潮福蒸氣石鍋 located at Shop 6, G/F, Tai Po Plaza Commercial Complex, 1 On Tai Road, Tai Po

September 19, 2017:  For dinner that night, we went to Hai Fook 潮福蒸氣石鍋 in Tai Po for steam pot dinner.  Steam pot meals started getting popular in Hong Kong at least since last year in 2016 when I was visiting but never tried it.  I had tried it in Toronto last autumn but this was my first time trying it in Hong Kong.

Hai Fook Group has many restaurants and we went to the Tai Po branch.

View of the restaurant space from our table

Menu

Second page

Specials

奄仔蟹 “Yan crab” specials

Steam pot experience

We ordered the six person combo meal and added in three “yan crabs” called 奄仔蟹 in Chinese.  They were on promotion for $78 HKD for one crab.

First, the ingredients for the congee went in first. Rice, pumpkin, pork

The condensation from the food will enrich this congee

Soup

Mushrooms

Raw ingredients ready for steaming

Chicken on leaf ready to be steamed

Yan crabs ready to be steamed

Various shellfish and fish ready to be steamed

Large clams ready to be steamed

Fried squabs

Crabs being steamed

Yan crabs are done!

It’s looking at you

Pried open

Lots of tomalley

The process was pretty much identical to my experience at the steam pot restaurant I went to in Toronto.   A server helped us to put each course of seafood or meat onto the steamer.  There was a timer on the table to alert of when the item was done being steamed.  There was also rice, pumpkin, and some pork put into the lower part of the steamer as congee later.

There was a condiments station near the kitchen for you to customize your own sauce.  I didn’t require any in my food though because I wanted to eat the food fresh (also to limit on my salt intake).

Condiments

Everything was really fresh.  We had an assortment of scallops, mussels, clams, abalone, scallops, chicken, fish, wagyu beef, vegetables, and sponge cake.  We first had the crabs put into the steamer.  These crabs are most well known for their large portion of guts and tomalley.

Scallops

Done!

Best served with vermicelli

Abalone

Abalone after steaming

Fish

After steaming

These were really smooth

Throw in all the shellfish!

What a mix!

Done!

Seafood galore

Giant mussels

So fleshy

Chicken lowered into the steamer

All done!

No need for oil

Yay! Veggies coming soon!

Wagyu beef first

Done!

Omgosh, these were so smooth!

Favourite part; veggies!

Done!

Nicely assembled back on the plate

Steamed sponge cake

My cousin also ordered a dish of cooked chicken because he couldn’t eat any of the seafood.  Thus, he ordered this at the beginning of the meal to have something to nibble on.

Chicken

The congee at the end was sweet and infused with all the essences of the previous foods being steamed and condensation set in.

The final product congee is now ready!

Super smooth and velvety pumpkin and pork congee!

Hong Kong has so many steam pot restaurants now.  I’m glad that I got to try one now too! 🙂

A massive feast

Napkin

Other locations of the Hai Fook Group restaurants

I was trying to look for the English name of the restaurant but couldn’t find it anywhere