4 Jun
Four Season Claypot Rice @Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei
For our travel itinerary, please click here. Continuing from Hong Kong Day 2 – Kam Wah Cafe @ Prince Edward
After seeing the fireworks show at Disneyland, we headed to City Gate Outlet Mall (Tung Chung station) which houses outlets from esprit, crocs, mango, roxy, adidas, nike etc to do some shopping. It explains why we bought 3 pairs of crocs from HK huh? That would be another post on another day.
We then dragged our weary feet back to our hotel to drop our shopping bags before heading to temple street area for a late dinner.
Other than Hing Kee or Wai Kee (that precious pea tried), Four Seasons, which is just a street away, was doing a roaring trade with all things claypot too.
Looking for a menu? Just look up!
If you are totally clueless on what to order, just point to what the locals are having at nearby tables. We were glad that we did that because the oyster omelette 細鴨蛋蠔餅 (HKD 20) was really good! Deep fried until crispy, it was very different from those soft and starchy version that we always have. The duck eggs were well complemented by onions, spring onions and those tiny little oysters. Widely use as a ingredient in the process of making noodles, it seems like Hong Konger prefer duck eggs because of their rich yolks and better texture. Is it true?
Rows after rows of claypot rice were cooked on charcoal flames at a make shift stall next to where we were sitting. Thus it takes a while to get our food. Once the pot cover of our claypot beef rice (HKD 18) was lifted, the aroma of freshly cooked rice wafted through the restaurant and it certainly tickled our hunger pangs! Not a big fan of beef? You can always opt for chicken, chinese sausages, pork ribs, fish slices, and many other variations.
Next, break the raw egg open over the steaming hot rice (+ HKD 2)…
Before you tuck into a your bowl of claypot rice,drizzle a dash of dark soya sauce around the rice and toss. Unlike claypot rice that we had back at home, you need to add in your own ’seasoning’ here. Honestly, I still prefer Malaysian style of claypot chicken rice with dash of sesame oil, dark soy sauce (and perhaps msg?). KampungBoy objected, because he loves the claypot rice in its original state – 飯香 (singular aroma of rice) with the nutty, slightly charred crust of grains found at the bottom and edges of the pot! What’s your take?
四季煲仔飯 Four Season Claypot Rice
油麻地鴉打街46-58號
46-58, Arthur Street, Yau Ma Tei
(adjacent to Temple Street)
Posted by Tan Yee Hou on June 4, 2009 at 7:10 pm
HK FTW man.
Went out one night on my own just to grab food. I like how you feel safe in that city.
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Posted by Round Up: 6D5N at Hong Kong & Macau | KAMPUNGBOYCITYGAL on June 4, 2009 at 9:34 pm
[...] Day 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 Tei, Temple Street [...]
Posted by J2Kfm on June 4, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I’d take the Malaysian version for the richer flavours. no need add own sauce and seasoning …. =P
lazy bum me.
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Posted by cumidanciki on June 5, 2009 at 9:37 am
luv dat shot of the bull’s eye. something bout runny egg.. just makes everything better:P
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Posted by allie on June 5, 2009 at 12:35 pm
The oyster omelette is so different from the one we have here. Looks so good! I miss HK food… Need to plan a trip back there d.. cannot tahan ar!
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Posted by Pureglutton on June 5, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Ohh…i like the look of that Oyster Omelette! Yums!
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Posted by mimid3vils on June 5, 2009 at 3:44 pm
HK definitely have more choices of claypot rice~~
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Posted by jason on June 5, 2009 at 8:59 pm
It does look a little plain doesn’t it?
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Posted by Ÿèõh on June 6, 2009 at 3:55 pm
oyster omelette looks crunchy and the egg yolk is so beautiful~
i think i would prefer to add seasoning on my own…
customers know their taste of preference better…
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Posted by jrhogan on June 25, 2009 at 11:59 am
Nice writeup. I went to HK last year, stayed just around the corner of Temple Street but never ate much here.. Except for a corner shop (forgot name) who sold lovely wan tan mee. Dry or soup, the noodles are amazing. Still I wonder why Malaysian noodles are so far apart.
David
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Posted by Andrew on September 6, 2009 at 12:24 am
Thanks for the post. Do you know what time does this claypot place operate?
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kampungboycitygal Reply:
September 6th, 2009 at 12:57 am
hi i think from dinner time till late. we ate there around 12am :p
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