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)
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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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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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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DOUBLE serving, Keng ah you two!
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wahh~ the polo yau look very hoh liau!!
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jot everything down as reminder on where to go on my next trip to HK
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Very nice crust!
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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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Carbo Indulgence! Lol.. I lk dat.. Esp in the morns.. But not too late at nite..!
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we love polo yao!
you both can really chow down! 
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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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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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Apart from the pretty good Polo Bun with butter (I might swap it with French butter next time I go there haha!), they also sometimes do a very good Egg Tart – when its not underbaked! A big gamble!
When its good, its the best in Hong Kong.
When its not, it tastes like some weird soda powder ! :S
I am still deliberating over where they make the best Polo Bun and Egg Tarts, that’s after 2 years of searching after repatroning back to HK!
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kampungboycitygal Reply:
December 6th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
haha the term “Best in Town” is very subjective sometimes, I’ve even heard that you can find the best egg tarts in Tai Cheong, Honolulu or Kam Fung. It all boils down to your own personal taste I guess? and I’m more inclined towards egg tarts with flaky crust
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HK Epicurus Reply:
December 7th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Its not an easy task, finding the best egg tart or buns out there
Some shops are so inconsistent, so u need to try them a few times before judging, to be fair! And the Flaky Pastry type is very hard to get right, whereas the Biscuity type like the one served in Tai Cheong is easier, but they kind of win on egginess factor I guess!
Some other supposedly famous Egg Tart shops in HK I can recall right now 新華茶餐廳 (長沙灣 branch), 祥香園茶餐廳, 蘭亭咖啡閣, etc. I personally like St. Lolan Bakery’s version in Sai Wan! Each to their own
.-= HK Epicurus´s last blog ..Laduree @ Joyce – ♕♕♕♕ =-.
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kampungboycitygal Reply:
December 7th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
how i wish that we found your blog much earlier. we did tai cheong last yr and honolulu this yr. will definitely turn to your recommendation if we are going back to HK!