French Toast is one my favourite Hong Kong Cafe food. It was inspired by the French pain perdu. The Hong Kong version is to use a thick slice of white bread, soak it in beaten egg mix for a few minutes until it gets ‘saturated’, and then deep fry it till golden. The finished ‘toast’ is then served with butter and golden syrup. They complement each other very well.
I know this dish has even more calories than my other favourite, pineapple bun with butter. But it is very tasty!
As a fast moving city where every minute counts, Hong Kong loses a lot of cafe which makes French toast the good old way now. Most cafe ‘cheats’ by putting peanut butter between 2 thin slices of bread as it is faster to make- the bread does not need to be soaked in the egg mix for as long. Some even try to be experimental by putting Malaysian kaya in between. It was far too sweet for my liking. Yuck!
I very much prefer the traditional version with just egg and no fancy filling. Luckily, I managed to find Mei Doh Cafe at 63 Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei. It is one of the oldest Cafe that remains open in Hong Kong. They still do my beloved French toast the authentic Hong Kong way!
Sometimes I fancy a French toast in London but cannot be bothered to make it at home, I go to Cafe de Hong Kong, 47-49 Charring Cross Road, London WC2H 0AN. They make the one with peanut butter, not the one with no filling though. But it is better than nothing!
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This restaurant seems to be characterised by deceitful labelling practices. I ate there earlier tonight thinking that the service charge was entirely optional, as all of the menus said “Recommended Gratuity 10%”.
However, when it was time to pay the bill, the waitress refused to accept the basic point of the English language that the word “recommended” does not mean “mandatory”. The supervisor was summoned and the supervisor threatened that if I did not pay the service charge as well, the establishment would refuse to serve me in future.
I paid the service charge, as I don’t feel it is appropriate for me as a Christian to be creating a scene over only £1, but I would seriously advise anyone reading this review against visiting this restaurant: – the deceitful labelling practices when it comes to the service charge make me inclined to wonder if there are other areas in which they try to unscrupulously extract money from customers.
To my mind, the word “recommended” in this context means “recommended ONLY”, i.e. optional. If the service charge is only “recommended”, it should be entirely possible to simply not pay it without any loss of face.
Don’t touch this restaurant with a barge pole.
To be honest, unlike UK, service charge is not known to be discretionary in Hong Kong. (It might be true in some hotels and more upmarket restaurants when they are keen to adopt a different custom. But generally, no).
It is not required by law. But most local restaurants in Hong Kong would not let customers leave the door if the service charge is not paid. From my point of view, I think the wrong doing of this cafe is that they should not have put the word ‘Recommended’ service charge on the menu when they did not mean it (or when they do not actually know the exact meaning of this word in English). They probably copied it from somewhere and thought they could use the same phase on the menu to ‘explain’ the service charge. I have never seen ‘recommended’ written in Chinese before. In Chinese, 10 out of 10 times, it is written in a straight forward way- ‘Service charge 10%’
I think it is unfair to rule out this cafe because of this issue. In terms of service charge, I suggest that if visitors assume that it is a norm in Hong Kong, you will ensure your visit more.