Hong Kong: In the Mood for Love
Opened in 1962, the Goldfinch restaurant is a typical ‘west meets east’ type of mixture of western restaurant and Hong Kong style café, where in the old times the locals went for a western style set meal (a soup, a main course, and a desert), or a few cocktails too.
Apparently the interior didn’t change since the day it opened its door, this restaurant also got famous from the popular Hong Kong film ‘In the Mood for Love’ of director Wong Kar‐wai, in which the story took place in Hong Kong 1962.
To be honest, I didn’t not expect too much from the food there – a HK style western restaurant, how good it can be? But I was wrong.
The food was very good, amazingly so. We had Gratinated Snails, Gratinated Crab with Cheese and Gratinated Mussels with Cheese, salad, and I took Grilled Ostrich as the main. All excellent, tasty, and differs from the taste of ‘real’ western restaurants; it does have some unique flavors probably coming from the ‘colonization’. The food is not fancy, and the price is very low. (I loved the starters, while the mains are more to the ordinary side.)
It’s not a fine dining place, but definitely a unique experience of Hong Kong. Even the staff is the same ones from decades before, with the same old uniforms.
According to the owner, ‘I like how it is, so why change?’
Price: HKD 50‐100 per person.
Add: G/F., 13‐15 Lan Fong Rd., Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Tel: +852 2577‐7981 
