Early snake soup to start winter @ Se Wong Yee

Decided to have any early snake broth for winter.
The weather was disappointing, it is meant to be winter now, but it felt like summer.
I had to wait for the air con to cool the soup.

This restaurant is an old type restaurant where people sit closely cramped together on stools and share tables.

The pricing was quite expensive for those eating conditions.

 

The snake broth was topped with fresh chrysanthemum petals, herbs and crackers.
There was strong dried fruit peel taste.
Overall I quite like it, but not as good in comparison to the Wan Chai because there was lots of brittle bones in it.

 

The rice with ducks blood sausage was as good as before. I was relieved that the soy sauce poured on the rice did not contain oil.
In general, I found the soup too salty.

Leaf wrapped glutinous rice dumpling with fat @ Macau Soya Bean

Walked past and saw their rice dumplings on display, it was sliced in half and the centre had a golden yellow salted yolk.
I got it because according to them the filling was ONLY yellow beans and egg yolk.
The staff was nice enough to remove the leaf wrapping for me.
I was quite impressed with it apart from the piece of squishy fat.

But unfortunately all these zongzis have a BIG PIECE OF FAT in it!

 

Western chinese cakes with chinese taste @ Kee Wah Bakery

Was attracted by their banner featuring chocolate cakes and coffee cakes.

 

It costs $10 for two so I bought both flavours and a pack of seaweed cookies.

chocolate

 

coffee

 

The cookies reminded me of Cadbury's chocolate buttons.

seaweed cookies

 

After trying the cakes, I only liked the coffee.
The chocolate one did not taste of chocolate and it was too sweet.
The seaweed cookies were very buttery with a faint taste of seaweed, however it was sweet, so it tasted weird because it was a combination of sweet seaweed and butter.

Reflection of moses chan who loves coffee

 

It is hard for me to give good reviews for Chinese food and bakery because it is simply not my cup of tea.

POLKA DOT rainbows in six flavours @ A-1 Bakery

 

Saw the colourful advert for these POLKA DOT cakes, my first thought was colourful donuts, however on a closer look they were donut shaped cakes with a hole in the middle.
I cannot quite correlate why they were advertised as Polka dots because the definition of polka dots is: a pattern consisting of an array of filled circles, generally equally sized and spaced relatively closely in relation to their diameters.

 

Nevertheless I was excited to try them because there were six fun flavours:
1)Earl grey and apple [refreshing earl grey with moist apple slices]
2)Swiss choco rum-raisin [rich chocolate flavour with rum-raisins]
3)Pistachio dark cherry [An aromatic pairing of pistachio and cherries]
4)Choco-chip very berry [Lightly sweetened with strawberry, raspberry and chocolate goodness]
5)Mango madness [An exotic flavour with mango puree and dried mangos]
6)Matcha azuki bean [flavored with Japanese dark matcha paste with sweet azuki beans]

I got all of them except for mango and matcha because I hate azuki beans and mango.

 

When I opened them, I was slightly disappointed because they were steamed cakes and not baked.
It ruined the taste slightly because the texture of these steamed cakes were too mushy and soggy. If they had been baked, they would have been more fragrant.

Although they could have tasted better, I was really pleased that A1 Bakery were adventurous with the flavours they came up with especially with the use of earl grey, rum raisins, and darks cherries for an Asian bakery.

 

Earl grey and apple:
The cake was very soggy and sticky and with the moist apple slices it was even more soggy.
The apple was pieces of sliced quarters, and in the cake were bits of earl grey.
The earl grey and apple flavour was too sweet.

Swiss choco rum-raisin:
This was quite nice especially with the rum-raisins.
Again it was too moist.

Choco-chip very berry:
Although the strawberry flavouring was a bit fake, the chocolate chips were slightly melted in the cake, which tasted nice together with the cake.
The cake itself was light pink.

Pistachio dark cherry:
This was my favorite out of the four. When I was picking them I assumed this was matcha because of the green colour.
There was generous dark cherry halves in the cake, and the pistachio flavouring was quite prominent in the cake.