Saturday, March 30, 2013

Lin Heung Tea House (蓮香樓), Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong

Lin Heung Tea House, Wellington Street

I read that this venerable institution (160 Wellington St  Central, Hong Kong, tel : +852 2544 4556) has been serving affordable trolley service dim sum since 1926. Eating here was akin to hopping into a time capsule back into a era when eating dim sum was.....well, a little different. Let's just leave things at fleetness of foot and thickness of skin helps some. Kinda like what's needed for a scrum in rugby.

The atmospheric din and crowd that one has to contend with and absorb are at the least, an experience that is better gone through than described by words. I meant that in a most positive way.

I managed to get most of the pictures of what we ate. The food was altogether hearty, comfortingly delicious and familiar. Special mention goes to their lotus seed paste buns which rocks! I'm thinking that I've just scratched the surface of what this tea house has to offer. Which gives me a very good excuse to come back again when I next return to Hong Kong

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
steamed lotus seed paste buns

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
it comes with salted egg yolk in the middle. good stuff!

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
steamed pork and chive dumplings I think

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
steamed beef balls with orange peel

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
cheong fun with shrimp stuffings

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
steamed chicken and mushroom wrapped in bean curd skin

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
steamed something else wrapped in bean curd skin, might have been shrimp and mushroom

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
siew mai

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
dai bao

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
bao asundered!

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
pak tong ko (white sugar cakes)

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
steamed claws of the mascot bird of the secret order founded by Albus Dumbledore

Lin Heung Tea House, dim sum
char siew bao

Lin Heung Tea House, Hong Kong
the atmosphere

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