Showing posts with label pumpkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pumpkin. Show all posts

Monday, November 18, 2013

Hokkaido pumpkin and green tea cake

Italian Tomato (Tseung Kwan O)

Saw the poster and the Hokkaido pumpkin cake looked tempting as well as the Kagoshima purple potato cake.

Initially they tried to stop me taking photos of the cake, but after I told them it was for a food commentary, they were more friendly and offered to give me a leaflet as well. Whoopie Doo.

They only had the pumpkin one, so I bought that.
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Hokkaido pumpkin and green tea cake:

It was nicely layered with soft green tea cake and pumpkin mousse garnished with cream, chocolate curls and a piece of chestnut.

It was too sweet and the pumpkin mousse had quite a fair bit of chestnut in it too which made it extremely starchy.
There was not enough pumpkin in this cake to taste it and it tasted more like a chestnut cake.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Pumpkin and Spice Pie from TTPP

Tai Tai Pie Pies (Admiralty)

Previously tried the Pumpkin and Spice Pie at Blue Smoke for Thanksgiving but unfortunately it has packed up.

Then I got to try it again because Secret Ingredients stocked it.

At GREAT food hall, there is now a TTPP stall where I can get all my favourite pies directly from them.

The Pumpkin and Spice Pie is just the thing for Thanksgiving or halloween.

The two that I got were obviously for halloween because one had a cute bat and the other had a witch on a broomstick.

There were other designs as well.

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Pumpkin and Spice Pie:


The pie looked more like a tart because there was no pie top to cover it, and the filling was delicious and buttery with a strong taste of cinnamon.
The sweetness was just right and after reheating it, the pie was even more delicious because the pumpkin aroma came out more.
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

European breakfast @ Tsui Wah Restaurant

I don't know why, but I always think the food at TW is over priced.
Anyway I tried their breakfast which costs $35. As I do not drink the Chinese style Milk tea it was pointless getting the noodle set, so I opted for the European breakfast because it comes with orange juice. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Orange Juice:
It was sweetened orange juice and it seems to be the Tropicana brand.
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European breakfast:
Egg:
It was tasteless and needed condiments, it tasted like McDonalds scrambled egg.
I was really disappointed with the egg because other places such as fairwood the egg tastes nice without salt.
Baked beans:
Just the usual baked beans but definately not the Heinz brand.
Fish cutlet:
The fish was nice and tender however it was slighty over fried.
Pumpkin:
The pumpkin was not soft enough and sweet. It was really weird having pumpkin for breakfast!
Crispy bun:
This was something I liked because the bun was not sweet and it was buttered.
Sauce:
I thought it was salad cream but it turned out to be Japanese mayonnaise which saved the tasteless egg.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Pumpkin and ham quiche @ Pacific Coffee

There are now four quiche flavours at Pacific Coffee, the latest addition is Pumpkin and Ham.

The salmon and the spinach & mushroom used to be my favourite but now it is Pumpkin and Ham.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pumpkin and Ham quiche:
As always their quiches taste really nice but it is slightly oily and there is some MSG in it.
I like their quiches because it doesn’t taste so eggy and there is cheese on top. The one I had this time was pumpkin and ham, the pumpkin and ham was cut to thin slices.
The pumpkin was nice and molten, it was UNSUGARED which was good because the Chinese have a thing about putting sugar with pumpkin and in savoury dishes.
The ham in the quiche was from the same supplier, the same ham they put in their croissant which is dry and rubbery with a tough edge.
Overall I really liked it and if they had used a softer ham it would taste better.
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

PinkCan" pumpkin soup @ outback steakhouse

They usually have a wide range of daily choices, alot of the choices were salads, and their usual burgers and riblets.

I have had burgers and riblets so many times, so opted for the house made meat sauce with spaghetti.

To improve their turnover speed, the salad and bread was placed at our table before we ordered. Then the soup arrived, my friend asked the waitor what soup it was, he replied "PinkCan" so the rest of us were trying to guess what it was.

It was orange in colour, so we guessed he tried to tell us it was pumpkin, anyway it was funny!

The pasta was a bit bland, not enough sauce, and salt was needed to make it tastier!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Hotpot fun @ Megan's kitchen

I had been planning to have hotpot here since gourmet pictures of colourful cuttlefish balls were posted.
Apart from that, their website impressed me as it was in English, Chinese and there was a downloadable menu.

According to their website (www.meganskitchen.com), they claimed to have fitted induction cookers/餐桌內置電磁爐頭 however when we sat down for hotpot we had to use the gas canister powered one, which was a bit scary.

Before ordering, the table was laid with sauces and condiments ($20/person) which are charged regardless if you use them or not, same with the preserved eggs and ginger ($20/person).
Apart from the wide choice on the menu, we were allocated next to a noisy table, which made it hard to concentrate on the menu. The restaurant was 30% full throughout the evening, even when we left, so I couldn’t understand why they didn’t space out the people.

For the soup bases, there were so many that it was hard to choose.
Ideally I wanted the crab and tomato soup with the souffle finish, purely because the souffle finish was a must, but then I thought it would be weird matching some of the ingredients in tomato soup.

Other good choices were the congee base with abalone, escargots in sichuan chilli and English Oxtail broth.
So not only Gao Gei has congee hotpot.
As for the escargot, it seems really fun to have escargots in it too.
Although the prices may seem pricey for the soup base, all the ingredients in the soup are actually edible, not only the soup base is pricey, the condiments are also pricey.

In the end I chose the Hokkaido curry, the soup itself contained apples, carrots and other wholesome vegetables that could be eaten as well.
Not all hotpot restaurants have treasures in the soup.

For my hotpot I chose rainbow cuttlefish balls, salmon and spinach dumplings, truffle and beef dumplings, lettuce and tofu.
The cuttlefish balls were nice and colourful when they arrived, from purple, magenta, green to yellow.
The lettuce was cut nicely and placed neatly in the bowl like pot of growing vegetables.

The rainbow cuttlefish were made from 7 colourful items: purple sweet potato (purple), spring onion (green and white), spinach (dark green), beetroot (magenta), pumpkin (orange), yellow bell pepper (yellow), red bell pepper (slightly orange).

As for taste, the cuttlefish used in making these balls were fresh, and you can just taste its freshness.
The spinach one was rather memorable, so was the sweet potato, however after putting it in the hotpot for a while, the colour is no longer purple, but it was inside.
The texture of the sweet potato one was interesting, you can actually feel the stickyness of the sweet potato.

Next best was the spinach and salmon dumpling, each dumpling was freshly made with salmon and freshly chopped spinach.
It was so fresh that when you ate it, the spinach inside is still jade green with a crunch just like freshly blanched spinach, and the salmon had a nice fishy taste to it.
I really liked this dumpling because all the ingredients were freshly done, and not grounded into a paste.

As for the beef dumplings with truffle, it tasted weird, no truffle taste at all!

There were other dumplings which I should try on my next visit, mui choi and pork!!

The tofu and vegetables tasted how it should, so overall I really liked hotpot here, except for the gas hotpot and depending where you sit, and the people surrounding you.





 
美味廚  Megan's Kitchen
灣仔灣仔道165至171號樂基中心5樓
5/F, Lucky Centre,165-171 Wan Chai Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/hotpot-fun-e2113247

BBQ baked beans and mini burgers @ Tony Romas

Havent been to Tony Roma's for a while, so decided to go for lunch.

I used to go to the branch at Times Square, where the ribs were soft and came off the bone easily.

For the set lunch, got the mini steak burgers, the steak was really good and the mustard that came with it was ok.
The salad was quite asian, but it still tasted ok.

The pumpkin soup was too sugary for my liking.

As for the salmon and fries, that fared average.
The beans were just BBQ beans.

The lunch came with a drink, so I ordered tea, however the water wasnt that hot, so the teabag didnt really infuse into it, the waitor must have overheard, so offered a fresh cup of tea.
 
 
 
 
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