Ping Kee Noodles at Tai Po Market

We went to Tai Po Market this morning in order to taste the noodles at Ping Kee Noodle Shop.  Per "Tasting Hong Kong" blog, "Ping’s Noodle is a long established renowned shop for selling hand-made egg noodles. Their shop has been introduced in Hong Kong newspapers and magazines for several times. Their noodles are made by the shop owner everyday in the morning. However, to keep the noodles fresh he only makes small amount everyday, which often causes their noodles to be sold out before the end of their opening hours. The owner's wife’s warm and amicable service is high praised as well. Enjoy your lunch or tea with one serve of the noodles. With almost ten different kinds of noodles and varieties of flavours to choose from, I’m sure anyone would be able to find one of their favourite combination and would enjoy their time over there."  For us, we went there as Anthony Bourdain ate there and loved the noodles.

Ping Kee Noodles shop is located in a "dai pai dong", akin to a hawker center food court.  Hence we had to search high and low for a table.  Luckily, Teri found a table right in front of the noodle shop.  There were two people already sitting at the table which holds about 6 persons but they were practically finished and left soon after we all sat down.  Once we were seated, we ordered the specialties of the noodle shop and awaited our culinary repast. We liked the noodles so much that we each had two bowls of won ton noodles.

The owner of the noodle shop was amazed that we were able to find his shop as it was never specifically mentioned in Anthony Bourdain's episode on Hong Kong.  Both the owner and our server were highly amused when Teri showed them the video of Bourdain's Hong Kong episode that I had downloaded into my I Pod Touch.   Ah the marvels of modern technology.