HONG KONG STREET FOOD | I ate CLAYPOT RICE at the most FAMOUS SPOT in the city. Here's what happened
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- One of the best claypot rice restaurants in Hong Kong is Hing Kee 興記菜館, on Temple Street in Yau Ma Tei. I went and tried the famous Cantonese winter food for myself to see if it's worth all the Instagram hype.
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Written, produced, filmed, edited, hosted and original music by Sam Evans
Videographer and Executive producer: Vienne Leung-Evans
On a two day visit to Hong Kong before flying to Vietnam. Visited this place today in the afternoon.. no queue, and about half an hr wait for the food.. it was delicious..thanks for recommending this place Sam, we went after watching your video.. it was a great experience for two northern English folk😂
That’s brilliant to hear - and great choice going there in the afternoon; it proved the right thing to do considering the lack of queue! Glad you enjoyed it, and, from one northerner to others, have a ball in Vietnam!
Got in from work, had dinner then got all hungry again after watching this😅 As a fellow Brit it's so good to see someone else rave about the food culture in Hong Kong. So many different flavours. I haven't tried claypot rice but it's next on my hit list. Thank you for your enthusiasm for the food. Gung hey fat choi to you and your family.
Thank you Andrew, and happy year of the dragon to you and your family! Glad this vid made for good after-work watching and sorry it made you hungry again after dinner 🤣 definitely recommend claypot rice, it’s one of my all-time favs- an absolute feast and a slice of food heaven when done right!
Sam, thanks for this exciting video. When the smoke comes out from the claypots upon your OPENING ceremony , i can smell the yummy ingredients condensed therein😊.....real excellent stuff which we can never make without a proper claypot nor high power burner at home. It is a proof of technique, experience and perfect timings calculated by the chefs. Thanks Sam for another fantastic masterpiece 🎉❤ !!
Thank you, Johnson, for your brilliant comment as usual! the opening is the best part- so much steam and the smell of all the flavours! I agree that the claypot is proof of technique and perfect timing from the chef- apparently it takes years to master!
Was here in January, went at lunchtime and it was clay pot rice and oyster cake only. It was FIT! I had to go back at night as they had full menu, only ordered a few dishes but they were so GOOD can't wait to go back again 2025
Glad you had a good time, sounds like you had a great experience! I recommend going at night for a different atmosphere!
Thank you Sam! Definitely one of the best videos. Real Hong Kong comfort food! Love it 👍
Thanks as always Davy. Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your videos! They’re not overwhelming, and it gives you the ability to focus on featuring the single item in Cantonese cuisine of HK.
Thank you for watching, and glad you're enjoying the channel. More videos on the way soon!
Been waiting for this.. thank you so much... love your videos
Thanks for watching and for the support. Glad you enjoyed the video- more coming soon!
Nothing more comforting than a good claypot rice! 😍
Couldn’t agree more! Thanks for watching!
Fab video as always. Watching from all the way in West Yorkshire UK. Keep up the excellent
work 👌
Thank you Calvin! Used to have friends in Leeds during my uni days, so remember West Yorkshire fondly!
Claypot rice is really comfort food for the soul, and it might seem a simple dish, but the combination of the soft rice steam boiled mixed together with the juices of the ingredients and meat, paired with the slightly charred crispy rice at the bottom, makes for a delightful taste explosion experience of textures, but not forgetting to mention is that the soya sauce over the rice is what really completes and complements this dish and elevates it to greater heights! 🤤
Absolutely agreed; it’s a simple-seeming dish that is actually incredibly complex and requires great skill to get right. And the soy sauce elevates it to absolute perfection!
Ribs in black bean sauce with lap cheung is always the #1 Clay Pot Rice.....making me drooling now...thank you for sharing😋😋
You really can’t go wrong with that combination- excellent choice! Glad the video made you drool! 🤤 thanks for watching!
Hi Sam. So glad you went to our favourite Clay pot rice restaurant which we recommended in the comments of one of your earlier videos. We are currently back in HK and will be going back to hing kee for some delicious food in the next few days. Great video as always, Marcus and Siobhán.
Thanks for an amazing recommendation guys, was every bit as good as you said it was! Hope the vid allowed you to relive those memories, and hope you enjoy your upcoming meal there!
@@HongKongHoods
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Happy new year Sam more different foods for the new year 🎉😊
A happy, healthy, prosperous and delicious year of the Dragon to you, too!
Another great food video from Sam and we didn't have to wait too long for this latest one! 😁 We tried this claypot rice place several years ago when we visited Hong Kong and I agree with Sam that it was very good! Definitely worth a try for those visiting Hong Kong.
Thanks for watching, and really glad, as a fellow claypot rice fan, you enjoyed the video!
Happy new year Sam❤ wish you all the best
Same to you, thank you very much!
look so good.... lap cheung sausage with black bean ribs... the best
Glad you enjoyed it! And absolutely agreed- you can’t beat that combination!
Whenever you have new video I just click and look forward to the high quality content. Keep going, Sam!
Thanks for the kind words of support, and glad you’re enjoying the channel! More videos on the way!
Absolutely beautiful sharing adventure documentary street food travel blog and the filming edition camera work looks spectacularly gorgeous .. thanks again
Thank you as always for watching and the kind words of support. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Hey Sam, I was eating dinner while watching this and it still made my mouth water 😁
That’s great to know! Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for watching!
Claypot rice looks awesome. Perfect for winter!
It really is! One of my all-time favs!
Awesome to see a new video. Claypot rice is delicious and can also recommend Sheung Hei in Kennedy town
Thanks for watching, and for the tip- I’ll make a note of it!
I am drooling...Not been here for 7 years.
Glad to see it's just as good and expanded
Yes, expanded and thriving! Thanks for watching
I just spent 2 weeks in HK and was a part of that line on one of the cooler days, we probably missed each other by a day or two. I had the same spare ribs and lapcheung but I got the stir fried clams instead of a second bowl. For food tourism, that was my number one pick.
We must have missed each other by a matter of days or even hours! Thanks for sharing your experience, and couldn’t agree more as far as food tourism- a very unique dish and dining experience!
I stumbled onto your channel and I want to thank you for such a connoisseur's report of the food! I am HK born but spent my adult life in Canada. Makes me want to rush to my birth city to experience this place. Bravo!
Great that you’re enjoying our channel, and thanks for the kind words! More videos on the way!
Man i have not had this type of rice in a decade... You are so lucky
It was a splendid meal@@DW-op7ly
A quintessential video!
Quite!
Sam: It’s just so great every time I watch you, a fellow foodie, open minded and adventuresome, eat with gusto n enjoy the different foods HK has to offer. 👏👏👏👍👍🎉🎉
Thanks for watching and glad you’re enjoying the channel! Food is life, and being adventurous means people like us don’t miss out on great dishes 😉
@@HongKongHoods Hear Hear! Well said. Looking forward to your next food find vid.
Coming soon@@sandychan480 , thanks for the support!
Just got back from a short trip to Hong Kong to celebrate CNY with the extended family. Went to Hing Kee as well, and the claypot rice spots here in Toronto just don’t do it the same. The burnt rice has always been my favourite part growing up. They also serve an oyster pancake which is really good. Thank you for your videos, my parents and I always look forward to watching them!
Thanks for sharing your experience; hope your HK trip was a great one! It seems there’s something special about claypot rice that just can’t be replicated elsewhere! I saw the oyster pancakes at Hing Kee, but was too stuffed to try them on this visit. Next time!
It is a real pleasure to watch your video ,because you concentrate solely describing the delicious food you are eating. Mouth Watering. Kung Hei Fai Choi, Lai sei dol Lor
Thanks for watching and really glad you’re enjoying our videos! Kung Hei Fat Choi to you too! 🐉
great video and yes your correct about a real paella reference
Thanks Rick! Some delicious similarities texture-wise
Something about the "damp cold" of HK winters that brings chills to the bone. Clay pot rice and congee have to be my two favorite comfort food of all time. Simple to make but difficult to perfect. When the food finally arrived at your table and you began eating, I could not help but think of poor Vienne sitting across from you agonizingly watching you go at it while she was also probably starving herself; I hope the rice was still hot when her turn came! 🍲 Happy New Year to you both! Good health and prosperity!
It actually caught me by surprise and unprepared last time I was there. Having grown up in Toronto I'm of course accustomed to cold weather, but because of the humidity 10C in HK can feel a lot colder. For any Americans out there, a good comparison might be Houston, which because of the Gulf can feel really cold despite not hitting 0C.
@@kevwwong 💯! I'd still prefer to visit HK during the cooler months than to endure the oppressive heat and humidity the rest of the year!
@@John-K-NAgreed!
Haha that’s right John, I felt sorry for her… she’s a good sport! 😝 and also definitely agree with the cold here- reminds me of the UK in feeling than the thermometer suggests! Happy, healthy and prosperous year of the Dragon to you and yours!
The last week of Jan or first week of Feb can drop below 10 degrees. When you see HK peeps wearing 3 or 4 layers of clothing on the bus, you know is going to be epic low temperature for the week.
The look of anticipation on your face when waiting for your order was funny 😄
Haha I was very hungry!
I miss the superb Cantonese food found in Hong Kong. We find claypots here in Chicago, but not the kind of caramelization and juiciness in the claypots at this restaurant. Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧
That’s too bad, but It doesn’t surprise me; some things are hard to find outside HK, especially done as well as here. Thanks for watching and commenting, and Happy Year of the Dragon to you 🐉
This one was unexpected but the claypot rice looks very tasty. It must be worth the hype with so many locals lining up for Hing Kee and it looks to be definitely a cantonese delicacy. I wonder if Sam does not order in Cantonese when it gets cold. Ha ha. Keep up the good work and expecting more surprises.
Thanks for watching and commenting as always Satish! It’s true that this place is very popular with locals; the lines must be every night as the night we went was a weeknight that was unremarkable besides the low temperature! The key to knowing whether I’m ordering in Cantonese or English is if I take the sound away- that’s when you know it’s in English 😝 more videos coming soon!
Marvellous video. You're so lucky. I was in HK recently and tried to get a seat for claypot rice around Temple Street. The crowds beat me to it. I consoled myself with a roast goose and suckling pig rice instead. 😉
Thanks for watching and the kind words! Oh no, that’s too bad! The lines at Hing Kee especially look intimidating, but they go down very quickly as we found out. Having said that, roast goose and suckling pig rice isn’t a bad meal, either!
it was very delicious food that made me hungry
Glad to hear! Thanks for watching
Welcome to Hong Kong😃歡迎你來香港😃
Why thank you! A warm welcome to you also, sir, to the most fragrant of harbours 🥂
I can’t wait to get back to Hong Kong. I’ve been missing the food!
Glad the video inspired your appetite- so much to eat here!
Clay pot rice most of Hong Kong people love can have different toppings and special soya sauce and the bottom burn rice bit is just so tasty and taste amazing 😊
Incredible isn’t it!? Thanks for watching!
Kung hei fat Choi to you and your wife Sam
Also wishing for longer/ more videos for the year of the Dragon 😉😉😉
Thank you and Happy, healthy and prosperous year of the dragon to you and yours 🐉. We’re going to try and get more vids out this year! Cheers for all the support 🙏
yummy yummy😋
T’was! Thanks for watching!
I’m going to HK on next Friday, the 23rd. I will definitely try the clay pot rice..
Definitely recommend it. Have a nice trip!
@@HongKongHoods thank you ☺️
Congratulations 🎉👏
Thanks for watching!
Bro Sam this place are super famous.. 👍👍👍😘😋😋😋Malaysia
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video! 💪
Nice😮
Thanks for watching!
看著你吃那個煲仔飯我好餓
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting!
awesome to see another vid as always. jury is out for me tho, claypot is awesome but cooked with a metal lid ? hmmm dont know.
The traditional lid doesn't have enough height to cook the ingredients and generate enough space to heat.
If you cook this at home with the claypot lid with the same amount of ingredients you'll end up with either burnt rice or raw ingredients. As these claypot wasn't originally designed to cook rice and ingredients
Valid point, but the taste was all there in my opinion. Thanks as always for watching and commenting!
Didn’t know that- great information!
We all know what makes you warm and fuzzy inside
I just love feeling warm and fuzzy inside
My 2 favorites are pork spareribs (no sausage) and chicken with black mushroom. I miss the good eats on Temple St.
Chicken w/ black mushroom sounds amazing. Might have to consider that on a future visit!
@@HongKongHoods Another favorite is minced pork with salted fish. It is comfort food in every Cantonese home.
That sounds absolutely incredible!@@minniec.9127
delicious
It was! Thanks for watching!
Oh yes Hing Kee the best for claypot rice. Always go there when I visit HK. One is my limit. Did you try the oyster cake? It's excellent. Excellent video enjoyed. Thank you.
Didn’t have any room in my stomach for the oyster cake this time, but saw a lot of people ordering it. Will definitely try it next time!
Yes, that reminds me, the oyster cake was excellent and the small portion was enough for two
Nice video. Enjoy. In the U.K. they don't make it right. They don't do the crispy rice skin. I need to go back to Hong Kong where the skill is.
Can’t get it quite like they do it here in Hong Kong. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great video. I am a clay pot rice fanatic. I eat this in all seasons esp. during the cold months. Hing Kee is certainly one of the best but not the best. They have the right mixture of good toppings and burnt rice around the pot. The downsize, relative to some other places are: it is pricey; the toppings are better elsewhere, in particular when it comes to the sausage; and the portion is rather small. There is a place in Wan Chai that I found that is 20% cheaper and 20% bigger, no English name of the place except "Extraordinary Fish" not sure if that is the official name. Again, great video on my most fav food, thank you.
Thanks for watching, from one claypot rice fan to another! The Wan Chai place seems great. It is this place, by any chance? 魚眾不同酸菜魚
@@HongKongHoods Yes, I believe that is it. They only have 4 flavours of clay pot: preserved meats; frog; ribs; or chicken. But there is a lot more food on their menu and inexpensive (relatively). Address: 127 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, ground floor.
Thanks for the tip@@hkdaddy3326 - made a note of it!
I like the clay pot rice with frog's legs. It's rare I would eat frogs legs, but it's good with clay pot rice!
Oh wow- I will have to give that a try one day! Thanks for the recommendation!
Delicious looking Hong Kong Claypot 🍚! I noticed that the cases of Coca-Cola bottles are stacked one on top of the other nearing the ceiling in the restaurant !?
Haha yes, they're big on cola crates here!
I went there in May last year!
How was it?
SO good!@@HongKongHoods
Glad to hear it@@davidharris2151
謝謝！
Thank you so much for your generosity! It is much appreciated 😊🙏🙏🙏
They looked amazingly good. I can't wait to have claypot rice again when i eventually get back to HK. I'm surprised this hasn't caught on in the UK during the long cold winter months.
We do have it here in england.
It's always on the dim sum menu...However at least half of the Chinese dim sum places has stopped using claypot and steams a pot or most recently I went to one dim sum place and it was scooped boiled rice in a dish...They separately steamed the ingredients and poured it over the rice which isn't the same taste
It hasn't caught on as it's time consuming to cook... As you know as you've eaten them before you need someone to stand over them whilst cooking
Thank you Darren as always for watching and commenting, and really glad you enjoyed this one- it really is so, so good- definitely one of my all-time favourites; I have been known to eat it outside of winter also- pretty much any excuse!
Ouch- that sounds like they’re really taking liberties by calling it claypot rice there!
And that makes a lot of sense re it hasn’t caught on- it is indeed very time consuming as you say, the chef needs to stand over all the dishes and basically monitor the cooking, so I’ve heard now from multiple sources!
First of all, I wish Sam have a Happy Lunar New Year-Gung Hei Fat Choy. Since we're in Lunar New Year at this time where Sam did this video, I hope he could do a new year feast dishes where families, friends, and relatives gathered. In this cold weather condition, locals would most preferred for hotpot more than claypot rice. I've seen others did their food video at that place, the only thing missing here in claypot rice is vegetable. The next time when Sam go back to Hing Kee at Yau Ma Tei, I hope he can order a dish of Kang Kung aka Water Spinach or Morning Glory cooked with fermented bean curd to go along with the meal.
Happy New Year to you too! Thanks for watching and commenting, and the vegetables are a great suggestion.
I sometimes think that the relationship between hk/Chinese people and rice is not fully appreciated.
I'm 3rd gen UK immigrant but even for me, rice remains my comfort food and my parents/grandparents being of hk indigenous village origins, traditional foods like the lap cheung and hakka foods like shrimp paste, are more like luxuries.
Things like these clay pot dishes and other things that are sometimes considered "lower" class is my connection to my culture.
Rice is "home".
What a poignant meditation on rice and its meaning. I am obviously not Asian, but my wife and her family are, so I understand this sentiment completely, and agree that many outside the culture (and sometimes within it) fail to realise how intrinsic rice is to it! Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
Dangerous watching this at 2 AM in the morning 😅
Haha I’ve heard that even merely watching videos on claypot rice at that time adds to your caloric intake! 😜
Can’t believe you can find this place😂
Not hard if you know where to look!
I think "Four Seasons" might be more tasty for clayplot rice in the region.
I've heard great things about them. Not been yet
I remember I would always spend 10 minutes after eating these clay pots picking the fon jeal out of my teeth. Good times!
Haha toothpicks are a great ally after claypot rice!
Darn, $11.50 USD for that little portion of rice casserole. Prices sure have gone up in HK.
11 USD; not sure where you got the 50 from! Thanks for watching!
@@HongKongHoods my bad Mate. I miss-remembered it as eleven dollars and fifty cents.
I think I also misread what you were saying, and thought you were converting 11HKD to 50 USD! @@Aussieman997 haha
Hi Sam, obviously you have not been to Guangzhou. If you go try the claypot rice there you would not eat claypot rice in Hong Kong again. Also the price is 1/3 of the cost of claypot rice in Hong Kong 😊
You’re correct; I have not been to Guangzhou - the visa requirements for this Brit make it a bit of a pain! Good to know though, and I’ll bear it in mind if/when I eventually do go!
你有沒有來香港吃過煲仔飯？，而廣州煲仔飯這個味道是不是是香港煲仔飯這個味道的？。
@@kwongmyoupww5213yes, I have eaten there before. Nothing to write home about. The rice was soggy and there was no crust at the bottom
@@faiman8557因我沒有在廣州吃過當地的煲仔飯 所以我不知道味道和香港的味道而有什麼不同的，所以我才會在那樣問的。謝謝你回覆我了
@@kwongmyoupww5213you should go try if you get a chance. I guarantee you will like it.
if you have a claypot at home with gas stove, you can make the rice with experimentation.... but when you're in HK then there's no need to, just give them $50-60 dollars instead... but for us overseas we need more experiments
Even better on a charcoal bbq 🤤🤤🤤
Oooh great suggestion!
Absolutely right, I have heard it’s possible in a rice cooker, too!
That’s weird, google maps says it’s temporarily closed
Chinese New Year celebrations mean some places may be closed.
Can’t wait to taste this 😋😋
Yeah should imagine it’s just CNY closing
It’s out of this world! Especially on a winter evening
you look like Mark Wiens in the thumbnail.
I'll take that as a compliment. Thank you
YES! It is a compliment! Thank you! 🤗@@HongKongHoods
Are you from Birmingham? Brummie accent... 🤔
He doesn’t look like a Muslim thou 😂
Nice guess, but actually from Manchester!
@@HongKongHoods a few of the words sound so brummie, especially when you get involved with the description of flavours... 👍🏻video BTW.
I had a bo-j-fan the other week when the temperature dropped.
Cheers for watching, and the support@@philipmo4609
The host is British. He said nippy.
I did. Its true
@@HongKongHoods And you said queue. But your video is smashing! Thumbs up from Taiwan.
Thanks for watching and noticing my Britishisms@@user-pv1yx7ji1n! :D
And they reuse that again… aww
Thanks for watching!
Love this dish. I’ve never seen a restaurant in the US that makes this. So sad.
Too bad, and sorry to hear you can’t get this dish as good in the US. All the more reason to visit though 😉
Everybody was clay pot ricing…
The queue was fast as lightning.
Cantonese food is boring, I'd rather eat northern Chinese food
You will NOT like this channel then! 😝 thanks for watching regardless!
You comment is boring, go eat your Malatang then.