Queen Street Cooked Food Market

Very classy - a little bit unexpected. We had the dumplings from the Traditional Beijing Dumpling House- they were awesome.

It was newly open in Dec-24 after a few months of upgrading after 35 years of operation. Public toilets are clean, new big fans make the dining hall air circulation good The main attraction is food value for money and delicious. Traditional teochew food, 东北饺子，猪杂汤，this 3 stores are my favourite.

The entrance can be a bit hard to find, but once you get up there, the place is very spacious, featuring several Cha Chaan Teng / HK style diners, and Western dining options. It seems to have been renovated in the past couple of years, with new tables, chairs, and decor, giving it a fresh feel compared to other food centers in Hong Kong that may appear dirty or worn. This place looks very clean, and I definitely recommend it to tourists for a stroll and a meal.

The place was like a food court. One-way escalator was installed to reach there from the ground level. Lift service was also provided. Different kinds of food were offered. Hygiene condition was average.

ABC restaurant has the best Pavlova. The razor clams and the roasted suckling pig is delicious too. Great value for money, but the place can be quite noisy at weekend nights.

One of the best loca food market in Sheung wan, you may try the local fried dishes with strong loca hk favor. And no worries, pictures available for the food so any tourists are welcome to enjoy the marvelous local food. Further updates: tried lamp pot and I would say it could compete with those marvelous in sham Shui po. Lamb is so tender and full of side dishes like branch bamboo, shiitake mushrooms and water chestnuts. It’s so lovely to have the pot with lettuces. If you want to have more food, their fried rice and sweet and sour onions and beef are something you can consider. Still a lovely place for you to bring foreigners to have a try the hk local food in such freezing days

Still a great place to go, but it’s a bit of a shame it has been recently renovated since its lost a little of its grimy charm (the toilets however definitely needed doing up)!

Two important stalls in Shuang Wan of Hong Kong - a western food and a Teochew-styled steamed kueh, making this place worth visiting.

I've heard a lot about this cooked food market and decided to try it out. One thing to remember is that this review isn't for the whole market. There numerous different restaurants within the market. We had the pigs intestines, fried baby fish, okra, aubergine, and ox-tail. I wasn't a fan of the fish as the texture was a bit too mushy and soft. The ox-tail could have been more tender. The pigs intestines and okra were great but the star of the show was the aubergine. It still has a bit of its deep fried crispy texture on the outside but was still soaking up the sauce. Taste: *** Service: *** Ambiance: * ------------------------------ Queen Street Cooked Food Market 38 Des Voeux Rd W, Sheung Wan ------------------------------

This is kind of a food court (dai pai dong) it is located next to the Ibis Hotel at Central. You need to walk up to an escalator and when you open the doors it is a big room with several stalls and in the middle a lot of tables. The place doesn't look very clear but I noticed that most of the patrons were westerners and most of them were having a beer with some food, depending on the stall I saw Chinese food and Indian food. Since it was late we ordered Fried Squid from the 1st stall which was Chinese cuisine, which was very tender and with good flavor also, they serve you for free as much tea as you want to drink and it is cash only place. Also I noticed that the stall with Indian food was very popular. Overall it was a great experience if you are looking for something different. I only tried the squid but it was good, I put 3 stars because of the cleanliness.

To the uninitiated, the Queen Street Cooked Food Market is the Hong Kong version of a food court (to state it simply and noting that this is just one, for there are countless of these cooked food centers all over Hong Kong). Not to go into the history of cooked food markets or how they came about (you can google all those nuggets of info), but this spot contains 6 food eateries, albeit set up in a food court type setting. In order of my personal preference of best to not good: 1) Traditional Beijing Dumpling House (dumplings, no menu in English) 2) Chautari Restaurant (Indian) 3) ABC Kitchen (Italian) 4) Chan Choi Kee (Chinese) 5) Chiu Chow Dumplings (dumplings and some Chinese food, no menu in English) 6) Thai Vietname Cuisine (Vietnamese) ***You can look up each restaurant in Yelp (seeing this is my hood, I have pretty much Yelped them all, so I know there is something written about them). The entrance is across from 7-11,up the escalators, through the heavy metal door. When you walk in, it can be a touch intimidating because the layout is kind of a cluster. When you walk in, you walk kind of into the area of Chan Choi Kee (the Chinese place) and their tables. If you walk around, you will see then Chautari (the Indian place) and their tables and so on and so forth. It is often hard to tell which tables go to each restaurant. The restaurant kitchens are lined up on the outside and all their tables for sitting are on the inside of the space. If you want to eat Indian, but are not sure where to sit, kind of walk over to the Indian place and get the attention of the staff person and they will tell you where to sit. Or if you are not sure what you want, walk up and ask to see a menu. Do the same for any of the other restaurants there. The Chinese place has the most tables, ABC probably has the second most tables and then Chautari has the third most tables. I think they dole them out based on volume of business...the busiest spots get the most seats. It is not cool to sit at the Chinese places tables, but be ordering Italian from ABC. But with that said, if you sit down in the appropriate tables of the restaurant you choose and in addition to what you are eating from them, you want to order something from a different restaurant too, then that is cool. As long as you are eating something from the establishment you are occupying real estate from, then this is OK. My husband and I are guilty of doing this often. All the restaurants tend to work together a bit on this, just make sure they get back their table setting and cutlery when you depart. In full disclosure, the place is "kind of" clean...I say this loosely, in the ballpark of maybe a B- for a grade on clean. It is more of a old school cluster with chaos than being concerned about "clean clean" really for me. Also, I have never used the restroom here, so I cannot attest if Mr. Clean is present. My husband and I like the Queen Street Cooked Food Center and find ourselves there for a meal several days in a week.

This is my review for the ABC Italian restaurant. It was really quite cute to see an Italian restaurant with table-clothed tables and wine served in wine glasses and proper cutlery in this sort of local cooked food market. It was super intrigued the last time I was there having the Indian curry and wanted to try the Italian this time. Upon seating, I realize the menu was priced more expensive than I had imagined. Nonetheless, I had wanted to give it a go. We were two people and ordered a glass of house white each, salad to share, and a main each. We were served wine first, it was not too bad for what it was priced at ($38/ glass). Next the salad: we were both very quiet for a while, until we both remarked at how small the portion was. It was basically enough leaves to go as a topping for a ciabatta sandwich. Nonetheless, it was simple, but good. We had the sea bass and mushroom risotto as mains. The sea bass came first, it was HEAVENLY. Pan-fried to just the right crisp, and oh so oily/ juicy. It was served in this tomatoey vegetable sauce. Unfortunately the piece was literally 4 moderate bites (it was just a bit bigger than a nigiri sushi). Barely to call it a main. The risotto came, by now we were already expecting the disappointing portions. To me, the portion was enough to make a generous side. Although there was quite a good proportion of mushrooms to rice, and it was quite creamy, the taste reminded me of a can of Campbell's mushroom soup. Not a good look. Before we even dug in to our second main, my friend knew he had to order some more buns and butter. The waitress went and brought back a double portion of butter. But the bread never came, despite my friend asking for it again in his accented English. I think the staff just played dumb or busy/ forgetful. Either way, we were neither impressed with the service nor the value for money. The food was good but really nothing to write home about. That's just the owners taking advantage of something a little "fancy" in the environment of a cooked food market. Don't waste your money or time - you're better off finding yourself a set menu in the likes of soho or central a much better deal!