Sheung Wan Market and Cooked Food Centre — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

There is a tiny shop inside the Shang Wan Market Building that sells a traditional Chinese delicacy - preserved salty ground up olive in oil 油杬菜. This olive paste is considered a condiment, often eaten together with plain rice congee. Apparently, the kind that this shop sells is so good, so unique in its flavour that Hongkongers who have emigrated abroad will pay this shop a visit every time they happen to fly back to Hong Kong and buy a crate full of this preserved olive paste, ie. by the dozens. Just hope that every bottle of this prized delicacies arrive safe and intact at their final destination. After all, they are packed in glass jars. I am no connoisseur of this paste and am definitely not a salesman who is tasked with promoting this olive paste but do give it a try. I believe the majority of customers of this olive paste are those who grew up in the years before Hong Kong became an international financial center and an Asian metropolis. Any years before the seventies in the last century were lean years. The standard of living was not high. Neither was the take-home pay for the average breadwinner. Meat on the dining table was not an everyday fare. It was common in these times for Hongkongers to supplement their meagre choice of dishes with this olive paste. With its saltiness, a small amount is sufficient to make a bowl of white rice tastier. I am sure many retirees just cannot outgrow this olive paste, not only for the unique taste they have been so used to, but also the countless memories at the dining table when this paste was a...

An absolute hidden gem! Considerably “off-the-beaten-path” of a regular tourist. There are no IG opportunities here. Instead it is no frills, working class, unsophisticated, loud, rough around the edges, BUT very real and authentic. While the first two floors of the market was closed and deserted, the 3rd floor where the centre is located was bright, bustling and quite inviting. We didn’t know which stall to pick so we headed to what seemed like the friendliest one. It was called Dong Kee. Matronly aunties waited on the tables, while elderly SiFus were sequestered in the tiny kitchen. Ordering from the pictures in the menu with a smattering of the local dialect, we (over) ordered five dishes and a soup. Everything arrived in a jiffy piping hot. Absolutely everything was super fresh, delectable and so well prepared. Portions were very generous. The 10/10’s were the unique Salt Baked Grey Mullet and Tenderloin Beef Hotplate. With a beer, the bill was +HKD700 which seemed reasonable. Will...

It is quite quiet place，with dim sum點心，very nice, and tell you a secret, the Dim sum stall will charge lesser on Sunday, and with self serve Chinese tea, you need to pay only. 1...hkd, wow, thanks for the kindness of the boss.

The most favorite dish for me would be the mushrooms chicken stem rice 北菇雞飯, and the sticky rice chicken 糯米雞

By the way, there is a famous Japanese food stall providing high quality and low price Japanese Ramen, eel rice BBQ... And so many others type of food.

For the market inside, not much stall there, but you can find a row of flower stall on the second floor, it is nice and not expensive, valentine day is coming, buy a bundle of roses for your G friend here, and that will surely have surprise there, happy...