Tim Kee French Sandwiches — Restaurant in Kowloon

I have always wanted to try the baguettes here, but the location is a bit annoying Made the mistake of choosing AUSTIN even though it was slightly nearer because you need to interchange trains about three times and the trains run on a five minute frequency which I could have walked from the Jordan stop. What made it worse was that it was raining heavily that day when I got there so I couldn’t exactly give up! Anyway finally got there and ordered the baguette. Basically there were only three choices: garlic bread, small baguette and large baguette. While I was waiting I saw some magazine clippings featuring their baguettes and there are four primary ingredients that they put in which are five spice belly, Vietnamese sausage, salted pork knuckle, French pate (I am guessing it is french pate because I cant read the Chinese). When it was made, butter and mayonnaise was spread on the baguette first and it was filled with picked carrots, tomato slices and those four meats. Usually I am picky and would pick out any fat pieces but when I knew it had pork belly after reading the feature it was too late so I left them in there, and secondly there probably wasn’t much pork belly in there in comparison to the baguette. Luckily all the fillings in the baguette were heavily flavoured I could not taste the pork belly and the squishy fat! The salted pork knuckles and French pate were prominent and tasted the best. There was also a strong black pepper in the baguette too. In comparison to previous baguettes I prefer the baguette here because of the pate.

I liked the pate so much that I ordered an extra piece of garlic bread and pate so I could get a better taste of the pate. I should have done that with the pork...

The banh mi from Tim Kee French Sandwiches is very nice, all of them are freshly made and nicely seasoned. The restaurant is not easy to find, as it's located in the alley of the area. The food will not be ready in a second, as their food is order to made, not suggested if you are in a rush. The banh mi is great, as it's crunchy, and the taste of the meat is great too. And it's good that you can park right outside their shop, easy for you to pick up the orders. They offer takeaway only, and they...

SINGAPOREAN REVIEW: 92 HKD for a big sandwich which is equal to a subway footlong.

Food is definitely not Vietnamese authentic nor stuffed/generous with ingredients.

Definitely more expensive and less value than what you can get in SG, which would be a stuffed till bursting, locally made sandwich by a Vietnamese person for 35 HKD.

That said, it's by a cute old man and has some local vintage charm. Would I eat here if I was craving authentic Vietnamese food? Nah. But to get some...