S&P Kiosk - Soymilk, Chinese, Hong Kong

5-6 Hau Fook Street, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Nearest MTR: Tsim Sha Tsui - Cameron Road Exit
Tel: 852 2311 1498
Hours: Open 7am until late

Last Visited: November 2010

Food: 4 stars
Atmosphere: 2 to 3 stars
Service: 2 to 3 stars
Price: $

Hau Fook Street isn't a long street. It literally translates into mouth luck street. It's one of my favorite places to eat breakfast.

The location featured in this photo, S&P Kiosk, is a great spot for soy milk, both sweet and savory, and sticky rice. Sweet soy milk comes hot in a bowl or cold in a cup. Savory soy milk only comes hot. It's plain soy milk with pieces of fried Chinese donut, chopped preserved vegetables, dried shredded meat (Asian style jerky), baby shrimp, and chopped scallions. While savory soy milk may be an acquired taste to a foreign palate, one thing unique about it is that the ingredients coagulate the milk which is an indicator that it's good soy milk containing a lot of the soy still in it. Of course if you're less adventurous, you can also get milk tea and the like, but this establishment is especially known for soy milk.

Accompanying your soy milk, I would suggest getting a green onion pancake. This comes both regular or fried in egg. Both are good. Another option is the classic sticky rice snack.

I would suggest getting a green onion pancake. It's a circular piece of dough made with flour and glutinous rice flour. Combined with savory green onion, it's then pan fried (sometimes you'll find it deep fried) and is excellent alone or served with a little soy sauce and vinegar. There are also other options including pot stickers, but I prefer my pot stickers to have a thinner skin than what they provide here.

In the picture to the right, you'll see the woman preparing the snack by holding sticky rice in her hand, then filling it with the preserved vegetable and dried shredded meat mentioned above. It's a very filling dish, and it's so popular that people stand in line just to get it to go. This place opens around 7am - go later and you'll find that it's a madhouse. I typically order a hot sweet soy milk and sticky rice - it's still wrapped in its plastic bag in this photo.

Other breakfast specialties include their savory meat and vegetable stuffed pancake that is pan-fried as well as pan-fried potstickers. Northern dim sum is featured here.

While soymilk is one of their specialties, they offer a lot of options for lunch as well. You can see the photo shows rice noodles with snow vegetables and pork.

They also make soup dumplings - though these are a lot bigger than what I prefer. I find their dumpling wrapper to be thicker than what I like, although the filling is quite abundant. Think potsticker in soup and you'll get a sense for the size of these things. For lunch, I recommend ordering one of the noodle soup bowls.

There is another location in the Jordan district on Parkes Street that tends to be less crowded if you happen to be staying in that area. Ask for a set menu at the Jordan location and you can get a discount when you make this selection. If you don't ask for the set, they'll charge you separately. I don't think the set is available at their Hau Fook Street location.