Here’s a bit of a culture-slash-history lesson for you. Do you know what this is?
Its a village bus!!! Bet you’ve never seen one of these in your life huh? I mean, they look like a normal delivery truck but a custom-built interior, and these things go way back … okay fine maybe like 30-50 years? [...]
Hong Kong folks have this thing about queuing up for everything and anything that there’s a queue for. If there’s no line, then there’s “NO DEMAND”! And clearly, such simple economic theory will not elude even the average Honkie. This is arguably, one of Hong Kong’s favorite passtime! We love to do it … yet, [...]
I voted on the Miele Guide a month or 2 ago and I’m really happy to see Jia Jia Tang Bao (佳家汤包) on the list! And then I realized I’ve been meaning to write about the restaurant since June last year (yes, 10 months ago) … and I still haven’t gotten around to doing it. [...]
I recently brought my friend, Tony, to Shamshuipo’s fabric district to source different fabric / material to be used for his staff’s uniforms (yes! for his new restaurant!). While we were there, we decided to stop by Hong Fat Noodle (漢發麵家) for some authentic Dai Pai Dong (大牌檔) food. Apparently, as I’ve just found out [...]
Sticking to my promise that Siuyeh.com is as much about local delicacies as it is to culture and all things tradition, I present to you Chan Chi Ying Medical Clinic (陳志英醫館) on Lockhart Road in Wanchai-borderline-Causeway Bay (under the bridge, next to OK convenient store). This place has been around for over 40 years now [...]
My experiences with Vietnamese cuisine had always involved only 2 items:
Pho (noodle in beef soup); and
Bun (rice vermicelli poured with nuoc mam or Vietnamese fish sauce) with accompanying spring rolls, sausages, etc.
So when my friends suggested that we visit Hanoi for a couple days, I packed my appetite and flew 2 hours to the capital [...]
THE. BEST. STEAK. EVER. PERIOD.
Yes, it was better than Morton’s Steakhouse.
Yes, it was better than the Steak House at the InterContinental Hong Kong.
Yes, it trumped all my other experiences involving steak.
And yes, the bill also topped the list.
Dakota Prime is not your average Steak and Seafood restaurant. I went there tonight with high expectations (I [...]
Siu Yeh Alert: Bad Review
So after having tried Australia Dairy Company, naturally, I thought maybe Yee Shun Milk Company would be similar. I was sadly mistaken.
To begin, the 10+ servers in the empty restaurant were late (or lazy) to respond to my repeated requests for the menu. They all gathered at the back of the [...]
If you happen to walk past the intersection of Staunton Street and Shelley Street (the escalators leading up to Mid-levels) from around 2:30 to 5:00PM on Saturdays and Sundays, you might be able to catch a granny selling Chinese pudding (砵仔糕) with her husband (he’s seen here walking back to the cart after finishing his [...]
I met up with some friends for dinner at Haiku, one of my favorite Japanese restaurant in Shanghai (aside from Nadaman of course, but that … is too pricey, lol). We had a big group and since I was in charge of ordering, and I really couldn’t be bothered with getting everyone’s approval on what [...]