Came to this popular dai pai dong with a colleague during lunch hour and boy was it busy. People are required to find seating for themselves, so get ready to wait for a while. This place is popular for serving cheap local eats such as instant noodles, pork chop buns, sandwiches etc. What you'll see people ordering however, are the condensed tomato broth based dishes which they are well known for. I don't expect this place to be a first choice for tomato haters (you know who you are). We ordered tomato macaroni & beef ($25) along with their famous crispy buns of which there are two choices: condensed milk & butter ($11) , and butter & honey with lemon ($11), we opted for both but they forgot our condensed milk bun (it was fine as we were full by then). Now I believe this place is very popular simply because there are not many open-air Dai pai dongs left in Hong Kong, especially in Central where the prices of food are hiked up almost everywhere due to the ludicrous rental prices here, as well as the fact that they've put a unique spin on local simple asian comfort food by the use of tinned tomatoes . The dishes come at a very fast pace (we got our dishes within 10 minutes) due to popular demand and people waiting to eat. The macaroni was in a thick tomato broth with bits of chunky tomato , there are huge tins of crushed tomatoes stockpiled next to the kitchen. It's a good dish for winter as thick broths can warm you up real nice, the broth itself not too sweet, not too sour, and had the perfect amount of seasoning and beef imparted flavour. The beef itself was tender, not chewy, making the dish gentle on the palate. Mind you don't expect the quality of the ingredients to be fantastic. They don't make their own macaroni or peel their tomatoes, this is comfort food at its best, cheap, fast, no fuss, no-frills yet very tasty.

The crispy buns arrived, and these delicious golden crispy buns were light and fluffy on the inside, flakey crust once pulled apart which I love in crispy bread (mmm this is how it should be done) , a thin layer of spread lemon butter gave it a nice acidic zing, not intense at all that you'd have to wash it off.

Now I'm not a tomato guy, but this place is a place to go if you're looking for the true local Hong Kong experience, there are many other cha chaan tengs you can find that serves food like this except for the tomato twist, so if you don't mind waiting.