The Derby

Back when the school I went to was in Wan Chai, we had one amazing privilege: we could leave the school during lunchtimes and eat out. Our school was situated near Morrison Hill and we were about a ten minutes’ walk from Times Square. Needless to say, our dining options were pretty endless.
Even so, there were days when we were just tired, hungry and didn’t want to go far. And on days like this, we went to Derby.
Literally about a minute’s walk (or less, if you run) from our school, Derby was a very popular option among students in our school. They had very affordable lunch sets in the form of ABCD that changed often. Usually, they were things like beef steak and pork chop, and you could choose to have it accompanied with either rice, spaghetti or potato wedges with vegetables. I usually went with potato wedges, and I would opt for rice on occasions that I felt particularly hungry. Side note — their rice is a pretty large portion, so when I get that I usually ask for less so that I’m not wasting half of it.
The food here is nothing super spectacular, but it’s not bad. The waiters here are friendly and when you’re there pretty much every day a week, they began to recognize us as the students from the school over there and were always very nice to us. Service is quick — food is always served to you within ten minutes. You get a choice of drink with your meal and I usually opt for iced milk tea. I’m more of an iced lemon tea person normally, but there’s something about the milk tea here that is just so good!
There was this once though that when I was going to the restaurant through the back door (the back door is closer to our school), there was a cockroach crawling on the door! Needless to say, we never used the back door again!
I haven’t back to Derby in a while, but thinking back on the good olé school days and our countless lunchtimes there, I won’t hesitate going back again (this time maybe for a drink — Derby is a sports bar, after all!) if I’m in the area!