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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Saved by sriraicha sauce @ 西貢真味越南小廚

Went here because there were quite a few positive comments on it on OpenRice.

The restaurant is extremely tiny and capable of seating around ten people.

Again, this is another restaurant in Sai Kung which tastes too local.

The beef and tomato was very disappointing because if you have had that in the city, the rice is red and not plain boiled rice.
There were only a few pieces of beef and beneath it was big chunks of carrot.
The grilled chicken was even worse, it was dry, but luckily there was a bottle of sriraicha sauce on the table.
The dishes came slowly, so by the time one dish was finished, the other one arrived.

I do not usually comment on the price, but around $34 per dish it quite expensive and it does not include a drink as well.
Perhaps the cambodian noodles in tomato soup would fare better, as the comments were mostly on that.


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No magic in the Vietnamese moon @ 越亮

This restaurant previously used to be Fukui Tea Room, a restaurant that served Japanese scrambled eggs with toast similar to Hokkaido dairy milk farm.

It has now been replaced by a vietnamese restaurant.

 

When I went in, the decoration was much the same as before, the air-conditioning was freezing with water droplets dripping down.
There was odours from the outside sewer nearby seeping in.

The food on the menu was slightly more expensive than other Vietnamese joints.
I was attracted here by the previous pictures of the beef filet which turned out to be around $1xx per order.
The pricing was erratic, it was either very expensive for high end items such as huge prawns and beef filet or average priced for the usual items.
It was hard establishing whether they were serving high end items or just the usual fare.

In the end, I ordered the French beef in tomato sauce with red rice.
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French beef in tomato sauce with red rice
When it came, it just visually looked like beef cooked in tomato sauce with sliced onions.
The taste was exactly the same as the ones served in Chinese cafes and the fried rice tasted merely like "western fried rice" also from chinese cafes.
The beef was really disappointing it had so much fat and chewy bits in it and the rice was oily.
I suspect the beef pieces may have been odds and ends cut from the beef filet.
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The spoon was rather dirty too! So I grabbed another spoon from the other table and it did'nt fare any better.

 

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French beef with tomato rice @ 新竹源越南餐廳

The portion of rice was generous and the cubes of beef were tender.
They were cubes of sliced beef filet.
The quality of beef here was so much better than Pho' 1988.
As for the rice, it was slightly oily but acceptable.

 

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Sliced chicken with cambodian noodles
Overall, I felt there was nothing spectacular about it, however the chicken was not that fresh,
you can see it has slightly gone dark.

 

The skin of the lime edge has oxidised and gone brown,
hence it must have been sliced for along time and not served.

I wonder how long it has been around

Noodles in tomato soup @ 西貢真味越南小廚

Cambodian noodles in tomato soup with beef
When it was served, the soup looked nice and strong, however there
was some strange smell to the beef.
There was two big pieces of unmanageable beef.
The beef had so much fat and chewy parts that I gave up eating it.
Same with the carrots, two huge pieces of the carrot taking up most of the bowl.
I preferred the beef to be cut into smaller pieces.
Anyway, the noodles were edible but I did not like the soup because of the weird beef smell, luckily the herbs made it slightly better.
The noodles was not as good as the reviews said it was.