Hunting for Breakfast at Tsim Sha Sui

We awoke to a freezing morning on the 20th , with our Cantonese service manager Lil' moaning like a Mariah on steroid withdrawal. Indeed we had left the air-con plus the window open - so the effects of aircon and the plunging temperatures outside had made icicles of us. We all took turns to cramp inside the miniscule toilet, shivering in the cold and rapidly washing up in the cold freezing water.


This was taken at the North Sea Fishing Village restaurant at about 11am plus , way past the normal dim sum time. This was listed as a "recommendation" in one silly city guide of mine along with 3-4 others which we had discovered were already defunct along with Britney Spear's chastity. Amidst death threats to burn and maul my book for wasting the entire morning hunting for these dim sum restaurants, we finally found our way to 65 Mody Road through desperate calls to the restaurant. It was tucked in some small corner , obscure and blocked from the main road.



Being the hungry ghosts we always have been , we quickly ordered a variety of staple dim sum dishes such as "ha gao" and "siew mai" , with chee cheong fun. I was extremely disappointed that the dim sum items were somewhat hardened like the factory made ones we Singaporeans foolishly love to eat during our canteen break. There was no softness or tenderness to any of the dim sum items , and shockingly there was no comparison between this and the dim sum in Kuala Lumpur. We reckoned it was just another tourist gimmick posted by that nasty Hong Kong guidebook -- anyway it was cheap. Despite ha gaos , siew mais , char siew buns and a "ma tong" of glutinous rice ( which Lil' ordered and then later refused to eat ) , it came up to just 9 SGD per person.


Lil' and CT eating the glutinous rice -- these were the only few bites they took of it. And Lil' claimed to be a "lor mai gai" fan indeed. I rather have the Lor Mai Guys from Dim Sum Dollies than that. Never was a fan of lor mai gai.