Five spice beef tendon and rice @ Kai Kee Noodle

On my last visit I had the famous noodles mixed with soy sauce and the fried cuttlefish balls with seaweed, this time ordered the beef tendons in five spice powder with rice and the fried cuttlefish and seaweed balls again.
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Beef tendons in five spice powder

 

 

Chose this because I did not want to eat beef and this dish was just pure tendons.
The portion looked quite small when it arrived but since it tasted nice I would prefer quality than quantity, although you have to becareful with the tendons as they have occaisional pieces of animal hair.
The tendons were so soft and gelatinous.
I was expecting thick sauce, but the sauce they used was the marinade sauce commonly found in Chaozhao lo shui dishes.
It tastes a bit like soy sauce with aniseed.
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Fried cuttlefish and seaweed balls

 

The snacks reminded me of the meal I had at Sun Choo Koon in Tai Kok Tsui because of the cuttlefish and seaweed.
It was just like that cuttlefish patty with seaweed on top and the strong fish and seaweed soup they had.
The cuttlefish balls were really nice because the frying oil was clean, I loved the crispy coating.
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To try next time:
Curry wontons.
I wonder if they fried wonton with curry sauce or wontons with curried fillings.

 

 

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Steamed cake @ 潮人飯堂 T.Pot Bristol

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Deep fried vegetables coated in salted egg yolk and batter

 

Usually they coat prawns in salted egg yolk but here they have used aubergines and pumpkins.
In terms of cholestral it is not as high as the prawn version because vegetables are used instead of prawns but it was very oily and greasy from the frying.
The aubergines and pumpkins had shrunk inside when it was fried, so it was mainly batter and some slight powdery egg yolk.
Overall I did not like it because it was just eating fried oily batter with some powdery egg yolk.
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Steamed cake

 

Surprisingly this was quite nice, it was not very Chinese which was good, it had sliced almonds on the top and strong cinnamon in the cake mixture.
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Congee and the singing C-Opera waitor @ 潮城燒臘粥店

I was really surprised this place had an English menu.
Although it did'nt make sense but at least they put effort into it.

 

Ordered the congee, rice rolls with dried shrimps, rice roll with fried dough sticks and a soup.

When the the waitor bought over the soup, he sung out the name of the soup.
It just sounded exactly like Chinese Opera, but as there were some people from ChiuChow on that table they said it was ChiuChow style opera, anyway whatever it was, it all sounds the same to me.

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seaweed soup

 

The seaweed was clean and there was no sand, however it was so hot, it needed cooling down.
There was lots of Chinese coriander and celery in it too.
It was nice however it was too salty
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congee
Tasted rancid and I did not like it
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rice rolls with dried shrimps
Too soft and not cut properly.
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rice roll with fried dough sticks
Tasted good with the soy sauce and bean sauce.
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Overall the rice rolls depended on the sauces heavily but the sauces tasted watered down and tasteless.

 

The air conditioning was really annoying because it made the rice rolls cold as soon as it was served.

Stingy portion this time! @ Lo Pak Restaurant

The duck here is not bad but as you can see I only got about three to four tiny pieces.

As well as the duck, I tried marinated tofu with rice (No Photo) which is quite nice.
The tofu is well marinated from outside to the centre and it is fully flavoured in the middle as well.

 

Been there, done that! @ 潮州合成甜品 Chiu Chow Hop Shing Dessert

Not my usual place for dessert, especially chinese style, everything on the menu basically contains lotus seeds, a chinese ingredient that I do not like, a bit starchy.

Anyway I got the chiu chow style dessert with split green beans, water chestnuts and the compulsory lotus seeds, it was totally different to the one I had at this other chiu chow joint, it is totally watery here, and lots of bubble on the surface!

Luckily I ordered the cold version with ice, it helped cool down the dessert and diluting the sweetness of it, also the shop had no air con, so it got a bit hot and stuffy.

As for the other dessert, another weird mix of ice-cream, lotus seeds, and other stuff.