The best lotus leaf wrapped rice @ 名苑酒家

Ordered their signiature Lotus leaf wrapped rice.

It was piping hot, wrapped like a pumpkin with a stalk on top.

Lotus leaf wrapped rice is much better than the glutinous rice version, its easier to digest and the ingredients are better than preserved sausages and shitake mushrooms.

The rice was so rich, each grain of rice was evenly coated in sauce.
All the things in the rice was top quality such as the chicken, prawns.

I was so amazed to find bits of brown jelly in it which made the rice even more rich and yummy.
I didnt enquire what it was, but it seemed like beef tendon or fish maw, whatever it was, I felt that it made the rice super delicious.

It was so delicious, I finished the whole thing!!
Next time I think I will order fish maw to go with it.
The only problem was, I did a consistency test, I went there twice, the second it wasnt that good.

 

 

KFC HK style series - Tomato and Chicken baked rice

I never was a fan of baked rice at KFC, but this one really surprised me.

The ones that I have had at KFC were the usual mushroom rice and chicken a la king, they just tasted like airplane meals, the rice would be too soft, and for the mushroom rice, it was just strongly flavoured with black pepper and served with canned mushrooms.

The chicken a la king tasted slightly better, but it tasted like frozen ready meals.

Anyway, this time I tried the Tomato and Chicken baked rice. IT WAS AMAZING!!

I would never order baked rice from Chinese Cafes because I hate the bed of egg fried rice beneath it.
I find the egg fried rice rather sickening, especially since the rice is stir fried and then baked.
The baked rice at Chinese cafes usually has cheese on top which makes it weird, not Chinesey or Western.

Back to the KFC baked rice:

The portion was quite big, presented in a foil dish, and the tomato sauce was thick and rich containing tomatoes, pineapples, and a de-boned chicken thigh filet.

The sauce was generous; I had sufficient sauce throughout to last till the last spoonful of rice. The tomato sauce was rich and heavy, it was perhaps slightly too strong, but it tasted good, the rice matched very well, it was not too soft like their usual rice dishes.
Although the bed of rice tried to be egg fried rice like the chinesey cafes, it was actually pieces of egg mixed in with the rice, which I felt the rice was very healthy and not oily.

Interestingly, the garlic chicken, which is on promotion, is meant to be the Chinesey style, but I felt that this baked rice was more Chinesy, and tasted the best out of them.

To finish the meal, I had a cup of tea from KFC, which was the Chinesey HK style tea. Although it is not my cup tea, in this case, it matched the Chinesey mood I got from the baked rice.
This is the first time I enjoyed a delicious baked rice, coming from KFC!!!!!!

IMPROVEMENTS:For improvement, I think the chicken should be sliced, because the cutlery at KFC is plastic and hard to use.

Out of the KFC HK style series the baked rice was the best.

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Indonesian fried rice and red bean tofu @ Fairwood

Got the Indonesian fried rice with chicken because it looked delicious on the product shot.

The real dish turned out as good as the product shot, however it was tasteless and the chicken was dry.

The tofu which I thought was some special tofu, was actually tofu from those plastic boxes.
You can see the imprint of the box on the totu.

box imprint on the tofu

 

The red beans and condensed milk made it too sweet.

 

Ja Ja jambalaya rice is delicious @ Blue Smoke Bar-B-Que

Finally paid the Blue Smoke Bar-B-Que a visit, which is conveniently located in LKF.

It is part of the Dining concepts group, which features their menu online.

I was attracted to this place because the starters looked really good, especially the Mac and Cheese which are fried balls with macaroni and cheese inside.
It is south American/Mexican cuisine.

I tried the Chicken Jamabalaya and the chilli beef burger.
The chicken Jamabalaya was the best, every part and every grain of rice was flavourful.
Anyway next time I will be back for the Mac and cheese.
The burger was good too, but I would have preferred a western bun rather than a sweet local Chinese bun.