Chau Kee — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Nice brunch place. I came on a Saturday during lunch time ... There was a long queue outside but being by myself I got a table within five minutes. You need to get a number and they will announce numbers in Chinese only. The usher is pretty unfriendly but not a surprise in HK now, is it. If you're 6'+ you should avoid the rush hours. The tables are tiny and they will fill them with four random people. Keep your elbows in at all times or you'll hit your neighbor and the waitress at the same time. The toast is their specialty and you need to order it from the pictures on the wall (all Chinese). The rest of their menu such as French Toast and Dim Sum is in an English menu. Cannot recommend the milk tea. I paid H$75 for one toast (with that egg custard filling), a milk tea, and shrimp dumplings. Would come again for the toast if I was in their...

Don't know why I waited this long to try this place in my hood! It was empty when I showed up at 1:30pm (tough times for all businesses). Super quick service. The chicken feet spare ribs rice was tiny... smallest portion I've ever seen in my life, but it was delicious and packed with flavor. Small is not a bad thing: it leaves your stomach with more room to try everything else! I had the Golden Lava French Toast. It was perfectly fried, evenly golden on the outside, and the inside was packed with the salted egg "lava" sauce which was runnier than I'd like. The bread was thin -- I wonder if it was a single slice cut into two. I'm definitely coming back to try their...

Luck or fate brought us to this place by chance as the food was extremely delicious. On Saturdays during December winter, especially when it broke the coldest day in HK, it was actually hard to find a cafe or restaurant that was still open at night near our hotel. We didn't want to eat a lot, so we only ordered a few. I love the prawn toast is so freshly cooked with generous prawn paste, and don't underestimate the steam rice. It may look pale in colour, but the taste was on another level. Overall, we really enjoyed the meal opposite our hotel. God really knows where good...