Hello! I'm glad to see your New video. Why have you been off the air for so long? Very interesting cuisine, interesting combinations of products and flavors. Hong Kong is a city of contrasts! How quickly did you fit into this culture? Greg, you look organic in the frame. I wish prosperity to your channel.
great introduction video to traditional hong kong food places and foods, i cannot fault you on your food choices for the day, oh yeah silky beef cheung fun and chai siu anda sunny side up fried egg on top of white rice (love how the runny egg yolk mixes into the soy sauce rice when you break into the egg)
I really like your man-on-the-street vibe complete with visible lavalier mic, unscripted lines with honest opinions, and outtakes (“…and it’s closed!”) mixed with your higher-than-expected production values like background music and technical wipe-cuts. Bravo!
Since Greg asked how to wash his own dishes in the dim sum restaurant, the correct way is to pour the hot boiling water or left over tea in his small bowl because everything will be sanitize there. I would usually start with the tea cup roll it all around in and out. After that I can finalized rinsing with chopstick and spoon together. Then dump the water into that neon green plastic bowl.
Thank you so much to be a friendly ambassador to recommend great foods to foreign visitors. I believe your efforts really help local restaurants under COVID-19 harsh time...bless you good luck in Chin New Year.
Nice video and interaction with Mandarin, I'm sure you can both easily speak English but was cool to see her practicing her Mandarin! Enjoy your style, look forward to more videos from you!
Hi Greg, pineapple bun should be eaten when the bread is warm and the butter is still cold and firm. You waited too long, the butter had already melted😓
very informative video Greg, maybe as a suggestion for future videos - you can have themes so small family run cafe's for one video and another for where to get the best baked items
4:00 thanks love to hear honest😂 in the old days everything was affordable so no complaints 8:00 washing/heating the utensils while wash the tealeaves before brewing is very logical, always recommend in cold weathers while you cuppa❤
The way you sanitised the utensils is certainly interesting, umm I’m sure you’re supposed to pour the water in your bowl and roll the cup in the bowl of water, then pour water on the chopsticks and you pour the water into the green bowl
You have to try to eat everything in Hong Kong! You don’t want to miss all the delicious foods in Hong Kong! The bakery foods are boom! All the bakery food are delicious! Milk tea is very popular drink in Hong Kong too!
Welcome to Hong Kong, and thank you for your sharing. Glad that you enjoyed the food.☺However, Cha can ting(Putonghua) is usually called Cha Chaan Tang (Cantonese) in Hong Kong. Although both of them are same in written chinese, which is 茶餐廳, it is better to pronouns it Cha Chaan Tang, since Cantonese is the common language in HK.
Hk foods and public transportation very expensive Spend 4 days in hk cost metro fares 200 hkd super expensive for 4 days that include return airport express
For future videos, can you do some unique seafood such as abalone and sea cucumber? On some of the other islands you can pick your own seafood, and the restaurants will cook them for you. You can get abalone congee which is a awesome flavor. In the USA, you can get abalone siu mai dim sum, scallop siu mai and sea cucumber dumplings in the dim sum restaurants. If you can, please show some unique dim sum items in your future videos. The Tim Ho Wan Restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii have abalone on a half shell as dim sum items which is awesome 🤩. Your Mandarin is excellent. I am so glad to see a Caucasian person speak Mandarin so well.
@@GreginHongKong Thank you! Are you Caucasian since you don’t look Chinese. I assumed you are Caucasian. But, someone asked me in a comment why I think you are Caucasian?
Yup, and there it is. In a previous video, you were struggling to identify some of the items you'd ordered. Two months later, now you're proficient in navigating through the menu like a local...tourist. The steamed chicken rice would have been the highlight of my visit to any Chinese restaurant, but you said it was plain, and nothing special. I was filled with dismay upon hearing this. To me, it's all about the fat from the skin that melts into the rice. (childhood memories of my mom's cooking).
Finally someone say it out loud , cha Shan teh (or how it is supposed to be named ) is just disgusting , the worst of Chinese and English cuisine 😅 I live part time in Hk and will also vlog about cheap broke ass restaurant in Hk but I refuse to go to chashianteh 😅 ( sorry fellow hongkongers) but men … dim sum are the best … I try to find also some Chinese food place with menu changing everyday for less than 60khd…. I feel I have a mission… I am so sad that they closed Goji , that was always my go place for good and healthy meal ( it was a gym club … but just went to the canteen there 😅) Great video 🎉
It's quite a selling point but to most westerners, it's just breakfast. It's more interesting to see him try things like the different dim sum places. He found one of the traditional ones. He ought to try some of the local chains. Like Maxim or Doh Heung. And maybe some of the hotel ones too... Which pushes the dim sum boundaries with new styles etc. Same with some of the noodle places and congee places too... better ingredients and different styles.
I liked your video up until you said you wouldn't call Hong Kong's pineapple bun a pineapple bun, but instead a Hong Kong bun. It sounded disrespectful that you renamed the bun because it did not fit to your liking. Thank you for bringing light to all that Hong Kong has to offer otherwise.
@@GreginHongKong due to high rank chinese officials and the government taking many of our rights and frredom s many were forced to leave as china broke the 100 year law
Pls mention name of restro n location too 😊
Can you list the names of the restaurants? Thanks 🙏 I want to go to them
Do you have the dimsum shop name ? Watched the video twice , didn't see mention of the name . Thanks
Sure! Ying Dining, Mong Kok
Hello! I'm glad to see your New video. Why have you been off the air for so long? Very interesting cuisine, interesting combinations of products and flavors. Hong Kong is a city of contrasts! How quickly did you fit into this culture? Greg, you look organic in the frame. I wish prosperity to your channel.
More to come!
Hello everyone 👍 nice video guys
Love your video, very good introduction, very interesting in Hong Kong!
This is awesome
great introduction video to traditional hong kong food places and foods, i cannot fault you on your food choices for the day, oh yeah silky beef cheung fun and chai siu anda sunny side up fried egg on top of white rice (love how the runny egg yolk mixes into the soy sauce rice when you break into the egg)
Thank you for the support!
I really like your man-on-the-street vibe complete with visible lavalier mic, unscripted lines with honest opinions, and outtakes (“…and it’s closed!”) mixed with your higher-than-expected production values like background music and technical wipe-cuts. Bravo!
thank you! that's so nice to hear! Our editor is way too talented:)
Since Greg asked how to wash his own dishes in the dim sum restaurant, the correct way is to pour the hot boiling water or left over tea in his small bowl because everything will be sanitize there. I would usually start with the tea cup roll it all around in and out. After that I can finalized rinsing with chopstick and spoon together. Then dump the water into that neon green plastic bowl.
Thank you! My wife was laughing so hard when she first saw me sanitizing dishes on this video:) usually when we go out, she does it:)
Thank you so much to be a friendly ambassador to recommend great foods to foreign visitors. I believe your efforts really help local restaurants under COVID-19 harsh time...bless you good luck in Chin New Year.
Our pleasure!
I want the next video where you eat with a mask on. Vote this comment to see it
Sure will do!
Honk Kong is a nice tourist place and has great food options
it is indeed a great place!
Nice video and interaction with Mandarin, I'm sure you can both easily speak English but was cool to see her practicing her Mandarin! Enjoy your style, look forward to more videos from you!
awesome. keep going
Thank you, man! Stay hard!
Thank you
thank you too!
Hi Greg, pineapple bun should be eaten when the bread is warm and the butter is still cold and firm. You waited too long, the butter had already melted😓
🥲
Merci, Greg! 謝謝！
What's the name of the Dimsum restuarant? Thanks
Hi, Greg!
dope video greg thanks
thank you!
It must be incredibly tasty because it looks appetizing. Do they have anything vegetarian?
Of course! There is plenty of vegetarian dishes in here:)
very informative video Greg, maybe as a suggestion for future videos - you can have themes so small family run cafe's for one video and another for where to get the best baked items
Noted!
Po lo Bao 😝 ❤ I miss 茶餐廳
Those look really appetizing, does the second restaurant offer English menu?
I think so, yes!
How often do you use Mandarin here? :)
I love cha tsan tengs! They are one of those unique Hong Kong places that you won't find anywhere else.
since my Cantonese is simply at zero level I try to speak Mandarin wherever I feel it will work better than English
Sanitizing utensils is a kind of custom or etiquette?or just optional act?~please let me know~It would be very helpful
a custom I think:)
Great Video Greg
Thank you!
Bro, can you tell us the name and google map location of the dimsum restaurant?
www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-ying-dining-mong-kok-guangdong-big-bowl-feast-r625510
I know there are a lot of all-you-can-eat restaurants in HK. I would like to see this if possible, and I am curious why there are so many?
yeah, there are a lot fosho! Asians love food I guess! haha
4:00 thanks love to hear honest😂 in the old days everything was affordable so no complaints
8:00 washing/heating the utensils while wash the tealeaves before brewing is very logical, always recommend in cold weathers while you cuppa❤
thank you for your tips!
Yummy!
😋
name of the restaurant dimsum place?
ying dining
@@GreginHongKong thanks
Great Vlog 💗💯👏
thank you!
man I need to bring you around in 葵廣 for some more hk food experience
I work nearby in 葵芳 area :)
How many Gregs did they get?
As many Gregs as possible!
I never been to Hong Kong. But seems like san gabriel valley in los angeles. LOLs.
oh really? which part of Hong Kong? Mong Kok or Central?
I have been to Hong Kong on 1-5 October 2018 & on 26 December 2019-1 January 2020. 😊 I enjoy visiting Hong Kong a few times.
welcome to come back anytime!
@@GreginHongKong How are you doing? 😊
The way you sanitised the utensils is certainly interesting, umm I’m sure you’re supposed to pour the water in your bowl and roll the cup in the bowl of water, then pour water on the chopsticks and you pour the water into the green bowl
yeah, you are totally right! haha I failed the whole process
You should try the ‘this this rice’
😂I tried it many times, it’s good!:)
You have to try to eat everything in Hong Kong! You don’t want to miss all the delicious foods in Hong Kong! The bakery foods are boom! All the bakery food are delicious! Milk tea is very popular drink in Hong Kong too!
we will eat EVERYTHING
@@GreginHongKong
You better lol 😆
Очень интересно знакомиться с другой культурой, другой кухней. Восхищаюсь твоим умением вести рассказ
Why you dip all dimsum in soy sauce? You're chinese is good tho. Like the vid.
I’m a savage, sorry 😂 but thank you!
I miss Hong Kong ❤🇭🇰
Nice to meet you im from Indonesia greetings 🙏
Hello 👋
The dim sum makes me miss Hong Kong haha
dim sums are great indeed!
Welcome to Hong Kong, and thank you for your sharing. Glad that you enjoyed the food.☺However, Cha can ting(Putonghua) is usually called Cha Chaan Tang (Cantonese) in Hong Kong. Although both of them are same in written chinese, which is 茶餐廳, it is better to pronouns it Cha Chaan Tang, since Cantonese is the common language in HK.
yeah sorry! My Canto is non existent:D
We do not eat dim sum all dip into the soy sauce ，next time try their original taste. Which can taste its own fresh
yeah, totally! when my wife saw how I dip the dim sums into the soy sauce she was enraged:D
Hk foods and public transportation very expensive
Spend 4 days in hk cost metro fares 200 hkd super expensive for 4 days that include return airport express
Can someone list all the restaurant he recommended name address if possible? 🌈
1st restaurant 蘭芳園
www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/restaurants?what=%E8%98%AD%E8%8A%B3%E5%9C%92
2nd restaurant
www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-ying-dining-mong-kok-guangdong-big-bowl-feast-r625510/photos/interior
evaporated milk = 淡奶 condensed milk = 煉乳 :)
thank you! I actually didn't know the difference :D
Как вкусно, слюньки потекли)))
It’s called pineapple bun, period. Don’t be trying to change the name.
Sure it is! Of course I have neither ability nor rights to change the name:)
I don’t know man but the omellete looks…. Ordinary 😅
For future videos, can you do some unique seafood such as abalone and sea cucumber? On some of the other islands you can pick your own seafood, and the restaurants will cook them for you. You can get abalone congee which is a awesome flavor. In the USA, you can get abalone siu mai dim sum, scallop siu mai and sea cucumber dumplings in the dim sum restaurants. If you can, please show some unique dim sum items in your future videos. The Tim Ho Wan Restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii have abalone on a half shell as dim sum items which is awesome 🤩. Your Mandarin is excellent. I am so glad to see a Caucasian person speak Mandarin so well.
Why do you think he's Caucasian? Does Greg look like a Southerner?
@@людмилателякова-т3г Well, he don’t look Chinese 😊. You tell me, because now I don’t know.
Thank you! We will try to cover more unique food in our future videos:)
@@GreginHongKong Thank you! Are you Caucasian since you don’t look Chinese. I assumed you are Caucasian. But, someone asked me in a comment why I think you are Caucasian?
@@minlui2752 yeah, I am Caucasian:)
Stumbled into your channel looking for hing kong nostalgia. Makes me miss it. However the background music is a bit loud and overpowers your voice.
thank you! Im very glad that you find the video entertaining.
Noted about the music!
Haha maybe practice some Cantonese while it is still be used in HK 😭😭 Cantonese Probably will be erased soon though 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
燒味 係香港美食 港式燒味
天天都食😄
Yup, and there it is. In a previous video, you were struggling to identify some of the items you'd ordered. Two months later, now you're proficient in navigating through the menu like a local...tourist. The steamed chicken rice would have been the highlight of my visit to any Chinese restaurant, but you said it was plain, and nothing special. I was filled with dismay upon hearing this. To me, it's all about the fat from the skin that melts into the rice. (childhood memories of my mom's cooking).
Finally someone say it out loud , cha Shan teh (or how it is supposed to be named ) is just disgusting , the worst of Chinese and English cuisine 😅 I live part time in Hk and will also vlog about cheap broke ass restaurant in Hk but I refuse to go to chashianteh 😅 ( sorry fellow hongkongers) but men … dim sum are the best … I try to find also some Chinese food place with menu changing everyday for less than 60khd…. I feel I have a mission… I am so sad that they closed Goji , that was always my go place for good and healthy meal ( it was a gym club … but just went to the canteen there 😅)
Great video 🎉
thanks a lot! yeah, food in tea restaurants are not the healthiest thing you can get indeed!
It's quite a selling point but to most westerners, it's just breakfast. It's more interesting to see him try things like the different dim sum places. He found one of the traditional ones. He ought to try some of the local chains. Like Maxim or Doh Heung. And maybe some of the hotel ones too... Which pushes the dim sum boundaries with new styles etc. Same with some of the noodle places and congee places too... better ingredients and different styles.
Hello heineken
sup!
i never see a person wash tableware using such little water. its free of charge. 😂
yeah, it actually was the first time I did it:D
Now after a year a numerous 飲茶s I'm a pro haha
@@GreginHongKong finally u are ! 😁
Very hard to understand you accent... Plus you failed to find out name of dishes
Trying to get better at my accent! That’s why we added subs in that episode. But we typed out all the names of dishes, didn’t we?
I liked your video up until you said you wouldn't call Hong Kong's pineapple bun a pineapple bun, but instead a Hong Kong bun. It sounded disrespectful that you renamed the bun because it did not fit to your liking. Thank you for bringing light to all that Hong Kong has to offer otherwise.
sorry! didn't mean that! just was curious why the bun is called so:)
I wouldn't call it pineapple bun.. Like wtf dude.. 😂😂
Facebook neither is a face nor a book.. What do you call that then?? 😂😂
Fays buk
До сих пор необходимо ходить в маске на улице?
Да, но в марте вроде уже можно будет снять маску)
看完你吃不用去了，感覺比香港市民吃的村屋餐廳更差劣品質。😂😂😂😂
請問, 村屋餐廳是什麼東西？
NOTHING EXTRAORDINARY
Indeed, sir!
Yes, u should order chicken feet and pork intestines !
@@awan3128 oh my god, please no!
我是香港人，說真心話，開頭介紹的這種西式早餐是真的超難食！
原來香港人也這麼覺得哈哈
sadly the old HK is gone forever!!! wish all the westerners will be safe under the evil regime!!
what do you mean by that? and can you specify how did the life of an average 鬼佬 has changed since the "good old times?"
@@GreginHongKong due to high rank chinese officials and the government taking many of our rights and frredom s many were forced to leave as china broke the 100 year law
which consists of our rights
⚛️in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 you should speak Cantonese instead of the communist language of Mandarin ⚛️
what about Taiwan? Do they also speak communist language there? you are ridiculous
Do you have Instagram? Foods mehhh...
yeah! but I mostly post Mandarin Learning content there