Deep fried salmon with fresh orange sauce @ 雅涴粉麵茶餐廳

The dish sounded really interesting in Chinese [鮮橙香脆三文魚] it was literally Fresh orange and crispy salmon.
I thought it was going to be how the usual sweet and sour fish but with orange sauce.
Usually when they say FRESH it does not necessarily mean fresh.
I also ordered it because not many Chinese cuisines serve salmon, however there are lots of Chinese cuisines trying to be Western by making baked rices and putting salmon in it.
When it came, it was fried thinly sliced salmon in bread coating.
The texture of the salmon was surprisingly not too fibrous.
The orange sauce really matched the fish, especially because it was watery and had bits of freshly squeezed orange in it.

The other egg dish was also interesting 菜花蜆肉煎蛋, clams and chives omlette.

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XL Garlic Butter chicken leg, curry & salmon rice @ KFC

Tried the set which has the XL garlic butter fried chicken leg and curry.
It also came with the standard drinks and the new portugese tart with red beans which I don't like.
In addition ordered the baked Salmon rice as well because I havent tried it.
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Rice and curry sauce
This was delicious and it was not served with Japanese rice which made it even more delicious.
The curry sauce was not spicy but tasted like the Japanese style ones.
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XL Garlic Butter chicken leg
The size of the chicken leg was sligthly bigger than the average chicken legs.
The coating was a bit too burnt but tasted strong of butter and garlic just like the coating for Vietnamese garlic butter chicken wings.
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Baked salmon rice
There were only two pieces of Salmon in this baked rice and I would prefer more smaller pieces mixed in with the rice.
The rice beneath it was fried rice which was soft and mushy.
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Portugese tart with red beans
I didnt try this because I don't like red beans.
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Cream and salmon pasta @ Bubble green

Nice pastas but the pasta is always too soft.

Salmon vol-au-vent with BoneS!! @ Star of Canton

Got my usual weekly dimsum, actually I hadnt been here for two weeks, there were so many people queueing up, so I ate elsewhere.

This time there was new stuff, so ordered the chicken feet in abalone sauce, salmon vol-au-vents, chicken pot with won tons, and the usual prawn dumplings etc.
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Chicken in abalone sauce:big bowl with chicken feet and lots and lots of peanuts, let alone a whole bowl of sauce.
So much sauce was left over after the chicken feet were gone, also the chicken feet were nice and soft.
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chicken pot with wontons:literally a bowl of chicken soup with wontons!!

Salmon vol-au-vents:
Lucky they were piping hot, or else I would have got spiked by the long rigid thick fish bone ( see picture ).
I really was not expecting a fish bones!!!
Tasted ok, except the pastry was not well baked, the base was still hard and not risen properly.


Fish bones
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Pita bread and salmon @ CEO

As always, the food is always good at CEO, this time had the tea set, the chinese description for it was "bock beng" so i assumed it was pizza, as most chinese translate bock beng as pizza.

In the end it was pita bread, which was even better, there was a lovely dip to go with it, vinegrette and olive oil and herbs.

Pesky fly fighting for my salmon @ 榕樹頭咖啡館 Banyan Cafe

I have had take outs from this place regularly and its ok, but dining there isnt that good, firstly there is a pesky little fly that keeps flying towards your food.

Secondly, the cucumber wasnt that fresh, it looked like it had been refrigerated for too, it was nearly translucent and slightly dehydrated.

But everything else was ok, the Salmon and the garlic bread.

Bago with brilliance @ Yo Bago

I have wanted to try this place for ages, but Quarry Bay is one of the worst stations in Hong Kong; you can never seem to get out of the station with endless passages and escalators.

Finally got motivated to visit this place on a fine afternoon and managed to find it successfully after previous attempted visits where I couldn’t find that road.

When I got there, it looked just like how I saw it from the pictures, the shop was on the elevated side of the road behind a metal rail.

As I knew I wouldn’t be able to make up my mind even though I had an idea of roughly what I was going to get, I sat down and studied the menu for ages.

The choices were amazing, there was about four bagel sandwiches I wanted to try, and the bago’s with spread too. In the end I got a bagel sandwich set with bago bits and tea.
The owner was very nice, he came over and took my order so I needn’t go to the counter to order.

Although the Coffee there is famous, the notorious Tim Horton’s from Canada, that serves donuts and recently serving bagels too, I am not a coffee person so I got my Breakfast tea instead.
There was Earl grey and Breakfast to choose from, since my bagel was the Western breakfast, I matched it with Breakfast tea.

The Bago bits came first, bruchetta topped with diced tomato, drizzled with vinaigrette and melted mozzarella on top. It tasted nice as a starter. Then my bago sandwiche came with the tea. The tea looked watery at first, but the contents were boiling hot, so the tea infused itself very well and came out strong.

My bago sandwiche consisted of beef sausage, egg, lettuce, tomato and cheese.
The bago was very filling which was good, but the only problem was, I was too full to try the other bago’s.

The lettuce in the bago was very leafy and sweet, also they did a very good job with the lettuce, it was dried thoroughly after washing. Whilst I had my bago, I took sips of the tea, and from the beginning to finishing my bago, the tea remained hot throughout, which is also worth praising too.

Apart from the food, the café had a nice atmosphere and ambience, most of the customers were westerners.
The choice was bagels were good too, the ones I would recommend are Poppy seed, chocolate, spinach, and honey wheat. They have a big range on bagel spread, some are home-made such as the blueberry, pineapple cream cheeses which would go well with the chocolate bagel.

Anyway, don’t know when my next visit will be, but hopefully soon, I want more bagels.

Chinese toasted flying saucers @ Muzi Cafe

Usually toasted sandwiches are made in sandwich toaster, the finished product is basically a right angled triangle.
In the culture of HK, they have been known to be called "flying saucers" although I do not know why, the usual shape is not round and nothing in resembelance of a flying saucer.
Finally, I have found one that is round!

 

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Steps making the flying saucer
Fillings placed on normal square slices of bread

 

Sandwich in the toaster device

 

Edges cut off with scissors

 

It is the same as the normal toasted sandwiches except the toaster has a round imprint on it, after it is toasted, the edges are trimmed off, which is quite a waste, about 23% of the square bread is thrown away.
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There are four flavours, all are made with cucumber and tomato.

 

The flavours available are:
Tuna
Chicken breast
Duck breast
Salmon

 

Ordered the salmon and tuna.

Tuna toasted Sandwich:
The tuna was in creamy sauce, and was very messy to eat, as the filling kept overflowing when you bit into it.
The typical chinese taste, not my cup of tea.
I would have liked it if it plain tuna and cheese.

Toasted tuna pocket

 

Salmon toasted sandwich:
I was also expecting this to be nice, but there was too much mayonnaise in the middle making it sickly, and the cuts of salmon were not that nice either, it still had brown/grey bits on the salmon.

Toasted salmon pocket