HONG KONG STREET FOOD | This Hong Kong Style Cafe is Frequented by Celebrities! 

Thank you for sharing this video because I grew up in the building across the street from Cheung Hing Coffee Shop. My bedroom was on the second floor overlooking this coffee shop. The street was fairly narrow. I could smell the coffee and pineapple buns every morning around 6 AM. Back in the 60's, the workers were allowed to sleep in the shop. I could see through the shop windows the hardworking cooks sleeping on the dining tables every night from my vantage point. I live in US now, but I made sure I visited this coffee shop every time I returned to Hong Kong for vacation. The food was as good as ever, if not better.

This traditional Cha chaan teng definitely looked like a travel back in time though the food seems to have caught up with the current times. It was surprising to see Sam ordering the tea and the food items in Cantonese. May we say it shows how much he works hard to learn and adapt to the culture of Hong Kong. I am thousands of miles far from Hong Kong but share some level of his passion for Hong Kong and hope to be there someday. Cheers

As a Hongkonger living in north east England watching a ‘gwai lo’ eating authentic cha chaan teng food in HK, you can imagine how jealous I am! 😅 I’m really impressed by your detailed description of ‘nai cha’ and ‘cha jau’, as many ppl these days don’t even know what the latter is. Keep up the good work and good eat! Cheers!

Thanks, I've been to the restaurant when visiting and learned something from your video. Your passion and love for the history, food and all the details surrounding it are infectious! Love how high quality and well produced this is (as well as authentic!).

Love watching your vids and appreciate your attempts speaking the local language! This place is legit good their pineapple bun and noodles are to die for! Keep it up!!

An excellent video!Thanks Sam. Looks like a very stylish place definitely on my bucket list!!!Looking forward to the next vid👍

Great video Sam, many thanks and appreciate you and Vienne's work to introduce our traditional Hong Kong food. This is really delicious when saw your introduction. :-)

Another great video! Not just the food, but the culture....

Thank you for introducing of so many kinds of Hong Kong food. I discovered and saw many videos not long time before. That’s very great and interesting.😊👍🏻😊

Good to see you back, Sam! More HK videos please. ❤️

Another great video, keep up the good work Sam and Team

I discovered your documentary from Japan Guide. Love them all! I'm pleasantly surprised to find your new channel about HK!!!! I miss HKG. To be honest, I don't know when I will visit again. Thank you for documenting life in this beautiful city. I especially enjoy you bringing us to the local neighborhoods. Excellent show! Can't wait for your next vlog!

Thank you for your detailed explanation on 2 types of Hong Kong style tea. Really appreciate your work 💪👍

Great video Sam. Will check this place out next time we are in Hong Kong. 😊

Always good recommendations thank you ! I will go there for dinner next week. Thanks

Keep up the great work. I recently discovered this channel. Your enthusiasm for my hometown of HK is commendable. You have the potential of being the next Mark Wiens or the Food Ranger

Thanks Sam for another great episode. My Great Auntie lives only a few hundred metres from that place. Next time my partner and I are over (hopefully early next year) we will definitely drop in for a pineapple bun and milk tea. Keep up the great work in these trying times over there. Marcus and Siobhan.

Mmmm satay ngau yook tong mai (satay beef vermicelli in soup) is my FAVOURITE🥰 First time viewer and I'm so happy I found this channel! I don't know many westerners who know HK style food. I don't think it's "trendy" enough for a lot of people to be interested. Thank you for highlighting my hometown and culture so eloquently!! 🤩❤️

Just came across your channel and I enjoyed it so much.I miss Hong Kong for its food, shopping and night markets. My go to destination and stop over every year until the travel restrictions the last few years.Thank you for sharing your videos.

Thanks for sharing Sam and believe you have a great experience with HK coffee shop.

Great video Sam. I moved away from Hong Kong 6 months ago and your video is brining it all back and made me miss Hong Kong. Keep up the good work👍

Your presentation is highly interesting to watch as always. I watching you eating HK food which I have had no chance of eating since covid, has made me most envious!

I never comment on videos but I just discovered your channel and your videos are such a vibe. Keep up the awesome work!

Everything in the cafe looks so delicious, love it 💖💖

Sam, I absolutely love the way you explain the passion which I share that defines HK food culture. The iconic but very much misunderstood (in western countries) HK milk tea. It's something that I missed everyday living in Sydney Australia for the last 40 years. Fortunately, I live in an area of Sydney where there are some good HK style cafes that serve HK milk tea. But your videos have given a cause to hunt down those same famous Tea Restaurants the next time I'm in HK Your exploration of HK food culture from a Westerner's perspective is both unique and wonderful to watch. Keep making these videos and perhaps explore some of the iconic food cultures like tofu desserts, milk custard in sum sui po. The best congees in Kowloon, roasted geese in Central, best egg tarts, hot pots, the list goes on.

Awesome video!! Thanks for sharing!

pop up on my feed!! what such nostalgic videos you got!! i was born in hk but moved to canada when i was a tiny 5 year old. stay safe!

Omg what a pleasant surprise! Aren’t you Sam Evans from Japan guide!! Recognised that narration style and voice in the intro right away in a second (literally). I referred to so many of your videos in that channel for my japan trips in the past. Glad to see you again here in YT😄

Welcome back Sam. Haven’t seen your new taping for months.

Hi Sam, love ur video ! Makes me hungry！

omg thank you - didn't realize there was "cha jau" vs "nai cha" ....learning so much as a Chinese who frequents these cha chaan teng's....does to show there's always something new to learn! thanks for sharing our wonderful culture and immersing both in the food culture and the sharing the Chinese culture too - love your choice of food - never had the pineapple bun with any fillings - will definitely have to try that out next time I go. Thanks for all you do!

That's interesting, I'd like to try different kinds of food here in hk too..., Explore more.. 💕

Excellent and attractive recommendation 😉. Sam you once again successfully attracted our attention to these people HK style mini meals. I been visiting similar cafes in Canada and USA but hardly they can provide similar attractiveness to me compare to this very traditional old cafe which provides excellent meals like those you recommended. Thanks again Sam 😉

Love everything Hong Kong. Keep it coming. Just subscribed. 👍🏻

I grew up in happy valley! Great to see that one of my childhood favs was featured on your channel! ps. 1st video to soon reach the 100K mark, congrats!

Hi Sam, has been awhile. Good to see your video again!! Yum Yum :p

OMG, make my mouth water while watching this footage, I really really miss Hong Kong milk tea + pineapple bun

What makes Hong Kong-style cafes unique and popular with the locals? It is east meets west. Thank you Sam, for introducing Hong Kong culture through your lens. I enjoy watching your videos from the West. Keep up your good work, cheers!

Amazing algorithm bring me here to meet Sam again. Your video can always give me more knowledge about the food and place, great scene and color. The only things that is not good is always see those great food before I sleep.

You linked this video on the cha chaan teng and I remember it. You also did another one on a place in Central. It was open air and I remember the lady owner. Love these places. Hope H.K. never losses them.

Great, enjoy

祥興 A place where I went as a kid for weekend breakfast in the 60,70s (Half a century ago) operated by a brother team if I remember correctly! So far away now! Thanks Sam!

Makes me hungry! Thanks for the informative video. I need to try cha jau. And I hope someday I can find a vegetarian version of the pineapple bun with luncheon meat. That looked incredible.

Hong Kong is a food paradise indeed👍👍. I was there some 5 yrs ago and the sweet memories still on my mind

Darn it Sam! You're made me soooooo hungry!

I'm so glad you recommended this place with REAL FOOD!!! No offense to those pasisonate fans of the hyped up Australia Milk Co that serves basic basic stuff like macaroni with iffy ham... even the fluffy runny scrambled egg you can make at home.... anyhow, will hit up this place for sure later this year when I'm finally back in HK!!!

Went to HK a few years ago and the street food was amazing. Never went to the cafes at that time but will next time I’m there once Covid dies down. Great commentary. How about some reviews of cafe and restaurants on Lamma?

Even though I have been living here since I was born, I hadn't known there was such a tea called "CHA JAU" until I watched this video! From your description, I think the calories of "Cha Jau' may be much higher than that of "Lai Cha' and I guess it is pretty filling too. Btw I enjoy watching your video. Keep up with your good work!

Oh my goodness you. I blinked, saw this and now I really need to get myself to Happy Valley! Thanks for your recommendation =)

Loved this food the most in HK. Simple but amazing! 🍜☕

I've been drinking milk tea for a long time and have no idea or haven't heard about "Cha Jau" also the exact drink that mixed with sweeten condensed milk and the other one mixed with evaporated milk and add sugar. The best milk tea I had thus far mixed with both sweeten condensed/evaporated milk added with syrup sugar usually for bean curd jelly. 2-4 pm is called happy hours where most Cafe pretty much lower its price for the tea menu since there won't be a lots of people eating during those times. That Over Easy Egg & Spam Pineapple Bun and Satay Noodles along with those drinks definitely my best breakfast made in heaven.

Thank you Sam for recording this 1951 traditional We haven’t been back to HKG since COVID.

Dear Sam... You hit one of the Best Cha Chaan Tan in HK.. 👍✌️💪. Can't wait till 2pm to recall the long lost memory of fresh baked pineapple butter bun, pipping hot egg tart at Cheung Hing.. 😋😋👍 You must try them too next time.. Never fail.. ✌️✌️

As a local hongkonger, I would like this video from a local foreigner to eat, comment & share. This is an absolutely good video i have found. Great job!! Looking forward to your next video.

I agree with you that this is the best chacanting in HK. The quality is consistently good and the service always excellent. The servers are the friendliest in the city. In addition to what you have recommended, I would also suggest Cheung Hing’s amazing egg tarts. These are definitely the best in the world! Thanks for your videos.

love this place , right where I lived back when I lived in HomeKong

Thanks for introducing the culture of Hong Kong

I love this feeling, because I can eat some Hong Kong food! @Hong Kong ‘Hoods i will share your video with my friends, anyway Thanks you for sharing your newest video! 😊😊

Very cool video👍👍

Sam thanks for sharing! (small cafe that not many locals know)

Great video Sam. I made the mistake of watching this before breakfast. I need one of those pineapple buns. I've recently discovered a channel called Japan Guide and spotted a familiar face on some of the videos.

Thx 🙏🏻 for bringing me back home HV HKG.

Good to see the good old cha chaan teng still opens. Another old cha chaan teng is the Australia Dairy co. That’s one of the first cha chaan teng ever opened. If you want to learn how, when and why you can look for Lucas Sin, he also explain about how to make yin-yang nai cha. Half black tea and coffee mix with milk. It’s a drink much love among HongKongers. The so call cha chaan teng in other countries are call HK style western food. It’s a restaurant.😑 As working in South California. I missed living in HK.

Nice. Thankyou

Thank you for sharing. And one important point I want to say is that most of the tea restaurants, they have meal sets for breakfast, lunch, afternoon and dinner and these include a FREE hot drink and if you need a cold iced drink, usually just add about HK$3 ( US$0.4 ). I think this is unique in HK 😀

I sure miss & love authentic HK style milk tea and iced lemon tea. There’s some in NYC, but it’s hard to find one in the DMV area.

Thx for sharing...that sign though...NO SPITTING...hahaha... your video makes the experience seem so "classy"...when we all know it's not "wink-wink" -- Cha Chahn Teng -- Tea Time Cafe -- literal translation...just FYI...new to me...didn't know about the two kinds of teas.

that is marvelous

cool man..Respect

Most of my foreigner friends find the local milk tea is too strong for them :) comparing with the tea made with tea bags. Their hearts keep beating after drinking :D yet for me, I cannot wake up without one in the morning.....that's y i easily get home sick when I travel to London hahaha....how about you? Love this video :) thanks for introducing Cha Chann Teng to more foreigners!!

Lovely❤️

Found your channel accidentally. Thank you for filming nice things about HK. I miss my family in HK so much! Haven’t seen them in 2 years! Your Cantonese is very good!

good to see you enjoying hong kong food, but here is some tips for high tea in this kind of restaurant timing for eating is important. you should try fresh made pineapple bun instead of re-heated one. love your video and keep going.

Great videos, mate. I miss Hong Kong so much. I may go to H.K. when China as a whole is done with its zero COVID-19 policy. Which, I hope, is probably sometime next year. I don't want to do hotel quarantine. Keep it up, with your videos. Love your work.

Sam, how similar are pineapple buns and melon pan? They sound like the same thing. Great vid as always!

So miss Hong Kong!! 🥹🥹

Great

Super video as usual. What do you think of Cafe Du Coral

I love going to this place 💥

I'll definitely visit Cheung Hing when I'm in HK.

I miss a lot of Hong Kong cuisine. Sam's accent is English accent. I wonder how many English expats living in Hong Kong. Funny enough a lot of Hong Kong have emigrated to England since 2020.

Just from watching the pineapple bun & satay beef, they are a lot better than others. When holding the pineapple bun, the crust would not break & fall down. The satay shredded beef seemed like being stir-fried (right?), not like majority cha chaan teng that only mixed the sliced beef with satay sauce. These arise my appetite & would like to try someday soon. Thanks for the video.

I recommend can make a video of Lotus cafe in Fan Ling, just went there today, it has one of the best roast pigeon at a reasonable price!

Great video sir!! I remember Central where my sister used to live and visit all the nearby Dai Bai Dongs!! Do you plan to make a video in the future about the stalls and places to eat in the Wanchai area (if i recall correctly Hennesey Road)?

I miss to eating all the good foods cook and baked from Hong Kong yummy yummy and yummy 😋

Looks good. Regards from Malaysian utuber

Best city!❤❤❤

Enjoy your stay in my former hometown. Take good care.

I was born in a hospital in happy valley since the covid I haven’t been able to go back miss all food specially street food dim sum bubble egg hopefully will be able to go back soon

茶走 is da BEST!!

Satay beef noodles is a definitely must-try in Hong Kong. It's a local comfort food here.

Have anyone ever wondered that Hong Kong can combine all these western ingredients to develop Hong Kong style cuisine, but there is hardly any change in western cuisines. Maybe some western chefs need to develop these new venues of dishes?

Miss Hong Kong!

Hong Kong, the city I grow up in. I think Hong Konger make the best tea in the world. We call it Silk Socks Milk Tea(絲襪奶茶）, to make the tea they use the bag looks like a silk sock and put a lot of tea in it. I never eat pineapple bun with egg and lunch meat before, this is something new, usually It is a piece of butter. However I think pineapple burger is good and I will try it when I come back to Hong Kong.

Afternoon tea!

The two meals most important to HK'ers are breakfast and afternoon tea. Afternoon tea is essential to keep the engine going as our work hours are super long I usually only have a full lunch when we have to take out a client for lunch

Thank you

I love Hong Kong's milk tea.

handsome guy who speaks perfect cantonese and good knowledge of the city

Hello, I'm a HK people. Nice to meet you !