Showing posts with label Lime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lime. Show all posts

Sunday, April 01, 2012

Refreshing lime water @ 山地人越南法包專門店 MR. Vietnamese Baguette House

After a delicious satisfying burger from Toppings, I was a bit thirsty so saw some drinks here, either young coconut or lime water.

Anyway I picked the lime water, it was displayed nicely in the drinks counter, already prefilled, with a wedge of lime in the cup.
It tasted nicer than expected, no artificially cordial syrup taste to it.

Not too sour or too sweet, and it was very refreshing.

Their menu was pretty much the same since I last came, so nothing new on the menu for me to try.

Lime and pineapple punch @ KFC

Ordered the lime and pineapple punch, tasted ok, basically it is 7-up with pineapple pulp mixed in and a wedge of lime.

Not much in lime taste, the 7-up is more prominent, and the taste of pineapple is there when you eat it.
Basically a drink of elements to themselves, all the elements in the same cup, but not fused together.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Service Madly Lousy = SML

Apart from the Quarry Bay MiscoCool, this is the second restaurant featuring communal tables but in larger lounge.

The whole concept is fresh, and vibrant, nice for the young chics and boys to show their pride in a lively lounge. It also reminds me of school dinner days too, a rejuvenation of youth, relive the young days again, sitting amongst other hip and cool people.

If you do not fancy being on display, I guess it needs time getting used to, like California fitness gym for a specific part of the target market.

Anyway, sat down in the middle of a large bench table, people started filling beside us, but there was no one sitting on our left hand sides, so we placed our bags there. We were ushered to place the bag on one side, then a while later, the waiters from the opposite side ushered us to place the bags on the other side, playing shuffling bags here if u've played shuffling chairs!!

Food ordered:

Chicken Confit & Foie Gras with Truffle SaladBasically two pieces of sliced baguette served with salad and a pot with shredded chicken, bits of foie gras topped with poppy seeds. The chicken was not dry or chewy, and the bits of silky foie gras buttered the chicken, but there was not that much of foie gras. I thought it should have been layered chicken, then foie gras then the poppy seeds.

Prawn Toast with truffleSame comment as Babedolphin, no taste in truffle, overly greasy, I suppose the bitterness of the alcohol sauce took away that greasy taste.
Honestly I have had better prawn toasts at Takeaways in UK.

Octopus salad in olive oilThis was a very good mixed of diced yellow peppers, leaves, onions and the octopus, the octopus was chopped tentacles which were very big in diameter, I thought the octopus would be chewy, but it wasn’t at all. There was also some sort of jelly that had formed on the octopus, so it is probably the tinned version.

Lamb kebabThis was a huge stick of minced Lamb on a stick, I tried it with the olive oil from the salad, it was quite nice, and the lamb was strongly covered in Cajun powder. The yoghurt sauce that came with it was lovely, pure sour yoghurt.

Mushroom risottoThis had a very strong smell, but not that strong when I ate it, the texture of the rice was a bit hard, like red grain rice.

I was contemplated to order the Hangar steak and chips, but then I decided to order two desserts, which finished the meal quite elegantly! I wanted Gnocci too, but it wasn’t listed on the menu anymore!!

Pot of chocolate w/chocolate mousse & fudgeThis was yummy chocolate mousse with bits of chocolate cake covered with white cream and topped with two pieces of fudge.

Lime cream w/vanilla pineapple & coconut jellyThere were bits of coconut jelly with cutely diced pineapple pieces, layered with lime cream at the bottom, refreshingly delicious, leaving you with a slight hungriness that you will be back for more next time.

Lastly, we tried to paid for the bill, but one of the dreaming waiters either forgot to print out the bill or there was something wrong with the order, so had to ask another waiter got it for us.

Price wise, I think it’s quite reasonable for around $300 considering we ordered food with truffles, foie gras. I think for a good meal, its best to pick out the fine stuff rather than the stuff you can get anywhere, or it just defeats the purpose.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Part 1: Dipping Jack is back! @ McDonalds

Dipping Jack is back, Hooray!

The Chilli and Lime sauce caught my attention, it was so green on the commercial, and when I got the real thing, the colour was consistent with the commercial.

It looks like gunge and slime, which is slightly off putting, but something that is quite a breakthrough for McDs. Usually their sauces are white, yellow, red, orange, more on the warm colours, so this one really stands out.

The sauce is translucent green with finely grounded green and red chilli’s that can be seen.

For the taste, it was spicier than I expected, and slightly sweet as with all McDs sauces and a strong hint of lime.

Anyway, there shall be part 2, as I can’t wait to try the French cheese on the 16th!

Chili and lime flavoured fried chicken @ KFC

After trying the chicken nuggets with chili and lime sauce at McDonalds, I got the chili and lime flavoured fried chicken at KFC which was interesting.

The KFC version is chicken covered in chili and lime coating.

The chili was finely grounded which made it very hot, and you can taste the occaisonal lime flavouring in it.
Overall it tasted like tom yum kung fried chicken!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

The Hong Kong Limehouse vs East London Limehouse

Limehouse is an area in East London, part of the borough of Tower Hamlets, towns nearby the Limehouse are Isle of Dogs, Wapping, Shadwell, Stepney, Rotherhithe, Bethnal Green and Ratcliff.

In the old days there were large Chinese communities at Limehouse and Shadwell, established by the crews of merchantmen in the opium and tea trades, particularly chinese workers sold to work overseas. After the Second World War many of the Chinese community relocated to Soho.

For the old generation of Chinese in UK, Limehouse and Popular was a community for workers there with former Chinatown nearby in the Pennyfields. The second/third generations of BBC’s probably have less recollection of that or have been told stories by their grandparents of tales of dish washing and other duties in Chinese restaurants.

Limehouse was a maritime area in the old days with functioning docks, however the modern Limehouse has evolved with the Docklands railway serving it at Limehouse DLR station.

The Limehouse in HK could possibly be opened by a 2nd or 3rd generation BBC who knows the best of both worlds, but that is my guess.

Anyway, I have been longing to try out this restaurant since it opened, but it was closed when I wanted to try, and the phone is hard to get through.

The Limehouse in HK is situated in a secluded side street in Wan Chai, slightly uphill, with wooden windows and doors. When you dine there in the daytime, the gentle sun rays shine through the windows into the restaurant. Perhaps in period before the not so hot summer, it would be great to sit outside and eat, and if there were lush grass areas around it would be wonderful and golden retrievers running loose.
Well anyway for lunch, there was a simple lunch, which includes soup and mains, I chose the soup and bangers and mash.

When the pea soup was served, it had freshly chopped mint on the top, and fine bubbles on top.
The top layer is fine green foam, and the watery soup beneath it, is a darker green.
The greenness of it was like fresh chlorophyll, the consistency of the soup was very watery, yet it contained pieces of pea in it.
Although it was watery, the taste was intense, and the fresh mint complimented the soup very well.
I think this is the best pea soup I have had so far.
For the bangers and mash, it was three sausages on top of mash, a side of peas, and sauce.
The sauce was slightly disappointing because it wasn’t the usual gravy, it was made of mustard, mayonnaise and tasted creamy.
The Trifle which I wanted to try wasn’t available that day, but it looks delicious from earlier OR pictures.
In the end, I ordered the Lemon tart, which I haven’t had in a while, the lemon curd was nice and tangy and the whole tart was very buttery, the only thing that ruined it was the black crust on the edge.
Overall the meal was good, and it was relaxing dining there with the sun shining through, the sausages could have tasted better, and gravy would have been preferred.
Recently, I found the pork sausages I have been missing at Queen Victoria, the ones served for school dinner that everyone hates in the UK!!
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