Tim Ho Wan 添好運 ♥ ♥

 

Wednesday morning. 11:00 am. Waiting time: 1.5 hours.

If you think this is bad, please calm down and try not to react violently when you read the next line.

 

This is BEFORE the Michelin star.

Imagine the wait on weekends, lunch breaks, and after office hours. Now don’t you wish you were me and Shirley and Dora?

 

Shrimp and chives dumplings 鮮蝦韭菜餃 – the skin is soft and thin and so delicate you gotta possess excellent chopsticks skills to deliver these babies into your mouth intact. Delicious!

 

Kimchi and beef dumplings 泡菜牛肉餃 – brilliant idea that fails in execution. The taste is just too weird.

 

Turnip cake 臘味蘿蔔糕 – with real radish strips inside

 

Chicken feet in black bean sauce 豉汁蒸鳳爪 – my favorite dimsum item! And Tim Ho Wan’s doesn’t disappoint. This is so mighty good it has the power to develop in all of you feet-fearing people out there an enslaving fetish for toe-sucking, I tell you.

 

Malay sponge cake 香滑馬拉糕 – soft and springy, me likey

 

Pork and Shrimp Dumplings 鮮蝦燒賣皇 – homemade goodness

 

Fried Pork and Vegetable Dumplings 家鄉鹹水角 – so oily but so good it’s worth the cholesterol high

 

Vegetable spring rolls 錦繡菠菜麵春卷 – quite ordinary

 

Rice flour rolls with shrimp  韭黃鮮蝦腸 – nothing special

 

Rice flour rolls with pig liver 黃沙豬潤腸粉 – now this is something else. Unique and tasty.

 

Glutinous rice with chicken in lotus leaf 古法糯米雞 – HUGE! Generous meat filling, too. A meal in itself.

 

Baked BBQ pork buns 酥皮焗叉燒包 – there is nothing wrong with your vision. Three plates. Yes, that is how good.

 

Baked BBQ bun innards

 

AFTER the controversial Michelin star:

Thursday morning. 10:30 am. Waiting time: 2 hours.

Some repeats, some new items, but no photos this time. Sorry.

Steamed Chiu Chow dumplings 潮州蒸粉果 – soft, chewy, crisp, crunchy, the play of textures in my mouth… divine!

Beef balls with preserved orange rind 陳皮牛肉球 – not a fan

Steamed shrimp dumplings 蝦餃 – just ordinary

Pork spareribs in black bean sauce 豉汁蒸排骨 – tender

Glutinous Rice 腊味糯米飯 – not a fan

Fish sticks in olive paste 欖角蒸魚滑 – DO NOT ORDER!!! This is even weirder than the kimchi dumpling!

 Lady and Gentlement, in case you need to use the loo, look for Lucy and Charlie

 

Tim Ho Wan 添好運: Shop 8, Taui Yuen Mansion Phase 2, 2-20 Kwong Wa Street, Mong Kok. 旺角廣華街2-20號翠園大樓2期地下8號舖. +852-2332-2896