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Get Your Breakfast Fix @ Miu Fat Chai

If you want the real deal in Hong Kong and eat breakfast where the locals do, venture into To Kwa Wan on 37 Mei King Rd and grab a table in Miu Fat Chai 妙法齋.

This cosy restaurant serves affordable breakfast sets – standard fare in most Cha Chaan Tengs – a big bowl of noodles, toast and drinks and the bonus point is all food serve here are vegetarian.

Miu Fat Chai has now become one of the top restaurants I hang out with parents for yum cha on the weekends.

Here’s a typical breakfast spread:

preserved veggie, ham shanghai noodles

Shanghai noodles

Preserved vegetables and shredded ham slices in Shanghai noodle soup.

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Shanghai veggie galore

Think shark’s fin, sea cucumber and abalone but veggie style.

How will it look and taste like?

sea cucumber and abalone

Long time chef Mr Luk decided to venture into vegan cusine, he set up Chihara, a private kitchen in one of the factories in Aberdeen.

If you’re inspired by dishes from Shanghai, Beijing and Sichuan, click to find out more.

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Great eats

When I feel like cooking up a storm at home, which I rarely do, I would head to Great supermarket at Pacific Place to buy some fresh ingredients for my pasta dish. I usually pass by the food hall but seldom pause to check out the menu.

One evening, after a night of walking, my friend Faridah decided we should grab some food there. So here we are, it’s got such a ‘fancy’ name for each dish, I couldn’t stop myself from taking notes.

Veggie potage

Veggie potage

We started off with an appetiser called the vegetable potage mint goat cheese crostini. I like that mushy potato when it melts in my mouth, which is topped off with soft yet rich cheese.

Next up, we ordered the poached egg topped Fontina and Spinach tart.

poached egg topped fontina & spinach tart

poached egg topped fontina & spinach tart

This is a novelty to me and I’m a big fan of filo pastry. Apparently, the egg is organic from New Zealand and the flaky filo pastry is filled with sauteed creamed spinach and fontina. I love poached eggs especially when the yolk oozes out covering the crispy pastry, yum!

veggie white pizza

veggie white pizza

The main dish of the night was the vegetarian white pizza. It’s topped with ricotta cheese, broccoli, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, grilled egg plant and tomato.

I personally prefer if the pizza crust is thin, this was relatively thick, so it filled me up pretty quickly and I had to pack the remainder home.

Overall, I like the environment despite it being located just beside the supermarket. It was 9ish, guess there weren’t many shoppers, so we could enjoy our dinner in peace and catch up with gossip. So much for the exercise earlier, rewarded myself pretty quickly indeed.