Cheung Sam Cuisine 張三 — Restaurant in Hong Kong

Relatively new on Third Street, Sai Ying Pun, Cheung Sam Cuisine is a western restaurant run by a family, in which the father is the chef, mother and daughter made really friendly hosts. Dinner menu is really comprehensive, fish, chicken, steak, pork racks, etc. My friend and I did really take some time to decide what to get. I decided to get a set dinner with soup, a main, dessert and drink, and it was really worth it.

Daily cream soup was this pumpkin soup. It was so creamy yet full of pumpkin mash. Yum yum! And it was very filling indeed!

Main was this 11oz Canda pork rack with pommery mustard sauce. I was told that this kind of pork doesn’t need to be well done, 80% or 90% cooked would be the best. So I gave it a try for 90% cooked.

And it didn’t disappoint! I was actually surprised by how big the rack was! It was very easy to be cut, and the pork was so juicy and delicious! Great ingredients cooked well made a fantastic dish! The sweet potato fries and potato fries were crispy too! We suspected that the little scoop of vegetables on the side was from the minestrone soup, haha! It was good though. Also, the mustard sauce went very well with the pork. Nom nom!

I was very full after finishing the pork rack, so I ordered something light to drink. This lemon honey just made a nice nourishing drink that wasn’t too stuffing.

Daily dessert was either tiramisu or this chocolate dumpling. Since I didn’t know what chocolate dumpling is, I ordered it to try it out. It was a little puff with chocolate custard inside. The puff was served hot so it wasn’t stuffing at all. I was a bit concerned that I might be too full for a dessert, but the saying “dessert goes to another stomach” is so true, and this little puff made an amazing dessert and perfect full stop to this wonderful meal.

If I would be in this area during lunch time, I would definitely like to try out...

Took a chance, popped in for lunch on a Friday. It's a small, intimate venue. Seems like a chef driven location with a gently smiling chef I suspect is the owner.

Decor is a mix of 70s style open brick and 2025 washed concrete with some friendly French cafe-ish animations. Feels like you've stepped into someone's kitchen at home.

I could have got away with the lunch set under $100, but opted for extra soup and extra dessert and extra tea pushing the price up to $180. Well worth it.

The soup was a dark minestrone, more earthy bean than tomato and hearty with flavour without being heavy. A good start!

The lemon roast chicken in a rigatoni with spinach was well balanced and not too heavy. The sauce was not cream based and so lighter than expected but it worked. The chicken was perfectly cooked with a bit of tasty skin. Not too much to set my LDL alarm bells off. Rigatoni - they know how to nail al dente!

Creme brulee with tangerine rind was light with a delicately crisped top. The 'floral earll grey' tea was much better than expected, loose leaf, not a tea bag. Drank it straight and was well pleased.

Would definitely return and maybe try for dinner too.

Only suggestions for improvement would be to offer wine by the glass (only bottle at present). Also, cash or Octopus only. Everyone wants their points...

4.5 stars - very chilled place. A reading book teenager style restaurant with very elegant decoration. You can see from the picture that the restaurant is in a rectangle style and spacey. Given the restaurant has an open kitchen design, the customer will have the chance to interact with not only the waitress but also the chef, both Of them are so nice. The last thing is the food quality - a bit pity to say the food is not as tasty as expected but still have feature like the cheung Sam duck dish. Overall it’s still a...