Fook Po Tong

I have been looking for this place since they closed down their Parker Place location. Love their herbal jello, i like the taste!

It’s odd how us Chinese call some things dessert… when they clearly do not taste anything close to enjoyable. until you get used to it. I think this stall used to be in Parker Place, right near the front. and I have to give them their fair due… no one else in this town does it like them and that’s why people keep coming back. My signifcant other, on one day was feeling the need for her ‘GuiLingGao’ (tortoise jelly if you really must ask what the meaning is) so we went to Yaohan food court, you can’t miss this place with the big ancient black wooden Chinese sign with gold lettering, like looking for a Chinese dojo shop… it’s the only one with this type of signage in the food court.
Mostly everything is here in traditional Chinese writing, if you do not know what to get… then you are going to have problems. This place is your ailment by ancient Chinese medicine done in some form of edible form type place. If you understands herbs, and what effects what… the balance of yin-​yang, hot and cold foods (not temperature wise. but effect to the body), there is something for almost everything… except re-​growing a limb!
Back to the tortoise jelly… it’s supposed to be good for the skin and good for kidney restoration. I also think that my dear sometimes just likes the taste, and I don’t mind it either. If you are sick of that canned junk you buy at T&T… and want some better stuff that you can find so abundant on the streets of Hong Kong. this store is it. Order, pay, eat up, get out… it’s that simple, just know what you want cause I don’t think the woman bothered us once when we were in there or asked how it was… cause she knows.

I only come here for the GUILINGGAO (I am following Nino T.‘s vocabulary here).
What it essentially is, is a bunch of herbs cooked down and then jello-​ed. Every recipe has its own variation and honestly nobody shares the secret recipe. In a nut sell, it’s supposed to remove toxins from the body and «cools» your body down. This is especially helpful when your teenage kids have their pretty faces covered with hormone-​raged pimples. When my cousin was going through puberty he was fed on this everyday and yes, it worked for him.
So if you’ve never had this. Here is the description. It’s jello that can be served either hot or cold and tastes grassy and bitter. You don’t get any pleasure from eating this shit. You only eat it for your health. Now you have the option of adding sugar syrup to make the jello taste better but that’s only for rookies.
This place sells other beverages that are sworn by Asian grandmas and great-​grandmas to have health benefits. Things like sesame, almond, walnut, sugar cane are used in their products and beverages involving green beans, red beans, beans of some sort in no particular order or combination are used as well.
Service is minimal. Pay. Eat. Leave.

Never been to Richmond, BC. Dunno how she do it. After eating at the Aberdeen Centre, Mom-​in-​law talks to random ladies, points, then we follow her out the door, across the street, across a parking lot, into another shopping center, to here.
Monkey do this shop’s specialty, GUILLINGGAO.
This warm black jello is supposed to help remove toxins from the body and moisturize your skin. Okay. Whatever. Mom-​in-​law said so and with a spoonful of condensed milk, Monkey do. In fact, Monkey do just about anything with at least a spoonful of condensed milk.
If you’re in town, do stop by and remove some toxins and moisturize your skin… and bring someone who speaks Chinese.