Ho Hung Kee

Ho Hung Kee何洪記
Address: G/F, 2 Sharp Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
香港銅鑼彎霎東街2號地下
Tel: 2577 6558

Mr. Donald Tsang, our Chief Executive comes here often for a bowl of Wonton noodle雲吞麵, or a Beef Brisket Ho Fun牛腩河. Their Fried E-fu Noodle干燒伊麵 and Stir Fried Beef Ho Fun 乾抄牛河are regarded as one of the best in town. I like the congee here.

Read the following which is a New Strait Times report written by a Malaysian:

At Ho Hung Kee Congee and Noodle Shop in Sharp Street East, Causeway Bay, we joined the hungry but orderly queue that had formed outside despite there being a whole hour to go before lunch time.

Ho Hung Kee is typically a locals joint, a narrow one-shop lot where those in the queue can whet their appetite by watching the cooks do their thing in the open kitchen in the front and taking deep breaths of the aromas in anticipation of the hot meal to come.

Inside, customers sit almost elbow-to-elbow. It’s amazing how the waiters manage to skillfully squeeze their way through without dumping trays of hot congee and steaming, soupy noodles on customers. Turnover is fast and though the management doesn’t chase customers away, no one is expected to linger after the last mouthful disappears. At HK$24 for a bowl of wantan noodles, it’s cheap by Hong Kong standards. The noodles are springy, the wantan so well flavoured that they inspire you take your time chewing and savouring every mouthful. The abalone congee (HK$95) is smooth and effortless and the vegetables are of the choicest. Our plate of kai lan had not a strand of fibre; instead we could taste the natural sweetness of the vegetable and it didn’t need oyster sauce (served separately)