任務臘腸膶肠 :: 「蛇王芬」

To our horror, in January, the BFF and I realized that we've finished our stash of Chinese sausages and liver sausages. We don't buy lupcheong and yuencheong from any shop in Singapore, preferring to get them from Hong Kong. Luckily this trip came up. So the BFF sent me on 'Mission Lupcheong'. She sent me a restaurant's name and a link. Her accompanying one-line text read, "Don't come back if you fail." Pfffft. How to fail??! If it has an address on Google, there's no shop I cannot find in Hong Kong. Unless the restaurant is closed, of which I'll simply walk over to Wo Hing (和興臘味家) or some other 'famous' shop selling preserved meats.

This time, the BFF picked 'Ser Wong Fun', 「蛇王芬」. Besides buying lupcheong and yuencheong (臘腸膶肠), I also ended up eating there when the man suddenly texted to say he was at Central and done with meetings, and wanted join me for lunch, and a colleague K would be tagging along. Clever ah, both of them. Came to join me and didn't have to speak a word to order food. I didn't ask if the restaurant had an English menu. I simply read off the Chinese ones tucked under the glass on the table.

Sure, this is a shop that does snake soup (蛇羹) and such. We're totally not interested in that. Neither were we interested in their other dishes which looked pretty good as they were ordered and trotted out to other tables. We were here for the restaurant's one-dish combo lunch plates. Soya sauce chicken and liver sausages for the man, and the same dish for K, but with regular sausages. I learnt that the man loves the green dip that comes with soya sauce chicken. The restaurant's ginger scallion sauce (薑蔥蓉) was ridiculously tasty, and salty. The man asked if I could replicate it. 😐

The men shared a pig's lung soup. Hurhurhur. They never had it before in their lives, and they were so curious about it. They actually loved it. LOL. I had a regular unadventurous old cucumber pork rib soup. I went for broke and ordered braised goose and lupcheong. It was quite delicious. I ignored the weird too-sweet plum sauce. If only restaurants here offered sambal instead of XO sauce. Hahahah. I forgot to bring my own sambal to Hong Kong on this trip. :P