Hong Kong Restaurants I visited in date and ranking order

Hong Kong has dozens of options in every street. I tried six restaurants or eating places of very different styles.
Best Restaurants:

1 *****Mijas Spanish Restaurant
High price but high everything. Fabulous food, strolling band plays requests; seven course meal, choice of indoor air-conditioned or balcony with view over the bay. (We started indoors, discovered the balcony, moved to the balcony, decided nearby drunks were too happy and loud and moved tables a second time to finish coffee indoors. The sign outside suggested a three course meal for about £14 but that must have been lunch time because when we asked for the set meal we ended up being presented with a 7 course meal (including coffee) which cost five times as much. However, we treated this as a one off treat and were very pleased with a delightful evening.

2 ****Very Good Seafood Restaurant
Elegant and steps from the MTR station. Note that it is downstairs so look for steps leading downwards to the left of the mall entrance. I had chicken encircled by broccoli, colourful and elegant.


3 ***Starbucks
On the ninth floor of Times Square, a huge indoor shopping mall in Causeway Bay. If you are fed up with chewed up, cut up and minced up mixed meat in gloopy sauces with no vegetables, and being offered Colas and sugared, caffeinated drinks, here's a healthy option. A solid piece of fish, a whole or half egg and salad, and green salad, not cooked to tastelessness. Coffee comes decaff if you want it. Self-service. Also cheaper than most meals in proper Chinese restaurants, however decrepit they look because in local restaurants the idea of meat and two vegetables or even one seems foreign and you often have to order a second dish to get vegetables and a third to get rice or potatoes or pasta.


4 *McDonalds
24 hour restaurants beside Sun Yat-sen Museum (20-45 minutes walk above Central MTR and another branch also 24 hours near Times Square. The one beside Sun Yat-sen Museum has 24 hour delivery.

Opt for the four pieces of solid chicken. I must remember next time to avoid the nuggets, because the meal deal includes Cola and fries, both of which ruin any calorie or healthy plan I might be following. Solid chicken: it's not a meal deal, but that's the real deal.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, photographer, author, speaker.