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根記健康素食, at 香港灣仔鵝頸橋熟食中心二樓南座6號舖, is a small, family-run eatery in a food court. Sometimes uses lacto ingredients - vegans should always ask. Counter service at lunch. Evening, best to call ahead with order. Some English spoken. Has Wi-Fi. Nearest MTR Causeway Bay exit A. Open Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm, 6:30pm-9:00pm.
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Stall 6, 1/F above ground, South Block, Bowrington Cooked Food Centre, 21 Bowrington Rd, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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20 Reviews
First Review by eeyoresenigma
Stevie
Points +11765
Kan Kee, Hong Kong - Edit
I used to eat here regularly. The serving was well aware from my regular conversations with her that my co-diner and I prefer to eat vegan. That didn't stop her adding dairy cream to food she served us on an occasion I didn't ask.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on 2014-03-21
Cons: A risky venue for vegans to eat at
Guest
icecreamtherapy
Points +313
yummy caifan! - Edit
food was tasty & served in generous portions (: a tad pricey for economic rice (50 HKD for three dishes, one bowl of rice & a bowl of soup) but still makes for a very affordable & satisfying meal. the staff speak mandarin and are friendly! this was good ^^
Read moreUpdated from previous review on 2023-05-08
Pros: generous portions, lots of veg & tofu, friendly staff
Cons: a bit pricey for caifan
Guest
alekssss
Points +13
Cheap and tasty - Edit
Simple yet very tasty restaurant in a small busy food court. I could choose between 3 types of vegetables, got tofu and rice for 38 hkd.
Read morePros: big portions , cheap, delicious
Cons: can be crowded
Guest
mattmoffitt87
Points +81
A good choice - Edit
To find this place, look for a light green sign in Cantonese and English.
Read morePros: Friendly staff, Inexpensive, Healthy
Cons: A little bland
Guest
irplonk96
Points +2890
Delicious, healthy food and good company - Edit
Like other reviewers, I have found myself getting sick of mock meat, so I wanted to go somewhere where I could get more fresh veggies. When I got there, a woman who spoke English translated for me. I got two veggies, tofu, and rice for $36 HKD. Everything was delicious, and two sweet ladies who were also eating there joined me for lunch. When they saw I was struggling with chopsticks, one of them went and got me a fork. I will definitely be returning to this place. You can't beat the quality of food for this price.
Read morePros: All vegan (at least when I went), inexpensive, Good service, sweet people
Cons: None
Guest
LukasKlingsbo
Points +73
Very local - Edit
Very local place inside a food court on top of a market. Has a few different dishes that you chose and combine by pointing. Staff knows a bit of English.
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p_verebe1
Points +13
amazing experience - loved it - Edit
food amazing, owner delightful and took great care and time to help us find what we wanted as we couldn't read the menu, the signature ginger beancurd dish was silken and divine and it really was service with a smile and heart. She has a great following because of the food and her sweet manner. location is great fun too, cooked food markets are always buzzing and vibrant , best to pre boo as she only has 5-6 tables 9287 8787
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MichaelDiRamos
Points +69
Simply amazing vegan food in a wet market setting! - Edit
We were helped by the waitress who spoke very good English! We had mixed Vegetable curry, fried noodles and Mixed vegetables in XO sauce! All was great! Come and be pleasantly surprised! BURP!
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ctgarces
Points +35
Simple Place, Exquisite Cooking - Edit
Incredible are the stuff that come out from the tiny kitchen. We trusted the lively charming lady to order for us. She gave us soup which tasted like minestrone but more full bodied, greater variety od of vegetables and slightly sweet and spicy without being cloying, like the sweetness was lent to it by the vegetables. Then the vegetable curry was heavenly. Slightly sweet, this tasted like Indian curry. Addition of the potatoes which were almost overcooked gave it a thick sauce which was a perfect complement to the white rice. The tofu was regular sweet sour soy sauce but cooked with fresh black mushrooms. The fried rice noodles were divine. Our lively hostess sprinkled some dark sauce which was like guamanian finadeni and it was one of the best vegetarian fried noodles I've had. What can I say? Come early. Place gets crowded with many regulars. But well worth the wait!
Read morePros: Lady hostess cashier server was charming , Speaks good English, Japanese , Mandarin aside from native Cantonese
Cons: Not easy to find but worth the search!
Guest
CarlosGP
Points +345
Healthy, delicious home-made food - Edit
The place is quite simple, but the food is delicious, with a home-made feel to it and at a great price. The place may be a bit challenging to find, but it helps if you look at the list of stalls that is posted (just a sheet of paper) right outside the elevators.
Read morePros: Healthy food, Great price, Delicious and simple
Cons: A bit hard to find if you don't speak Cantonese
Guest
Naturally
Points +75
No frills Chinese vegetarian/ vegan restaurant - Edit
Located inside the causeway bay cooked food wet market, you will find an array of food store, and one long established store is this no frills Kan Kee, serving vegetarian and vegan food to locals. Basically they have about 6-7 different dishes you can choose, the set menu is with rice and a bowl of chinese soup (more watery, not like the western ones) For just $40, it is a total bargain. If you are like me who shy away from wheat gluten or mock meat, they hardly use any (as those are more costly and processed food is never good). It is more of a fast food model where you go pick your food, pay and find a seat to sit.
Read moreIt's cosy, but its how locals do it. You will be surprised how popular it is! They do soup noodles rather than rice too.
Open for dinner but with advance reservations only, it is my favourite in Causeway bay for vegetarian chinese food.
Pros: Cheap and tasy, No frills, you pay for what you get, no extra char, Where the local goes
Cons: Not a lot of seatings, but often seats will free u, If you like fancy place, this is not the place for, The menu change everyday, which can be a good thin
Guest
LalitaT
Points +24
Just Delicious - Edit
Quite hard to find. The cooked food market says it's on the 1st floor but don't be fooled, there are 2 first floors; upper ans lower. Just go into the cookies food market and search. The food was amazing! Vegan and so delicious. The tomato tofu dish was sweet and herbaceous, the mushroom with courgettes was off the walls. so much flavour. Rice is refillable and self serve, good for greedy people like me. Soup is an additional $15 but it was very well seasoned as well. definitely worth the wait. $50-58 for a dish including as much rice aa you can eat. share 2-3 dishes with your friends and you're GOLDEN
Read morePros: Delicious, English speaking staff, cheap, refillab
Cons: loud environment, some people getting drunk (esp.
Guest
AliceShopland
Points +41
Doesn't look promising, but... - Edit
This place is a real treasure despite the very basic food court style dining and long queues. The food was excellent, great value, and the staff very friendly and helpful.
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nafanc
Points +1615
Simple, fresh, delicious - Edit
They have 6-7 dishes. You can choose three for your meal, and you can also add a soup if you want. Rice is included.
Read moreI had a great experience here today. I got choi sum, orange squash, mock ham, and soup. My companion also got the choi sum along with tofu in brown sauce and tofu skin rolls. Everything was very good.
I like this place because it is a nice change of pace from the heavy focus on mock meats at other HK vegetarian spots. It was great that the vast majority of choices were recognizable veggies cooked simply and deliciously.
Also, don't be deterred by the queue. We went a little after 1pm and there was a long line (probably about 20 people). However, the workers are efficient, so we were through in about 5-7 minutes. Well worth the (short) wait for a delicious meal.
Pros: Vegetable focused, Simple
Guest
dicer
Points +700
Down to earth vegan eating - Edit
I guess this is as local as it gets when you want to eat vegan food. A lot of locals around you enjoying their (often non vegan) lunch and dinner at the food court of the market. Don't expect a quite restaurant atmosphere. If you are looking for a bustling experience with lots of locals you came to the right place though.
Read moreThe food is standard Cantonese fare, but a tasty one at that. You better call ahead as they told us they usually buy only the ingredients they received preorders for.
We were there before closing time and just told them to bring whatever they still had available. I like this concept of not producing food waste a lot.
Pros: Local, All vegan
Cons: Loud and noisy (well, local)
Guest
JohnnySensible
Points +7596
Like a Lotus Flower - rising above filthy water - Edit
A 'now-vegan' sanctuary in the middle of a very meaty market.
Read moreIf you are planning an evening visit - phone to Elsa to let her know that you are coming.
20+ years of serving palnt-based food to the local community.
Loyal clientele.
If you visit often enough they may name a dish after you!
Seating for around 30 - plus a thriving take away business.
From a magazine article -
+Outdoor butchers, fishmongers and grocers surround the wet market complex itself, which houses the cooked food stalls. Kan Kee Vegetarian is one of the most famous. Before World War II, Kan Kee was a fishball noodles stall but when the family business was handed over to the eldest daughter, a vegetarian, it began to serve vegetarian fare instead. The neighborhood clientele gamely came to give the new menu a go and the veggie dishes went down a treat, with loyal customers slowly becoming part of the story behind the stall. "Mr. Leung's stew," for example, is named after a businessman who comes twice a week to order the same simple veggie dish.+
Full story here - http://hk-magazine.com/restaurants/article/market-potential
Guest
kenvegan
Points +13112
The Best Meal I've Had in Hong Kong - Edit
When I walked into this food court area, I was not expecting much. The food court is old and pretty run down.
Read moreThe food from this restaurant, in contrast, is an amazing surprise. Gourmet vegan food with a lovely presentation.
The tofu curry was perfect. I have tried a number of far more expensive restaurants in Hong Kong, but this restaurant has the most memorable and delicious food.
Pros: Food, Great Value, Attentive service
Guest
nickb
Points +247
Delicious & great value Chinese food - Edit
This restaurant seems to have different owners for lunch & dinner service. This is a no frills dining experience, but is great value and the food is generally really good.
Read moreLunch consists of 4 or 5 dishes on a wet bar, all of which are generally very tasty. It is great value. Be warned - if you arrive between 12pm & 2pm, prepare for a lengthy queue!
For dinner, service can be very slow so it is best to call ahead to make an order.
Pros: Tasty food, Great value, Friendly owners
Cons: Can get very busy & loud
Stevie
Hi Nick,
Read moreGreat question about possibly different owners running the lunch time and dinner operations. I asked when I was in there last night. I was told that it's a family run enterprise. Different family members cover different shifts (i.e. some people work the lunch shift and others work the evening shift).
Thank you for contributing to happycow and the world of vegetarianism.
Guest
sfvoyage
Points +141
tasty but overpriced Chinese veggie food stall - Edit
I had never eaten at a Chinese wet market before and was looking forward to this adventure. The cooked food area is on the top floor of the wet market complex and is accessible by the exterior staircase, so you don't actually have to walk through the wet market to get up to the cooked food floor.
Read moreI had called ahead to see if 19:30 is OK for the 2 of us, and Elsa insisted that we order ahead and helped us do so (as I didn't have a menu and was not familiar with their menu). By the way, I'm a native Cantonese speaker and so can't comment on how good her English or Putonghua are, but I'd imagine she can converse in both, based on other reviews on here.
She showed concern about her only chef being too busy and wanted us to order ahead and order similar dishes as other diners, so he could do the preparations ahead of time. Whatever! We pre-ordered two dishes on the phone.
The atmosphere is decidedly lower working class Hong Kong circa 1960s, with plastic tables and chairs in an open, shared food hall. Not without some retro charm. And the floor had been upgraded with air conditioning.
We had two small dishes of tasty but unremarkable Chinese dishes, plus two small bowls of rice. I was quite surprised by the bill - HK$128 for not a lot of food. (The prices on their menu had struck me as high for a food stall, but apparently the menu prices were out-dated and the real prices are even higher now.)
Granted, the bill would be considered reasonable at a family-style restaurant, but at a food stall atop a wet market, it was decidedly overpriced. At over 20% more expensive than Loving Hut nearby, where we had dined the night before, there are better options in HK, even in the same neighborhood.
Definitely will not be returning to this place.
Pros: tasty, simple food
Cons: overpriced for a food stall, outdated menu prices, no real service
Stevie
Hi SFvoyage,
Read moreIf I may politely reply to your review.
I uploaded some pics of menu from Kan Kee. I also uploaded some (admittedly not very clear) pics of the Wan Chai Loving hut menu to the Wan Chai Loving Hut listing. I'm a big fan of Loving Hut, great food at pretty affordable prices. I am fascinated to know though how Kan Kee can be described as more expensive than Loving Hut?
As well as what is on the menu, Kan Kee offer a lunch time deal. Off the top of my head I think it's something like 28 hkd without soup and 34 hkd with soup. That I am aware of (I've been to every 100% vego restaurant currently listed on happycow for HK Island), the only other place in downtown HK Island that offers a sit in lunch deal in that price bracket is Fook Luk Sau. There are slightly cheaper sit in lunch deals available but that I have seen, you need to go out of the Sheung Wan to Causeway Bay downtown area. I include Loving Hut in Wan Chai in that. Their lunch deal is 58 hkd at time of writing.
Also if I may enquire please? Your "Whatever!" remark about telephone pre-ordering in the evenings. Why is a request for telephone pre-ordering a cause for such indignation?
I am in complete agreement with you that the food in Kan Kee is tasty.
Guest
eeyoresenigma
Points +183
Hard to find worth the search! - Edit
Hong Kong is definitely known for its great food. We went to a couple of fancy looking places for veggie dimsum but were kinda disappointed. This place was our beacon of veggie hope at the end of a meaty tunnel. Elsa was there and very patiently went over the menu with us suggesting dishes for us to try. We only got three dishes as it was just my boyfriend and I and we were on a bit of a budget. We went over a year ago but I remember the dishes being simple but very tasty.
Read moreThe booth is in a food complex upstairs from a seafood market. It's pretty crazy walking through the market filled with almost every sea creature only to go upstairs to a veggie restaurant. The setting is defi story not fancy, with plastic chairs. But honestly, that's the way I like to dine! Good food before good decor. It's also a great place to see how the locals dine as the stalls are jam packed into building.
All in all, if I ever go back to Hong Kong it's gonna be on my must go and eat at list!
Pros: Good healthy food, Knowledge staff, Good value
Cons: In a meat market (not their fault), Hard to find...
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