Light Vegetarian Restaurant 普光齋 (Hong Kong, CHINA) ★★★★☆

With all the travel restrictions around the world during the pandemic, I have developed a habit of re-discovering some of the nostalgic flavors from my childhood. A few of the old-school snacks I have been searching all over Hong Kong for included a type of sweet rice flour rolls made with sugarcane and a traditional glutinous rice cake often found in a Cantonese-style vegetarian restaurant. These snacks have all but vanished in the last decade and I was on a mission to locate them before its extinction.

Finally, I was able to find these glutinous rice cakes at Light Vegetarian Restaurant (普光齋) , an old-school vegetarian restaurant which first opened its doors in Jordan back in the 1980s.

My mom used to bring me to vegetarian restaurants all the time when I was a kid and these sweet cakes called "貞餅" was so popular back then. Nowadays, it's almost impossible to find them anymore. For the price of just $10, I got 3 pieces of my favorite 貞餅! 

As usual, these glutinous cakes came with two types of sweet fillings, lotus seed paste and red bean paste.

Look at the runny lotus seed paste 😍😍. Absolutely delicious!

Not surprisingly, nobody's making these anymore due to the small profit margin. That's a really sad reality for many of these traditional sweets. I am going to make sure that I have a few more of these before they stop making them at Light Vegetarian Restaurant. In the meantime, if anymore knows where to find my sugarcane rice flour rolls, please drop me a few words here. Thank you!

Food Rating: 6/10

Price: $$

Address: G/F, New Lucky House, 13 Jordan Road, Jordan, Hong Kong

Closest Metro Station: Jordan

Tel: +852 2384-2833

Opening Hours: 11:00am - 11:00pm daily