Showing posts with label potatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label potatoes. Show all posts

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Potato Corner fries in Hong Kong

I love fries, chips and basically anything made from potatoes.
When this opened, I really wanted to go but there were long queues as it is typical of HongKongers to check out new things.
This joint is a franchise from the Philippines and it is good to see more joints from south east Asia popping up like J.Co donuts and Jollibee.



It is interesting to see if this joint will survive because there were similar shops like NYF and Ireland's potato which are both different. NYF was fries with gravy while Ireland's potato was chips with a choice of various toppings like sour cream, meat sauce etc.
Potato Corner is neither the two, it is french fries shaken with seasoning and there are four flavours: cheese, sour cream, chili or BBQ.

There are four sizes: Jumbo, Mega, Giga or Terra.
I wasn't sure if the Chili was going to be really spicy and whether the BBQ would be sweet so I went for the Mega because you get to choose two flavours where I chose sour cream and cheese.


There have been complaints from people who have tried it that the fries were not crispy enough or not hot enough and it is all about timing,
For the issue of them not being crispy, these are French Fries, the same cut and thickness as the McDs ones so if they were crispy, the middle would not be fluffy but anyway I won't bother going into details people Hong Kong people like their fried stuff CRUNCHY and not CRISPY, while in terms of colour, they judge BROWN as being done whereas BLOND is not the thing.
As for the temperature issue, they seem to do a batch of one flavour at a time, there are only a few scoops so if you have ordered four flavours, the first flavour they scoop in the bowl is definitely going to be cold and soft while it takes time for the other three flavours being done unless there happen to be other flavours ready.





After waiting for a bit, I finally got my fries.

The crispiness was acceptable because I like it slightly crispy with a soft fluffy centre.
As for the flavours, I was disappointed with the sour cream because it had no sour cream taste, it was slightly sweet and garlicky.
The cheese which had a bright orange colour was my favourite because it was like eating fries with a WOTSITS flavour, a British brand of cheesy corn puffs.
If I knew the sour cream was going to be sweet, I would have chosen the CHILI instead as BBQ is probably going to be sweet judging by the sour cream.
As I am curious, I will be back for the CHILI and BBQ, not that I want to get the BBQ but the single size costs $28 so you might as well pay $34 for two different flavours.

Potato Corner PH: https://www.facebook.com/PotatoCorner/
Potato Corner HK: https://www.facebook.com/POTATOCORNERHONGKONG/

Monday, April 02, 2012

Trek into the New Territories for Taro snowflake ice @ 綿綿冰甜品屋

I rarely go to the New Territories, but I came all the way just to try their Taro flakey ice, after researching on openrice, this is the only place that does Taro flavour.

However, when it was served, the texture just turned out to be 100% ice-cream, the taste was purely frozen Taiwanese Taro milk tea, made with that milk powder.

I believe the suppliers do not have Taro flavour, so they must have made their own concoction of it, and processed it with the flake shaving machine. Probably the mixture was too creamy, hence it doesnt have that icey texture.

For the toppings, there were somes that were not offered in other dessert houses, such as the black sugar jelly (shaped like chopped spaghetti), and the green tea jelly cubes usually found in the Taiwanese drinks. Awkwardly enough, the topping were placed beneath the shaved ice rather than on top!

Apart from dessert, also ordered fried smiley potatoes and taiwanese fried chicken with your choice seasoning.

The smiley potatoes are not a a regular menu item in alot of places, so I ordered that, they were golden yellow, but still too overfried for my liking, as I like it crunchy outside with a soft inside. But I think this is the way Hong Kong people like to fry their stuff.

For the fried chicken pieces, it is basically fried chunks of chicken thigh in a crunchy flour coating, and my choice of seasoning was seaweed. There are various other seasonings such as curry, mexican chili, spring onion and so on.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Mashed potato with chicken and cheese @ KFC

Last time I had KFC, the mashed potato with chicken and cheese wasnt out yet,
so this time i got it.

Basically it is mashed potato in a foil shallow dish.

The portion is quite small, extremely piping hot.

The potato is slightly dry with baked cheese on top, as for the chicken I only found one piece.
It tasted slightly better than the mash with gravy as it is slightly drier.

Anyway wanted to try the peach tea with aloe, but that was sold out!
Overall this branch is quite nice and new, situated above burger king!

Potato salad @ Il Bel Paese

Finally got a real potato salad with proper creamy mayonnaise and finely chopped chives.

Overall, it was very nice but the potatoes could have been softer.

Potato balls @ 臺北站

Yes Taipei is for drinks, but I came here for potato balls.

Not many places serve fried potato balls, the one that does is in the New Territories called Breadman, but its too far away.

I like potato balls because of the light outer crunch and starchy potato filling inside if its fried just right.

Here they offer many sauces to go with it:
Wasabi mayonnaise, ketchup, mushroom and herb sauce, cheese, sour cream,

I chose cheese and wasabi mayonnaise.
The cheese was nice, but it wasnt cheese sauce, so it went hard after it had cooled, otherwise it tasted good as it was cheddar cheese.
The wasabi mayonnaise didnt taste that nice, I think the wasabi spolt it.
Next time I will choose mushroom sauce, but you need to ask them what the sauces are, as the English translation and Chinese menu are a bit different.
DEEP FRIED PHOTO BALLS!

Apart from spud snacks, they have fried mussels, scallops and squids, the scallop and squid sound ok, but trying to imagine how a fried mussel would taste~

The bad thing about this place, there is no where to indulge the food, it is people, trafflc, smokers everywhere.
It is hot enough already, and they have four spotlights in broad daylight to grill you!!
buses, cars, pedestrians and smokers
buses, cars, pedestrians and smokers
 
Lights in daylight that GRILL U~!
Lights in daylight that GRILL U~!
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