Mixed Mushroom Spaghetti in a Lemon Juice & Parsley Sauce @ Carnegies

Carnegies have made a great improvement since my last visit, they will display their menu outside early in the morning, so you can walk past and see whats on for lunch.

Also it is much appreciated they update their weekly menu on facebook.

I chose to eat today, because of the mixed mushroom spaghetti in Lemon juice and parsley sauce.
For starters ordered the romaine salad with cajun chicken

Mains:Grilled Chicken Steak with Garlic Sauce, French Fries, Carrots & Snow Peas
and Mixed Mushroom Spaghetti in a Lemon Juice & Parsley Sauce

Dessert: Coconut banana fritters with Rum sauce.

Cajun chicken salad:
pieces of romaine lettuce on a bed of sliced chicken breast covered in spicy cajun sauce.

The bread was cute, served in a dimsum container, the bread was crusty and chewy, and the butter was nice and salty.

Grilled chicken:
juicy chicken with french fries and veg, the chicken was thigh meat. ( I thought is was slighty chinese the way it had been cooked)

Lemon pasta:
pasta cooked just right and the sauce was nice and lemoney, certainly worth choosing today to come. However the parsley could have been chopped finer since the menu said lemon and parsley sauce. It was more like a sprig of parsley.

Banana fritter:
Slightly over fried, not so much coconut, but the rum sauce was good, slightly bitter.
reminded me of the Caribbean.

Overall the menu is well suited for westerners and asians, since one dish will be western, and the other sounds western but cooked in chinese style.

 

 

 

Set Tapas @ UNOMAS

Finally came here for lunch, this is probably my first time having real Spanish food, the ones I have had before are the fake ones.
I liked the lunch style, you can choose a 3 set Tapa from the Tapa list of 15, 14 for food and one for dessert. For two people, we chose 6 Tapa’s.

The restaurant was spacious yet cramped, there were tables spread across the room, however the table for two we had was quite small, not designed for Spanish Tapa’s, you could have at most 3 Tapa’s on the table. I had trouble getting to my cramped my seat, and I am a thin!

The service was a bit cold, could have been better. Not sure if tap water was free, but other tables were given it. Also coffee/tea was included in the set, but they didn’t remind us, and we felt they had different attitudes to causcasians and asians.

Food:

Ensalada de lentejas con jamon:
Brown lental salad with ham, red onion, tomato, olive oil and vinegar, a nice tangy starter.

Chipirones al ajillo: baby squids with garlic and parsley:
this was the best, the squids were fat and soft with generous sauce.
Croquetas de Jamon:
almond crusted chicken and ham croquettes, could see or taste the almond crust, infact it was just plain crumbs with smooth sily potato inside.
Croqutas de Arroz:
Saffron rice and manchego fritters, This one I could taste and see the almond pieces as the coating, inside was rice, and moist too, the sauce tasted like pumpkin sauce.
Tortilla con chorizo Potato tortilla with spicy chorizo and paprika:
this was just like an omelette, very buttery.
Cordero al vinto tinto: lamb in chorizo in red wine sauce: it tasted more like beef.

Dessert: Orange and almond cake with syrup.

Overall the food was ok, the service and attitude was not!

Hokkaido milk froyo with reminiscence of Yoplait @ kiss n' joy

I have always wanted to try this place for the Strawberry yoghurt.
But twice I couldn’t find it because I went the wrong direction.

At the end of Hau Fook Road, I turned left where all the snack bars were located when I should have walked to the right hand side!

As there were four flavours, I did not know which flavour to get, so I asked to try the Strawberry because I wanted to get that anyway.
The staff must have read my mind because I wanted to try the hokkaido one as well and they gave me a sample of that too.

Samples

 

The décor of the shop was really nice, the colour theme was white and apple green.

The only disadvantage was the standing area was quite small, so it was easy to trip down the steps when it got packed.

 

In the end I decided to get the golden kiwi drink because golden kiwi is not always available.

 

 

As it was a cold day the drink was extremely thick. It tasted just right without the honey because the yogurt was sweet.
There was a strange feeling from drinking kiwi because kiwi seeds have enzymes on it, and after the blending process, the seeds got grounded releasing more enzymes.
It is very similar to biting into white grape seeds.

Next time I’ll be back for the froyo.
From the samples, the froyo was nice and thick, it was slightly lumpy.
The strawberry one tastes exactly like Yoplait’s strawberry fromage frais so I really liked it.

One of the toppings was interesting.
Parsley!

More and more Arabic dishes on the menu @ Oh Food

Just as I am writing this review, there are new dishes on the menu which I havent tried yet.

Anyway ordered my favourite starters which you would expect to see in an Arabic restaurant.

I have previously tried them at Habibi in central and its supermarket counter at Gourmet.

☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Tabouleh:
This is a finely chopped salad containing wheat, tomato, cucumber, parsley, mint, onion and garlic seasoned with olive oil, lemon juice and salt.
The salad is so finely chopped that you can just eat with a spoon.
I love the colours in this dish, green with hints of grain and tomato.
It is very refreshing to start the meal with, however the wheat could be softer.

 

☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Mutabal:
This is pureed Egg plant mixed with lemon juice.
Again another one of my favourites that go nicely with pita bread.

Oh Food: http://www.ohhalalfood.com