Lung Fung Cafe

Your local «char Chan Teng «(local tea place) with a twist .
Lung Fung is your modernly furnished, new concept wannabe type of local restaurant. Don’t get me wrong, I like how they differentiate themselves from the rest of the 500 other tea places in Hong Kong and how they offer slightly different type of food choices which are original to the restaurant.
Prices are middle ranged (HKD 50 – 90), and their menu offer a wide variety of choices including caviar to go with your usual egg and toast (HKD60) and pineapple ice with real pineapple prices (specialty). Fun choices for a first time visitor and char chan Teng lover.

We starvingly roaming around Electric Road after leaving a networking event that ran late and decided on Lung Fung Café mostly because of it’s décor.
It has the feel of an old style Hong Kong café with it’s colorful tiles and large Chinese characters on scrolls. They do have a variety of things on their menu but ordered the curry chicken with rice ($ 48). The flavor of the curry was OK, but the piece of chicken was small. It also came with a sprinkling of corn which did not fill my craving. I would have to say the yin yang drink that I got was decent though.
Overall, I thought the food wasn’t worth the price.

Just next to the studio that I visit regularly, theres is that street in Tin Hau that is crowded with eateries and restaurants. Amongst them you will find a glow of bring yellow gleaming at you, when you look into it, it is almost like a scene set in the 80’s: mosaic tiles, white uniform on the waiters, the yellow lamps and fans dangling down from the ceiling. The typical portrayal of a Hong Kong cha chann teng no matter in drama or in cinema flicks.
From such a vintage, textbook definition cha chaan teng you would expect foods from the old days? Not quite so, except for their signature pineapple and red bean coolers. They are selling all different sorts of food that are popular nowadays, char grilled chicken fillet with meat floss, sauteed instant noodles, Hong Kong style curry and many more; honestly it is more like fusion food than any other thing else, yet when you think deeper, Hong Kong herself is a place of fusion where east meets west, these fusion items are exactly the embodiment of the Hong Kong spirit.
Speaking of the coolers, the pineapple cooler is definitely it’s signature; using fresh pineapples, the twister like cup is tall and fill with fizzy soda and colorful syrup. It’s not the typical, watery glassful that you find normally in other restaurants. Ordering a glass of this to go with the sauteed pastas, that’s one of my idea of an ideal meals.