Noodles 青藏牛肉麵
Rating: 7.2/10
Price: 50 HKD per person (30-40 HKD for noodle)
There's a vicious cycle you often fall into if you live on campus (like I do) in Asia. You always have to eat similar-tasting chinese dishes that are often not that great that once you get to leave the campus and eat out, you only ever go for the most western food available.
It's not that the western food in Hong Kong is not good, it's just that there's so much authentic and awesome food that you miss out that are frankly speaking so god damn CHEAP and close too!
So, eager to convince others of this perfect opportunity to quickly and cheaply escape the monotonous campus food... I took two of my friends to this Tibetan Noodle place in North Point.
I mean... who has ever tried Tibetan Food outside of Tibet? Really? Isn't that enough of a reason to go try this place out?!?!
They had a great English Menu that wasn't hurriedly written down with poor english but a proper menu with cute little chilli to denote spicy dishes!
Plus the woman taking orders were very patient and even suggested us the dishes to try without even being asked!
We decided to try couple of the dishes (as recommended and approved by the staff):
-Beef Noodles with Home Made Garlic Sauce (39HKD)
-Stir Fry Noodles with Leek & Mutton (45HKD)
-Poached Egg with Home-Made Sauce (12 HKD)
-Cucumber with Home Made Garlic Sauce (28 HKD)
-Cumin Grilled Eggplant with Garlic (25HKD)
To give a grand-total of: 50 HKD per person for 3 of us! :)
It's not that the egg was not well-cooked! It was actually rather excellent but there was nothing too special about it, and it was quickly forgotten as soon as the other dishes began arriving. Especially given that the flavors of the other dishes was rather distinct and strong, it was rather bland.
This dish was excellent! THe egg-plant had a crispy outer-layer whilst not being dry! Plus the over-abundance of garlic was such a great match with the cumin-spiced eggplant. It was actually not spicy at all, but if you don't really like garlic this is DEFINITELY not the dish for you! Otherwise, this is one of the best eggplant dish I've had in Hong Kong
Despite it being 'Tibetan', I guess I had expected it to taste similar to the noodles I've had some-point in my life. However the flavor was refreshingly and shockingly new, I could not relate it to anything I've tried before, and there's something so tantalizing about trying something completly new.
Plus, the hand-pulled noodles were delightfully cooked to al-dente, which meant it was chewy-and firm just the way it should be!
I preferred the beef-noodles, but by no means was this a average dish! Despite it being rather oily, the strong mutton and cumin flavor from the sauce made the whole dish come-together without it being too heavy. The Noodles were thicker, and firmer too!
It wasn't as spicy as I hoped it would be, and anyone who doesn't have a severe problem with spicy food should be able to enjoy all the dishes without any difficulty.
Cucumber with Home Made Garlic Sauce (4/5):
Apparently this is a staple side-dish in China, and I can understand why! It's so yummy! :) It's like an oriental salad with cucumbers! They were so refreshing and lightly seasoned that it paired nicely with the heavier flavors of the main-dishes. The slightly sour vinegar taste also boosts your appetite and cleans up the meaty-flavor from the other dishes!
Ha, as you can see from the photo above it was a successful (and cheap) dinner! Now i get to boast about having had the chance to try Tibetan style food and that it tasted delicious! I hope one day I can go to Tibet to try out the local cuisine there because despite my original doubts, it tastes very different from other Chinese dishes!
Fook Yuen 福元湯圓
note: FORTRESS HILL MTR exit A
The desserts are so cheap with most of them under 20 HKD, and if you do order the glutinous rice-balls you get total of 5, which should fill you up rather well!
See the sesame oozing out?! It's simply divine! It's much much better (and less sweet) than mochii in my opinion! They're just so chewy and soft and... and...just try them!
There's different flavors you can choose from, we tried both peanut filling and black sesame and we loved them both! I think there's couple of other ones such as red-bean but i highly recommend the black sesame!!
