Can anyone tell me what the English portion of this ad in the MTR is supposed to mean?


Sunday night, dinner at one of those places that never seems to get reviewed in any English language HK guide (at least none that I know of). Actually there are tons of restaurants along Jaffe Road on the Wanchai/Causeway Bay border that are well known yet seem to escape most of the English language guidebooks and magazines. Most of them are places doing crab.

On Jaffe Road between Marsh and Canal, Hee Kee has been in business since 1965, but not always at this location.


This is two doors down from Hee Kee.


Both places have windows filled with photos of the local celebs who’ve eaten there.

This place is across the street from Hee Kee:


Of course, along Canal Road and Lockhart Road are four places all called Under Bridge Spicy Crab (but, I am told, different owners and different names in Chinese), all specializing in Typhoon Shelter chili crab. One has Anthony Bourdain’s photo in the window – probably the reason I always choose that one. (No photo of that today, sorry.)

Anyway, last night we joined a couple of friends and ate at Mr. Fish, 392-402 Jaffe Road.


This place stays open till 3 AM! Its specialty is hotpot, though they also offer some barbecue and some sashimi. Inside, the place is a little fancier than most. Check out the glass table, glass pot for the soup, glass plates. The walls are lined with fish tanks and the sashimi is on display in a glass counter towards the back.


It’s a small place, holding perhaps 40 or 50 people tops, and at 9 PM on a Sunday night, it was full. I can only guess at how busy they are on other nights but booking is essential here if you plan to go during normal dinner hours.

We had so much food …. lobster, prawns (raw and cooked), fish, squid, crab, clams, beef (raw and cooked), fish balls, dumplings, veggies, eel, assorted sashimi, lots of beer and coke, I can’t even remember what else. Everything tasted very fresh. We asked for “ma la” sichuan style soup for the hotpot, asked them to tone it down just a bit, so it was on the borderline of spicy for me. They also provide crushed red pepper flakes, garlic and ginger to mix in with your soy sauce. We stuffed ourselves silly and the bill for four people came out to $845.

Mr. Fish has an English menu and English-speaking staff and I will return.

Hongkie Town
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