Went to the Boardgames Cafe today with 12 of us. The place is in an upstairs room in a building behind the Mongkok police station.

For those of you who haven’t been, the room itself is rectangular with an exposed layout. On one side there’s an open kitchen and a small staff’s area; on the other, tables, chairs, and sofa corners are neatly positioned. A tall shelf brimming with boardgames separates the two.

The den radiates a homely feeling. The furniture is warmly wooden, the kitchen waiting for our visit, the staff in casual street attire. It was as if we’d been invited over for a housewarming. We quickly leaked into the main space, occupying the central tables and selecting several games in the process. Lovely.  

Menus were passed around, comfort drinks were the “thing” and several home-craftable snacks were also offered. Prices were in their 20′s and 30′s but we learnt that the cover charge of HK$45 pp / first hour + HK$5 / every extra 30 minutes entailed a free drink under HK$30. The beverages all turned up in large cavernous glasses; exactly the portion a homemade comfort drink would have been greedily made at.

We left on high spirits. Or at least I’d like to think. The bill ended up being ~HK$55 each but the cafe had made it well worth it. There’s also a great dim-sum restaurant down the road but I forgot about that until I passed by on the taxi home bound.

Let’s go again, soon