Background music playing.
We're hungry in Hong Kong and that can only mean one thing.
We're going out for lunch and we're going to eat dim sum.
So we're going to be eating at Tim Ho Wan it's a Michelin Star restaurant here in Mong
Kok in Hong Kong and it's one of our favorite places.
We've been here, I don't know, maybe five times in the span of week, so we're going
to show you what you can get inside.
Background music playing.
So they have a pretty cool menu over here.
Thankfully it's in English not just Chinese, so when you first sit down at the table you
just check-off the food items you'd like to order, you specify a quantity and then they
bring it to your table as it is ready.
Background music playing.
Tasty Pu-erh tea from Yunnan Province, it's a dark fermented tea.
My oh my, all of the food is arriving at once and over here we have a special little package
with sticky rice wrapped in a lotus leaf and this rice comes with beef and chicken.
It's really tasty.
One of our favorites.
Steaming hot.
Background music playing.
This is going to be hot.
Hahaha!
Oh, it is hot.
I need a second to tell you about it.
So yeah, this sticky rice is really good.
I think it's actually called glue rice on the menu and it just has a very sticky consistency
as you can see.
You can just pick it up with chopsticks and it's been cooked with meat and chicken, so
it has a nice meaty flavor to it.
Out of all the different kinds of dim sum I've ever tried this is probably one of the
most filling by far.
Background music playing.
Well, we certainly polished that off except for the bone.
So next up I'm trying the glutinous rice dumping filled with meat.
It's been deep-fried.
Ow, hot.
Everything is hot.
Mmmmm.
Well, you can't see the inside right now but it does have meat.
Let me prove it.
You can see it there.
Mmmm.
Looks good.
It's like a ball of sticky rice with meat inside.
Background music playing.
And when it comes to dim sum this is my all-time personal favorite the barbecue pork bun.
But this is a special variety of it baked barbecue pork bun.
So, bite time.
Mmmmm.
Show us the inside.
Ooooh, look at that barbecue pork.
Yum.
It's just so sweet and flavorful.
The inside.
The barbecue pork bun.
And the outside of the bun it's so delicately crispy.
Well, we've got one more dish coming.
It is called tonic and pedelar cake.
How does that sound to you?
MMMMnnnn.
Let me correct you on that.
It's called tonic, medlar and petal cake as in flower petals.
So I'm not really sure what to expect maybe something that tastes like perfume.
And it was from the dessert section.
Background music playing.
I really hope Iike it.
It's cold.
Like gelatin.
Sweet like honey.
Michelin star quality that even a cheapskate extraordinaire can afford.
Lets see the total.
So that is 77 Hong Kong dollars which is just under 10 US dollars.
Background music playing.
Dim Sum Square!
We're been walking for what feels like at least an hour to find this place.
We actually ate over here yesterday when we took a food tour of the city and it was amazing.
So Sam wanted to find it again.
And we didn't have any map or any directions with us, so we have to kind of place it by
memory.
And we did a good job.
Yes, we're here.
Let's go eat.
So this place has a pretty cool menu.
They just give you a slip of paper and you check off which food items you'd like to have.
Fortunately, this one also has English writing, so
it makes our job much easier.
Let's see.
background music playing.
So if you've been following along with our food videos for a while you'll probably remember
we had Dim Sum several times in Malaysia.
It was excellent but this is where Dim Sum originated from.
From Hong Kong.
And it's just a notch better.
So in many of the other dim sum restaurants we've been to especially in Malaysia they
come around to your table with push carts and you're able to select what kind of Dim
Sum you'd like to eat.
But because we're here in Hong Kong and space is so limited you have to order from a menu
and they just bring it to your table.
There is no way they can push a little cart around in this small confined space.
So Dim Sum literally means small bite and if you were to invite someone out for dim
sum you would actually invite them out for tea.
background music playing.
So this is my favorite one.
The shrimp dumpling.
Even though I normally don't like seafood.
I don't like shrimp.
It's okay when it is in dumpling form.
I'm going to dip it there.
This is really hot.
Still steamy.
Nice and plump.
Background music playing.
So this here is a new one we're trying.
I've never had this before.
It's a deep fried glutinous rice ball with pork stuffing inside.
So I can already tell it's crispy.
That is sooo sooo good!
It's almost a bit like a mini meat pie but it's got that stickiness of the glutinous
rice inside.
Oh, it's so good.
Oooh, more food.
Background music playing.
So this is another favorite of ours.
It's called the crispy barbecue pork bun.
And what Iike about it is almost sugar coated.
It's really sweet on the outside and the barbecue sauce inside is also quite sweet.
So it feels like a dessert even though it is meat.
Mmmmmm.
It's nice and fluffy like a pastry.
Like a French pastry.
Oh, yeah.
What do you got there?
Mango pudding for dessert.
It's not homemade.
I was expecting a little homemade bowl but its nice.
So this wonderful dim sum feast which consisted of four different dishes and tea only came
to seventy two Hong Kong dollars which was a steal.
Basically that's less than ten US dollars to feed both of us.