Showing posts with label Lychee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lychee. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

Sparkling lychee tea and yoghurt at McDonald's

Came here for the new drink and yoghurt but I ended up getting the happy meal because the yoghurt could not be ordered a la carte.

As well as yoghurt and the new drink, they had cheesy fries and cheesy balls.

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Sparkling lychee tea:

It had a nice fizz with a light tea taste but after you stir the syrup at the bottom it becomes too sweet.
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Strawberry yoghurt:

The yoghurt was really disappointing because the strawberry flavour was artificial and too sweet with the use of artificial sweeteners that taste weird.


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I suspect there should have been sweetcorn or fries in this meal but I was full that day to be bothered to complain.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Green tea with fruit from MIX

Mix (Wan Chai)
Came here for a drink after being roasted at Texas BBQ chicken because there was no air con.


The air con here was quite cold.
This time ordered the Green tea with fruit.


The drink was much nicer than the green tea with lychee.
It was not so bitter.
After poking the fruits, it gave the green tea a hint of sweetness.
There were chunks of pineapple, lemon and watermelon in the tea.
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Price: $32
Service: OK
Service charge: no
Sweetness levels: just right
English Menu: Yes
Air Conditioning: Yes
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Sakura Green Tea with lychee @ Mix

Mix (Wan Chai)
I have always wanted to try MIX but their locations are quite inconvenient.

As I was in the area, I stopped by for a drink.



The restaurant is modern and simple.

I ordered the Sakura green tea with lychee.
The one above it seems interesting too with more fruits.

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Sakura green tea with lychee:


The green tea was extremely bitter and the sweet lychees complimented it nicely.
Definately a nice thirst quencher and I hope to try the fruit one soon.
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Cute receipt:
On the bottom left hand corner, there is some really tiny print.

It turns out to be a coupon printed so small that you couldnt see it!

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Saturday, March 31, 2012

green tea with passionfruit, and Luscious Lychee @ Jungle juice

Despite the bad reviews, I didn’t feel the drinks were that bad at all, all the drinks came with a frothy top.

On a sunny day, the window side of the café can be a scorcher, so sat on the other end.

Ordered green tea with passionfruit, and Luscious Lychee a mix of lychee, cranberry and grapefruit.

The green tea, was room temperature as the waitor stated, not ice-cold, but just normal cold, and it was not syrupy sweet which was good, with a light taste of passionfruit, the tea’s here are not like the ones from the Taiwanese shops, they are much lighter and delicate.

As for the lychee, I was expecting the lychee to be fragrant with a syrupy taste, but it was not.
On the first sip, it was rather sour, then I could tastes the tones of grapefruit, then the cranberry, and then a faint taste of lychee. I though more lychee should have been added because it is called Luscious lychee, hence you would think it tastes mainly of lychee.

It would be good if they had other branches in Hong Kong, the juice selection is quite good, and they also have the soy selection.

Lychee mousse cake @ Jam Bakery

Since I saw photos of the lychee mousse cake, and the apple passionfruit cake, I have been wanting to come here.
I finally did, and got the apple and passionfruit mousse cake, there were other ones I wanted to try too such as raspberry mousse, baileys, and hazelnut cake.

But with those ones, you can usually imagine how it will taste, so I got another German cheesecake to try too.

For the apple and passionfruit cake, it was two layers, one layer of apple mousse, and one layer of passionfruit mousse, overall it tasted refreshing, with thin apple slices on top and a raspberry.

As for the cheesecake, it reminded me of the cheesecakes at Marks and Spencers with with sultana's in it. The cheese was not too over powering.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Noodles in curry sauce @ PappaMia Coffee Restaurant

On arrival, there was a stand outside displaying the different lunch sets, I was slightly disappointed because being a Malaysian restaurant, the lunch sets were Chinese food.

As a new restaurant, I would of thought they should have been promoting their dishes rather than serving chinese sets, however they did have a booth at East Point City’s Malaysian festival promoting their restaurant.

It is quite interesting that the Malay restaurants use parental nouns as the restaurant name such as this one Pappa, and the one in central uses Mama in the name.

Comparing this restaurant to Malaymama, this one is obviously a big scale restaurant and the items on the menu are more extensive.
They both serve Ip Po Ho Fun, but the price at Malaymama is $3x, while the one here is about double that.
There are some items here that are served at Toast box such as the half-boiled eggs however Pappamia is an expensive version of Malaymama and Toast box combined.
I still havent been to Sh!ok or that Good Satay place in TST so I cannot compare to that.

Inside the restaurant, the decor is similar to Yeh Lam Kwok.
The average price per dish was like $50-60 which is quite expensive.

There were a few items on the menu, which were interesting: soymilk and grass jelly
and soya milk with sweet dumplings.

I felt the local waitors didn’t have much knowledge on Malaysian food, because some customer complained their fried “gwai deal” was not in long strands, and the waitress obviously thought it was chinese ho fun and agreed the chef cooked it badly.
It was later explained by the head waitor the dish was meant to be like that.

Apart from the noodles, there was quite a controversy on their tea too, there were a lot of queries and different expectations from customers, so I think their menu should state clearly about their teas.

Ordered four dishes: Chicken Hainan style, Noodles in curry sauce, grass jelly and lychee drink, and the sago in coconut sauce.
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Hainan chicken:
It came with the usual three sauces, chilli, soya and ginger puree.
There was also beanshoots and pineapple too.
The pineapple has been cooked, so it is slightly sour.
The rice was too hard, and the table nearby also complained it was too hard and oily.
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Pineapple side dish
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Noodles in curry sauce:
There was not much broth, but sufficient curry sauce, it tasted like red curry.
The fish slices that came with it were ok, and the fried fish in beancurd skin was the best.
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Grass jelly and lychee drink:
In the menu this was classified as a drink, but it looked more like a dessert.
The size of the cup was huge too, almost slightly bigger than the average soup bowl.
It was very refreshing, there was slushed lychee ice with the grass jelly.
The lychee was a bit too sweet, but it was canned lychees.
Lychee and grassjelly
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Sago in coconut sauce:
This was quite nice, the coconut sauce tastes like those brown coconut candies wrapped in colour wrapping.'

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Overall, I think the desserts scored better, although I have yet to try the noodles in crab oil.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

☆Kitchen J☆azzed up better than before

Previously this restaurant used to be Watami but now it has turned into Kitchen J which is also part of the Watami catering group.
The interior is much better than before and out of place for Hang Hau.
It reminds me of Applegreen in causeway bay because of the plain wooden furnishings.
As it was part of the Watami group, I did not check the menu before going in. I expected it to be similar or a high-end version of Watami.

Anyway I started browsing the menu, and I was disappointed with the choices, there were many but limited.
It was curry, scrambled eggs or fried bentos.
I didn’t want to order the set because I didn’t think I would like the salad or the soup and if I am not full I would prefer to order dessert and drinks as well because the set does not include a drink.

I liked their drinks and dessert selection but it was quite expensive and the set does not include a drink or give you an option to pay extra or upgrade.
In the end I ordered Hamburger steak with Ponzu sauceand Deep fried Oysters with scrambled eggs.

The food took quite a long time to come.
For those two dishes, one tasted like heaven and the other one was not my cup of tea.
I came here twice and the same dish tasted so different, the first time it was delicious and the second time I did not like it at all.
While I was waiting I saw this lid that looked similar to the ones used in Morroccan dishes!
Morrocan?
Morrocan?
 
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Clear soup:
It was nice that they gave clear soup instead of Miso because Miso leaves me feeling thirsty.
The soup had a hint of pepper and sesame with a few pieces of seaweed at the bottom.
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Salad:
The portion was quite big and had some tuna and egg yolk mixture which went well with the salad and the deep fried shredded tofu skin gave it more crunch.
Salad
Salad
 
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Hamburger steak with Ponzu sauce:
The beef was heaven on my first visit, It was strong with flavour and the sauce on top was really refreshing.
I felt that there could have been more rice as the beef patty was huge. There were no elastic bits in it. However on my second visit, the beef was horrible, there was so many elastic bits in the patty.
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Deep fried Oysters with scrambled eggs:
The scrambled egg was not what I was expecting, it was just a fried beaten egg omlette floating on the sweet sauce.
The sauce was disgusting, it was so sweet it ruined the oysters and the oysters soaked up the sweet sauce and went soggy.
Deep fried oysters and scrambled eggs
Deep fried oysters and scrambled eggs
 
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Warabi mochi with black honey and soft ice-cream:
The ice-cream looked yellow on the product shot so I thought it might have a strong custard flavour to it, but the sweetness and flavour was bland, the warabi mochi was nice and soft.
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To try list: On my next visit, I want to try the matcha mixed with soda because it seems good pairing the bitterness of the matcha with sweet soda.
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English menu: yes, and they have pictures!
Service: Slow
Yummy factor: Varies on different visits
Sweetness levels: Scrambled egg was too sweet
MSG levels: Slight
Napkins provided: Yes
Noise levels: Quite noisy
Address: Shop 112, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Tseung Kwan O
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