Sheung Kee's dinner Dai Pai Dong spot has been emptied for a while and we recently found out that in it's place has now - 祥發點心 "Fat Kee Dim Sum".

祥發點心 opens daily Mon to Sun from 630am to 4pm for breakfast and afternoon tea.  Dai Pai Dong setting.

We are not tea connoisseurs but tea served here tasted like proper tea.  We have been to places where tea was more of coloured hot water. Very pleased with their tea here. They have a menu of about 30 items and all items are being prepared (steamed or fried) upon ordering.  

Today, the two of us went and we ordered: Shrimp Dumplings Har Gow, Spring Rolls Chun Juan, Cha Siu Rice Noodle Roll Cheong Fun and a plate of steamed veggies.

Har Gow was huge and the dumpling skin is thin. Not fishy and very tasty.
Chun Juan was not greesy and crunchy. I enjoyed the mushroom filling thou thought the skin was a tad thick. 
Cha Siu Cheong Fun was amazing.  Cheong Fun was thin and translucent and it is packed with finely chopped Cha Siu.
Steamed veggies. Huge plate, steamed just right and you can tell the veggies were very fresh and they put effort in the presentation as well.

I am very excited for being the first one reporting this new and quality restaurant to OpenRice. It was not the first time that we patroned here. Only for breakfast thou. I would imagine lunch will be a different experience as Happy Valley has many school kids and construction site workers all trying to lunch in the window from 12noon to 1pm.

We made a point that every time we come, we would order something different and till now, we have not been disappointed. Pork & Shrimp Siu Mai Dumplings are scrumptious and a must have.

This Dai Pai Dong used to be located at Bowrington Road Market.  They have apparently moved for 1.5 years.  Their new venue is amongst other similar style restos and is not hard to find at all. 

Ambiance: Simple decor with large photos of food and their menu as their wall paper.  Simple and direct, perfect for a dai pai dong setting.  The place is clean, well lite and because it isn't at the market complex anymore, the place isn't noisy and that made our experience very enjoyable than when we were to dine at their old venue (before).

The menu: same extensive menue with seasonal specials and this time around winter choices like lamp stew pot etc.  The four of us finally decided on:fried calamari, goldern (egg yolked) shrimps (黃金中蝦), steamed scallops with garlic and vermicili (蒜蓉蒸扇貝), fried garlic with baby Pak Choy, the house pork drum sticks (避風塘豬展骨), a tofu fish soup, some rice and cold beers.  

Each dish was made fresh and came out steaming hot.  All of the dishes were tasty, flavourful and well prepared.  Yum, yum.

The owner and staff were lovely and attentive - rare to find in HK. 

Highly recommend this place to those whom wanted to entertain guest to try out the local flair or a bunch of family or friends, hanging out for a good night.  We are coming back again!

The two of us went there at 2:20pm and even after lunch hour, the place was busy. We waited for about 20 mins as we needed to wait for other guests to finish their meal before they give their seats to us.  

We stood on the side while waiting for the next available seating and of course, as we wait, we were ripping into our crunchy baguette and dipping it into the rich Hot Chocolate. The tip here is to order the Hot Chocolate in a to-go cup so that that you can lid it back to avoid spillage while waiting.

Their Hot Chocolate is like molten lava. Thick, creamy, need I say more.

Their Baguette is sourdough based.  It is crisp crusted (fresh) with light, soft, tasty inside.

After we were seated, we ordered another Lait and demolished the whole 2 feet long baguette.

Generally, the place is always packed. Tough biscuits in getting seating pronto but the Hot Chocolate and Baguette at Passion are really to die for, and worth the wait.

I am also a huge fan of their Butter Croissants.  But that, will be for another day.

The resto is always packed and there are always people waiting or gathering outside the resto. Having heard that they do family / home style cantonese cuisine, we went one night and was lucky to get a table.

Review on the menu: The menu was put together to incorporate both traditional comfort cantonese dishes and a few interesting dishes.  Dishes were steeply priced at minimum a hundred a dish.  Having taken this to account, we didn't order crazy as we do not want to break our wallets just having a simple meal. Between the 4 of us, we ordered 4 dishes and a bowl of soup for each of us.  The dishes were: 孖寶（芋卷x藕餅), 金銀蛋蔬菜, 蒜香粉絲蝦煲, 豉味蜜豆炒雙蚌, 例湯 & 白飯. 

Review on service: Maybe other tables were regulars, we felt we were given minimal attention and our service offered was slow and impersonal.

All the dishes were satisfactory and did it's job as a hearty dinner, however, the overall experience of dinning there was just ok.  We hurried off home after the meal.  

With hot pot, you would like a bigger group so that you can try as many items as possible.  We were 10 of us that night with first tryers and old troupers.  Perhaps people weren't back from their CNY holidays, the place was not packed.  Good for us for we were sitting right in the middle of the resto and enjoyed a little of the side harbour view and a quiter hot pot environment.  

We ordered a seafood platter where the fish (skeleton) and shrimp were still moving and freaked the gwailows out.  We have tried a few of their specials (beef and salmon) and they were fresh and of good quality. Dumplings were not the packaged ones and very juicy.  Shrimp pasted musshy were tops. Chili snails (花螺) were way way too spicy and we weren't able to taste anything else.  The 椒鹽九肚魚 were not available that day.

We have tried 4 kinds of soup bases - two halves for each pot and all of them were rich and tasty.  The beers were cold and they have a few choices to choose from. Water melon juice (yum) and hot tea are avalible for non drinkers.  The deco is clean & neat and staff offered adequate serivce.  

Each satisfied tummy paid 300 for an evening of fun.  Will definitely go there again.

We walked in at 830am on a weekday. It was still early and we got to choose a table by the window - over looking Gloucester road and the harbour. A very different ambiance to when we were here on the weekends. There were definately a lot less people and being able to have a table with natural lighting adds so much more to the dinning experince.

We went straight to ordering upon being seated. Like many other dim sum places, Sino Plaza U-Banquet offers breakfast specials at a reduced pricing for morning dim sum.  And there is quite a large selection and choices to choose from as well.

Our order consisted of 5 dim sum items.  Fried taro thingy 蜂巢芋角, custard buns 流沙奶皇包, siu mai 燒賣, ha gao 蝦餃 and cha siu rice noodle sheets 叉燒腸粉. 

All food items were steaming hot when served and all were flavourful, properly presented and well up to standard (有水準). Fried taro thingy (slightly crisped on the surface, very smooth and rich with miced pork stuffing inside) and siu mai (meaty/ hearty/ non fatty) would have to be my fav and I would totally order them again.  

The bill rounded up to a little over $100.  Unbelievably reasonable for yummy quality dim sum in the heart of Causeway Bay.  Our bellies (and our wallets) were very happy.

It was a Sunday.  The 5 of us walked pass this place and we decided to give it a try.  It was around 8pm and there were plenty of free tables.

This restaurant does only a la carte. Menu has both Chinese and English.

We ordered a dual soup base. Better quality soup base with more soup ingredients were also avalible.  Tea, finger 'snacks' and the buffet assorted dipping sauce tray were extra.  

As for food, we got a seafood plater, 2 kinds of beef (one thin cut and one in cubes), squid paste, assorted balls (not the factory produced bouncy ping pong ball ones), dual dumplings, hand made noodles, fried bean curd roll (响鈴), a few kinds of vegetables and a couple of cans of Cokes.

Thin cut beef was yum but the cubes were a little tough. Squid paste and the assorted balls tasted very nice and last but not least, the seafood plater... definately exceeded out expection... the seafood were exceptionally fresh.  Some were still moving!  

Service was ok. All in all, the food & experience were exceptional.

Not my first time here and will not be my last.  There are other choices on the beach but we went "We want some Thai"

Love restaurants that you can walk off a sandy beach and into a place that won't mind you making a mess.

We got a pot of Tom Yum Kung, Minced pork wrapped w lettuce, Pineapple fried rice, Pad Thai, Grilled garlic prawns, Morning glory, Mixed vegatable, Green curry chicken.

I partically am very impressed with the Green curry chicken. Good qaulity curry - not the pasty gooey mixture - with decent pieces of chicken.

Grilled garlic prawns are done well and the others are the standard stuff and are ok.

I think the drinks are on the sweeter side so maybe before you order next time, ask them to tone down the sugar level.  Thais love their stuff sweet so I wonder if they were doing it the Thai way.

There isn't a 10% service charge... that may have contributed to the relaxed service.  Yet, service can be improved but since it is a beach and the laid backness I guess is contagious.  

I've been here before but wow, coming here for breakfast gave me such a different perspective to the Café Gray experience. 

Of course the stunning views, the impeccable service, the carefully selected menu with fine ingredients, my perfect date and.... a QUIET environment - (sadly) a rare commodity at Café Gray. I have not been here for dinner.  Lunches (about $500 per person for a set lunch), teas (abouout $600 per two for the set tea) and happy hours (about $100 per cocktail) are normally rather busy and noisy which to me, not that enjoyable for a high end place such as Café Gray.  

My boy decided to surprise me one morning, and he did.

We came here for breakfast and I am highly recommending this to those whom wanted to step it up once in a while.  While enjoying the views and attentive service, we ordered a few things from the à la carte menu. A couple of fresh juices, Poached Eggs Benedict, Nutella filled brioche French toast and English back & American bacon with avocado on the side.

The food was all around done well and satisfying. It was the usual, famous, popular Cafe Gray without the crowd. Food was pleasent on the tongue; the view was pleasent on the eyes; the ambience was as well pleasent on my ears!

It opened that very week and we were eager to try this new place every time we walked pass their renovation works which consisted of 3 floors. They have taken part of the old VolksWagen showroom.

It was 815am that morning and we walked in for morning dim sum. No one really knew the place have opened and there were only a table taken.

Small tables are of booth style, kind of like the Cha Chan Teng style, with a mini tv installed with every booth. All very grand looking with one simple flaw - the seating is quite narrow and it is not comfortable to sit in... 

Dim sum breakfast choices were not extensive, yet all that we have chosen were prepared with fresh ingredients and presented well. The two of us ordered Steamed shrimp dumplings (Ha Gao), Steamed rice flour roll w/ Cha Siu (Cha Siu Cheung Fun), Deep-fried garlic chives w/ crab meat and Turnip roll (a Law Pak thingy, but not a Law Pak Go). The classics Ha Gao and Cha Siu Cheung Fun were done very well. The other two fusion choices took a little longer to prepare but come hot and tasted delightful.

They open 730am and they run their breakfast from 730-11am; then lunch from 11am-230pm with lots more variety to offer; then afternoon tea is from 230-4pm daily.

I would surely visit this place as there are other items on the menu had caught my eye. But having said that, high end choices with high end price tags yet with Cha Chan Teng seating, I may not frequent this place as much as I would have.