Hong Kong's Michelin starred & Takeaway restaurants
THAT is a nice contrast, eh?
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There's a nice newly-starred restaurant in Mongkok, that serves dishes for HK$10.
The cheapest Michelin starred restaurant in the world
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A chef prepares a rice pastry roll at the Michelin star-awarded Tim Ho Wan dim sum restaurant in Hong Kong.

A HOLE-IN-THE-WALL canteen in Hong Kong that offers dishes for less than $1.50 has become the world's cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant.

Tim Ho Wan, which means Add Good Luck, can seat only 20 people in its steamy dining room where battered bamboo baskets of dim sum sell for as little as $1.42.

Compared with other Michelin-ranked restaurants where a meal can cost more than $400, Tim Ho Wan is excellent value.

Michelin guide director Jean-Luc Naret said it was the "most affordable starred restaurant in the world".

The star ratings, which range from one star to three, are a rare honour in the restaurant trade, with only a few hundred in the world deemed good enough.

Three-star ratings are even rarer – only 81 restaurants are on the list. Tim Ho Wan is headed by Mak Pui Gor, the former dim sum chef at Hong Kong's Four Seasons Hotel, where he worked at its three-starred restaurant Lung King Heen.

During the economic crisis Mr Mak branched out on his own to offer his dishes at bargain prices.

His most expensive dish, a plate of noodles, costs the equivalent of about $5.40, and he sells about 750 of his signature crispy pork buns each day.

Other dishes include a cheung fun, or steamed rice noodle roll, with pork livers and delicate jellies containing flower petals. At lunchtime, diners can expect queues of up to an hour on the street.

"Since the news broke, we've been really very busy," said a waitress. "We really are very cheap, but I don't think we are planning to raise our prices."

/more: http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainmen...9429326958.html

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Tim Ho Wan Dim Sum Specialty Shop
2-8 Kwong Wah St., Mong Kok. / 2332- 2896



Thanks to the economic crisis, Pui Gor, former dim sum chef of the Michelin three star Lung King Heen decided that it is the right time for him to open up a tiny and grungy dim sum restaurant in Mongkok. The piece de resistance, crispy cha siu bao is said to be the best seller (>750 in a day!). Most reviews have warned about the queue, so we got there at 10am sharp, just in time to join the already long queue.



After 20 minutes or so, we were seated at one very secluded corner with a table that can only fit two baskets of dim sum. The restaurant is really tiny, put in more than 20 people and it will literally burst.



All the dim sums were made to order, thus the waiting time can get pretty annoying. First to arrive was the traditional glutinous rice with chicken古法糯米雞. The glutinous rice was soft and chewy while the chicken pieces were well marinated. But we still preferred our lo mai kai ala the non-traditional way with mushrooms, cha siu, egg yolk, etc.

/more: http://kampungboycitygal.com/2009/08/hk-tr...wich-mido-cafe/

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