SOHO, Central

The SOHO is an entertainment zone located in Central and Western district of Hong Kong Island. Its name comes from South of Hollywood Road.

The area consists of restaurants, bars, nightclubs, art galleries, antique stores and residential house. SOHO is also a gourmet paradise, French, Italian, German, Mexican, US style cuisine would be found here to meet your need. And it is full of excitement and fun at night, especially on Friday and weekends, lots of foreigners would have gathering here or meeting new friends here. (it is just another Lan Kwai Fong).

How to get there: by taxi or walk through the Central-Mid-Levels escalator from Central/Westen district.

Hong Kong's style afternoon tea

There is a slang in Hong Kong arisen from its construction industry - '3.15pm, tea time'. People enjoy a time for a break from their work. The most common type of such afternoon tea is having the pineapple bun with butter (bor law yau), cocktail bun, egg tart and milk tea in a Hong Kong Style restaurant.

A tip for you: When paying the bill, go to the front counter. Tipping is not required. Enjoy!

Back (from left): Pineapple Bun with Butter (bor law yau) & Milk Tea
Front (from left): Cocktail bun, egg tart & Coffee

Dim Sum Breakfast/Lunch

‘Yum Cha’ (eating dim sum with Chinese tea for breakfast or lunch) is a very enjoyable activity for local people. Many families would have a gathering for ‘yum cha’ in a restaurant over weekends. Dim sum is tiny food served in steaming bamboo basket. Steamed pork buns, shrimp dumplings, beef balls and pork rib with preserved soya bean are favourites dim sum of local people.

Cantonese Congee

Cantonese Congee’s main ingredients are rice and water. People may add some other food into the congee, such as, pork, beef, egg, peanuts and etc.

When eating Cantonese congee, people would like to have some other dishes with the congee, like ricesheet roll with BBQ pork, rice dumpling, fried baguettes.

Congee and fried baguettes

Rice Dumpling

Ricesheet roll with fillings