Have a Taste on “B Chai Herbal Jelly Bowl”

Kai Kee Dessert is very popular in the NT, even HK. Its signature dish is “B Chai Herbal Jelly Bowl”. It is even recommended by CNN. “B Chai Herbal Jelly Bowl” is a pot of jelly mixed with more than 10 kinds of fruits. It can be served for 3 to 4 customers, and famous for its huge size. Therefore, this jelly bowl is suitable for families to order. Besides herbal jelly bowl, Kai Kee also provides other kinds of desserts, such as pancakes, sweet dumplings, Sago with different fruit, Chinese traditional “Tong Sui”etc. All of them are delicious and tasty. 

 

The Most Traditional and Famous Cake Shop in Hong Kong.

Hang Heung Cake Shop was opened in 1920. At the beginning, it was called the Hang Heung Teahouse, serving dim sum and Chinese dish to customers. While many people were queuing up and waiting to go into the teahouse, Hang Heung used sweetened winter melon as main ingredient and made the wife cake. Later on, the wife cake became more and more popular among customers. In 1980, Hang Heung closed the teahouse and focus on making Chinese cakes and pastries. Nowadays, wife cake becomes the best-selling product in Hang Heung. It sells about 25,000 wife cakes every day.

The Famous and best selling item: Wife Cake!

The History of Wife Cake:

Wife cake is a traditional Chinese pastry with flaky and thin skin made with winter melon,  almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder. There is a legend about the wife cake. Many years ago, a couple lived a very poor life. One day, the husband's father became very sick. The couple spent all their money on the man’s father, but he didn’t recover. Finally, the wife sold herself as a slave in exchange for money to buy medicine for her father-in-law. Once the husband learned about what his wife did, he made a cake filled with sweetened winter melon and almond. His cake became so popular that he was able to earn enough money to buy his wife back. People then called this pastry as wife cake. Hang Heung is very famous for its wife cake as the outside of the cake is crispy, but inside is soft.

Besides wife cakes, hand-made egg roll is also very famous. The egg roll is crispy and full of egg smell. The staff said the egg roll is very famous as it is crispy and full of egg smell. The egg roll is not greasy, that you will want to eat more. Besides these 2 items, Hang Heung also sells other products, such as wedding cakes, moon cakes, pastries. Though there are branches in Kowloon and HK Island, it is worth to buy in Yuen Long as cakes and pastries are freshly made.

 

The woman showed us how to make egg roll^^

Seafood Lunch at Lau Fau Shan

Lau Fau Shan:

Lung Yu Seafood Restaurant is a seafood restaurant in Lau Fau Shan area. And, it is established in more than 40 years ago.  What is special about the restaurant is that it maintains its outstanding quality by insisting in the use of seafood in the local area. The dishes shown in the menu are all very delicious and worth trying. 

delicious dishes!!! yummy^v^

We also can go sightseeing. Lau Fau Shan is famous for its oyster farming and the oyster beds along the shoreline area covering around 3000 hectares. In the past, the oyster industry was prosperous. However, because of the water pollution problem, less and less oysters are grown here. So, actually majority seafood here including the oysters are imported from other areas. The government is trying its best to add some green elements in the area. For example, they are planning to use recycled shells of oysters to build an island offshore.
 amazing scenery*v*

Shopping in the main street is great too! There are a number of stalls with enormous range of dried seafood such as dried salted fish, dried scallop, dried fish air bladder, dried oyster and shrimp paste. We can buy the unique local oyster sauce as well. And fresh egg pastry is and other Must Buy item.
  

A Fresh Taste of NATURE

The Hong Kong Wetland Park demonstrates the diversity of the Hong Kong wetland ecosystem. The Mission of the park is to foster public awareness, knowledge and understanding of the values of wetlands, as well as to marshal public support and action for wetland conservation. Besides, the park will be a world-class ecotourism facility to serve both local residents and overseas tourists. So it is really worth visiting. 

 

    

There are many exhibitions in the indoor gallery, we can acquire a lot of "Green Knowledge" in there.

               

  

   



     

Here comes the Lesser Mouse Deer!



We can meet Pui Pui in Pui Pui's Home (the external pool) of the Wetland Park. She is a Salt Water Crocodile which was first found in Shan Pui River in the New Territories on 2 November 2003. The concerned parties then decided to move her into the park in 2006.



Pui Pui is sleeping......so lazy =p



When we are enjoying the beautiful scenery, we can enjoy a free service at the same time: detailed explanation about the habitats, plants and animals by the tour guides!



The First Heritage Trail in Hong Kong

Ping Shan Heritage Trail is a line of Tang Clan, one of the “Five great Clans” of New Territories. They have lived there since 12^th century. Numerous elegant structures built since that time still stand today, bearing testimony to the historical and social developments that have taken place over the past centuries.  It gives us an opportunity to learn more about the traditional life in the NT. 

  

        

When we visited the Tang Ancestral Hall and Yu Kiu Ancestral Hall, it was so lucky that we met a local gentry. He told us that the Tang Ancestral Hall was the main hall, uses as a venue for worship, festivals, ceremonies and clan meetings. For Yu Kiu Ancestral Hall, it was built by generation brothers of the clan. It was also used as school in the past.

 

Duilians can be easily found!

The food is sold in an traditional way and we can find some convenience stores in old style ~^^

Our New Itinerary!

Yuen Long Wonderful One Day Tour: 
A fresh taste between Nature and Nuture

Itinerary: 

Pang Shan Heritage Trail >The Hong Kong Wetland Park >

Lau Fau Shan (Lunch) > Hang Heung Cake Shop > Kai Kee Dessert 

This is a brand new tour that is planned by our company. We will present you a memorable tour that you will gain unforgettable experience.

Theme of Yuen Long Tour

There are three major themes for the Yuen Long Tour. They are Green, Heritable and Appetizing. Firstly, Green means ecotourism. Environmental issue is a hot topic all over the world. Global warming and greenhouse effect etc, such problems are always being discussed among people. As global citizens, Hong-kongers should know more about our living environment. This becomes one of the themes as this can raise the awareness of environmental protection. Secondly, Heritable means visiting the historical sites in Yuen Long. Nowadays, most of the local citizens do not know much about the history and lifestyle of people living in the past. The tour will give tourists a picture of the traditional life in New Territories, and have more knowledge of Hong Kong’s history. Thirdly, Appetizing means to give a chance to tourists enjoying the famous local delicacies, making the tour more relaxing and fun.

Learn More about Bird Nest

Our guests seemed very interested in learning more about bird nest. Let's share more here!

The nests have been traditionally used in China for over 400 years, most often as bird’s nest soup. Scientifically proven that Bird Nest contains lot of protein and other useful vitamin and it helps stimulate cells to grow, which helps human growth and enhanced immune system.

different types of bird nest~
      
          Here are some tips to select good bird nest:

• The best bird nests are pure white, full shape, condense fiber, and contains least bird’s feather and impurities.
• Touch for the wetness of the Bird nest. Wet Bird nests are more heavy and easily rotten.
• First grade Bird nests expand after pre-soaked in water. The size expands 7-8 times larger than the original size. Texture rebounds when press with pressure. The smell of protein appears during steaming and the mouth feel texture is smooth and soft

      

Guest: Bird Nest is great!



Happy Memory ♥

Tour guides took photos with the guests~

She was a nice shopkeeper! She told us a lot about dried seafood^^