Must Get The French Toast With Peanut Butter

Friends Cafe HK 朋友冰室!

We reached 20mins past opening time, and there was already a snaking long queue. It took us around 30mins of waiting before we finally got in! Food was served pretty fast though as Hong Kong is all about instant comfort food.

French Toast with Peanut Butter ($3.50): I must say this is the MUST ORDER ITEM! I absolutely love this! Buttery, fragrant, crispy!

Stir-fried charsiew and egg with white rice ($6.50): Got this item because it was highly raved by others from the reviews I read. But no, this item is a no no for me. The egg wasnt the silky scrambled egg type, it was the chinese-style 99% cooked kind. I also didnt like the super fatty charsiew as I am not a fan of fatty char siew meats. This item was just on the drier side, with no sauce and a not scrambled dry egg.

Chicken Chop Rice with black pepper sauce ($7.50 set meal with half a slice of butter toast and luncheon meat): Ordered this item because it was also highly raved. I like the black pepper sauce given for this dish! I also like how lots of black pepper sauce was given, if not it will be quite hard for me to eat plain dry rice. Chicken Chop was on the dry side too, but still alright. Luncheon meat comfort food! The toast with butter can skip, the toast was quite hard, and not as nice as the french toast. (I suspect most ppl do not eat this free toast? The cashier staff even asked us when ordering whether we wanted the free toast, when you would have expected them to give without asking. Most prob to reduce food wastage)

Iced kumquat tea ($2.2): Tastes like yuzu, with some kumquat pulp in it! Paid 20 cents more for the iced tea option, but the drink came hot with ice cubes given. LOL ok, so i paid 20 cents for the few little ice cubes. But I guess that’s how iced tea drinks are served in Hong Kong too. Haha too funny to me.

All in all, paid about $20 for the meal for 2 pax. Whether I will come back again, not really. To me, Hong kong’s comfort food is something I think I can cook at home too! For the experience since one can’t travel, sure why not!