Name: The Rudest Cafe in Hong Kong? | Eating Food With Foodies On Friday Ep. 5
Uploaded: 2018-06-01T03:46:03.000Z
Duration: 14 min 3 s
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I'm on a semi-retired models quest to eat my way through Hong Kong or any other city I travel to

I want to learn more about the culture, meet new people

and discover exciting new tastes in the places I'm in

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day

So in this episode we're exploring some of the most popular

No, not yet. I haven't eaten anything today.

She is a local Hong Kong food blogger on Instagram

and today's episode is all about breakfast

So what, what do Hongkongers typically eat on breakfast?

I think a very typical Hong Kong breakfast would be fried eggs with toast and macaroni with cha siu or ham

What about when you're a kid? What was your favorite?

When I was a kid, I think I just ate cereal with milk.

When I was little yeah, not very Hong kong-style

the vibe I get here is Hong Kong is a very busy place.

So breakfast needs to be as cheap and fast as possible

So you either have the Cha Chan Tang, which is super quick

or people will just pop by a bakery or 7-eleven to grab like bread or something very quickly or a drink or

Yeah, I guess congee which is also pretty fast

Yes, I think so because in general people do things very fast here in Hong Kong

Yeah, everything. So for breakfast because they're on the way to work to school,

so they have to get something very quickly.

A lot of people ask does your assistant get a drinks or food

Oh, where should I go if I come here for two days or like three days

or what's your favorite restaurants in Hong Kong?

So I actually have a list that I send every one of them

yeah, and for you know for more for people asking for more fancy restaurants, I would suggest maybe

For people asked about more like Hong Kong style food. I would suggest again

but there's one very famous one in Chun Wan

I don't know if you have been there before, it is called Gala Cha Chan Tang.

The name is Gala. I don't know how to say that in English, but

Thank you very much. But that's where I would recommend them to go and then

Australia Dairy company, is also one that I would suggest them to go because it is a very very genuine  Hong Kong experience

yeah, everyone says the food there so good but it's weird for me because

When I look at the ingredients is something simple

so I don't know how it would be so much better than other places, so I'm excited to see that

Yeah, that's good. Because the toast there is very thick

So it's kind of different from some other restaurants

and also the soup they make is not something people usually make at home

so they are very good. I hope you'll like it

On that note, we set off so I could try it for myself

We headed to arguably the most iconic local breakfast place

for both locals and tourists, only to find that we'd have to wait a little longer

it's been serving up breakfast apparently with a side of attitude since 1970

the founder worked on an Australian farm in the 1940s and named it after that

and besides they're amazing milk and egg products.

not the nicest service and being crammed with strangers in a small area

All this is intentional though. They want you in and out as fast as possible

There's a lot of people, drinks are being thrown at us

Upon entering, we received an English menu making it easy for tourists to clearly order

And the stuff, they're actually quite opposite of what I heard quite friendly

Maybe this was a good day or I was lucky or maybe because of the camera

but I took it all in for the mixed personality, fast pace, organized delicious chaos it is

Basically this very typical Hong Kong style breakfast with a ham and also macaroni and a soup here is

Homemade and customized and you cannot make it at home. So this is what made it so special

I think it's very milky. And also there's chicken inside a soup, but I have no idea how exactly they make it

Yeah, that's why I cannot make it by myself

It comes with a side of scramble eggs and toast

So this soup is very rich in flavor with chicken

and it's kind of sweet, so it is very good

I think it is like savory and salty, but slightly creamy at the time

It's very smooth, I think they add a milk when they make it so that make it so tasty.

Yeah, it is creamy but also very like salty

Y: Yeah, it is kind of salty. T: Makes you wanna eat more.

So we did eat more and halfway through we received our drinks.

We went for the most iconic Hong Kong drink- milk tea

We got one hot and one cold and talked with the friendly strangers sharing the table with us