Sunday morning in Hong Kong and the haze was so bad we couldn’t even see the tops of the tallest buildings. Abandoning all plans of going up the Peak to admire the view, we made our way to City Hall for Yum Cha at Maxim’s Palace (well, we couldn’t leave Hong Kong without sampling their dim sum, could we?)
We climbed the stairs, hearts sinking as we saw the throng of people waiting to be seated. Having been given ticket number 241 our hearts sank even further to hear the latest number being called for seating – 168. We figured this must mean an approximate hour long wait for our dim sum, but reasoned that if all these people were waiting that long, it must be worth waiting for, especially as there were also a few wedding parties celebrating in the restaurant.
Well what do you know, our luck was in, as a kind young man sidled up to us and handed us a spare ticket for 2 people – number 194! And we were seated in less than half an hour… so there is a food fairy after all!
We were shown into a massive banqueting hall, and to a table for two amongst the vast, chattering crowd. No sooner were we seated than the first lady with a trolley appeared shouting in Cantonese at us to let us know what she had in her cart. From there on in it was a process of trial and error, peering into each cart as it passed by and agreeing to take whatever took our fancy.
We ended up with a fairly large selection (no surprises there, then!), including some Barbecue Pork Buns, Siew Mai, Prawn Dumplings, Pork and Vegetable Spring Rolls, Xiao Long Bao, Steamed Rice Rolls with Prawns, and Barbecue Pork Pastries.
City Hall, Maxim’s Palace, Hong Kong - www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/CityHall/restaurants1.html
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