Street Food in Shenzhen, China

Kelly and I ventured to Dongmen, Shenzhen during our last week in Hong Kong. We took the train right up to Luohu Station in Hongkong, and crossed the border to Luohu, Shenzhen. After that, we took the train (their train tokens are in the form of plastic coins like casino chips!!) to Dongmen where we (or at least I) were in cheap cheap heaven.

We had dimsum lunch at Luohu Commercial City and thereafter adjourned to Dongmen where we had tea-desserts at Zhen Shan Mei Desserts Shop (Dongmen, Shenzhen, China). It was only after we ordered our desserts did we realise we were having milky desserts in China. Mmm.

We ordered steamed milk with black glutinous rice with coconut. This is an ingenious combination, the nuttiness of the glutinous rice with the smooth custard blended with coconut.Kels had steamed milk with yam. We liked that the yam was soft and mashy.
The fried durian dumplings were good too - crusty layers of pastry with dense durian paste. If only it was straight out of the fryer...

We then stopped over at Mai Xiang Biscuit shop (Dongmen, Shenzhen, China) whilst we were shopping...

I had the beef biscuit but I think the one I had at Qing Zhen Islam Food in Hong Kong was much juicier.

The street food smells at Dongmen were most enticing and our curiosity was piqued...

The curry powder fragrance from the curry roasted potatoes were much too much to bear so we had one...this was AWESOME! Chunks of fried salty potatoes dusted with curry powder it was a joy with every bite.

The next day Kelly kindly accompanied me to Dongmen, Shenzhen again (my appetite for shopping is insatiable too) and after Macs lunch, we continued on our street food saga again...

Every one was eating takopachi and we had to try too....its so much better here than back at Singapore - the crisp outer layer gives way to chewy balls of flour and was perfect with the teriyaki sauce and alot of seaweed powder...

This was at another street food stall and Kelly had the ma-la noodles and it was most spicy...

I had another round of takopachi and this was SO MUCH BETTER because of the generous coating of teriyaki sauce and seaweed!!

I also had the tau Kua with chilli sauce and this was rather ordinary - but I like the idea of having steaming taukua right out of the pot.

We had a craving for the biscuits we had the day before so we tried Da Mai Baked Biscuits (Dong Men, Shenzhen China). Look how they store their biscuits in baskets!

I tried the Green bean biscuit and this is like warm and toasty tau sa piah.

After all that food thirst got the better of us and we tried Dakasi Bubble Tea (Dongmen, Shenzhen, China). Notice how the drink is mechanically shaking away most vigorously !!

Resulting in the most foamy milk tea we ever had! Damn now I wished we stayed longer in China all their street food was such a change from Hong Kong.