Back for quiche and pates at La Rotisserie

La Rotisserie (Wan Chai)

Since my last visit, they now have some tables and chairs outside which is lovely for dining in the cool weather.

Came back for the quiche and pates.
They only sell pates at this branch and the one at Sai Ying Pun.
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Zucchini and tomato quiche with mustard:

I havent tried the tomato and potato tart yet at Vanilla but the tart there has mustard too just like this one.
The quiche had my favourite yellow zucchini in it which had a lovely sweet taste and the French mustard and tomato slices gives it a tangy kick complemented by the delicious cheesy eggy filling.
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Terrine de cerf:


The deer pate was really coarse and the texture and taste was like hard boiled liver.
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Creme de foie de Volaille aux champignons:


The mushroom pate was much nicer and the texture was like dense foam with pieces of mushroom in it here and there.
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The jars of pate were really big and cheap, definitely worth buying.

Slightly confused by their sandwiches: Boulangerie Bistronomique

Boulangerie Bistronomique (Western District)

On my last visit I tried the Mille Feuille which was OK because it reminded me of the cakes I had as a kid but it was too sweet with the custard and I would have preferred plain cream instead of the custard.

This time I came back for the Tete de cochon sandwich which is only served from 12-3pm.

I wanted to try the Bahn mi because of the pate and the Tete de cochon because I have always wanted to try the pig's head.

For the sandwich sets they come with two sides and you can choose from: salad, soup or crisps (chips in French).
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Bahn mi:
[Vietnamese pork pate/Liver pate/pickles/coriander/chili pepper]



When it came, it looked Vietnamese style because of the coriander, carrots and pickled vegetables, however when I took a look at the fillings it had sliced pork trotters which was not on the menu.


The taste of the pate was ok, but the sliced pork trotters/ears ruined it for me because I hate them.
Vietnamese sausage would be a more appropriate ingredient instead of the pork trotter slices.
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Tete de cochon:
[Pigs head terrine/gribiche sauce/pickle pepper/mustard]

I was really looking forward to this because I have always wanted to try the pork brain.To my horror I could already see sliced pork trotter from the edges.


When I took a look at the fillings there were more disgusting pork trotters/sliced pigs ears again which was not listed on the ingredients.


The meatier item on the left of the picture could have been the brain but it tasted like Ox's tongue and they said it was meant to be terrine but it didn't look like terrine at all and where was the jelly?
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Soup:
Although the soup tasted nice, but as a carrot soup it lacked the taste of carrot.
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crisps:
The crisps were quite salty but luckily they were fresh.
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Salad:
Basically it was rocket leaves in vinaigrette which tasted ok.
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Home made pate with cognac and thai dessert @ Greyhound

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Homemade Pate‚ with Cognac and Fresh Green Peppercorns

 

 

Ordered this because I needed to eat something before eating a sweet dessert.
The pate was really smooth but the cognac was not strong enough.

 

The fresh green peppercorns were really interesting, they were not solid inside, when you bite into them they burst open with juice!
The peppercorns were not hot as I imagined but the skin of the peppercorn was where the peppercorn taste came from.
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Tub Tim Krob Greyhound Style

 

 

Last time I did not try this so I came back to try it again.
Basically it is a scoop of young coconut sorbet with coated waterchestnuts.
The sorbet was sweeter than the one I tried previously and this one was icier and it had less young coconut meat in it.
The coated waterchestnuts were nice and crunchy with some gellish texture outside.
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Delicious fillings in the Tim Kee French Baguette

I have always wanted to try the baguettes here, but the location is far from the nearest MTR stations.

As I was coming by MTR, I could only choose between Jordan or Austin station to get off.
Made the mistake of choosing AUSTIN even though it was slightly nearer because you need to interchange trains about three times and the trains run on a five minute frequency which I could have walked from the Jordan stop.

What made it worse was that it was raining heavily that day when I got there so I couldn’t exactly give up!

Anyway finally got there and ordered the baguette.
Basically there were only three choices: garlic bread, small baguette and large bagette.

 

 

While I was waiting I saw some magazine clippings featuring their baguettes and there are four primary ingredients that they put in which are five spice belly, vietnamese sausage, salted pork knuckle, French pate (I am guessing it is french pate because I cant read the chinese).

 

 

When it was made, butter and mayonnaise was spread on the baguette first and it was filled with picked carrots, tomato slices and those four meats.

Usually I am picky and would pick out any fat pieces but when I knew it had pork belly after reading the feature it was too late so I left them in there, and secondly there probably wasn’t much pork belly in there in comparison to the baguette.

 

Luckily all the fillings in the baguette were heavily flavoured I could not taste the pork belly and the squishy fat!
The salted pork knuckles and French pate tasted the strongest and nice too.
There was strong black pepper in the baguette too. In comparison to Mr Baguette at Fortress hill and Wan Chai, I prefer the baguette here because there is pate, but at Mr Baguette there are more choices.

I liked the pate so much that I ordered an extra piece of garlic bread and pate so I could get a better taste of the pate. I should have done that with the pork knuckle too.
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Supersupergirl’s special order!!!

 

To be honest I thought this tasted better than the baguette!!
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