Leaf Dessert
If you feel very hungry and exhausted after visiting the old
streets in Sheng Wan, you can take a rest and eat some snack food in Central at
Elgin street.
Standing in front of the Leaf Dessert, you may have an
illusion that you are living in 50s. The green outside of Dai Pai Dong, the antique
wood chairs and desks still looks as it did originally. Age has not crumbled this
old dessert shop and even created a well-known restaurant in Central. It just
like a travel across the time and space when you sitting here to consume the
food.
“Three stewed beef noodles please!” We ordered the famous
dishes of this little shop. Just a few minutes later, the man with the lightly white hair handed round
the noodles for us carefully. The noodles put into a faded plastic bowl and it
looked like as the universal food that you can find in every restaurant in Hong
Kong. But the air was redolent with an enticing smell which tells you that – it
is not a common dish. The sauce and gravy from the tender meat was spilled out
while you chewing the juicy meat. The al dente noodles make you want to order
one more. Even the stewed beef noodles have an unspectacular appearance, but it
is full of delicious taste.
After
eating some salty food, you may want to have a dessert. Here is a right place
for you. The hot black sesame may too sweet for you but it is the exact traditional
taste which different from the modern style that it may add some fruit and ice
cream on the black sesame. It makes you feel satisfied.
At Leaf
Dessert, you cannot not find the fashion shop design, you cannot have a
comfortable seat even you cannot enjoy the cool air conditioners, but what you
can eat here is the handmade savor with the sincerity from the makers.
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If you
are not full and want to eat more traditional food in Central, you can go straight
and turn right from Leaf Dessert. Then you will arrive at Kung Lee. Kung Lee
has about fifty five years history and renowned for sugar cane products.
Standing
in front of this pre-war tenement building, you can smell the air with fresh
sugar cane because the owner is making many sugar cane juices at the top left
corner of this old shop. You may also feel confused as there are many multifarious
sugar cane goods. You don’t know which products you need to buy or just purchase
all.
Finally,
we bought two sugar cane juices and two sugar cane cakes. Both of these are economical
food – it costs nine dollars for one only. However, the price is not main
reason to attract you to buy. The major reason is you can feel full of loves
when you take a mouthful of sugar cane food which the taste is similar with the
food made by your old grandparents in your childhood.
Kung Lee
is not only a sugar cane food shop, but also the shop can remind you the
wonderful old days. Don't trifle away your time and cherish the time with your
family!
by Food Researcher - Fan Ying Tung 53031807