Halal Canteen at Masjid Ammar, Wan Chai Hong Kong

Halal food in Hong Kong is quite limited and expensive in comparison to price of non halal food. There is a canteen located at the 5th floor of Masjid Ammar and Osman Ramju Sadick Islamic Center which is a great alternative to indian and middle eastern food which is abundant in Hong Kong.The most important is the food is cheap and delicious. The canteen is well known for its dim sum that is served from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The canteen get a bit crowded with visitors around the world during lunch hour. It also open for breakfast and serve Cantonese food for diner.

The mosque is a bit difficult to find. It takes a bit of walking from Wan Chai MRT station. My advise is don't go there when you are hungry thinking that a 10 minutes walk will take you there. During our first visit, we used a google map as a guide and we walk through shops, park and dilapidated buildings. My tiring food was about to give up, triggered with growling tummy and cold air. At that moment, we saw a building with a dome that looked like a mosque. We practically ran to the place only to find out that it was a Sikh temple. Out of frustration I wanted to turn back but then we saw Oi Kwan Road which led us to the mosque. My second visit to the mosque was a breeze walk from Johnston Street to Wan Chai road to the mosque as shown in the wan chai mtr sreet map.

If you arrived during lunch hour, the canteen is a bit busy filled by muslim visitors mostly from south east asia. The waiters do not speak english but the menu is written in english therefore you just need to point which food you want to order. The food was prepared pretty fast. The taste is authentically chinese and delicous. It is actually worth going (or walking).

Masjid Ammar is at no 91. Get full map of Wan Chai street here

Once you are done with the lunch walking back to Wan Chai MTR seems like a short walk and made me feel that this canteen is to be visited again when i come to Hong Kong.

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