Bored of Happy Valley Food

I'm so sick of the food in Happy Valley. I've gone through my local HK cha can tang phase, where you can get dinner for US$4. That ended when I found a piece of twine in my bitter melon beef (they said it was from the veggies). The rice there is also pretty bad, kind of day old and wettish. Incidentally, I like to get Wat Dan (slimy egg) anything, or Chicken with Corn. Next I went through the higher quality Chinese food phase, (Pang's kitchen), where dinner will set you back about 10 to 15 USD (rice costs extra!). I've also (briefly) gone through the McDonalds phase, given that it's open 24 hours and costs even less than the US. I've most recently gone through the Western food phase, satisfying it with Il Bel Paese, the local italian grocer which thankfully offers ready made pastas and sides. The cheese there is actually priced competitively vs. City Super or the Great.



If I want to go upscale a little bit on the weekend with 1 or 2 of the friends I have in HK, I can go to Yakitori Tei and Barbarian, which are equally good yakitori places (Tei has better atmosphere, but I've never been upstairs at Barbarian which seems to be more happening than the small downstairs).

King's Palace Congee is another midend (my hyphen key broke) Chinese place, that features a BBQ pork dish called SIK SUN (or god of food/cooking, like the Stephen Chow movie). It's good but has a oddly likeable sauce on the rice. It also comes with a fried egg on it.

There's a famous roast meat place on Sing Woo Rd, but it's not that great. It's practically free, but the BBQ pork is not all that. It's actually not as fatty as you'd like it to be.

Note: Tonight I went to Times Square to find some decent food. Unfortunately, all I found was some discounted City Super spider roll. I trammed it back to the Valley and had a chicken sandwich and a big n tasty. God help me...