Hong Kong Sham Shui Po – Sun Hang Yuen | Food in Hong Kong | Renowned Egg and Beef Sandwiches at a Traditional Local Cha Chaan Teng • Gleam Journey

When you come to Hong Kong, you must try the “Cha Chaan Teng”. This time, pretending to be a local, I went to “Sun Hang Yuen” which was founded in 1968. Try the local cha chaan teng in Hong Kong for more than 50 years. It is completely different from the well-known shops with online recommendations! The signature egg and beef sandwiches with extra toasted crust are very delicious. Don’t miss it!

The tea restaurants known to travelers are all well-known shops on the Internet. I tried several famous tea restaurants and found them disappointing. Many Hong Kong foods are very unique to Taiwanese people, and I thought they were not delicious because of cultural differences.

This time, I disguised myself as a local to go to the restaurants of daily life and found that it was completely the problem of the restaurant’s cooking.

Local Cha Chaan Teng – Sun Hang Yuen: Vintage storefront

The Sun Hang Yuen store is located in a busy market, and the whole store looks old-fashioned. It is tasted by local residents and nearby office workers, which is different from the well-known tea restaurants with branches everywhere.

Seeing the posters on its shop window, it makes people think of early Taiwanese old shops that also like to constantly post revised content on the wall menu, which is cute.

The signature text is also an old-fashioned look that seems like Kai font, with a little handwritten texture, read from right to left.

Local Cha Chaan Teng – Sun Hang Yuen: Menu

The main meal set here is between HKD 25 and 50, common in most tea restaurants, while the well-known tea restaurants recommended online start at HKD 50-100.

The beef dishes here are super delicious, very tender and not dry at all. The green vegetables that I ate in other restaurants are almost written as “New Territories oil vegetable”. The first time I saw it was written as “suburban oil vegetable”.

“What does ‘New Territories oil vegetable’ mean?” I thought it was the same as the way of cooking “three cups chicken”.

“All oil vegetables from the entire ‘New Territories’ are called ‘New Territories oil vegetables’.”

Okay, so straightforward, I’m shallow.

Tea restaurant menus like this are divided into morning, afternoon, evening, and dinner, completely proving that “the early bird catches the worm.” After all, Taiwan usually has a menu from early to late in one restaurant, and the brunch restaurant only sells brunch all the time. Some dishes have time limits.

It is completely different in Hong Kong. If you want to have breakfast, you must order before 11 o’clock. After 11 o’clock, the same items will be lunch prices, or they will not be served. I am super unaccustomed to it (crying).

Local Cha Chaan Teng – Sun Hang Yuen: Recommended Must Try

The smooth egg and tender beef are mixed together, and when eaten with the crispy toasted bread, it is highly praised.

When seeing the menu marked with “toasted crust” requiring extra money, “What is ‘toasted crust’?”

“It means the bread needs to be toasted, and the electricity bill needs to be paid for toasting.”

Hong Kong really uses the concept of user-paid to the fullest.

Craving for French Toast

The smooth egg and tender beef are mixed together, and when eaten with the crispy toasted bread, it is highly praised.

When seeing the menu marked with “toasted crust” requiring extra money, “What is ‘toasted crust’?”

“It means the bread needs to be toasted, and the electricity bill needs to be paid for toasting.”

Hong Kong really uses the concept of user-paid to the fullest.

Craving for French Toast

I really love to eat French toast. I must find a place to eat every time I come here.

French toast is called “Pain Perdu” in France. The first time I saw it, I thought it looked very similar to the French toast I saw in Taiwan. The toast is dipped in egg and fried until golden brown.

There are two versions in Hong Kong, one with peanut butter filling and one with plain thick toast without filling. Sun Hang Yuen’s version doesn’t have any filling.

At first, when it was served, I was confused because it was a whole square piece served on the plate, and I was wondering if I had to eat it with a big mouth?

It turned out that I had to cut it into nine squares by myself! The French toast served in other restaurants was already cut into shape.

Full of butter and drizzled with honey, it’s a perfect ending to a delicious brunch.

What else can you do in Sham Shui Po?

I experienced a market full of electrical appliance vendors here. The whole place was very lively, and many people were selling second-hand photographic equipment and mobile phone SIM cards. Photography enthusiasts may be interested in second-hand photographic equipment.

I also saw a traditional ice cream truck, which always reminds me of the ice cream trucks that appear in American movies. Ice cream trucks can often be seen in lively areas of Hong Kong, similar to Taiwan’s “bapu bicycles”.

There is also the “Sham Shui Po Bishop Hill Reservoir” mentioned in the “香港景點推薦“, but it requires an appointment to participate.