eating in hong kong #1 goldfinch

again? wasn’t i just there?

yes. and yes. man, do i love hong kong or what? so i went back with a colleague who is new to china/hong kong and had spent her first week in hong kong eating at the grocery store near the office. as her time in asia is limited, i was rather disappointed and told her that that was no way to see hong kong, especially if her visits to hong kong would be minimal in the future.

now it just so happened that i wanted to go to hong kong anyways, since it had been since chinese new year that i had been there last, so i invited her along to see my hong kong, which of course consists mainly of eating.

plenty of people have written and photographed about goldfinch cafe much better than i could ever do. the nostalgia value is there, with the posters of “in the mood for love” and “2046″

the atmosphere was so thick, you’d think tony leung and maggie cheung were just around the corner eating soy sauce western food.

oh yeah, the food. well, they offered a set meal with soup and rice dish and drink. so 3 of us (out of the 4) ordered the pork chop and rice. the cantonese soy sauce cuisine pork chop has its beginnings in the tonkatsu pork chop of japanese heritage, but the breading is fried up slightly crispier than panko breading tends to fry up.

and it was everything a pork chop could be. juicy, flavorful, without being oily or fatty. fried up just right, it was really the pork chop to end all pork chops.

the soup was historically mediocre (only cream or tomato soup) – but that pork chop. it makes me weep with joy with how good it was.

come for the nostalgia, or if you’re a wong kar wei fan. stay for the western set lunch – and if they’re offering that pork chop, get yourself on that.

goldfinch cafe
G/F., 13-15 Lan Fong Rd., Causeway Bay
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$50 HKD ($7 USD) for the set-lunch