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Lei Yue Mun 鯉魚門, Hong Kong, is one of the best and most popular places to indulge a seafood feast. There are hundreds of seafood vendors for you to choose your favourite seafood ingredients from fishes, shrimps, lobsters, crabs and more. And then you ask the seafood vendor to deliver the goods to the restaurant that you want them to prepare and cook so that you can dine at the restaurant to enjoy the seafood feast.
So….how do you know which seafood vendor or restaurant to choose? That’s a great question, if you know a local or a friend who can guide you, that’s the best option as they will know the pricing and can recommend one or two vendors or restaurants they visit often. Anyhow, if you really don’t know anyone in Hong Kong, that’s ok, you can sign up and pay for the private foodie tours that have a tour guide that will tell you the history of Lei Yue Mun, help you communicate to the vendors the seafood that you want to try, negotiate the price so you don’t get scammed. Let them do all the work and you just need to bring your appetite, Okushu Tours offer such private and customizable foodie tours in Hong Kong and any other destinations that you want to travel to.
If you don’t know anyone and don’t want to pay for a foodie tour, it’s still ok, you just have to trust your gut and quite honestly, every vendor sells fresh seafood and restaurants are going to be decent or very good, so it’s worth a visit.
Our family relatives have been buying fresh seafood at Soo Kee Seafood 蘇記 and they have been dining at Sun Hing 新興 Seafood Restaurant for many years, so that’s their go-to places.
Below are the dishes that we ate at Sun Hing 新興 Seafood Restaurant and it’s definitely an unforgettable seafood feast to remember.
Braised Abalone with Lettuce
Tornado Style Mantis Shrimp
Stir Fry Cuttle Fish with Chives & Bean Sprouts
Steamed Fish (Red Star Grouper – 紅星斑魚)
Razor Clams in Black Bean Sauce
Slipper Lobster with Special Sauce with Deep Fried Vermicelli
Clams in Black Bean Sauce
Steamed Crabs (Hong Kong Crabs that just recently been mated)
A nice boiled Chinese soup to flush down the delicious food.
Below are some of the common Hong Kong snacks that fancy restaurants most often like to provide and then charge you. Nothing you can really do about it whether you eat them or not, most of the time, they will charge you, so may as well enjoy.
Cold sliced century egg with ginger and you can opt to dip in the salt.
Sour pickled garlic (normally served in room temperature).
Cold sliced cucumber with chilli flakes spicy sauce.
