claim that they are switching to the 'thick toasts', a lot arent really doing the job right as the toasts arent thick enough. Even if they were the interior would always be either undertoasted or overtoasted. They could never get the job right from the outside to the inside.

only thing to blame is...mother and me have waited for more than half an hour for just two seats on such an easy day( because today is just my school holiday, i think that there should not be so many people... )
but following...please read that because you MUST VISIT this restaurant.檸蜜高纖麥多without butter ( $9 )without butter that's so refreshing although it's a HOT summer today...i finished it all by myself because my mother doesn't like bread...茄egg麵( $22 )
tomato also fresh and sour enough but both of us didn't eat the egg yolk...lemon tea( $9 )
already "dook"ed lemon, it made a balance sweetness and fresh fleshy lemon...EXTREMELY GOOD FOOD AND GOOD EXPERIENCE because the women working are kind and nice, remembering that my 檸蜜高纖麥多is without butter...
btw, a man talked to me when i just find a seat, asking me whether i am the one who wrote comments in openrice...XD i was so afraid that it's my school teacher, finding me here not revising for tests...XD

Havent been there for a while....but their 檸蜜脆脆is still very very good!!! love it! and also their milk tea is very nice too!
however...if you go there on weekends...the queue is way too long..so i would strongly recommened people to go there on weekdays and suggest take aways on weekends! there are benches near the pedestrian bridge where u can sit down and enjoy the toast and the tea.

I've been here for a while now, and it's about time that I checked out what they hype is about.

Experience wise, it certainly wasn't anything like the pleasantness that fellow Openrice commenters have mentioned.

There was no queue when I came here at around afternoon tea time on a weekday. I was here over the weekend and the queue extended all the way to Aberdeen Street at lunchtime. It's a serious queue compared with its beef brisket noodle rival across the road.

I stopped and tried to find somewhere to sit. The all-female staff weren't helpful and just asked me to find a seat on my own. I asked around at all the vacant seats and apparently all of them were either taken up by imaginary people, or people who are too selfish to put their precious Gucci or LV bags on their laps (sucks to be me for bringing an old rucksack to the place). Eventually I found one near the kitchen exit and tried to made myself comfortable there. I tried to, of course, because the staff were dishing out plates of toasted buns right behind me.

I asked for my order to be taken three or four times, and I usually asked a staff member straight after another order has been taken at a neighbouring table. They always asked me to wait in a rather firm but "I don't really care" tone. One told me to find another staff member because "I don't take orders". I've heard of that bureaucratic speak before, but who cares? It's a good time to learn how to multi-task. Eventually the lady in the kitchen (the in-charge, I suppose?) reminded her staff to not just take care of the takeaway orders, but also take down the eat-in orders, and it was then that I was served.

To their credit the food came out nice and quickly. I started wolfing down the beef and tomato noodles almost as soon as I put the bowl on the table and had the chopsticks handed to me. About halfway through the noodles, a member of staff brought another bowl of beef and tomato noodles out, saying that this bowl - the bowl in her hands - was for me. Alright, then whose noodles am I eating? It's not as though the noodles are named, if you can't serve quickly and to the correct table, maybe it pays to read the order properly. I couldn't care less about their mix-up and continued to wolf my noodles down.

As I paid for my bowl of noodles to a member of staff, the lady in the in-charge said to the other staff, "Don't let anymore people sit outside the kitchen entrance!" I guess she was implying that I was getting in the way of their business. In that case, shouldn't you have left these places empty, rather than having chairs next to the table? And shouldn't the staff be more active in organising people where to sit, rather than a free for all and letting people find their own way? What an organisational mess.

OK, service rant over. Food wise, this place is mediocre.

The tomato soup base itself isn't that chunky - the chunkiness comes in when you mix your pasta or noodles up with the generous splodge of tomato (probably a half-half mix of canned tomatoes and fresh ones, although I have to say I haven't seen a single fresh tomato on the premises) plus puree. From the flakes of dried spring onion floating in the soup, I can see that the noodles were made with some of the noodles' original flavouring sachets. One would really wonder why they need to put more flavouring in, if the tomato soup base was really that delicious.

Despite my smell impediment I could smell the aroma of buns being toasted on the premises, which is great, but nothing overly special. Toast a few slices of bread with a toaster in your own home and you'll get the same effect.

The ambience is raw. Nothing against it, but definitely a sense of nostalgia as some of us used to sit under sheets of tarpaulin and eat under foldable circular wooden tables and chairs. Definitely a tai pai dong feel to it, and definitely not a crowd attractor come the rainy season.

Given the experience I had with the staff, that alone doesn't deserve an unhappy face. I'll judge them on their food, and to be perfectly honest, this joint is grossly overhyped and overrated. There are a few places which are just as rough, and the staff are just as cocky, but at least their service is snappy and generally faultless.

Lesson of the day: It's not worth queuing up at this joint. Take half a day off from work and come here before or after lunch on a weekday, and you won't have to wait. I'll leave you to decide whether this place is your cup of tea or not - it certainly isn't on my end.

and its autumn finally - as the cool breeze blows in Hong Kong i know its again good time to pay regular visits to Shing Heung Yuen for breakfast or brunch.

Given its semi-outdoor layout, and the ever-hot summer due to Global Warming, its getting more and more unbearable for customers to stay outdoor while 'enjoying' a big bowl of pipping hot tomato noodles. or chui chuis fresh off the toaster, whatever. now that its cooler and drier means that eating 'out' at shing heung yuen can be less a torture and more an enjoyment.

I went there at nine in the morning: it was already quite crowded with customers, mostly regular ones. The tables were a lot cleaner than they were before the renovation: there were less stains and marks on them. as usual, i ordered a chui chui with lemon, honey and butter, while my mum ordered a tomato marconi with beef and egg. we both took hot milk tea for drink.

the milk tea was medicore-but oh well who'd come here just for the milk tea? matter of fact its already a lot better than whats served in regular local eateries. yet its a little bitter in the aftertaste, and i bet its because of the inadequate amount of milk used.

chui chuis was as tasty as always: now i prefer the 'base' rather than the ears of the mickey mouse, for i want something to chew on, not something so light and crispy that disappeared after biting in like cotton candies.

the marconi was perfect. the soup base was rich and not too sour; its more fresh with the taste of tomato. the beef slices were fresh and not tough. the eggs (poached?) was not overcooked and still had a runny yoke. all these combined to give rise to a bowl of cheap, yet ultra-tasty stuff, good for both breakfast or lunch.

All these costed just 51 dollars. what a bargin! i will come again -and again and again during this autumn and winter to come.

I am a tomato crazy lover, so I like to find different delicious tomato food. Sing Heung Yuen is famous Hong Kong style restaurant. I visited there serval times and I like their food so much, especially tomato noodle with beef, which is full of tomato taste, hot and tasty. Lemon and honey toast is my other favour. The tasty is fresh and not too sweet. Lemon tea and HK style milk tea are good too. You can taste the HK old style.

Food is good, but service is super bad. Waitresses are not polite.Everytime, I go there, I never get any good service. Last time, we wanted to check for the bill, and the waitress told us a wrong price. We found her mistake, and we told her the right total, but she didn't say sorry. After we checked bill, we alreay leave. She run out the restaurant and yell out that you gave not enough $$$. At the end, she found she make a mistake, and she casually said, "ok,ok,you can leave. Actually she made a mistake, but she didn't say sorry, and made us so embarrassed !!!

been here for many times,except for ruch hours for breakfast its basically okay~
tho the service isnt really good (its unacceptable actually if applied to any other stalls but since this is SHING HEUNG YUEN;) the food is always excellent,tomatoes perfect with noodles and the toasts are just ahhh ho ho sick!!!!a must-go place for tea NOT at rush hours in soho x

people who have studied english language should have come across a term called onomatopoeia, which means terms that describe and imitate sounds. Sing Heung Yuen has contributed yet another term that falls under this category, and that is - '脆脆'.

I need courage to eat here for it has been insanely toooooo hot. yet it was a little cooler this afternoon, although the sky was dark with clouds - a sign of a coming downpour. my mum and i have not been there for sometime and miss its signature 脆脆, so we decided to act brave for once.

upon sitting the very friendly Ah Jie approached, smiled and greeted us-she recognized us, finally, and teased me about the fact that im wearing a hat and looking like a boy. she was in a good mood! we laughed, and ordered one iced lemon tea, one pork chop 脆脆, and one 檸蜜粗麥多 which i requested to halved instead of quartered.

I have no comment for iced lemon tea-for i dont usually drink it!

pork chop 脆脆 followed and we each took half of the dome. the 脆脆 gave off a loud '脆脆' crack as we bit in, it sounded so nice that it was like a song-a song exclusively played in sing heung yuen, for none other toasts or piggy buns can give off the same pleasing toasted effect. it was just-perfect.

my halved 檸蜜粗麥多came just in time when i nearly finished mulching on the 脆脆. i took a bite and was a little disappointed- it was less crispy than the 脆脆 and thats for sure, but then the wheaty texture and taste overcame the sweetness of the honey and lemon juice. i mean, it tasted more like粗麥多with檸蜜 instead of 檸蜜on a piece of 粗麥多. their roles were reversed, and it was a little 喧賓奪主. but the toast itself was excellently wheaty. my decision of requesting it to be halfed instead of quartered was also correct for then less honey would leak to the small plate underneath and be wasted.

to conclude, it was a heartwarming visit for Ah Jie finally recognized us we paid 31 dollars and left with smiles on our face.....and headed towards Yogurtime for our dessert, which was also the reason why we ate little here.....

Revisited this place after years, after so much good reviews heard. Ordered toast served with lemon honey. It was crunchy. Lemon's taste was not so obvious - could do a bit more works.
Fried egg, minced beef and fresh beef macaroni in tomato soup/stalk was a big bowl. It charged HKD28 - good value for its big portion. The taste was just right. We liked it..
The vegi noodle with pork chop was average, not good as the one with tomato soup. The milk tea was also good.
Services was average if you were not those regular visitors