Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Wah Nan beef brisket/beef ball noodle shop 華南牛腩/牛丸粉麵, Wanchai, Hong Kong

This shop was once one of my most favourite noodle shops in Wanchai. However, it became not that nice a few years ago from my last visit. So after a few years later, I would like to re-visit some of those shops and see if their quality is back. Now it turns out it is.

1. boiled morning glory with preserved tofu sauce - pretty good though there were some scattered rice noodle in it. HK$11 and it's a very big portion. At least, it is 50% more than the other shops. 2. Deep fried fish skin HK$12 and this one is nice - quite dry crispy and the soup going with it is a beef bone with some Chinese herb soup. Pretty good.

13. Ok, the feature one - my favourite beef brisket rice noodle soup - HK$24. The beef brisket stew base was told to be over 50 years and hence the strong flavour is naturally soaked in the beef. However, I forgot ordering one rare item 草肚 (directly translated as "grass belly" I think it's a stomach part of some special specie of cow or ox). This one is much better than "golden coin belly". Only Wah Nam and a few others serve that "grass belly". Another nice thing of Wah Nam is their special chili oil - so nice to go with beef brisket and all the noodle soup. 14. the shop outside.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Their beef balls is very nice. also the fish balls and the fish slices.

Stella said...

Everything here looks delicious and inexpensive.
This is the kind of eatery I would like to eat in HK.

in the sea said...

Yes, the beef balls here are very good too! Must try! SS, when is your plan...? :) At least for a week or 5 days! Don't say 3 days or you have 7-8 meals a day, then it's fine.

Stella said...

Hi SEA, 7 days sounds like good idea. My friend last night was also asking me to visit HK too. He mentioned I shall get the HK ID. Will think about this plan later.

in the sea said...

Mmh.. for retirement with vivid lifestyle (with some money backup), HK and BKK are good choices. If less money, then BKK. I think staying at HK is good while you can go to BKK in just a few hours.

Stella said...

You are right, if money is not the concern then HK is the best. Many of my friends are thinking to go back to HK after retirement. But now we have to think twice since HK is the most expensive place in the world. And we are afraid that Mr. Donald Duck will say oh if you guys cannot afford this price then you can live in Mongolia.

in the sea said...

He is just a bit not good at his speech. If anyone goes to Taikooshing or any big housing areas, buying an apt. for 600 sq. ft. is at around HK$3-4 millions. If it's not affordable, some apts. at around 3-400 sq. ft. is at around HK$1-1.5 millions in areas like Shaukiwan, Chai Wan and it's not that outskirt area. So maybe those HK senior officers won't go to that east. However, I saw some apts. around that price in Wanchai and even Causeway Bay. The point is if you want an apt. like those "hip" TV ad. with some caucasian models hanging around and a song with some "la la la shite de amor....".