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cheese baked rice with sliced pork in “sze chuan” style

Hong kong is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, and is also well known for its variety of cuisines and restaurants. Much information on Hong Kong’s food scenes can be found in books, mgazines, newspapers, TV programmes, and even blogs. Yes, blogs are here to stay. Since 2007 a few Hong Kong style restaurants have started operation in Kota Kinabalu, mainly in Warisan Square and 1Borneo Hypermall. Located at Warisan Square, Sin Wang Char Chan Teng, which offers Chinese cuisine (Hong Kong style), is one such restaurant. This restaurant is fairly easy to find, just use Le Meridien Hotel as a target point, since Sin Wang Char Chan Teng main door is facing the elegance five-star Le Meridien Hotel.

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yummy buns

Jeong Hin Kopitiam is a great place to have buns and “pau”, especially during tea break. Whether is it because of the British influence from the colonial time, or is it because people nowadays like to have tea. KK Lites are very fond of their tea break. Kopitiams that serve simple food like buns, pau and other nibbling food are very much in demand around 3pm to 5pm.

For decades Jeong Hin Kopitiam is well known for its buns. The buns here are very sought-after and every day they are sold out, either eat in or take away. One of the secrets for these ever popular buns, is their freshness, they are freshly baked and served hot. Buns are available for sale starting from 11am and by 4pm most of them are gone.

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coffee and toast bread with butter and kaya

Original coffee from the colonial time, and the ever popular toast bread with butter and kaya, these two items are the most memorial food and drink from the Olde Station Kopitiam. These two are also the must have products here.

the olde station kopitiam

Walk into any Olde Station Kopitiams and immediately one is overwhelm with the strong smell of burn charcoal. The burn charcoals are still used to toast the white bread here.
The Olde Station Kopitiam has already opened 2 outlets in Kota Kinabalu, one in City Mall and another one in Warisan Square. The third Olde Station Kopitiam is scheduled to open in 1Borneo on March 2008.

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