Lei Yue Mun (鯉魚門)

For me, no trip to Hong Kong is complete without a trip to Lei Yue Mun. We go so often that the photo you see from above is actually from summer 2004 ;)


This Christmas, my brother made sure to let my parents know this was the place we wanted to go for dinner the night I arrived from Shanghai. The thing that's unique about this place is the way it's set up. The streets are lined with seafood stores; you pick what you want to eat and they take it right out of the tank. My family usually gets shrimp for steaming, scallop in the shell, various clams, and a fish to steam also. Next, the fish vendor will take you to their buddy the fruit vendor and you choose what fruit you want for dessert. Finally, the fish and the fruit are all sent to one of the restaurants in the area, where they sit you down, you can order rice and veggies to go with your meal and that's that.

In Chinese, seafood is called 海鮮, with the second character meaning "fresh". If this isn't fresh, I don't know what is.

I didn't get to take photos of this meal (There's no doubt that I'll be going back some time, especially now that our new apartment is a boat ride away from there), but here are my brother and sister goofing off at the fish vendor: