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2014-06-27
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Gum Jeng.....roughly translated from Cantonese means so awesome. What does it serve? Local Hong Kong street food. What's different than the gazillion other Hong Kong street food stalls? First..air conditioning. Second, a place to sit and eat instead of standing in the middle of a dusty street eating a dripping curry fishball. Third...hygienic! Of course, all this comes with a price.So, what is someone like me who has a decent amount of money, can't read Chinese and fearful of eating with the coc
So, what is someone like me who has a decent amount of money, can't read Chinese and fearful of eating with the cockroaches and still love street food? This is my answer. Boyfriend saw the menu, scoffed and walked away. So, I return on my own!
Located in Causeway Bay down Fashion Walk, Gum Jeng is located inside a fashion/lifestyle store called Gum Gum Gum. Gum Gum Gum sells interesting indie clothing and accessories. It was located a couple of stores down and that one sold limited edition Nike and cool pricey men and women's clothing. It then closed and moved here with a little restaurant area. The old store used to also showcase works by local artist, Michael Lau. This one will most likely do the same as for fans of this man will know, Gum Gum Gum is a conceptual collaboration business venture by Michael Lau. For those who don't know who he is, he's pretty popular for his urban graffiti style art work and hip hop style vinyl dolls. He's got a cult following around the world and Nike even hired him to do some work. The man himself was in the restaurant giving an interview when I was eating.
You basically come to the counter, order your food, pay cash, sit and wait for your number to be called. They only accept cash.
Menu is in English and Chinese. They also have smaller menus with pictures.
The place was all minimalistic wood with small black plastic stools. The walls were decorated with Michael Lau's work with price in case you wanted to take one home.
They had a section with plastic forks and spoons along with condiments like spring onions, dried radish and spicy radish. It appeared these were provided by Block 18, the famous doggy noodles place in Jordan. I had visited the real Block 18 a few months ago. Review here: http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.html?commentid=2350968. So, today I eat the same thing served here.
My block 18 doggy style noodles took forever to be made. I think I sat a good 30 minutes and there were only 3 people eating. They say the reason is it's all made to order so it takes a while. Yeah, but if Block 18 prepped you their soup base, etc and those guys also make to order and they have a long queue of people waiting to eat, it shouldn't take 30 minutes when the original guys pass out the bowls of noodles within 10 minutes. It was also piping hot. This bowl was warm. Serving size was in a paper bowl and seemed smaller than the original place. It also charged $36 while the original place was only $25. Still, it tasted pretty good. preserved radish made the soup sweet.
I ordered a roast goose leg, also a specialty of Block 18 and I remembered I loved it when I ate it in Jordan. Block 18 only has a limited supply and they use it as the base of their imitation shark fin soup. But when they have a batch ready, it's sold fast. Here I waited 45 minutes for my goose leg. Jordan, I waited less than 5 minutes. However, there it was wrapped in some slippery piece of paper. This place wrapped it well in a piece of foil. Just like Block 18, it's served dripping in imitation shark fin soup so you get plenty enough soup to try. Leg was delicious. Imitation shark fin soup was overly peppery just like the original place. No idea why it took almost an hour for it when Block 18 prepped everything! Cost $36 where as original Jordon place cost $30.
Like all fancy places, there is fancy fruit juices that cost $30. This place serves fruit juices from local organic fresh cold pressed company, Hyaku. I ordered the green apple, honeydew, lime juice. Wonderful with a touch of ginger. Tasted like Pret a Manger flu buster juice which I love and drink tons of when I feel a cold coming on because it works!
After eating, you're to bring all your trash and toss it in the appropriate bins. Trash bins were packed with garbage. I wonder if it's because the staff was busy catering to Michael Lau's needs and didn't empty the trash?
Block 18, I paid $60. Here I paid $100.
Would I return? Yeah. Cos I eat over priced street food for the air conditioning and hygiene. And I do love the leg.
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