Roast chicken now available at Pizza Max

Pizza Max (Jordan)

I was surprised they added roast chicken to their menu because their pizzas, pastas and curries were already good.

Luckily, it was in the afternoon, so I tried the roast chicken tea set which had roast potatoes.


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Roast chicken:

The roast chicken was nice but different because it had cumin and other exotic spices which were not spicy.
The chicken was juicy and the skin was crispy.

The beans could have been blanched longer and the potatoes were delicious with the gravy which had green peppers and onions in it.
I would prefer coleslaw instead of rice because the rice made it a bit Asian.
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Minimum order for noodles @ 麵麵店

麵麵店 (Jordan)

Came here again because I wanted to try the soup base with Chinese wine and ginger.

When I ordered, they said I had to choose more than one item to go with the noodles.
I was looking frantically looking everywhere for that statement which was not on the menu or the ordering sheet.
I finally found it stuck on the wall, and frankly there should be English as well.

Apart from that, there is a cute black bird ornament near the exit.

As for the noodles, they were a bit too soft for my liking and the broth was a bit bland because I could not really taste the ginger.

The air conditioning at this place was freezing!

Prawn patty on charcoal bread

麵麵店 (Jordan)

I have always wanted to try the noodles here but I couldnt find this shop as I went the wrong direction.

Finally found it this time because I was at a tasting nearby so went in and tried the prawn toasts.

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Prawn patty on charcoal bread:


Basically it was similar to the Sesame prawn toasts found overseas in Chinese restaurants but it had no sesame on top and they used charcoal bread.
The taste was quite nice and the charcoal bread was quite crispy.
It would be good if it was squid ink instead of charcoal as it would bring out the seafood taste of the prawn even more.
On the other side, there is crushed garlic and butter.
The prawn patty, crispy baguette and garlic butter tasted quite nice together.


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Noodle menu:
Next time I am going to try the noodles with ginger wine broth and the Mexican Turnip root dumplings (sa gort gao).

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Interesting items:
fried dough sticks with fish patty or kaya


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Ukkokei ramen RON from Japan

Ukokkei ramen RON (Tsim Sha Tsui)

Ukkokei ramen RON is from Japan and I was lucky to try the ramen otherwise I would not have ventured here because it is not near the MTR.


The logo is a big red circle with Dragon written in the middle, slightly similar to the the logo for Kurotaki (Black dragon).


Basically they have three types of noodles with four different broths: Miso, Tonkotsu, Shoyu and Okinawa salt.
The broths here all have Silkie chicken in it.

All the noodles are topped with Menma, fried onions, Japanese roast pork and an egg.

On the table they have condiments such as preserved ginger, black pepper, garlic and shichimi, but I felt that the ramen tasted good enough without them.

The different ramens are paired with different broths to bring out the best taste.

As a personal preference I like the thin white noodles.

The bowls that they use are quite special too (forgot to take photo) because there is some minerals smeared at the base which keeps the temperature constant for longer and said to make the noodles taste nicer too.
(see magazine clipping)

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Miso broth ramen:

The broth for this was delicious, it was thick and strong with a layer of oil on top which keeps the noodles hot.
It was paired with the curly ramen because more soup could adhere to it giving it a strong taste.
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Okinawa salt ramen:



The taste of the soup was lighter than the Miso but not that salty even though the broth is salt flavoured.
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Thin white noodles tossed sauce:





This one was my favourite because they used the thin noodles and the sauce was rich and every strand of noodle was flavoured.
Each mouthful was delicious with spring onions and crispy fried onions.
They only serve 20 bowls per day.


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Personally I liked the Miso broth and the noodles tossed in sauce.

For improvements, it would be great if there was an English menu because it took me quite a while to figure out the ramen and what to order.

Why is it called mousse when it is not mousse!

Crumbs (Jordan)

Walked past and noticed this Premium green tea mousse with green tea mochi so decided to try it.


At this branch you can dine there so the menu offers more variety than the other branches other which only offer froyo and scones.


I have tried their scones and froyo which were quite nice but not addictive enough to make me come back.

This branch only did takeaways according to the photos on Openrice.

Water is self service.

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Premium green tea mousse:When I ordered it I was quite suspicious whether it was really mousse but the Chinese and English stated it was mousse so that was why I got it.

However when it arrived I was quite disappointed because it was not mousse, it was evidently a pudding so why call it mousse.


Luckily the dessert was ok and not too sweet and the mochi was nice.

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In search for Xi'an food

有緣小敍 (Jordan)

On my last trip to Jordan I planned to dine at this place but could not find it because it was actually located on Saigon Street and behind the street sign that saids Saigon Street too.

Waited a while before I could get a seat and when I sat down I looked at the picture menu and the English menu to see what to order.



Some pictures were really familiar because they were taken from some famous bloggers ie kikisheep, ilovedisney and taiwanwalker!


The pictures even had the links on the bottom too!

I really wanted to order the bread with meat but it was sold out.

There were interesting historical figures on the table.


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Fried red beancurd chicken wings:

The chicken wings were delicious and deep fried so that the chicken skin was crispy.
The red beancurd was quite salty after it had been fried.
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Wide strip noodles with oil and fennel dumplings:


The noodles were quite nice but the oil was a bit rancid which spolt it.

However the dumplings were the best I have tried, there was so much fennel and less on the meat.
See how green it was.
If the dumpling wrap was thinner it would have been perfect.


The noodles were topped with deep fried greens which reminded me of seaweed sold in British takeaways.


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Ribs and noodles:

I did not like the noodles but the ribs were delicious and the meat was soft and tender.
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Fried dumplings filled with black sesame paste:

There were two flavours for the fried dumplings, peanut or sesame so I chose black sesame.
It was quite funny when they brought it out because they apologised that they were not meant to look like "tsee-goo-ding" ie the male reproductive organ of a child!
Apart from the appearance they tasted quite nice but the glutinous exterior was slightly dry.
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Six good friendsの六樓后座@六座雲吞店

6座雲吞麵 (佐敦)
Six Noodle
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2286385

I do not usually go for Wonton noodles but went here with some friends.

While we were going to order, they asked the waitor so many questions and he was surprisingly patient and willing to answer us which is rare in Hong Kong.

Apart from that, I loved the simplicity at this joint, the Chinese characters were really cute, they were all designed to look like SMILES.

The other handwritten menu was nice and simple too.

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Wonton noodles:

The noodles were quite nice and the portion was big for $2X.
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Satay sauce:

The satay sauce was the best.
It does not taste like the usual sweet satay sauces.
It was strong and tasted a little bit like curry and it was really nice adding it to the noodles.
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Single boned chicken wings:

These chicken wings were impressive because the larger bone had been removed making it easier to eat.
The chicken wings were dusted with dessicated coconut.
While we halfway through the food, the owner found out that one of our friend's friend knows them, and they gave us more chicken wings.

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The experience eating here was fun and there were six of us as well which reminded me of the film Sixth floor rear flat (六樓后座).