Frank the tour guide chooses restaurants for clients by two tests and two observations
Enjoying local meal is a good way to experience the local culture.
This blog post is going to introduce how Frank chooses the local restaurants for clients.

Welcome to Hong Kong’s local Chinese restaurant
Actually Frank mixes the tasks of choosing restaurants with his own daily life.

Frank enjoys morning tea at the dim sum restaurant.
Frank personally tests the restaurants’ cuisines and washrooms.

Frank takes selfie during his celebration dinner for 10-year anniversary as tour guide. He also tests the food quality of the new restaurant.
Frank thoroughly observes the details and the surroundings of the restaurants.

How does Frank choose the good restaurant for clients?
Frank the tour guide’s Hong Kong full day private tour and night private tour include the local meals.
Frank is eager to offer clients the easy Hong Kong private tour experience through the delicious local dim sum lunch and dinner at local restaurants.
Frank personally tests the food and toilet of restaurants
Frank the tour guide did not just rely on online reviews to choose the restaurants for private tour clients.
Frank personally goes to to different local restaurants to test their foods.
Frank first checks the taste and flavor of the must-eat dim sum dishes, shrimp dumpling, pork dumpling, barbecued pork bun etc., to see whether they are delicious enough and local enough.

Shrimp dumpling (right) and pork dumpling (left) are the must-eat dim sum.

Chicken bun with tea
Frank also tries the crispy and crunchy cuisines, fried noodle, spring rolls, deep-fried meat dumpling etc., which suit Western clients’ taste more.

Spring rolls

Deep fried Chiu Chow Meat Dumpling
If the quality of the food of the restaurants is good, they passes the preliminary test of Frank.

Fried noodle with vegetable
To a certain extent, the cuisines can show the cleanliness of the eateries.
To check the most important element of hygiene, Frank needs to check the washroom.

Apart from the tasty cuisines, a good restaurant should have the clean toilet.
Frank uses the time for waiting for the dim sum to do a washroom sightseeing to check its sanitation.
A lot of eateries in Hong Kong have very beautiful decoration.
However, the owners just invest very little space, money, time and manpower on the toilets.

Good food is not enough. Sanitation in the restaurant is also important.
They just want to have more tables to earn more money to cover the high rental and earn more profits.
So their restrooms are small, slippery and dirty.
If the restaurants’ toilet size is big enough, floor is dry enough and overall environment is clean enough, they can pass Frank’s second eatery quality test.
Frank thoroughly observes the details and surroundings of restaurants
Apart from testing the food quality and sanitation, Frank observes the details of the local restaurants.
The distance between each dining table should be reasonable to make the dining environment for Western travelers comfortable.

The distance between the dining tables should be reasonable.
The local waiters should not be afraid of serving or go overboard to Western customers.
Other local customers should be decent and receptive to foreigners.

Inside Jumbo Restaurant
Mostly Frank prefers the local restaurants in the middle class shopping malls with a lot of white collar worker customers.
After paying the bill for the dim sum, Frank’s task has not ended.
Frank needs to observe the surroundings of the restaurants.
As Frank brings clients to local eateries during the private car tours, Frank needs to find the easy drop off and pick up point for clients.

Good restaurant should have the easy drop off and pick up point.
If the logistics is carefully pre-planned, clients feel VIP walking into the restaurants.
This can also help the disabled clients to get in and get out the restaurants easily.

Frank the tour guide does his best to choose the most accessible sightseeing points, activities and restaurants for disabled clients during private car tour. For tour details, please contact Frank the tour guide.
Frank mostly chooses the restaurants close to or at the attractions.

Local restaurant at Stanley Plaza at Stanley Market.
Thus, after enjoying the local meal, clients can take the private car to continue the tour quickly.
This can save clients’ valuable sightseeing time.
Frank offers easy Hong Kong private tour experience to clients through tasty local meals
Frank the tour guide has tried his best to choose the local restaurants for his clients.
Frank thinks enjoying local meals is a good way to experience the local Hong Kong culture.
Thus Frank wants to give the easy Hong Kong private tour experience to clients through the tasty local meals.
Frank hopes he can serve clients again in 2021.
Hong Kong Island Kowloon full day private car tour
Full day private car tour for Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Tour programme includes…
- English / Mandarin / Cantonese speaking private tour guide service
- Air-conditioned sightseeing car with driver
- One-way Peak Tram ride
- Sampan ride at Aberdeen
- One-way public ferry ride
- Local dim sum lunch
Hong Kong Lantau Island full day private car tour
Full day private car tour for Hong Kong and Lantau Island, which covers the Peak and Big Buddha with lunch. Tour programme includes…
- English / Mandarin / Cantonese speaking private tour guide service
- Air-conditioned 8-seater car with driver
- One-way Ngong Ping Cable Car normal cabin ride
- One-way Lantau taxi ride
- Local dim sum lunch

Lantau Island New Territories full day private car tour highlights
Lantau Island New Territories full day private car tour
Cover Big Buddha, Ngong Ping 360 ride, lunch and hidden gems in the New Territories. Tour programme includes…
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- English/Mandarin/Cantonese speaking private tour guide service
- Air-conditioned sightseeing car with driver
- One-way Ngong Ping Cable Car normal cabin ride
- One-way Lantau taxi ride
- Local dim sum lunch
Hong Kong night private car tour
Private night tour with local dinner and two different programme. Tour programme includes…
- English / Mandarin / Cantonese speaking private tour guide service
- Air-conditioned sightseeing car with driver
- Local dinner at a local restaurant
For further questions, please contact Frank
