lunchtime cravings for $69 @ Joe Bananas

Havent been to JB's for ages since their kitchen stopped, but recently read mandalay's review and saw they had buffets during lunch.

A wide choice of meats, salads, that were changed rapidly as soon as they were depleted. The tandoori chicken I had with yoghurt sauce was good, but that disappeared fast.

The mussels, which I had no expectations, tasted very juicy without that frozen bland taste. But of course they are the frozen ones. The fried rice was just as spicy as mandalay described.

I enjoyed the coleslaw as much as everything else, proper coleslaw, not the syrupy ones at KFC.

Apart from western food, they also had chinese food such as fish suimai's, mini wrapped glutinous rice with chicken.

The range of drinks was good as well, which were included and soft drinks that were refillable, I had the lime soda. There were also hot drinks such as coffee/ british tea at the drinks table.

Best of all was the piping hot bread and butter pudding. However I thought it had been slightly hongkongnised cos I could taste faint coconut in it. Although there was lumpy custard to accompany it, I was happy to see it.

 

 

 

Excellent roast in the blues @ 15+J

Its quite interesting that two roast chicken shops have both opened recently. I am not sure if they are related, but its good there are two options to try and compare.

15+J Roaster is located in Tin Hau, conveniently near the MTR, you cannot miss the ocean blue shop, there are seats in the restaurant too.

They offer roast chicken fast food sets, which include sides with a choice of coleslaw, rice or potato wedges. The style is quite similar to the US and UK ones.
It reminded me of chicken I had at Sham Fast Food, which also included coleslaw.

Roast Sai Kung also offers roast chicken on a rotisserie, but the choices at 15+J are better and the price is reasonable too.
REVIEW AT ROAST SAI KUNG:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2166368

Plastic gloves are provided in both places.

gloves

 

The cake and breakfast menu offered here looks good too.

breakfast n afternoon food pictures

 

Anyway for the meals, there is a choice of roast chicken or ribs, which comes with dipping sauce, there are four sauces to choose from.

product shot

 

Sauces: Ooh-la-la (spicy), Terigoma Sauce (Japanese grilled sesame sauce), 15+J Signature sauce and Sweetie Fruitie sauce (sounds cute!).

In the end I got the half roasted chicken with Ooh-la-la sauce and the 15+J Signature sauce, the sides I chose were the coleslaw and genki rice.

roasted chicken

 

The chicken was roasted nicely, and there were lots and lots of herbs and spices.
It tasted like Indian chicken tikka, actually it did taste like Indian roasted chicken.
The chicken was nice with or without sauce.
Shame I didn't take another picture of the spices.
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Ooh-la-la:
I expected this sauce to be red because it was spicy, but it was a light mustard yellow, it didn’t look spicy, but it was spicy!!

ooh la la sauce

 

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15+J signature sauce:
This tasted like smoked barbecue sauce with some herbs.

15+J signiature sauce

 

 

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Coleslaw:
This was very finely shredded cabbage and carrots, the tastes was creamy, the best in Hong Kong.
The local ones are just sugary and mixed with salad cream.

coleslaw

 

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Genki rice:
This was a healthy mix of red rice and brown rice with sweetcorn. Not sure why it is called Genki though, it dosnt look Japanese.
It would have been great if it was seasoned with cumin or paprika, or cooked in Mexican style.

genki rice

 

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Tomato and onion soup:
The soup tasted how it should, there was plenty of onions in it.

tomato n onion soup

 

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Overall I really liked their chicken, and it would be cool if the ovens or rotisserie with chickens could be seen from outside, it would attract lots of customers.
The service here is really good and the waitress is very pretty.