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Otto's Restaurant (Richang Cha Canting) Frommer's Highly Recommended

Cuisine Cantonese, Hong Kong
Hours Daily 10am-3am
Address
Dong Dan Dajie 72
Location Inside small alley past a movie theater on east side, Dongcheng (City Center)
Transportation Metro: Dong Dan (119, exit A); walk north several blocks
Phone 010/6525-1783
Prices Meal for 2 ¥60-¥80 ($8-$11/£4-£5.35)
Credit Cards Not accepted
Other English menu; Other locations at Di'an Men Xi Dajie 14, 2/F Shanghai Salon, Hua Yuan Dong Lu 8

Frommer's Review

Otto's is authentic Hong Kong prole dining, down to the shouts, smoke, and indecipherable wall-mounted menu. The environment may be jarring and the staff too busy to care, but the food is tremendous. The restaurant specializes in baozai (clay pot) rice dishes, best of which is the lawei huaji baozaifan, a mix of rice, salty-sweet sausage, and chicken drizzled in soy. Also good, albeit messy, are the suanxiang jichi (paper-wrapped garlic chicken wings). Thick glasses of iced coffee sweetened with condensed milk (bing kafei) are the perfect remedy for midsummer malaise. New branches are sprouting all over town -- notably a 24-hour branch just east of the north entrance to Bei Hai Park.

Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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