Japanese rolled pancakes @ Mazazu crepes

Thanks to Felicityli, found out about this little pancake joint, so tried the chocolate banana one and blueberry cheesecake one.

It is slightly different to the western pancakes that are eaten on a plate, these are rolled up like the Japanese sushi hand rolls.

The cream inside the pancakes were a bit thick and sticky like, so the chocolate banana one turned out to be sickly, whereas the blueberry one was much fruitier and light.

It was slightly messy to eat, as the top was topped with lots of cream, sauce and filling, but tastes OK, especially the blueberry one.

The only drawback is that the stools are very high, so if you’re wearing a mini skirt, it is a bit troublesome.

doraeman's food! @ Maxim's bakery

Felt like having some american pancakes, so tried the maxims version.
There are two flavours either filled with red bean or peanut butter.

Frankly it is cartoon food!

The pancakes were not soft, also the peanut butter was hard and dry inside.
I was surprised the butter didnt go runny in this heat.

Irish boxty pancake @ Delaney's

With so many pancakes in HK, or known as crepes for the French, Boxty is the Irish savory version.

Boxty, is a traditional irish potato pancake served wrapped around beef, squash and sauce. The dish is popular in Northern Ireland where it is know locally as poundy or poundies; also known as potato bread in Ulster).

There are many different versions but all contain finely grated, raw potatoes, the common version consists of finely grated raw potato and mashed potato with flour, baking soda, buttermilk and sometimes egg.

The mixture is fried on a griddle pan for a few minutes on each side, similar to a normal pancake. Boxty was seen as part of the local culture in the areas in which it was made, that the following poem was written-

Boxty on the griddle,
Boxty in the pan,
If you can't make boxty,
You'll never get a man.

Ordered the beef and guiness one, which consists of beef taken from the carvery and rich gravy sauce and guiness.
The guiness gives it a slight bitter taste, and the pancake is not as light as the pancake/crepe version, it is slighly thicker and moist due to the potatoes.
There are lot so shredded onions in it too, which is a complement with gravy and beef.

Apart from beef, there is also chicken, vegetarian and lamb to choose from.
It would be interesting if they had chili con carne or mexican fillings inside too.

Desserts buffet at $98 per person @ Kaneda

I have been wanting to go to Ant One’s for the dessert buffet, but it is only available in the evenings, however when I walked past Kaneda, I saw the dessert buffet for only $98 per person including bottomless drinks.

There are a total of 22 desserts to choose from which is about the same as Ant One, however Ant One offers Chinese desserts as well. Although Kaneda doesn’t have Chinese desserts such as fried sweet dumplings, it was not a loss to me since I do not like Chinese desserts. The items that I wanted to try at Ant One were also available at Kaneda.

The desserts available were:

1) Chocolate cake with molten chocolate filling 2) Baked walnut cake 3) Italian cheese cake 4) Mango puff pastry 5) Green tea and red bean mousse 6) Strawberry pancake with custard cream 7) Ice-cream skewer 8) Serradura pudding 9) Creme brulee 10) Honey milk pudding 11) Apple crumble 12) Mango souffle 13) Mango pudding 14) Fruit profiteroles 15) Banana pancake with custard 16) Baked egg white with almond 17) Almond sorbet 18) Assorted cakes of the day 19) Chocolate milk pudding
20) Various ice-creams 21) Mango pancake with custard 22) Strawberry yoghurt mousse
23) Blueberry cheesecake nice sour berries 24) Mango cheesecake 25) Mango cake

1) Chocolate cake with molten chocolate filling
This was piping hot and the size of the ice-cream scoop and chocolate cake was super mini, it was slightly smaller than a tablespoon.

Super cute mini chocolate filled cake

 

 

2) Baked walnut cake
This was not too sweet, nice and chewy, it was made of 90% walnuts and sweet syrup.

Walnut pie

 

3) Italian cheese cake
Didn’t try.

4) Mango puff pastry
This was layers of puff pastry sandwiched with custard cream topped with mangoes.

5) Green tea and red bean mousse
didnt try

6) Strawberry pancake with custard cream
Didnt try, but tried the banana pancake.

7) Ice-cream skewer
Didn’t try

8) Serradura pudding
This tasted like the usual serradura pudding, very creamy.

L:honeymilkpudding R:sawdust pudding

 

9) Creme brulee
This tasted how it should

10) Honey milk pudding
Nice and creamy but the taste of honey was light

11) Apple crumble
Nice, but too many raisins.

12) Mango souffle
My favourite, but slightly too sweet, there were small pieces of real mango fruit

mango souffle

 

13) Mango pudding
Didn’t try

14) Fruit profiteroles
Didnt try

15) Banana pancake with custard
The custard cream in it tasted fake and floury

banana pancake

 

16) Baked egg white with almond
Tasted ok.

17) Almond sorbet
This was my favourite, nutty with plenty of almonds and a rich cake base

Almond sorbet

 

18) Assorted cakes of the day

19) Chocolate milk pudding
didnt try

20) Various ice-creams
didnt try

21) Mango pancake with custard

22) Strawberry yoghurt mousse
Another one of my favourites, the strawberry flavouring wasn’t fake and it was refreshing with the yogurt ingredient.

23) Blueberry cheesecake
nice sour berries

blueberry cheesecake

 

24) Mango cheesecake
Didnt try.

25) Mango cake

L:mango puff R:mango cake

 

The desserts were served in tiny cups and dishes, there was a fresh plastic spoon every time, which not that environmentally friendly.

There were metal cutleries too, but the spoon couldn’t fit in the tiny dessert cups.

Improvements:
It would be good if there was a side plate to rest my used cutlery rather than directly on the table.