Australian Dairy Company 澳洲牛奶公司 – Long Queues, Short Service & Very Good Scrambled Eggs At Hong Kong
Feature - Review, Food - Hong Kong, Overseas - Hong Kong
June 05, 2013

At one of Hong Kong’s most popular and famous Hong Kong café (Cha Chaan Teng) Australia Dairy Company, expect attitudes, partly rude service, chaotic ambience, long queues, and a very good plate of scrambled eggs. This is my fourth visit to Australian Dairy Company 澳洲牛奶公司 at Jordan, the first three times they were closed. Lesson learnt: Come early to queue, don’t come during the first 8 days of Chinese New Year, and don’t come on Thursdays. At about 8am in the morning, there were about 20-30 odd people in front of us, but the line cleared swift......
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