Utopia in Bentopia

Found out about this Bento place and checked out their website.
They serve Japanese and Taiwanese food in a cute Bento box.
The name Bentopia sounded really interesting and reminded me of Utopia.

The only problem getting there was crossing so many roads and there were no traffic lights about.
Next time I will just come by MTR as it is located opposite one of the exits, but still there is an annoying dual carriageway to cross.

Anyway, before I came I had already decided to get the Taiwanese style minced meat bento with salad and Taiwanese style trotters.
I could have chosen the baked oyster instead of the trotters, but I ordered the oyster separately so that in came in a separate little box.

For the salad, I chose the Japanese lime vinegar salad.
Although the salad portion was small, there were four choices, Japanese sesame dressing, Chinese vinegar, Lime vinegar and Pomelo dressing.

I was quite curious about the Chinese vinegar salad because in Chinese it was translated as something else.

Anyway, after ordering, I was given a loyalty card.

When it arrived, my bento lunch was really cute, it was in a clear plastic bag, with the bento box at the bottom, and the other side dishes on top.

Cute bag and boxes inside, just like the logo

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Taiwanese style minced meat:
The minced meat was a bit disappointing because I was expecting minced meat and not cubes of meat with fat on it.
However, I do not know what the Chinese meant, so there could be a translation error on the menu.
Although I did not like the meat, the sauce was nice and gelatinous.

Taiwanese style "minced" pork

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Lime vinegar Salad
This was my favourite, the lime dressing was really refreshing, and the salad had sweetcorn, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and lettuce.
FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE AS IT WAS TOO DELICIOUS
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Taiwanese style trotters
The trotters could have been softer, but they tasted better than I expected because they were not sweet.
I found these round balls which are supposed to be some kind of spices but I do not know what they are.

Taiwanese style trotters

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Baked Oyster
The baked oyster was quite nice, but there were pieces of broken oyster shell in it, so you have to be careful. The sauce on top was made of chopped egg white and mayonnaise sauce.

Back of the oyster

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Restaurant: Bentopia
Service: Ok
Yummy factor: OK
Sweetness levels: OK
MSG levels: None
website:http://www.bentopia.com.hk/
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The best and only musubi I have tried so far

I have never been keen on Musubis because I used to think they taste bland as it is mostly made of rice.

In Hawaii they have spam musubi.

I decided to try this place when I found out they had Pizza flavoured musubi and the soybean chicken meatball soup.
I really wanted to try the pizza musubi because I thought it would be fun having Risotto in musubi form.

After taking the effort walking to Brim, there was no Pizza flavour that day, so I got the Mentaiko musubi, Scallop musubi, XO sauce musubi, Yukuri (akajiso – purple perilla) musubi, wasabi octopus musubi and the soup.

I ate the XO Sauce musubi and the Wasabi musubi last because it had the strongest flavour.
I started on the Yukuri first because it was just plain rice with akajiso herbs.
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Yukuri (akajiso – purple perilla) musubi:
I was surprised the rice was flavoured and there was akajiso pieces evenly distributed within the rice.
This was the first time I could taste the purple perilla because the taste of the rice did not overpower the perilla.

Purple perilla musubi

 

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Mentaiko musubi:
Again it was plain rice with a piece of mentaiko in the middle.
The rice tasted nice with or without the mentaiko, and it was soft and moist.
When I got to the mentaiko, it was hard and dense, but it had a nice salty tone to enhance the rice.

 

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XO Sauce musubi:
The rice was evenly mixed with XO sauce, there were pieces of dried scallops and prawns.
The texture of the rice was also soft and moist.

XO sauce musubi

 

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Wasabi octopus musubi:
This was nice too, but it tasted the same as a giant gunkan/Temaki made with Wasabi and octopus.

Wasabi octopus musubi

 

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Scallop in vinegar musubi:
The label saids "trabeculae" which is an interesting translation, but I think they mean scallop.

 

There was generous pieces of small scallops in it, and the taste was similar to the XO Sauce musubi.

 

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Soybean, chicken meatball Soup:
I loved the soup and could not get enough of it.
On the menu it is called Collagen soup.
Although it claims to have collagen, I did not expect the soup to have collagen in it.
It was did not taste of soymilk even though it contained soymilk.
The taste of the soup was similar to chicken in cream sauce but in liquid form.
There was generous pieces of spinach and chicken meatballs.

 

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Brown sugar warabi:
I really liked this because it is different from mochi, because it is made from starch and less chewy.
However the brown sugar powder was slightly too sweet.

Brown sugar warabi

 

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Restaurant: 華御結 Hana musubi

Saint Honore Cake Shop's Chocolate Lamington

There were two flavours for the Lamingtons at Saint Honore's cake shop: Lemon or Chocolate.

I got the chocolate lamington which costs $4.

The usual Lamingtons are shaped like a cube.

 

However the shape of Saint Honore's one was not a cube, it was a rectangular cuboid, the only advantage your getting is that you are getting more.

The Lamington tasted quite nice, it was moist and soft.
The outside of the lamington was covered in dessicated coconut.
The outermost layers of the sponge was really moist because it was dipped in chocolate sauce to adhere the dessicated coconuts.