Sunday roast everyday @ Delaneys

This is my regular stop for sunday lunch any day, roast meat/poultry sliced for you at the carvery.

The roast includes a soup/salad, and a drink. The salad is self service, at the salad bar, ranging from unpickled beetroot to potato salad.

As for the roast, it has to be collected yourself, but you can pick and have what ever vegetable you want.
The roast I had that day was turkey, and requested for a yorkshire pudding too, and lots of gravy.

 

Spinach noodles in tomato soup @ 羅坤發粉麵 Lo Kwan Fat Noodles

After seeing the appetising pictures posted on Openrice, I was there to try the spinach noodle in tomato soup, honestly if the noodle had been white or yellow, I probably wouldn’t have read the review in much detail, but it turns out the green noodle is spinach noodle.

When I got there, I poked the picture of it, and didn’t know what “ngau gan” was, as I couldn’t see clearly from their picture, so asked the waitress.
Anyway I got this very impressive answer; well “ngau gan” is just “ngau gan”!

It turns out when I got the noodles, the “ngau gan” is just beef tendons.

The bowl was filled with halved tomatoes, plenty of beef tendons and the green spinach noodles.

Took a sip at the soup, not very sour, but not artificial tomato soup, as for the noodles not that tasty, but after waiting a while for it to soak up the soup, it was ok.
As for the beef tendons, I selectively ate them, as they usually contain animal hair in them.
It was quite soft, and strong in that beef belly marinade.

The place was not as clean as described, but OK to eat there.

 

Fried snacks @ hot.com

Decided to try some snacks at this little joint, ordered the beef devil, two skewers of snacks.
The beef bun, was basically satay beef with onions in a chinese sesame sweet bun, the beef was quite generous. The usual chinese taste, nothing special about it.
The skewers were fish tofu, spinach fishballs, and some artificial rubber cake with seaweed on the edges.
As they were pre-fried, they were fried again when ordered, basically tasting like hard chewy rubber, and very salty too.
Each skewer cost $10 which was totally not worth it, you can buy these at any market in HK.
The only good point about them, was that they labelled their takeaway bags, as seen on the brown paper bag.

 

 

Hotpot fun @ Megan's kitchen

I had been planning to have hotpot here since gourmet pictures of colourful cuttlefish balls were posted.
Apart from that, their website impressed me as it was in English, Chinese and there was a downloadable menu.

According to their website (www.meganskitchen.com), they claimed to have fitted induction cookers/餐桌內置電磁爐頭 however when we sat down for hotpot we had to use the gas canister powered one, which was a bit scary.

Before ordering, the table was laid with sauces and condiments ($20/person) which are charged regardless if you use them or not, same with the preserved eggs and ginger ($20/person).
Apart from the wide choice on the menu, we were allocated next to a noisy table, which made it hard to concentrate on the menu. The restaurant was 30% full throughout the evening, even when we left, so I couldn’t understand why they didn’t space out the people.

For the soup bases, there were so many that it was hard to choose.
Ideally I wanted the crab and tomato soup with the souffle finish, purely because the souffle finish was a must, but then I thought it would be weird matching some of the ingredients in tomato soup.

Other good choices were the congee base with abalone, escargots in sichuan chilli and English Oxtail broth.
So not only Gao Gei has congee hotpot.
As for the escargot, it seems really fun to have escargots in it too.
Although the prices may seem pricey for the soup base, all the ingredients in the soup are actually edible, not only the soup base is pricey, the condiments are also pricey.

In the end I chose the Hokkaido curry, the soup itself contained apples, carrots and other wholesome vegetables that could be eaten as well.
Not all hotpot restaurants have treasures in the soup.

For my hotpot I chose rainbow cuttlefish balls, salmon and spinach dumplings, truffle and beef dumplings, lettuce and tofu.
The cuttlefish balls were nice and colourful when they arrived, from purple, magenta, green to yellow.
The lettuce was cut nicely and placed neatly in the bowl like pot of growing vegetables.

The rainbow cuttlefish were made from 7 colourful items: purple sweet potato (purple), spring onion (green and white), spinach (dark green), beetroot (magenta), pumpkin (orange), yellow bell pepper (yellow), red bell pepper (slightly orange).

As for taste, the cuttlefish used in making these balls were fresh, and you can just taste its freshness.
The spinach one was rather memorable, so was the sweet potato, however after putting it in the hotpot for a while, the colour is no longer purple, but it was inside.
The texture of the sweet potato one was interesting, you can actually feel the stickyness of the sweet potato.

Next best was the spinach and salmon dumpling, each dumpling was freshly made with salmon and freshly chopped spinach.
It was so fresh that when you ate it, the spinach inside is still jade green with a crunch just like freshly blanched spinach, and the salmon had a nice fishy taste to it.
I really liked this dumpling because all the ingredients were freshly done, and not grounded into a paste.

As for the beef dumplings with truffle, it tasted weird, no truffle taste at all!

There were other dumplings which I should try on my next visit, mui choi and pork!!

The tofu and vegetables tasted how it should, so overall I really liked hotpot here, except for the gas hotpot and depending where you sit, and the people surrounding you.

 

美味廚  Megan's Kitchen
灣仔灣仔道165至171號樂基中心5樓
5/F, Lucky Centre,165-171 Wan Chai Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/hotpot-fun-e2113247

I am back......and.........tapas lunch is back @ unoMas

As stated in my earlier review at Uno Mas on 3/11/2009
"if they have the tapa's lunch I will come back again."
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2041031

So here I am, I am back here again!!!!
SADLY this shop has been replaced by TSUI WAH chinese restaurant !!
The new MOTTO by UnoMas is:
one more?
much more?
unlimited tapas
at uno mas

Since 2009, I have to say, there have been BIG BIG improvements, and this time it certainly deserves a
Some of the staff are still the same that worked there before, and some new ones.

After sitting down, they kindly offered water, and asked if I wanted hot or cold, previously not attended to, and there were more smiles on their faces than before.

The menu was very pleasing, I was happy with their 3 tapas lunch per person before, but now it is unlimited which is even more amazing.

There are 17 choices of tapas including soup and dessert.

Instead of the annoying air conditioning being on during the cold winter, making you colder, they had heater, which made the dining experience alot warmer, and the food was kept warm, unlike those irritating air conditioners.

 

The only slight dissapointment was the baby squids were not on the tapas menu , i have been craving for it since my last tapas lunch here two years ago, which shows this place is better than it seems since it is still here after 2 year considering alot come and go in the Wan Chai area.

There 17 choices of tapas are:
I tried all the tapas except for 2, 4, 8, 14.

1-PATATAS BRAVAS
Deep fried new potatoes dusted with spicy paprika, served with alioli
COMMENT:
The potatoes were fluffy inside with a crisp outer layer jazzed up by the spicy paprika and the mayonnaise was gorgeous with the potato.

PATATAS BRAVAS

 

2-ENSALADILLA RUSA
Russian Salad with Tuna
Didnt try:

3-CROQUETA DE POLLO
Chicken potato croquettes
COMMENT:
These were fried just right to crispy golden brown, and the potato inside was silky, however the chicken couldnt be tasted.
Left hand side of picture below

CROQUETAS DE POLLO

 

4-CALAMARES A LA ANDALUZA
Fried squid rings "Andalucia"
Didnt try:

5-GAMBAS AL AJILLO
Sautéed prawns with garlic
COMMENT:
The prawns were very fresh and the sauce was very appropriate for dipping the bread in.

GAMBAS AL AJILLO

 

6-COCA SABLE CON ANCHOAS Y PIMENTO ROJO DEL PIQUILLO
Shortbread with olive tapenade, piquillo red pepper, white anchovies, and Manchego cheese
COMMENT:
This was presented very nicely, the sauce, the layers and it tasted nice especially the olive puree, although I would have preferred savory bread/biscuit.

COCO SABLE

 

7-ALBÓNDIGAS CON TOMATE
Meatballs with tomato herb sauce
COMMENT:
These tasted how it should, bit like italian meatballs.
Middle of the picture

ALBÓNDIGAS CON TOMATE

 

8-CHORIZO FRITO
Fried chorizo sausage in red wine reduction
Didnt try:

9-PINCHO MORUNO DE CERDO
Grilled marinated pork skewers
COMMENT:
Just ordinary marinated pork
No picture

10-SETAS MIXTAS AL JEREZ
Sautéed mixed mushrooms with dry sherry
COMMENT:
Mushrooms always taste good and with sherry even better.

SETAS MIXTAS AL JEREZ

 

11-CONCHINILLO ASADO CON MIEL Y AJOS TIERNOS
Honey roast suckling pig with spring onion
COMMENT:
Quite sweet, and the pork was tender, the skin was slightly sticky

ASADO CON MIEL Y AJOS TIERNOS

 

12-RABO DE TORO
Braised Ox tail in red wine reduction
COMMENT:
The ox tail was very tender and the sauce was rich.
See the meatballs picture on the left.

13-ARROZ NEGRO
Rice cooked in squid ink, garlic and onion
COMMENT:
The rice was so yummy and fully flavoured, and not undercooked.

ARROZ NEGRO

 

14-ARROZ CON VERDURAS
Mixed seasonal vegetables braised in saffron rice
Didnt try:

15- TORTILLA DE PATATA
Potato, onion and egg omelette with alioli
Didnt try:
But tried on my previous visit, it is basically like a big omlette, and its too filling for lunch.

16-SOUP OF THE DAY
COMMENT:
It was spinach that day in clear consomme, the spinach was blanched just right.

 

17-DESSERT OF THE DAYCOMMENT:
It was almond ice-cream which I do not have a picture, but it was good anyway, not too sweet.

Complimentary bread:

 

Matching silver pencil and Menu stand[:/b]