Best Wonton in Hong Kong

This little shop in Central is a famous wonton place for many years, and its recent acquisition of one Michelin Star is definitley the icing on a cake. Mak An Kee 麥奀記 is not a big restaurant, but you can be sure it is always occupied by different people from local people to tourists to rich guys.

I today had lunch there, and had their two famous dishes. First is the egg noodle with shrimp eggs served with soup. We just ate it without the soup, but drank it later, while some people like to add the soup onto the noodle. No matter how you eat it, you can still taste the great flavour of the noodle. You can feel the sponginess and the taste of egg in your mouth! That is good egg noodle!

Then we had a bowl of wonton, and this was once a very controversial dish. Some people claimed that this was the original because it was the original small size, with little pork mixed inside. Others however said that good wonton should be bigger with more pork inside, like half pork half shrimp. For me, I think this is pretty good. Perhaps to me, with little pork you can then taste the fresh shrimp meat inside. The wonton skin was very delicious too!

Some people said eating here was expensive and not worth it, but I would say it was not bad at all. I have no say on whether it is traditional or not, original or not, but still it is apparently part of Hong Kong culture. I hope that we can keep all these great dishes despite the fast development of Hong Kong, just as how we try to keep our heritage in the city.