We Ate Hong Kong's BEST Food for 24 Hours 🇭🇰 | Hong Kong Food Tour

Hong Kong is known for having some of the best food in Asia so we gave ourselves 24 hours to find out if it really lives up to the hype. In this video we're going on a food adventure trying some of Hong Kong's most iconic dishes from classic local breakfasts to famous street food and some of the city's most popular dishes. At the end of this video we'll decide whether Hong Kong deserves its reputation as one of Asia's best food destinations. So without further ado let's eat. That's proper indulgent. Today we are going to one of Hong Kong's most iconic brunch spots. This place is called Kam Wah Cafe and they are famous for a very very good pineapple bun. So yeah we're going to need to check this one out. Okay pineapple bun has been secured. The fun thing about this is there's actually no pineapple in here. It gets its name from the kind of sugar topping. The way they bake it the kind of encasing cracks and it looks like a pineapple skin. So that's where it gets its name from. I was really confused because I actually thought I was getting an infused pineapple bun but hey it looks bloody fantastic so we're very happy. Inside there should be a thick bit of butter in there. Look at that. That looks very tasty. Thank you. And we've just had our second dish arrive. We've also gone for a ham sandwich as well to try. Oh wow that's so tasty isn't it? I love the gooey salty butter in the middle. The bun's hot and the butter's melted and it's just absolutely delicious. The top layer on these buns are so unique. I've never had a like bun or pastry like this where it's like super kind of fluffy and fresh on the inside. That butter as well is so like comforting and then the top is this like sugary salty and crunchy. You can buy these buns in most bakeries in Hong Kong. A lot of them they don't serve them warm with the butter inside so definitely if you're in Hong Kong come to a cafe or a milk tea restaurant where you can get it hot with that butter because it just elevates it doesn't it. Thank you so much. Just had our milk tea arrive as well. Very good cup of coffee. It's nice. No frills. What I like about these sort of places they're so chaotic and fast. There's lots of sharing tables. People are moving around the whole time. It's quick service and yeah it's just like that chaotic Hong Kong energy which we've loved so far. How was the milk tea? Yeah milk tea I think I want a sugar in it actually. I think I'm going to add a sugar to that. Yeah it's nice. It's a really nice tea flavour. Yeah it's kind of it's quite similar to like an English breakfast tea isn't it? Yeah like milky tea. Yeah it does need a sugar as does my coffee as well but that bun 10 out of 10. That bun honestly top foodie bite here. I think it's fair to say we were off to a flying start with Kam Wah Cafe. Next we're heading to another Hong Kong institution the Australian Dairy Company to try some of their famous breakfast dishes. We're in the iconic Australian Dairy Company. We've been served our food lightly and fast. It's arrived probably like 30 seconds. Literally 30 seconds. We have got the macaroni soup with ham. We have perfectly scrambled eggs and we also have the iconic Hong Kong French toast. Let's start with dessert. I feel like you're going to need to pass me the syrup straight away. Look at this toast. Wow. Mmm that is so tasty. It's um if you know the Lyle's golden syrup it tastes like that. That is so nice wow. Like a warm hug in your mouth wow. The toast is actually like it's really light and fluffy like it's not what I was expecting. I was expecting the French toast to be almost like heavy like filled with all it's like almost like battery. It's really fluffy and really light and then the flavour is like fantastic. Yeah yeah. Let's try the eggs next. The eggs yeah. Go on now. They look great. They look perfectly glossy don't they? They do a good job with the toast here and the scrambled eggs look bloody good as well. Let's try. Also really good. It's so tasty. Yeah. Really nice eggs. Wow. They're so glossy. Good no? Really good. Should we try quickly there? We'll try the soup now before we tuck into the meal. I have never had pasta for breakfast um so very intrigued by this. So this one is a chicken soup with macaroni in it and then you've got ham on top as well so yeah an interesting combination. Interesting combination. It's kind of like you've got your Heinz chicken soup from the cupboard you've got your little macaroni and you've got the ham that's been in the back of the fridge. And you wait for ham on top. It's like yeah you've not been to the shop in weeks and it's uh putting together what's ever left in the store cupboard kind of meal. Chicken soup is really nice to be fair. It's literally what it says on the tin. Chicken soup with pasta in it. It's kind of like a Hong Kong version of a minestrone. Overall we really enjoyed our meal and the french toast and glossy scrambled eggs were definitely the highlights. We only waited 10 minutes for a table so we definitely recommend giving this spot a try if you're in the area. After brunch we explored Kowloon before hopping on the Star Ferry over to Hong Kong Island. By then we'd worked up an appetite so it was of course time for another Hong Kong classic. So we are in Chung Hing Kee's famous pan-fried bun place and yeah we've ordered the signature pork pan-fried buns and apparently they are scalding hot inside so you have to be very careful. There's warning signs everywhere saying that the soup is scalding hot so you're meant to yeah take a tiny bite, suck all the soup out and then enjoy. I told you to take a small bite carefully and slowly suck the soup out. Oh my gosh that is delicious. Wow. That's actually very unique. The pork inside sitting with all the soup gives it so much flavour. Time for a bite I think. Yeah all right. I think I'm at that stage. Let's go. All right sure maybe let you go first and see how hot it is. It's still bloody hot. Okay I'm in. I've got some leakage but I'm in and yeah that is brilliant. Really really good. Crispy on the bottom from the pan-fried yeah and really good flavour inside as well. Yeah I love it. It's fair to say that the pork buns easily live up to the hype. After that we found an afternoon coffee spot that was quite literally freezing. Minus 86 degree coffee here at De Mont's building and yeah it's absolutely freezing at the start and the glass is completely frozen as you can see and then yeah by the time you drink your coffee it's gone it's gone from hot coffee to cold coffee. I don't even know why I'm drinking my ice for this but it tastes pretty good. So we have completely demolished our minus 86 degree coffee. It's actually now completely frozen in the bottom of our cup. We've got some frozen milk in there which is not the most appetizing but this is 68 Hong Kong dollars which is about £6.80 so yeah it's quite expensive but yeah if you're here in the area then yeah have yourself a little coffee boost why not. The coffee was definitely a fun novelty but at almost £7 we'd recommend sharing one. Next it was time to see Hong Kong from the water so we hopped on the iconic Aqualuna for afternoon tea. We are on the famous Aqualuna cruise here on the Victoria Harbour and we've got an amazing afternoon tea set here as well and the views are so beautiful. Yeah we're very very lucky to experience this. We've got an amazing spread of dim sum, different afternoon tea cakes, we've got a little glass of rouge as well to enjoy for the afternoon so feeling very lucky. Not too shabby. All right we're tucking in and so far so good. Yeah I'm going to try the next dumpling which are all filled with shrimp so yeah Megan unfortunately is not going to have any of these dumplings because it's got shrimp in for her but yeah I've had one very tasty let's try this one. This one looks like a beautiful colour it's almost like I don't know mixing with like seaweed or pepper oh it's truffle. Yeah I got the menu this morning and a lot of them I can't eat unfortunately but he's got a truffle and shrimp dumpling so enjoy that. It's very tasty to be fair yeah very nice it's like the truffle in the dumpling casing yeah kind of just like brings it all together and you've got the tasty shrimp in the centre as well. One I can have is the Wagyu beef and I've eaten half of mine and it was absolutely delicious it's got a delicious peppery flavour the pastry is really flaky and yeah this one is very tasty. After enjoying an afternoon on the harbour we tried one of Hong Kong's most iconic local dishes. Trying the famous beef brisket let's give this a go That is so tender wow that is really tasty. Are you getting on? Are they good? Show the camera. This place specifically was called Mac Man Kee which has won quite a few mission mission guide awards so yeah pretty tasty beef brisket. Yeah it was very tender. After another successful meal it was time to see if Hong Kong could impress us on a drinks front too so we headed to Bar Leone which was recently named the best bar in the world. Honestly we had an incredible time here we tried their signature smoked olive filthy martini which was seriously punchy and we also loved their variations on the Negroni and delicious bar snacks. The next morning we were up bright and early to see Hong Kong from Victoria Peak and just when we thought this morning couldn't get any better we spotted The Bake House the famous Hong Kong bakery known for its legendary egg tarts. They were very very tasty we also had an amazing view over Hong Kong city we had a really good cup of coffee and yeah highly recommend that Bake House branch it was very very good. Super flaky tarts very similar to the ones you get in Portugal yeah exquisite yeah really really tasty but yeah the views from that cafe at the Bake House at the Victoria's Peak the view and that brings us to the end of our epic 24-hour food tour through Hong Kong. So does the food scene live up to the hype? For us it absolutely does we know we barely scratched the surface in 24 hours and we can't wait to come back and eat our way through even more of Hong Kong on our next trip. If you enjoyed this video don't forget to like and subscribe for more travel guides and food adventures and be sure to check out our three-day itinerary too to see what else we got up to. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you soon.