Sheung Kee Restaurant, 嫦記, Happy Valley Hot Food stall, Hong Kong

There are some dishes and soup that I miss quite much, like the salted duck egg, pork and mustard veggie soup 芥菜咸蛋肉片湯. Sheung Kee made it just right to my appetite, right proportion of salty duck egg, pork and veggie. Next to it is the must-try sweet and sour spare ribs. Then we had salty fish chicken tofu casserole, preserved veggie steamed with kai lan 正菜蒸芥蘭, and the deep fried garlic chicken. Very dai pai dong - powerful high heat cooking or what we say in Cantonese high "wok" heat 鑊氣.

Panoramic studio room, Butterfly on Morrison Hill, Wanchai (Causeway Bay) HK

This hotel is in good location to reach Causeway Bay and Wanchai in 5 to 10 minutes. Besides, if you stay on a very high floor like this, you will have such a nice panoramic view like this. The whole view of Happy Valley is right in front of you with a golden sunset on your right.

"I Love Pasta" lunch buffet, Kudos, Crowne Plaza, HK

A new theme for December lunch buffet at HK$178++ (15% discount for HSBC card holders).

Photo no. 1: chilled chicken in ginger/scallion. Quite surprised to try this one in chill.

2: Chilled cauliflower soup. Also surprised with this one. Very nice and smooth.

3. Shrimp cocktail with beans. Nice combination.

4. Cheese with dried fruits and crackers. Surprisingly good and it's in a nice fusion presentation.

5/6. Chilled and fresh salad. I love the artichoke.

7. At HK$178, they serve Spanish "black" pig parma ham. Amazing.

8. Sushi at average.

9. This Chinese soup "Dried/fresh ba choy with pork". It's in long hour boiling. Nice for this autumn season.

10. BBQ Pork, beef, jelly fish at average.

11. Turkey with stuffing and prime rib. Turkey is a bit dry but the stuffing is nice with lots of chestnut and raisins. However, the prime rib is of high quality but not in a slow roasting.

12/13. Stir fried veggie. Nice stir frying and I love the baby cabbage and it's selected. Check how tightly grown it is.

14. Spaghetti Bolognese. Pretty nice and at least it's freshly made to your order.

15. More salad.

16/17. Christmas cookies and pastry at average.

18. forgot the exact term but it's kind of a pasta and claimed to be from Texas. Anyway, it's also quite al dente and nice stir frying.

19. Ice cream from Movenpick, but I don't like Movenpick. Overall, HK$178 is much worth for the food quality they serve. Actually even without the fresh order of pasta, the buffet variety is already good enough.

20. the restaurant.

21. the the hotel is in between Causeway Bay and Happy Valley on Leighton Road.

A Happy day in a Valley, Hong Kong

So in order to digest the lunch, a walk around this unique residential place is a good exercise and also to know more about Happy Valley. Met a family of an old lady whom was taken care of by her daughter and they have been living in Happy Valley for many generations - native residents of Happy Valley. I was told Happy Valley was very tranquil but lately crowded with a no. of expatriates and some hip people driving some noisy flamboyant expensive racing cars making this place like their playground by disregarding the others' feelings. So during my walk-around, yes, what she said is true. Those cars made the vicinity really annoying.

1. this road name shouldn't be a stranger to any of the local Hong Kong people. 2. TC, the 1st shop of the Italian product shop on Queen's Road East where I bought the white truffle oil is this one in Happy Valley.

3/4. Another nostalgic tea restaurant but I was told it's not that nice now. When I checked on their "pineapple" bun, it looks quite awful.

5. My Japanese friend who once stayed in HK for quite many years highly recommended this accupressure shop, it's opposite to Sun Cheong Ming noodle shop. 6. See these stylish mansions.

7/8. this is a buddhist primary school. Do you miss walking at such a steep road for school? I do and it's good for exercise.

9. looks like a place for buddhists too and I was told it's a place for cremations. 10. more restaurants. The right one is quite famous, used to be a shop often visited by the great singer Teresa Tang.

11. The grand old lady's family grand kids used to play around at these stairs. Kids can play at anywhere no matter where it is. It's a matter of when they get together. 12. Brown is a shop very good at cakes and coffee/tea. The right one (pink) is an Indian yoga spa.

13. I think this is the original shop which opened an outlet in the HK Airport. 14. Do you miss this kind of staircases?

15. The left one has an award of architecture and the smallest unit is 3,500 something square feet and only 2 units on one floor. The right one is a newer one. These 2 are a bit stunning on the hillside of Happy Valley. 16. The V Residence - a serviced apt.

17. It used to be quite a famous primary school 寶血小學 (don't know the English name). 18. Another old mansion.

19/20. There are indeed some buildings in Happy Valley which are quite Southern Mediterranean style, reminding me of Cannes.

21/22. Do they remind you of Ms. Chan Bo Chu 陳寶珠 and Ms. Siu Fong Fong 蕭芳芳.

23. Madam Fa told me she used to work as a butler in a mansion like this in Happy Valley. At that time, she taught a Japanese family to sun dry the red mullet until the oil was leaked on the surface. Then pan fry those semi sun-dried red mullet. Though I didn't try it, I already feel the nice aroma of such nice red-mullet. 24. What a literal name of this house.

25. inside the primary school. 26. Another nice old mansion.
27. Something classic for the gentlemen.