This is the quintessential SG export... Food Republic. The concept and layout is the normal SG foodcourt style that we are familar with. Chope a table with frens and go buy your own food.

Famous stalls here are SG Sergent Boneless Chicken Rice (???), Singapore Yong Tau Foo (more???) and Malaysian Sinagpore Desserts Stall... (eerm)

Miss Piggy went for the Thai stall for Pad Thai. (HKD$35). There are many choices here like noodles, congee and Macua style food. They also have little restaurants like Jap sushi etc.

Nice place to get some budget eats as you do your shopping here at CityGate. The other eating joints are are restaurants which cost a tiny bit more.

This is the Cha Chan Teng near the place i stay. I eat here quite often as sometimes just too lazy and want to have a quick bite fast fast...

If its breakfast you are having, try the Century egg with pork Congee or the Macarroni with Double Egg. These are safe choices for me and top up with a milk tea... Cost HKD$21 for food and HKD$14 for drink. Cheap!

Dinner i like their Braised ee-fu noodles with Braised beef (ngau lam). For HKD$38 gets you this enormous portion to feed 2 hungry grown men! Lotsa noodles, kai lan and beef... Big chunky slices of ngau lam so delish cooked....

Typical CCT so no ambience nor much service to speak of anyway...

This is actually a Sichuan style restaurant located in LKF area. SO and me celebrated his BDay here just last month. This place is really popular so if no reseervations, try to go early like about 6-630 for early seating. HK people do not eat this early so it is the best time to grab a table.

The decor is very chinese themed and the staff are dressed in the chinese costume also. We ordered the Chicken and glass noodles in seasame sauce, Smelly Tofu and Beef slices cooked in Sichuan Ma-La Base.

The chicken with glass noodles is a cold dish. i like the glass noodles that is flat and wide like kway teow. Nice pick-me-up after a hot day. The Smelly tofu is smelly factor number 6/10. It is actually smellier than the one i had at the roadside stall! It is also with a mild spicy sweet sauce. The golden cubes of tofu are served piping hot and smelly...(i lurve) Last but not least is the 3 Chilli factor Spicy beef slices in Ma-La Broth. Erm... but to my very good chilli endurance, this is no fire at all...*sign* but to those who do not take spicy it may heat you up a bit....

The draw here is that they have a China Dark Beer that is super delish! And ask the staff to bring you some ceramic bowls to drink your beer with... So fun to drink beer with chinese bowls!

Miss Piggy was half hour late thus missed the 8pm Symphony of Lights show. This bar at One Peking is at the top level of the building and gives you a most wonderful view of Island from TST. It is really stunning and you can see the entire coastal view of HK Island. Go to the back where they have the booth area and you can catch a glimpse of TST nightlights.

A must try at least once. The current promotion when i was there was a bottle of Moet Rose with free tapas platter. Or you can order cocktails or bubbly in indivdual flutes. Premium bar prices applies.

When you go to HK the one thing you can't miss out is the great night scene they have there. From the mgmt of Hei Hei comes Beijing Club. A trendy upmarket club where only the elite and exclusive gets in. Look at the Q of people out there... Even in winter time they will Q up for hours to get in... Pls, if you are not on the list at the door forget it cos may wait forever to get it...(posh snob hahaha)

A big suprise is that most of the staff here are either Fillipinos or Nepalense so all of them speak good english. The staff will lead you to the table reserved for you or you can wander thru the multi level club where different levels have a different music genre. Drinks menu here is wide and many choices but all are at a premium price. Mixers for bottles are chargable, so is the ice cubes!

The HK people really know how to let go and enjoy themselves. They are really wild and fun and the vibe of the place is totally different from SG. Give this place a try, maybe get there early to get in...*cheers*

This is the PCC off SOHO. A well kept secret of an outlet store brought MissPiggy to this area in the middle of the afternoon...

PCC is the most popular coffee joint in HK and they are like everywhere. The standard fare applies and i did my day's Grande Latte. The plush seats are plenty and the aircon at a nice temperature. They do happen to have an attached toilet, a big relieve for most i am sure.

The main difference is that this is set at the corner of Lyndhurst and Hollywood road and you can sit and watch the people going about shopping, delivering things, bumping into long lost friends, etc etc...unlike the other stores that may not have that much of a view.

This Cha Chan Teng is partonised by the HK SuperStars like Kenny B and Alan Tam. The key draw is their Iced Milk Tea. To help preserve the full strength and taste of the Milk Tea, they actually freeze the milk tea into ice cubes and add 2 cubes of it to every order of Iced Milk Tea! So much efforts into this at a Cha Chan Teng.... Amazing!

They have a stipulation that whole day on Sundays as well as Mon-Fri between Lunch Time, Minimum spending of HKD$25 is imposed to help reduce the chances of people going in just for their Iced Milk Tea!

Miss Piggy had the Lo-Ting with Lunch Meat and Sunny side up eggs. SO had the Pork Bun. He commented the pork dun has shrunked in size compared to last time...(rising food costs!) Miss Piggy Lo-Ting is delish and very generous in portions with 3 semi-rounds of lunchmeat, 2 eggs sunnyside-up and a small portion of cooked cabbage.

Lunch Time set costs $38 for the lo-ting set plus drink.

As this is a very tiny and busy establishment, be prepared to share tables and also get the occasional bump and nudge as people try to move about....

This little hidden spot on Ashley Road is well patronised by locals as well as tourists.

A big live band plays Dixie-land music to a most appreciative crowd. Scores of people come here just for the Live Band even Korean Tourists by the bus-load!

Dark wood and pretty old, Miss Piggy got her share of Tetleys and Carlsberg here. The boss himself is an old Brit Veternan. Laid back and casual, be prepared to share your seats and booths and let the good times roll!

Maxim's MX is excellent for tourists who don't want to spend too much money but to get a delicous Hong Kong Chinese style type of food.

Its class is well above the other two common local fast food chains with price only a few percentage more expensive. It has plenty of variety and is not just selling hamburgers or fried chicken.

The only drawback is that, while MX brochure describes the food in both English and Chinese, the restaurant address/location list is in Chinese only.

Nobu was definitely one of the highlights of my recent trip to Hong Kong. The restaurant’s perennial popularity is backed by its devoted following and celebrity cred (thanks to Nobu Matsuhisa’s partnership with Robert De Niro). Nobu is all about Matuhisa’s own spin on traditional Japanese cooking, marked by a blend of Western and Japanese flavours, resulting in “innovative” new-style Japanese food which quickly made his restaurants in New York one of the “It” restaurants to eat at (and be seen at). He draws upon culinary experience having worked in sushi bars in Tokyo, Peru, Argentina and the rest of the world. One of his famous specialities include the Black Cod with Miso, arguably Nobu’s most well-known dish (which, granted, in our part of the world is now rather passé).


The trendy vibe of the restaurant packed a real buzz – the main (and private) dining room and bar (both of the alcohol and sushi variety) areas were packed (mostly with expatriates, beautiful people types) and you could feel a real buzz of energy and excitement. The theme is dark wood, natural textures and Japanese countryside (including a sea urchin ceiling and bamboo-embedded terrazzo)– a real mix of the modern and a bit of the old – and designed by the same group behind Nobu New York. The restaurant also offers a priceless view of Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island. Makes a great date joint, I reckon. However note the restaurant is pretty noisy.


The menu is extensive with a selection of both hot and cold specialties and main courses (including bento sets). Prices are not exactly cheap since we’re talking c.HKD200 per item, and given how “haute cuisine” often comes in small packages (and it doesn’t help that I eat like a bloke).


Hence the decision to order the omasake (chef’s special selection, HKD888 or HKD1188) as a newbie to Nobu so that I’d avoid having to make the painstaking choices by ploughing through the menu and I figured this was really the best way to get a real all-round taste of Nobu Matsuhisa’s adventures blend of western and Japanese cuisine. Not to mention that it really is also a more value-for-money route than ordering ala carte. Plus I am a sucker for surprises.


The whole dining drama begins with the first dish being served and the waitress rattling of what the dish constitutes of and also how it is best enjoyed. The first dish was a tuna tartar topped with caviar presented on a bed of ice chips in a Japanese ponzu-like dressing (this ponzu-like Japanese dressing seems to be quite a common theme across the dishes). There is also a Japanese peach to be consumed at the end to “cleanse the palate.” This pretty much gives you an idea of what Nobu's self-styled Japanese cuisine is all about.


Other dishes we had included the sashimi salad with Matsuhisa dressing, Jalepeno with sashimi, black cod with miso, a tasting platter which included a trio of different kinds of sashimi presented differently, Saga beef tenderloin with wasabi salsa and finally a sushi platter. Everything was presented beautifully and the fish was definitely top-notch. Having it omasake style just made the experience all the more enjoyable – it was a great experience going through each dish with little surprises in the sometimes unexpected pairing of ingredients used, Nobu-style.

I didn’t have high hopes for dessert (I’ve never heard anyone gush about desserts at Nobu) but my dining partner had to stop me from ordering another portion of our dessert – a 4 layer Whiskey/coffee concoction (think a posher tiramisu, almost) – cakes, ice-cream, coffee liquer, cappuccino chips (?) topped off by a whiskey foam. I could have died and gone to dessert heaven.

Does the food live up to its hype? To be honest I had a really enjoyable experience and I’m sure a lot of it was to do with going omasake. The food was undeniably fresh, I wouldn’t rate it _that_ highly on the innovative factor, but overall it is pretty fantastic Japanese food.

I’d definitely recommend that you order the omasake if it is your maiden visit to Nobu. I also learnt from our server that the omasake is tailor made according to the nth time you’re visiting Nobu. For example, if this is your 2nd time ordering their omasake, do let the service staff know so that the dishes served will not overlap with your 1st omasake experience and will be specially catered for a 2nd time visitor to the restaurant. I thought that was pretty cool, and is a huge go-back factor for me, ie incentive enough for me to pay another visit to Nobu if I find myself in Hong Kong again.