The biggest swiss rolls and the famous egg tarts

This place is famous for egg tarts but everytime I came past there was a queue.

 

But this time I came late at night and there was no queue and surprisingly the egg tarts were quite hot too.

As well as egg tarts they had a few items that were pandan flavoured which are my favourite.

The swiss rolls were HUGE! I have never seen swiss rolls as big as this, the diameter was at least 7inches by 5inches tall!

 

It is a pity you cant see how huge these swiss rolls are but in one of the reviews the slice is too big that you need to split it in half!!
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Egg tarts $5:

 

The egg tart was still hot when I ate it.
The pastry was quite thick but there was lots of flakey layers and air in between so it was quite light.
Luckily the buttery taste was light, and the egg filling tasted like custard which was good but I just didnt like it too sweet.
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Pandan cake $12:

 

Although the egg tart was too sweet, the sweetness of this was just right, and the pandan flavouring was nice and strong.
The cake was extremely soft too.
The size of the cake was quite big too, about 4 inches in diameter.
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$2 egg tarts @ 鴻運麵包西餅

Walking past the busy road in Kowloon city, some pretty egg tarts caught my eye, all of the egg tarts were consistent in colour, size, and goldeness of the pastry. I looked at the price and was surprised it was only $2 each, the cheapest I have seen in Hong Kong.

Anyway these egg tarts have a short crust pastry, nice and buttery, and the egg tart filling has a slight coconut taste to it. The texture of the filling is similar to that of milk pudding. I did not eat them straight away, but the day after and it still tastes as good as the branded ones with short crust pastry, so despite the location, $2 is a very good price.

 

Sweet Sweet experience @ 小店 Copacabana

Ordered three desserts: apple tart, napoleon and chocolate pudding with sauce.

The apple tart was the best, thin flat tart with custart in the middle and topped with apple slices on top, and covered in icing sugar. The base of the tart was flaky filo pastry. I thought the ice-cream was optional, even without, it would still taste good.

As for the napoleon, the pastry was a bit heavy, and the custard was a bit rich, not as light as the apple tart.

Finally for the chocolate pudding, I expected it to taste like the usual chocolate puddings with hot chocolate sauce in the middle, so there was no surprise with that one.

Overall, all three desserts were well presented and garnished with strawberries, and artistic chocolate sauce drawn on the plate.

Basil leaves and frog meat @ 泰式燒王 Chai Rung Thai Food

As I know of, this is one of the shops that do fresh cockles, I mean REAL fresh,
while I was eating them, I thought I was seeing them twitch, then after eating half I confirmed they were partly alive when I poked them with chopsticks, it really twitched!!

Despite them being alive, it tasted so good with the chilli sauce, and full of cockle juice. (Not everyones cup of tea)

The other two dishes I ordered were also delicious, fried basil leaves and frog meat, and curried clams with roti.

The basil leaves and frog meat reminded me of Chiuchow dishes, where the leaves are fried to a transparent green. The basil leaves were nice and fragrant, and the frog meat had a crunchy outer layer with strong garlic soy sauce.

Finally the curried clams, when it came, the dish was filled with curry sauce, which looked like golden crab yolk, it wasnt very spicy and had a slight tinge of tomato in it.
It it slightly thick in consistency just like starch gravies with strings of egg in it.

The sauce was so good for dipping the freshly made roti, flakey and crispy, and there was so much sauce left over, we ordered an extra roti to finish the sauce.

The only thing I wanted that wasnt available was their native Thai dish (taion), its supposed to be an undeveloped chicken egg without the shell
(泰式雞仔蛋). I just like to try anything, but shame it wasnt available.

 

 

Vegetarian dimsum for fun @ 觀自在素食 Bodhisattva Vegetarian Restaurant

Just felt like having vegetarian dimsum for fun, so came here, just fun to have the usual items in vegetarian form such as prawn dumplings, dace fish balls, curried cuttlefish.

Originally I was going to mention how dirty the table was, but I was told the waitor served us first so we got a seat, rather than cleaning the table first then allocating the seats.
If we had not been seated, we probably would have been still waiting outside.

Overall, everything tasted quite good, with the juicyness from the diced vegetables in it, however it wasnt filling at all, after finishing the items, it felt like we had not eaten anything, the only thing that didnt taste right was the siu mai, there was a strong oil odour it.

The prawn dumplings tasted a bit like the chiu chow fun gwore.

As for the cuttlefish, it was steamed properly here, so it was nice and soft, in other vegetarian places, some of the foods can taste like hard jelly which cant be digested and comes out exactly how you consume it!!

The price range is slightly expensive and matches that of non vegetarian dimsums.

Noodles in ducks blood broth @ Cheong Fat

Ever since I saw the noodles posted here, I have been wanting to try this place for ages.

The rich and dark soup broth was tempting.

After trying it, these are the best noodles in Kowloon city, ordered the boat noodles, and the duck noodles, the duck noodles contain juicy duck and gourmet blood curds.
The broth in the boat noodles were good for anyones vampire blood thirst.

The cambodian noodles here are slightly thinner and sweeter than the noodles in other thai places, and also slightly translucent too.
The rice vermicelli are also my favourite too, they are the silver thread ones that soak up the broth.

As for the Chiang Mai noodles, it is very spicy, not for those who cannot eat spicy foods.

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.