Calling any Hong Kong old timers - Cantonese or Westerner. Was looking for some information about the old snack shop "Midnight Express" on Lan Kwai Fong, the one featured in Wong Kan-wai's Chungking Express.
A patron asked us a question that's been nagging on me: you can see a clear lineup of sauces in the shot below. What are the sauces?
You can see the same sauce lineup in the second attached picture circa the year ~2000. From what I can tell, Midnight Express was a mixed Western/Indian/General Kebab shop. It was solidly replaced by Ebenezer's as the drunk tank of choice by the time I got to HK, but some of these recognizable to me: mint sauce, chili sauce, garlic sauce. One is obviously ketchup.
But there are a couple viscous, brownish sauces that *really* look like stuff like tianjiang, the 'sweet sauce' used on Cantonese rice noodle rolls.
I cannot seem to find the old menu from googling. Does anyone know what exactly was on offer at Midnight Express? Were there any Cantonese offerings? What exactly were the Western offerings (besides, of course, Chef's Salad)?
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Calling any Hong Kong old timers - Cantonese or Westerner. Was looking for some information about the old snack shop "Midnight Express" on Lan Kwai Fong, the one featured in Wong Kan-wai's Chungking Express.
A patron asked us a question that's been nagging on me: you can see a clear lineup of sauces in the shot below. What are the sauces?
You can see the same sauce lineup in the second attached picture circa the year ~2000. From what I can tell, Midnight Express was a mixed Western/Indian/General Kebab shop. It was solidly replaced by Ebenezer's as the drunk tank of choice by the time I got to HK, but some of these recognizable to me: mint sauce, chili sauce, garlic sauce. One is obviously ketchup.
But there are a couple viscous, brownish sauces that *really* look like stuff like tianjiang, the 'sweet sauce' used on Cantonese rice noodle rolls.
I cannot seem to find the old menu from googling. Does anyone know what exactly was on offer at Midnight Express? Were there any Cantonese offerings? What exactly were the Western offerings (besides, of course, Chef's Salad)?
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