Rua de Cinco de Outubro @ October Fifth Bakery

Came across this bakery claiming to be a product from Macau, it looked interesting so went in.
The packaging of the biscuits was quite nice, it even had English on it, and more surprisingly they have a website too.

http://www.octoberfifth.com/en/introduce005.html

Its name October Fifth is quite interesting too, although I wasn’t sure if it was meant to resemble anything, it made me think of Autumn festival

According to the company “The October Fifth Street (Rua de Cinco de Outubro in Portuguese) was first known as Si Meng Street a hundred years ago as a bustling street in Macau selling a full array of local products. October Fifth Bakery of Macau offers local flavours for your enjoyment.

The product range offers western items such as cookies, and chocolate egg rolls too!

For the traditional range, there are normal egg rolls, pork floss rolls, basically the type of items you would find in Wing Wah bakery.

I brought the abalone cheese puffs, which is a box of individually wrapped biscuits inside.

It wasn’t really puff pastry as name stated, but an extremely buttery biscuit.
The biscuit was rolled with cheese and baked, and looked like a flattened swirl.

It didn’t taste as good as I hoped for, the cheese was bland, and the biscuit was far too buttery.
The cheese could have tasted stronger, there was smell but no taste.
The biscuit contained sesame seeds.

I think next time, I will probably try the seaweed pastry.

chocolate egg roll

seaweed

abalone cheese puff

almond

Rua de Cinco de Outubro @ October Fifth Bakery

Came across this bakery claiming to be a product from Macau, it looked interesting so went in.
The packaging of the biscuits was quite nice, it even had English on it, and more surprisingly they have a website too.

http://www.octoberfifth.com/en/introduce005.html

Its name October Fifth is quite interesting too, although I wasn’t sure if it was meant to resemble anything, it made me think of Autumn festival

According to the company “The October Fifth Street (Rua de Cinco de Outubro in Portuguese) was first known as Si Meng Street a hundred years ago as a bustling street in Macau selling a full array of local products. October Fifth Bakery of Macau offers local flavours for your enjoyment.

The product range offers western items such as cookies, and chocolate egg rolls too!

For the traditional range, there are normal egg rolls, pork floss rolls, basically the type of items you would find in Wing Wah bakery.

I brought the abalone cheese puffs, which is a box of individually wrapped biscuits inside.

It wasn’t really puff pastry as name stated, but an extremely buttery biscuit.
The biscuit was rolled with cheese and baked, and looked like a flattened swirl.

It didn’t taste as good as I hoped for, the cheese was bland, and the biscuit was far too buttery.
The cheese could have tasted stronger, there was smell but no taste.
The biscuit contained sesame seeds.

I think next time, I will probably try the seaweed pastry.

chocolate egg roll

 

seaweed

 

abalone cheese puff

 

 

almond

Trendy Chewing gum chips tea @ T.Pot Bristol

This restaurant is very intriguing, just like Mazter, they are both located in Hang Hau and the posh end of Sai Wan Ho, they both have wacky English names.

潮人飯堂 mean’s “Trendy dining room" in English. However their English name for the restaurant was T.Pot Bristol, nothing near their Chinese meaning.

Although the cuisine is of chiu chow descent, I couldn’t quite correlate it with England, I seemed to interpret the English name as "Tea Pot", and more interestingly there is "Bristol" attached to the name, a place down the south west of England.

There are no hotpots served there, so the name couldn’t possibly mean hot pots, or Bristol Teapots, but Bristol isn’t famous for Chinaware. STRANGE!!!
However the cups were tiny and cute.

 

 

chewing gum chips tea

 

Being a so called Trendy place, there were two interesting items, the cheese and condensed milk bun and the chewing gum chips tea.

 

I didn’t know what the chewing gum chips tea was, so I ordered that, and it turns out to be Jasmine tea so that wasn’t very funky.

The main attraction to the place seems to be the steamed fish at a cheap price on weekdays.
The fish is big and presented in a big glass dish filled with generous fish soup and herbs.

Apart from that, they served all day dim sum.

Ordered the Fried foie gras dimsum, noodles in Chiu chow style, cheese and custard bun, vegetarian sharks fin soup and the steamed fish.
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Fried Foie Gras:
This was totally not what I was expecting, there was no liver inside, but fruit salad!

deep fried foie gras

 

wheres da foie gras inside!?!

 

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Chiu Chow style noodles:
I have tasted better before, the noodles were not uniformly cut.

 

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Vegetarian sharks fin:
Totally bland!

Vegetarian sharks fin soup

 

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Steamed fish:
This was the only dish that tasted OK, the soup was nice, no msg, strong in pepper.

 

 

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Steamed Cheese and custard bun:
Couldnt taste the cheese.

cheese n custard bun

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