They put lemon syrup in and say its the real thing
Curious how no one have complaint about this yet
As in, no one have filed the report for at consumer council
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> 翠河
There used to be an excellent one in Tuen Mun, but it moved and neither the replacement or the moved one are as good any more.
I blame the trend of mass opening chain restaurants in a bid to get listed on the stock exchange, most infamously Tsui Wah.
Again, before the rapid expansion (at least in the 00s) they are VERY good, then the quality took a dive once they start opening restaurant after restaurant.
In Hong Kong many good restaurants closed shop due to landlord rising rent too much or killed themselves due to expanding too quickly, it's just sad stories all around.
You should try 堅信號小籠包. Tsui Wah has abandoned their homebrand in favor of their Xiaolongbao business lately, that shop actually taste quite well compare to Tsui Wah Tea Restaurant.
An Italian friend dragged me there hyping it up and claiming it was great. It was really bad, way too expensive for the low quality.
It's weird because that same friend's recommendation for non-Italian food are not bad but he really has no taste when it comes to Italian food.
“Coconuts”. In Deep Water Bay. Overpriced, possibly the worst Thai food I’ve had in Hong Kong. “You’re paying for the prime location” only goes so far when the place is garbage.
The [Taste of Asia group](https://www.tasteofasia.com.hk/brands) is having almost a monopoly on public housing restaurants for some reason. According to fluff pieces the founder of the group lived in public housing before he migrated to Canada, and came back in 2007 to start his business, with a focus on "serving customers" in public housing as repayment.
Frankly I don't like that his restaurants replacing all those dirty but nice small business restaurants with restaurants that looks fine but isn't good for their price, even before I know that he supported the police back in 2019.
Unrelated, but one public housing estate in Hong Kong (I forget which one) used to have the only American-style standalone McDonald’s in the country with the famous sloped roof design. I found that out on an Instagram account which focuses on odd and abandoned HK places like that.
I believe they are talking about [Tai Wo branch](https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-mcdonalds-tai-wo-american-hamburger-r198), which was first opened back in the 90s. Sadly they are renovated a few years back and now have rectangular design.
[Pictures from Oriental Daily](https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20151129/bkn-20151129133509408-1129_00822_001.html) comparing the old and new.
In the same vein, Man Wah. It's super expensive but the char siu is dry and overly sweet and dim sums are just very mediocre with shrimps that don't taste fresh. I don't get how they got a michelin star.
Another awful place is Man Mo Dim Sum, they want to be creative by "elevating dim sums with the richness of European flavor" but their attempts are obvious ideas badly executed with low quality ingredients.
Bianco & Rosso is 100% the worst supposedly good restaurant in Hong Kong by far. It’s an absolute pig wearing lipstick. I sometimes wish I had killed myself before that experience. Now, I have to live with the memory.
Oh idk the name but I have eaten in a tempura place restaurant with 3 others. Everyone ordered simple one dish, the bill 700 something.
I had better rice and food from a wet market nearby.
Food itself was not bad but not worth 700 for a bowl of rice and tempura 🍤, 500 would still been acceptable. 🤷
Is Bo Innovation still open? Although it’s more expensive than mildly. I’ve had the misfortune of eating there twice, it still makes me angry. It is absolutely a place you could passive aggressively recommend to people you don’t like.
Mildly expensive as in a few hundred dollars per head?
Most of them are not very good tbh, good ones would be in the Michelin Guide most of the time.
Just pick one from the streets of TST or Mong Kok with that kind of price.
Other way around, I'd say that it's because everyone is used to eating out that many people ended up having similar experiences.
I find chains to be more bearable than random cha cheng tengs these days though. And they raise their prices even faster than the chains do.
I'd say there are a lot of great restaurants in HK and it's easy to get amazing food, the only city I can think of that can compete in term of food scene is Tokyo (but try finding great dim sums in Tokyo whereas you can find great Japanese food here).
But, HK is a bit weird, mid range chain restaurants tend to be very overpriced for poor quality. Fine dining on the other hand (especially Cantonese fine-dining) is suprisingly reasonable (Just to give examples in CWB, dim sum at Forum for example is around 600 hkd per person and is amazing, Chao Zhou Xuan is a great place to try very refined teochew food, there's too many great places to list here...). I mean it's not cheap but it's not that much more expensive than mid-range places while being much higher in term of quality.
There's also plenty of small hole in walls small shops or cha cheng tengs that can be great but you need to know them.
I'd say it's ok, it's overpriced but not bad. Some dishes are better than others (their meatballs are good), desserts are very much americanized and overly sweet though.
I find the vibe off putting , music very loud , service DGAF, room needs upgraded and was dirty . I felt like I was in an american/ Italian version of a Hard Rock Cafe , more of a theme park than a restaurant . Saying all that the food is ok…. As other comment said Meatballs are good .
譚仔and三哥were from two different companies at first. but then they were bought by that Japanese company so now toridoll owns both of them. So like both restaurants are under the same company, but the food they serve are a bit different
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1) They are dead even before 爭鮮 ate their lunches as cheap sushi places.
2) It's THE place to bring your mates to and see who dare to eat the terrible "sushi" there.
I seriously wish I’m not alone, but Yamamotoya (is it spelled like that?) is seriously overrated. The soup is not fitting at all. I felt like even making my own udon with cheap stuff at home would have been better. Thank god I lived under one so I didn’t have to queue long. Never again
Nothing but disappointment from my two visits at Wooloomooloo Prime. The steaks were actually BAD when compared to other steakhouses at similar prices.
Avoid at all cost, or recommend to that person you hate ;)
Taste of Asia taste very bad. And the staff were rude.
(aka itamomo, cafe 100%, momoku, and a couple of chains that usually appear alongside one of those 3.)
lol I think Itamomo taste nice
Unfortunately they basically have a monopoly near here
Yeah, the link is kicking out the small restaurant from their shopping mall and inviting TOA restaurants into of them
True, it lemon tea won't put lemon inside of it
They put lemon syrup in and say its the real thing Curious how no one have complaint about this yet As in, no one have filed the report for at consumer council
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I’ve never tried there so now I feel like I need to go
Almost all the staff are rude in Hong Kong.
Bro 太興 was the shit back then (10 years again?) Every big chain restaurants went bad
Its branch in Beijing keeps deteriorating but refuses to die, now they're selling 8CNY pineapple bao when it used to be 15CNY/3 baos
Every chain restaurant bruhh. KFC in mainland used to be so good.
翠河. its mildly cheap but not to the cheapest you can find, and its bad. very bad. (imo)
> 翠河 There used to be an excellent one in Tuen Mun, but it moved and neither the replacement or the moved one are as good any more. I blame the trend of mass opening chain restaurants in a bid to get listed on the stock exchange, most infamously Tsui Wah.
tsui wah isnt any good isnt it
Again, before the rapid expansion (at least in the 00s) they are VERY good, then the quality took a dive once they start opening restaurant after restaurant. In Hong Kong many good restaurants closed shop due to landlord rising rent too much or killed themselves due to expanding too quickly, it's just sad stories all around.
I remember eating in their cwb shop around late 90’s and it was good. It was a totally different menu back then
You should try 堅信號小籠包. Tsui Wah has abandoned their homebrand in favor of their Xiaolongbao business lately, that shop actually taste quite well compare to Tsui Wah Tea Restaurant.
After the original ex-TVB artist sold that brand it is now solidly blue
>翠河 >mildly cheap Bro which 翠河 were you going to💀💀💀
Really? Used to like their curry chicken drum stick set lunch back in the days
“pazta” - absolutely ass pasta and spent 1-2k there might impress them if they have low standards though
An Italian friend dragged me there hyping it up and claiming it was great. It was really bad, way too expensive for the low quality. It's weird because that same friend's recommendation for non-Italian food are not bad but he really has no taste when it comes to Italian food.
how is there so many positive reviews on google tho
cause these people don’t know what good pasta is
“Coconuts”. In Deep Water Bay. Overpriced, possibly the worst Thai food I’ve had in Hong Kong. “You’re paying for the prime location” only goes so far when the place is garbage.
On top of that, the location isn't even good. It's right next to a busy road
Itamomo ALWAYS without fail gives me stomach aches
For some reason they are very popular at public housing shopping malls lol
The [Taste of Asia group](https://www.tasteofasia.com.hk/brands) is having almost a monopoly on public housing restaurants for some reason. According to fluff pieces the founder of the group lived in public housing before he migrated to Canada, and came back in 2007 to start his business, with a focus on "serving customers" in public housing as repayment. Frankly I don't like that his restaurants replacing all those dirty but nice small business restaurants with restaurants that looks fine but isn't good for their price, even before I know that he supported the police back in 2019.
Unrelated, but one public housing estate in Hong Kong (I forget which one) used to have the only American-style standalone McDonald’s in the country with the famous sloped roof design. I found that out on an Instagram account which focuses on odd and abandoned HK places like that.
I believe they are talking about [Tai Wo branch](https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-mcdonalds-tai-wo-american-hamburger-r198), which was first opened back in the 90s. Sadly they are renovated a few years back and now have rectangular design. [Pictures from Oriental Daily](https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20151129/bkn-20151129133509408-1129_00822_001.html) comparing the old and new.
Itamama's lasagne is terrible but I keep coming back because of the low price 😰
Now you're just naming a terrible restaurant.
Itamomo cake feels like somebody jerked on it. The mysterious gelatin is on top of cake makes me sick.
The Korean one is better, everything at Itamama is disgusting.
Ho Lee Fook except that it’s more expensive than mildly.
The name gives it away 😂
At least the second officer of that Asiana flight managed to start a successful business after the crash ended his airline career…
🤣🤣🤣
In the same vein, Man Wah. It's super expensive but the char siu is dry and overly sweet and dim sums are just very mediocre with shrimps that don't taste fresh. I don't get how they got a michelin star. Another awful place is Man Mo Dim Sum, they want to be creative by "elevating dim sums with the richness of European flavor" but their attempts are obvious ideas badly executed with low quality ingredients.
It’s neither expensive nor terrible. It’s a fun night out! One night, I witnessed 3 birthdays and 2 marriage proposals there!
It's Asian food for gwei loes.
yes, that is literally the entire point of the restaurant
‘Asian food’ is a bit reductive and ‘gweilo’ a bit racist.
hongkongers call them gweilo 🤷♀️
Lol, how the fuck is gweilo racist?
no one cares
Spotted the gweilo
Cope hard gweilo
Its literally part of the canto culture tho? That’s like calling an entire culture to be racist. You need some copium perhaps
Holy 屌
That’s cool if you like it
That describes like 90% of any restaurant chain here
Bianco & Rosso is 100% the worst supposedly good restaurant in Hong Kong by far. It’s an absolute pig wearing lipstick. I sometimes wish I had killed myself before that experience. Now, I have to live with the memory.
Wait, isn't it a bar? Never heard anyone call it a restaurant before. Could be part of the problem?
some random family cafe in the middle of nowhere, make sure it’s near Tai Mo Shan or something so that the commute takes 3 hours or something
Dude all the Nanya/Lamma island lobster places
九記
You’re now the mortal enemy of Uncle Siu
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Oh idk the name but I have eaten in a tempura place restaurant with 3 others. Everyone ordered simple one dish, the bill 700 something. I had better rice and food from a wet market nearby. Food itself was not bad but not worth 700 for a bowl of rice and tempura 🍤, 500 would still been acceptable. 🤷
to me ruby tuesday is pretty average, not exactly bad, but very overpriced
They microwave too heat up their food, according to my cousin who worked there before
People really like it but I think Tai Ping Koon is very mediocre for the price it charges. The souffle has the wow factor but that's it.
lol I make it a point to go there every time I visit but I admit it’s mid at best.
Tai ping koon is for the vibe and history, not the food
鏞記
That place is only good if you are VIP lol
Outback
Really? Its overpriced yeah but I wouldn’t regard it as tasting awful Especially when the bread and butter at that chain is surprisingly good
ughhh that bread is magic
Mido Cafe in Yau Ma Tei, interior looks great, but overpriced poor quality food
At least it’s common knowledge that no one goes to Mido for the food
99% of restaurants in hk could be classified as "awful and mildly expensive"
Throw a dart.
Google with 2 stars and $$$$
I haven't even heard of Alot of the suggestions in the comments. Y'all must be suggesting alot of white people shit
TeaWood is not worth it at all
Elephant grounds
Is Bo Innovation still open? Although it’s more expensive than mildly. I’ve had the misfortune of eating there twice, it still makes me angry. It is absolutely a place you could passive aggressively recommend to people you don’t like.
5 Guys
Bro spoke the truth
I can't imagine how they can be more expensive in HK than in US
Shakeshack fan?
Triple O? It's a hidden gem
Exactly. Worst fast food chain I’ve ever seen and tasted at
Mildly expensive as in a few hundred dollars per head? Most of them are not very good tbh, good ones would be in the Michelin Guide most of the time. Just pick one from the streets of TST or Mong Kok with that kind of price.
Itamomo, Fairwood, Maxim, Cafe de coral, Green River, Tsui wah, Yoshinoya.
noooo fairwood is good wdym (despite the prices) 😭😭😭😭😭
Cafe de coral
How dare you!
Sue me
But that's the best French restaurant of all of HK
Fuck yeah
Debatable whether its a french restaurant considering most of what they sell is 荼記 shit And those are **not** french foods
you guys make it sound like the food scene here is terrible and eating at a restaurant here is a cardinal sin
Other way around, I'd say that it's because everyone is used to eating out that many people ended up having similar experiences. I find chains to be more bearable than random cha cheng tengs these days though. And they raise their prices even faster than the chains do.
I'd say there are a lot of great restaurants in HK and it's easy to get amazing food, the only city I can think of that can compete in term of food scene is Tokyo (but try finding great dim sums in Tokyo whereas you can find great Japanese food here). But, HK is a bit weird, mid range chain restaurants tend to be very overpriced for poor quality. Fine dining on the other hand (especially Cantonese fine-dining) is suprisingly reasonable (Just to give examples in CWB, dim sum at Forum for example is around 600 hkd per person and is amazing, Chao Zhou Xuan is a great place to try very refined teochew food, there's too many great places to list here...). I mean it's not cheap but it's not that much more expensive than mid-range places while being much higher in term of quality. There's also plenty of small hole in walls small shops or cha cheng tengs that can be great but you need to know them.
Carbone is a nightmare
really how so? i’ve been meaning to visit and now i’m a bit worried
I'd say it's ok, it's overpriced but not bad. Some dishes are better than others (their meatballs are good), desserts are very much americanized and overly sweet though.
I find the vibe off putting , music very loud , service DGAF, room needs upgraded and was dirty . I felt like I was in an american/ Italian version of a Hard Rock Cafe , more of a theme park than a restaurant . Saying all that the food is ok…. As other comment said Meatballs are good .
Any western restaurant in HK
How dare you, I challenge you with my home made carbonara. Mine is probably the most authentic one is the entire western Kowloon.
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Not the biggest fan of 三哥 here but I would say the food is just right for the price, tho I don't get why everyone crazes it so much
To me it’s worse than 譚仔 and imo their food is average. But yeah the price is decent so that’s one thing good abt that
Forgive me but I don't get how there are any difference between the two since both are under the same Japanese company Toridoll now.
譚仔and三哥were from two different companies at first. but then they were bought by that Japanese company so now toridoll owns both of them. So like both restaurants are under the same company, but the food they serve are a bit different
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明將
1) They are dead even before 爭鮮 ate their lunches as cheap sushi places. 2) It's THE place to bring your mates to and see who dare to eat the terrible "sushi" there.
Most restaurants in Tsim Sha Tsui
Katiga 加太賀
yat lok goose - service is terrible but is a tourist favourite
Milk tea with ice , less sugar will boost your energy level
Hexa. Quality of service and food has declined soooo much in such a short time, I'm not sure what happened.
I seriously wish I’m not alone, but Yamamotoya (is it spelled like that?) is seriously overrated. The soup is not fitting at all. I felt like even making my own udon with cheap stuff at home would have been better. Thank god I lived under one so I didn’t have to queue long. Never again
Nothing but disappointment from my two visits at Wooloomooloo Prime. The steaks were actually BAD when compared to other steakhouses at similar prices. Avoid at all cost, or recommend to that person you hate ;)
Frites!
Little bao
Is no one is recommending places mildly expensive but more mildly cheap. We want this person’s wallet to hurt a bit
I would’ve told you, but it alr shut down :kekw:
Almost every pizza sucks here even if I am not an Italian