Here we have the new look of the Central Market. Urban Renewal Authority (URA) and Chinachem Group claim to have captured and preserved many of its historical elements and integrated these into the open plan floor design. They adopted a “boundaryless spatial concept” to provide over 100 leasable units for retail and F&B, 1,000 square metres of green open space, and community spaces for a variety of art exhibitions, performances, and cultural activities, transforming the Central Market into a “Playground for All”. Phase one has achieve a take-up rate of over 80% , drawing over 70 commercial tenants, with operations ranging from street foods to specialty restaurants, local brands and cultural craft boutiques, and lifestyle grocery stores. Most phase one shops begin operating today. Additionally, 13 of the original market stall activities of unique historical value have been preserved and will return in new ways to continue their legacies, making Central Market a window into living history. To summarize, it just feels like another pmq and it is happening everywhere not just in Asia.
Creativity and fun flavours always come to mind from the Royal Hotels Hong Kong group.
This year, there is 【Love at First Bite】. I love the modern twist transformation from the classic mixed nut mooncake to a sweet Mini Caramel Pecan Mooncake.
For Hong Kong style toast lovers you have the Mini Peanut Butter & Raspberry Mooncake.
The peanut butter raspberry was my favourite because it had this American Peanut butter jelly resemblance to it.
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Salt beef bagels are a famous and an affordable treat at Brick Lane.
There are two right next to each other which I both go to. On this visit, I went to the Beigel shop for a salt beef bagel (Yellow one). The salt beef bagel was consistently good as before with meaty beef in the middle balanced by the mustard and a hint of butter.
The chunks of beef were tender and not over salty as you would expect with salt beef.
It was so soft and tender that it shredded nicely.
Compared to the other shop, the bagels are buttered so you get this tasty buttery mustard.
M&S have nailed the plant salt beef bagel because the texture and flavour was just like this so if you are on a plant based diet then definitely get the M&S one.
Beigel Shop was recently closed and has now reopened.
Revisited for a salt beef beigel of course but also tried the salt beef pie to see what it was like.
I was expecting minced/chopped salted beef inside but you actually get chunks like the ones in the bagel bagel.
Overall it was nice but lacked some mustard inside and it would be nice if the beef was diced to made so that the filling is even.
I discovered Eggoland because it popped up on my insta and it instantly reminded me of eggslut down the road but with more offerings.
Eggoland certainly appealed to me because the of the play of words and how their restaurant decor is eggscellently vibrant and colourful like lego.
If you look closely at the Eggoland logo, you will see that the bun is like layers of lego stacked together.
Although not invited I was so chuffed to win a meal at Eggoland because I truly believe in their eggtastic choices, I mean who doesn't love eggporn and oozy yolk.
Before my visit, I definitely did my research to make sure I knew what I wanted.
So basically they do buns with egg and there are six choices including choices for vegans.
There is basically a bun for everyone including Middle Eastern inspired buns to basics which are all Halal.
It is good to see more modern Halal options like this along with Pie Factory and Pie Republic.
This is the trend these days as all diets have been put in consideration to design the menu.
I narrowed my choices down to Fakey eggs and baccy, hills n valley, feeling decadent which were all good in their own ways.
Fakey eggs would be a good chance of trying Zero Eggs (developed from an Israeli company), the Feeling decadent has duck as well as duck egg and hills n valley has Glamorgan patties.
As most people have reviewed the Fakey eggs and as much as I wanted to try the fakey eggs, I decided to go for the feeling decadent as it hasn't been featured yet.
The feeling decadent is shredded duck confit, face down duck fried egg, caramelized onions, spring onions and mixed leaves
As with all their buns, everything was eggporn and eggtastic that you can effortlessly get an instaworthy picture as well as most importantly being.
I love the way, the bun is neatly sliced in half with the egg yolk dripping which saves you from that anticipation of when the yolk is going to burst.
The feeling decadent was definitely how I imagined it to be, the chunks of shredded duck were tender complimented by the sweet onions and fragrant spring onions and the fried duck egg was definitely more substantial in taste as well as texture compared to a chicken egg.
To summarize I really recommend this as well as the other buns so I will be definitely coming back to try the fakey eggs as well.
Also tried the hash brown bites which are ingeniously airfried hence it is healthier with less oil and they are super crispy as well shaped like cute little eggs!
Just want to say a big Thank you to Eggoland, Posh Cockney and boxer Sohail Ahmad for this treat giveaway on instagram and hope to see Eggoland popup everywhere as well as internationally which I am sure it will. Not relevant to food but Sohail has a super friend shibu called CASPER and it was such a good experience because I overcame my fear of dogs which was a good start.
