The posts you quoted are dated back in 2012 and 2014. Are these places still exist? I mean, given the rent rates in Hong Kong have gone thru a huge up surge during that period, many places are forced out of business...

Obviously the places we went for our meals differ from the places you guys on this thread went as none of the names quoted is recognizable. We went to places mainly locals, in particular, the local locals, went, like the Chinese banquet restaurant just above the Tin Hau MTR station. It was packed with local locals each morning and evening btw. The only exceptions not being too local might be 稻香 chain, Crystal Jade chain and Maxim chain. But you still dont find a single Westerner in 稻香 Wanchai/Causeway Bay location. We have not seen any Westerner there each time we went on each trip to Hong Kong (3 trips passing thru Hong Kong since May 2015). We have not seen a single Western face at the Crystal Jade location at IFC.

Let's face it, in Hong Kong, there are places catering to foreigners, westerners in particular. There are places catering to local communities. I say one more time, all the Hong Kong restaurants, shops, supermarkets we went, not a single one attempted to DCC. The only place tried hard to DCC was one local hotel.

For those of you seem always suffer the DCC, you should opt for AMEX cards for all your spend overseas instead. The exchange rate AMEX used is better than Visa anyway based to the very limited samples I have. MC of course has the best rate but AMEX only added 0.6% versus Visa added 1%. Yet you avoid DCC completely with AMEX cards. Problem solved. And you no longer be annoyed by this scam given y'all seem always encountered whether in Asia or Europe.

(I reported not being DCCed in Madrid in April this year as well when everyone on this thread said Spain was very bad. I even printed the instruction on how to counter a DCC based on the Spanish law but thankfully never need to use it.)