Kingdom of German cakes galore

There were two cabinets, one had pre-cut samples which I was puzzled why she did not offer me any to try, after I had bought a piece of cake, she still did not offer me any samples.

In UK, they always offer you samples and let you try things, so I would have thought that as Germany is part of Europe that it would be similar too, and if it was managed by German people, they would probably instruct their staff how to offer people samples.

Anyway, I bought the Spanish Vanilla Slice with Raspberries and Cream first, after I ate that I decided to go back and order another cake, the next cake I chose was the chocolate and cherry cream slice and then she finally offered me a sample of the cakes!!!

Although she said that these cakes were imported from Germany, I was surprised it was not owned by the locals because the service was localised and not European.
If only they had arrived earlier, then it would be interesting to judge their customer service.

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Spanish Vanilla Slice with Raspberries and Cream
I was expecting real raspberries, but it was raspberry puree. When you look at it from the side, they looked like real raspberries, but it was puree in that shape.
The base was cake with chocolate, the chocolate had been cut and mixed in with the cake mixture before baking so when the cake it baked, there are dots of moist chocolate in the cake!

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Chocolate and cherry cream slice
I really loved this one, the cherries were tart and chewy.
The cream was frozen cream, so its texture was slightly dehydrated and firm, but I really liked it because this is the type of cream they have in UK, but you can’t expect the cream to be fresher because it has been frozen and imported.
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Future items to try:

Black Forest with Alcohol

Frankfurt Ring Cake

Chocolate and Cherry Sheet Cake

Plum Cake

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English menu: Yes

Service: They were not iniative at offering samples
Yummy factor: Very
Sweetness levels: Just right
Website: http://www.kingspastryasia.com/

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Cute BK Burger shots and mini ice-cream!

Saw the poster of the mini burgers at Burger King so decided to try them.

 

The design of the poster was really good, the makeup artist gave the model a futuristic cyber look with metallic patterned eyebrows, colourful eyeshadow, metallic nails and metallic edges on the ears.

There were two flavours: beef or pork sausage and there are two burgers per order.
One is paired with crispy onions and the other is paired with grilled onions.

 

The two mini burgers were wrapped together looking like a long bun wrapped up if you did not know what was inside.

 

The concept of these mini burgers were really good, but the burger patty itself was not a mini patty which would have made it cute.
The patty was the usual patty sliced in half, same with the cheese!!

 

The bun was just the local Hong Kong sweet buns and not imported, the burgers tasted like the food from the Chinese cafes.

 

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Beef/Pork with deep fried onions
For the fried onion version, the beef tasted better.
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Beef/Pork with grilled onions
For this one I prefered the pork sausage because the onions were thinly sliced.
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Mini icecream
I dont usually order their soft serve, but it was included in the set, and I was surprised it tasted quite nice, the vanilla taste was strong and not as milky as McDs.
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Wing's style grilled chicken

Ordered the signiture dish grilled chicken steak with lotus root, squid cake patty.
The chicken was juicy and tender, freshly skilletted chicken thigh off its bone, and marinated with various of sauces, the patty was also good too, juicy and not dry, vegetables were also included to balance out the meat, but not significant enough to be a portion.
I was expecting one patty, but there were two.

Anyway the rice was good too, with sauce and chopped spring onions, and bits of picked white carrot with chilli that spiced it up, distinguishing it from other restaurants.


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Restaurant: Wing's Catering 榮式燒雞扒
Address: G/F,8 Anton Street, Wan Chai
English menu: No
Service: OK
Yummy factor: OK
MSG levels: High
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MSG overdose from a curry

新景園咖喱小廚 Sun King Yuen Curry Restaurant

The curry is quite nice here but contains so much MSG that your mouth feels weird for the whole day.
Had it twice recently and found that the spicyness of the curry goes down at the end of the week.
Although MSG is bad for you, the MSG in this curry makes it quite addictive.
The pork cutlet was quite nice, but there were quite a few fatty pieces.


Previous visit:
Dined in before, so this time tried their take-outs.

In general, it is half the price, and the choices are either curry, tomato, or sweetcorn, with pork cutlet, fried chicken, or fried fish fillet.
Basically the chicken, pork, fish fillets are crunchy, so it will go well with any of the options.
The only item that is not available for take out is the fried noodles with beef.

The service is apalling for takeout, if you pre-order on the phone, they force you to collect at a specific time, to benefit themselves, so there is a collection batch at certain times.

Secondly dont expect any good phone manners, as soon as your order is through, they end the call imediately, so there is no chance of requesting a collection time to suit you or any additional extra requests that you may want.

Thirdly, on collection, you should becareful how much change they give you, for some bizaare reason, they were adamant, they gave me more change, in which I had to give it back, so I will not be back for a while.

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English menu: No
Service: Depends who you get served by!
Yummy factor: Good
MSG levels: Overdose guarenteed
Address: 20 Spring Garden Lane, Wan Chai
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Gulliver's journey experience in Hong Kong

I have always wanted to try this place because I liked the name of the shop which comes from Gulliver's travels.

However its location is quite far from the city and there is now another shop located at Mikiki.

Although with the convenience of modern travel today, I was lazy to travel here compared with Gulliver's adventurous travels to various cities in the novel.

Anyway, when I got here, I was greeted with the B and L logo composed of the illustrations of the ice-creams that they sell.
It shows giant icecreams (Brobdingnag) and dwarf icecreams (Lilliput) arranged like a compass which correlates to travelling and matches the Gulliver theme with waves beneath the name of the shop as if it were a ship.

From the reviews there is taro ice-cream, so I ordered that but it was not available that day so I had to order something else.
The available flavours are listed on the board on the right which is quite confusing because all the flavours are listed there.
It turns out that the available flavours have an icecream magnet stuck to it which I thought was part of the design.
Anyway quite alot of the flavours I wanted to try were not available such as taro and white chocolate, so I just got the tutti frutti.

I saw these colourful tiny cups which have coloured liquid inside that freeze in the freezer so that when you take them out you can pour alchohol shots in there to chill it.


The colour cups were tiny so I ordered it thinking there would not be much ice-cream, but the portion was quite big.
These cups can be taken home and it was thoughtful of them to give me a plastic bag to carry the dirty cup home.

As well as ice-cream they sell ice-cream for space (space foods), ice lollies and mini ice-cream flowers which come in a box with small pieces of ice-cream shaped flowers in it.



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English menu: Yes
Service: Quite good because they were patient explaining their icecreams
Yummy factor: OK
Website:www.bnl-ice-cream.com
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When the Princess meets Queens Road East

Previously walked past Princess in Central but never went in.

Now there is finally a Princess at Wan Chai and located on Queen's Road which I saw late last year but the cakes looked really heavy so I didn’t try them.

Recently when I walked past I saw the mini crown cake so I got it.

The cake was packed in a really nice box that looks like a handbag with a ribbon as the handle.

When I opened the box I found the ball from the top of the crown had fallen off which could not have been caused by carrying it back because the edges of the box could not touch the top centre of the cake but only the sides of the cake.

Anyway, I was slightly disappointed because the edges of the box got chocolate on it, and it is such a waste of a lovely box.
It would be great if they had a mini box to put the cake in and then into the lovely elegant box so that it keeps it clean and easier to carry.
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Dark Crown - Chocolate and earl grey tea
The chocolate on the outside is made of thick mousse and not solid chocolate as it looks.
Surprisingly the sweetness is just right and the earl grey filling can be seen inside the cake.
Although the earl grey was strong I would have preferred it to be stronger to match the name Dark crown.
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As well as their cakes I want to try their savory cakes such as Champagne caviar, Foie Gras, White Truffle and Savoury cookies which I hope taste 100% savoury and not savoury and sweet.
Another interesting product I want to try is the Pure egg white crisps!!
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English menu: Yes
Service: OK
Yummy factor: OK
Sweetness factor: Just right
Address: G/F, 119 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai
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A dissection and anatomy of a chinese cream cake

To be honest I am not a fan of Chinese cakes.

But this cake in particular is the typical cake for any occaision in Hong Kong and overseas where there is a China Town.

Basically it has two sponge layers which are sweet, soft and taste very eggy.
It has that typical yellow colour with a slight twinge of orange in it.
In between the sponge it is filled with cream mixed with tinned syrupy fruits such as pineapple, grapes and peaches.
The the top layer and the rest of the cake is plastered with this cream again, and the top decorated with slices of mangoes, blueberries, strawberries.

There is too much cream in proportion to the cake, and the cream tastes weird to be honest.

But for those who are locals or expats living overseas this is the cake for them.

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English menu: yes
Service: brilliant OK
Yummy factor: Not my cup of tea
Sweetness levels: Slighty too sweet
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