Showing posts with label Sakura shrimps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sakura shrimps. Show all posts

Monday, April 02, 2012

Thai food in an isolated part of town @ 泰屋 Sawadee Thai Restaurant

The selection is the normal selection you would find at any thai place, apart from that, there is also a fresh seafood bar to order seafood and cook it the style you want.

The best dish was the prawn fried rice, from the picture, you can see tiny dried sakura shrimps, adding saltiness to the rice.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Good but had to eat with tacky disposable chopsticks @ 藏戶概念館

Food here is good, but service and chopsticks are not that good.

Firstly had to eat with disposable wooden chopsticks, ready to snap in half at any time.
How can a restaurant supply you with disposable chopsticks!!!!

One of the waitors stunk of BO too!

Anyway back to the food.
Whelks in sauce:a bowl of four whelks in sauce, I thought they would be chewy, but they turned out to be sweet and tender.
Mussels in miso and sake sauce:was impressed the mussels were fresh, not the frozen ones.
Sakura shrimp and veg tempura:was not the item I wanted to order, but it tasted ok,
Sakura shrimp and peach roll:This one tasted the best, ground raw shrimp inside with sweet peach slices inside.
The roll was coated in sakura shrimps, but the thing that let it down was that it didnt stay in one piece when you picked it up with chopsticks.
Overall the food was good, but had difficulty eating mussels and whelks with only a pair of wooden chopsticks and mini fork.

Taiwanese sausages @ 香腸世家

When I first saw these sausages, they were nothing like the German sausages, Frankfurters, or UK sausages, in fact they had a clear glazed skin with the appearance of the Chinese Wax sausages but not shrivelled up, I didn’t try as I assumed they would taste like that. I had no idea they were Taiwanese sausages.

Then after I read reviews about them I decided to try them because of the interesting flavours.

According to the Taiwanese website, the flavours are: blue tuna, black pepper, red wine flying fish roe, ink fish, Sakura shrimp, sorghum liquor, flying fish roe, Sichuan chilli, iron egg, bonito fish and cheese.

The joint here only served four of the above: Blue tuna, Flying fish roe, Sakura shrimp with wasabi, and ink fish.
I suppose the flavours served here are the ones I would have picked, especially egg in a sausage is a bit strange. Anyway before I made my way here, I was thinking which two to try, as trying all would be a bit much. Luckily you could get a stick with three flavours: flying fish roe, blue tuna and squid ink.

Taste: All have the soft firm texture like British sausages, however they all have that sweetness taste expected in Asian foods.
They did not contain a lot of fatty bits as I had imagined.

I thought the tuna one was quite good, had lumps of tuna in it, so was the one with roe.
Next time I need to try the Sakara shrimp too, and maybe see those little shrimps embedded in the sausage.

All the cooked sausages were laid on this area with tiny white pebbles, I actually want to know if they will wash these pebbles, or reuse them everyday!!

Anyway no photograph was taken, a bit difficult in that busy street!

Dining under surveilance @ Kulako Japan Concept Food

Food was good, but under constant surveillance by the staff. From the picture you can see they have positioned themselves directly 90 degrees from our table.
Being a food host, I am used to eating in front of people, but not so for others.

Fish liver: I think this is not always available as it wasn’t on the menu last time, but went well with the vinegar sauce.

Baked rice with oysters: This was better than expected, the rice was softer than normal, but full of flavour with pieces of vegetable in it. The rice was topped with six oysters, all very creamy and moist despite being cooked by the oven.

The peach sushi rolls with Sakura shrimp was rather disappointing, the Sakura shrimp coating was more like shrimp crumbs, the ones I had previously, tiny shrimps could be seen coated on the rice.

Environment: There was a strong cigarette smell when we got up there.
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3 waitors @ 90 degrees from table view
3 waitors @ 90 degrees from table view

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Sakura shrimp ramen stone pot @ Ajisen


 
Went to Ajisen because of the new noodles, both were stone bowls, one was pork udon, the other was ramen with sakura shrimp.
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Pork udon stone pot
This tasted bland compared to the ramen. However the pork was not that fresh with a strong off smell!
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Sakura ramen stone pot
The amount of sakura shrimp was amazingly generous, however the soup was too salty that I had to add two cups of water to dilute it down.
I think the chef did not add enough water to the soup because when it came the soup level was not even half full.
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http://www.ajisen.com.hk/
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