Thai style silver thread vermicelli @ 泰地道 Hot Basil Thai Cuisine

I was rather surprised this placed was fully booked, anyway ordered fish gas bladder soup, stir-fried vermicelli with baby oysters, prawn pot with glass noodles, and prawn paste water spinach.

The fish gas bladder soup was rather peppery and hot in temperature, so it was very hard to taste the soup, until it cooled down, but the peppar taste in the soup stood out the most.

The vermicelli was good, silver thread vermicelli, although it could be slighty saltier as there was not much taste to it.

The prawn pot was ok, there was alot of glass noodles and again very distinctive in black peppar, also there were pieces of pork fat in it too~!

The vegetables tasted how it should nothing spectacular about it.

Sweetcorn and fish gas bladder soup @ Original taste workshop

 There is alot more choice than they previously had, so this time tried the sweet corn soup with fish tummy.

I was expecting sweet corn and fish yummy as the main ingredients, but it was mainly chicken and sweet corn.

Overall it tasted how it should, just felt it should be called sweetcorn chicken soup with fish maw.

www.otw.com.hk

Fish bladder soup @ 泰國路邊街美食

The noodles here are as good as Cheong Fat, I ordered the boat noodles which is basically vermicelli in pork blood soup.
I was impressed it came with two pieces of crunchy fish stomach.
I ate them quickly before they become soft from soaking the broth.

The soup was not as rich as Cheong Fat, and they use long shaped bowls instead of round ones.
cheong fat review:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2052215

As well as that, I ordered rice with pork knuckle, the picked vegetables that came with it were nice, and not sweet.
pork knucle review at shau kei wan.
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2074675

This place is opposite the famous Cheong Fat which serves boat noodles too, so it is natrual that this is a second choice when it is full.

I ordered the thick soup with fish bladder, it was delux yet made cheap because it contained chicken feet and bamboo shoots and blood cubes.
It was nice but the taste was over powered by bamboo shoots and coriander.

Curly wurly thai pasta noodles @ 泰國路邊街美食

On this second visit, I came here especially for these noodles that look like rolled up rice rolls.

I wonder what they look like uncooked.

These curly rice noodles were quite al-dente, and went well with the strong soup base..

Apparently they are pronounced “gwere” in Thai.

Previous visit:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2140547

 

 

Thai style cooked fish gas bladder @ 泰妃雞

Thai style cooked fish gas bladder.

It was served on top of a piece of lettuce.

The main ingredients in it were: beanshoots, egg pieces, chicken, fish gas bladder, yellow chives.

It reminded me of the famous chop sueys from takeaways in UK.
Chop suey is a Chinese dish consisting of meats (often chicken, fish, beef, shrimp (UK: prawns) or pork) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce.

The dish that I got also had a light taste, it was not spicy.
The yellow chives gave the whole dish some aroma, and the egg was scrambled and cooked in such a way, they were like shreds in the dish.
The amount of fish gas bladder in the dish was quite generous too.

Chinese farmhouse dishes @ MX

Ever since Maxim's MX introduced the Farmhouse dishes series I have always wanted to try it.

 

There are many dishes in the series, but the two I wanted to try were the fish patty with long beans, and the lemon chicken. Apparently there are alot of different dishes in that series.

The whole concept is brilliant, but the marketing let it down.

It was hard to find out which dishes were being served in advance, there was nothing on their website or restaurant.
Instead, I had to check the menu there everynow and then.
Once I walked past and it was serving braised pig's tail and peanuts which sounds interesting.

Finally, they had the ones I wanted to try, but the soup that day was beef, not fish maw and sweetcorn that I wanted to try.

I do not eat at Maxim's MX much, because the menu is confusing, but this time I was impressed at the organisation, as you collect the food when the number is called out.
☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

 

Egg and beef thick soup
This was light and slightly viscous, with lots of beef in it.
The beef had been soda-rized, so it was soft.
There was some spring onion and coriander garnishing on top.
I liked the soup, but I didnt like the film of oil they put on top even though its for cosmetic purposes.
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Lemon Chicken
The chicken was served on a pile of fried vermicelli, the lemon sauce tasted how it should, however the chicken was slightly dry.
The chicken had chicken skin and was not coated in flour and fried.
I would have preferred if the chicken was cut into smaller managable pieces.
☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

 

Fish patty with long beans
This was the dish that got my attention, and it also was the best!
With usual fish patty from the market, or restaurants that serve it, it always contains grounded bones, unless you go to the overly expensive places.
The fish patty here did not contain any bones, I felt safe eating it knowing, I would not get any piercing injuries in my mouth.
The patty seemed to have chicken in it as well, it was firmer than the usual fish patty, and the colour was slightly different, not so grey, but a peachy colour.
Before the patty was cooked, a coiled up long green bean was curled up like a coil and affixed to the patty by being pressed on top of the patty.
The patties were then served in rich brown gravy which contained black bean, slight chili and orange peel.
☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Stir fried prawns and cucumber
This dish was very light, well suited for the eldery apart from the prawns.
Anyway, the cucumber could have been cut to smaller pieces, it was too big and kept slipping when using chopsticks to pick them up.
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Fish maw and sweetcorn soup
The soup which I was long awaiting for didnt taste as good as the beef one.
It tasted of sesame oil.
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Overall, I felt that the Farmhouse dishes were very impressive, the quality was as good as the dishes in specialised Cantonese cuisine places.
If only the marketing was better with information available on their website with the daily specials, or a menu timetable with the full range of dishes that they plan to serve.