27 May
Kam Wah Cafe @ Bute Street (Prince Edward), Hong Kong
For our travel itinerary, please click here. Continuing from Hong Kong Day 2 – Mui Kee Porridge @ Fa Yuen Street Wet Market
From Mui Kee Porridge, we walked to Bute Street, in search of Kam Wah Café to get a taste of the best Polo Bun in Hong Kong.
Just across the street from the quaint gold fish market (Tung Choi Street), Kam Wah café is buzzing with activities. At the store front, throngs of people were waiting anxiously for their freshly baked pastries such as the famed polo yao and egg tarts. As we walked in, the restaurant was incredibly crowded but we were lucky to secure a place in less than 5 minutes. It is almost mandatory to share a table with strangers of course. Somehow, I like to eavesdrop on their conversation, revolves around families/friends/partners problems. Such stressful life in HK.
It is quite apparent that Kam Wah is famous for milk tea and polo bun as everyone else was having the same drink and same bun. Feeling greedy, we asked for a double serving of polo bun (sans the butter, HKD 4) and polo yao (with the butter, HKD 6).
“Sek dak sai mah?”, the waitress doubted if we could finish it but we insisted on having four buns all to ourselves.
The famous polo yao in it’s full glory. Do you know that there’s a lady like way to devour a polo bun – press the crust with a fork to prevent the bits of crunches from falling as you bite onto it! I learnt it from one of the TVB drama haha!
The polo bun was really good indeed! The crust is light and crunchy and the bun itself is dense but soft. Paired with slabs of melting butter, and you are in heaven! Motor Mouth shared the same thought too J. Compared to the other variants of polo bun in Malaysia, Kam Wah Café’s polo yao is different. The bun itself is dense, thus it fills up our stomach space pretty fast. Sandwiched between the buns is a slab of home made butter that gave us this zingy taste of lemon. Pretty intriguing!
Such a sinful indulgence of carbs + butter! And yes, we had four polo buns for our morning tea break, and that was after a very satisfying breakfast at Mui Kee.
金華冰廳 Kam Wah Cafe
G/F, 47 Bute Street (Prince Edward)
Posted by Tan Yee Hou on May 28, 2009 at 1:02 am
Sucks being the fish seller. He’ll have to unpack his unsold wares at the end of the day and repack them again heh.
Loved the 菠萝包。 fricking good lah seriously I want to go to HK already zomg.
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Posted by J2Kfm on May 28, 2009 at 8:21 am
we had our breakfast there TWICE over the days!
sooooooo addictive lah. some more GOOD service, unlike most char chan teng.
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Posted by Round Up: 6D5N at Hong Kong & Macau | KAMPUNGBOYCITYGAL on May 28, 2009 at 11:59 am
[...] 2: 妹記生滾粥品 Mui Kee Congee @ Mongkok, 金華冰廳 Kam Wah @ Prince Edward, Disneyland, Citygate Outlet Mall @ Tung Chung, 四季煲仔飯 Four Season Claypot Rice @ Yau Ma [...]
Posted by 550ml jar of faith on May 28, 2009 at 1:03 pm
I love the pictures of the gold fish market! And then 2 buns each for breakfast! Sounds like a perfect Sunday morning in HK!
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Posted by cariso on May 28, 2009 at 9:48 pm
DOUBLE serving, Keng ah you two!
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Posted by taufulou on May 29, 2009 at 11:45 am
wahh~ the polo yau look very hoh liau!!
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Posted by thule aka leo on May 29, 2009 at 2:08 pm
jot everything down as reminder on where to go on my next trip to HK
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Posted by jason on May 29, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Very nice crust!
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Posted by Ÿèõh on May 30, 2009 at 5:04 pm
wow~ the way u described make me feel so hungry leh…
and both of you ordered 2
thats show its really super extremely delicious lo…:)
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Posted by Cumidanciki on May 31, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Carbo Indulgence! Lol.. I lk dat.. Esp in the morns.. But not too late at nite..!
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Posted by Christine on June 1, 2009 at 3:01 am
we love polo yao!
you both can really chow down! 
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Posted by Sugar Bean on June 1, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Haha, how’d you both maintain your weight? Curious curious… Looks good, always love bo lo bao, this would be really good. Nice trip to HK, so much food to enjoy!
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[...] For our travel itinerary, please click here. Continuing from Hong Kong Day 2 – Kam Wah Cafe @ Prince Edward [...]
Posted by Ryan Lee on March 10, 2010 at 11:24 am
Can I have the map location for Mui Kee and Kam Wah Cafe location? Thanks
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kampungboycitygal Reply:
March 15th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
ryan, sore i dun have la. kamwah is easy to find, but mui kee a bit challenging. need to ask d locals wers the wet market
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