Captain Vegetable

If you make your way to the Fringe Club patio directly from Central MTR station, you deserve to sit down and eat. That is one long uphill trek. Thankfully, there is a light at the end of the short-of-breath tunnel, it's the Fringe's lunch buffet. It isn't your typical Hong Kong buffet: it's meat-free, has a small selection and is quite inexpensive. There was fresh fruit salad (melon, apples, dragon fruit), green salad, bean salad (with avocado slices on top and Dortios on the side), pasta with tomato sauce, tomato soup, cheeses (I love blue cheese!), bread and a green bean stir-fry. Admittedly, you won't find any ground-breaking dishes here. It's straight up Western vegetarian fare. Neither is it a plentiful selection of say, the Shangri-La, but for its low price ($60 for FC members, $95 for non-members), it's still much less than any salad you'll get in Lan Kwai Fong. And if you're nice, Lorna the cook will sneak you a slice of cake.