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BAKERY
PETITE AMANDA
Finance St, Central;bread/pastries from HK$25/45; 9am-8pm Mon-Fri, from 10am Sat & Sun;
Hong Kong, exit E1)
The creations at this petite patisserie opened by model turned pastry chef Amanda Strang
are beautiful, delicious and fattening. The Charlotte aux Poires and the Amarina are very
popular.
DIM SUM
CITY HALL MAXIM'S PALACE
meals from HK$150; 11am-3pm Mon-Sat, 9am-3pm Sun; ; Central, exit K)
This 'palace' offers the quintessential Hong Kong dim sum experience. It's cheerful, it's
noisy, and it takes place in a huge kitschy hall with dragon decorations and hundreds of loc-
als. A dizzying assortment of dim sum is paraded on trolleys the old-fashioned way. There's
breakfast on Sunday from 9am but people start queuing for a table at 8.30am.
A seat by the window will let you see the harbour or, a more common sight, land reclam-
ation in progress.
DAI PAI DONG
SING KEE
daily; ; Central, exit D2)
In the fine-dining enclave of Soho, finding a good and cheap meal can be tricky. Sing Kee,
one of the few surviving
dai pai dong
(food stalls) in the area, has withstood the tide of
gentrification, and still retains a working-class, laugh-out-loud character. There's no sig-
nage. Look for the crammed tables at the end of Stanley St.
DAI PAI DONG
YUE HING
One of a gang of
dai pai dong
earmarked for preservation, easygoing Yue Hing reinvents
the Hong Kong sandwich by topping the usual suspects (ham, spam and egg) with peanut
butter and cooked cabbage. And it works! Allow 15 minutes for preparation as these wacky
wedges are made to order.
DIM SUM, CANTONESE
LIN HEUNG TEAHOUSE
HK$60/120; 6am-11pm; 26, Sheung Wan, exit E1)
