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Colonial food is uniquely tasty. Quite true, you can find Portuguese food in Macau, and here we go, the manufacture of French colonial times, Vietnamese Baguette / Bun incorporated the crispy texture as well as the spiced vegetables and meat inside.Tim Kee is undoubtedly my top recommendation for trying Vietnamese Baguette in Hong Kong. Albeit you have to walk a bit either from Jordan / Austin Road/ Kowloon Station, search for this unspectacular shop near the ex-Jordan Road ferry area. It is eas
Tim Kee is undoubtedly my top recommendation for trying Vietnamese Baguette in Hong Kong. Albeit you have to walk a bit either from Jordan / Austin Road/ Kowloon Station, search for this unspectacular shop near the ex-Jordan Road ferry area. It is easy to find, after we have been walking all through around, when you see “Lo Chiu” Vietnamese food and 7-11, Tim Kee is just right next to the convenience store, opposite to the Vietnamese restaurant.
There isn’t outstanding decoration nor big bill post, but when you spot the light box outside, as well as the openrice sticker (recognizing them for getting more than 100 good comments), you’re at the right spot.
I went there with another friend, at around 6-ish before dinner. After the long walk and search for this shop, we were quite hungry and longed for trying this famous Baguette! We ordered a small size baguette ($22), one serve of Garlic Bread ($5) and one serve of fried Spring Rolls ($12 for 3 rolls).
The shopkeeper (I think he’s the boss) was quite nice, he showed us the two different sizes of Baguettes when I asked him how big they were, his wife showed us a box of Spring Rolls and allow us to choose between the more crispy one ($12 for 3 rolls) and the less crispy one ($12 for 4 rolls). It’s serving like home, probably because we arrived early, before people rushed here and grabbed their Baguettes.
The shop wasn’t big, with 3 spare chairs for us to sit, with a TV to watch, no official tables but 2 small benches near the door. After 5 minutes, the “boss” nicely cut our Baguette into half, and packed nicely with one slice of Garlic Bread in each bag. We were excited when we saw the pack!
Crispy – an undeniably correct word to describe both the Baguette and Garlic Bread crust.
Garlic Bread - $5 for 2 slices, not bad at all, you can smell the Garlic sauce before eating, not oily when you ate it. The sauce was fully spread on the surface of the piece. Surprisingly good.
Small Vietnamese Baguette - $22 – I wish I would have bought the large one, $42, for value as well as the food inside the bun. The large one looks like more than 1 foot long, while ours is around halved. But still, the vegetables inside are mildly sauced, I could smell the spices, the colour of the carrot slices is appealing, what a pity that they put just a few slices of meat inside. We just couldn’t stop eating, fresh and stimulating.
The spring rolls are ready when we were eating our Baguettes. Well… a bit disappointing, the spring rolls were not hot enough, a bit raw, and not as crispy as the buns. Meat and carrot minced inside, not heavily spiced. The specialty of this shop is not spring rolls, but the Baguettes!
We almost finished our dinner and more customers came in a row. (See the picture) I saw most of them ordered the large size, and shopkeeper politely asked them how many slices they would like it to be served. Some of them take away and ate in the car, some stayed, stood and ate in this small shop. Crowded and homely.
Recommended for those who like Vietnamese food, and those who don’t.. cos’ you might be in love with Vietnamese Baguette once you taste it. I will go there again, and don’t have to search every shop around again. =]
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