Sunday, April 01, 2012

North point's hidden dragon @ 四海遊龍鍋貼水餃專門店

This restaurant has been listed in my target list to try, however I have walked past it so many times I have never noticed it.

Firstly its menu is very confusing and from the outside it is hard to see what food they do.

Then recently I faintly noticed it, because they had a poster of snowflake ice, however it still did not draw my attention to look into it further, as the dessert was just an extension to their sets, and the picture still didn’t show me what food they did, so a bit risky to go in and have food because of their dessert. Usually I would do, if the dessert looks very good, but there are many snowflake ice specialists around.

Finally today, as the restaurant I wanted to have dinner was closed, and the weather was hot and sticky, and I was too lazy to walk, I decided to try this place.

The surroundings in the restaurant was very noisy, we sat close to the entrance, so it wasnt much cooler than the outside, also we could smell cigarettes and traffic fumes, perhaps a door would have been helpful???????

When I looked at the menu, I finally realised it was one of the restaurants I wanted to try, so it wasn’t that bad afterall. I wanted to try this place because I have tried 八方雲集鍋貼水餃專門店 at prince edward, and this is just another version of it, however the choice of dumplings are fewer but the ordering list is just as confusing as that one. So I give them credit for copying the ordering sheet with exact complicatedness like that one!

Anyway ordered noodles with soup dumplings, and the Jade pan fried dumplings with noodles (instant noodles from their picture).

The instant noodles was the first to arrive, indeed they were the instant noodles, but flatter in shape and springy in texture, next to arrive was the soup dumplings, good quality meat inside the dumpling, and then the pan fried dumplings came, very crispy, and folded into long retangular dumplings just like 八方雲集 instead of normal cresent shaped ones.

To compliment the dumplings there were four essential sauces on the table, ground garlic puree, chili sauce ( I really liked this concoction, it had whole black beans in it), vinegar and soy sauce.

Chilled egg tarts @ 蛋撻王 King Bakery

King Bakery have introduced their selection of cold tarts claiming to be Hong Kong’s first, I agree they are the first for other flavours, but for the original egg tart there is already one in Yau ma tei that does it

http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=13843

There are various of flavours: Set A: (2 flavours) chocolate, ribena, Set B: (2 flavours) black sugar, Hokkaido milk, Assortment A (3 flavours): mango, tofu, black sesame, Assortment B (3 flavours): original, mango and grapefruit (yeung ji gum lo), coconut.

The tart itself, is basically like a wheat biscuit, similar to digestive biscuit, also it is rather sweet and more prominent than the tart fillings.

I chose the black sugar and Hokkaido milk selection; the rest seemed rather common, the Hokkaido milk was very creamy, and since the tart base was very sweet, I couldn’t taste the milk filling. As for the black sugar one, I liked it because the dark brown filling was see-through like jelly. It would have tasted great if the base wasn’t that sweet.

I wanted to try the chocolate and ribena one too, the chocolate one would probably tasted ok, but I wasn’t sure of the Ribena, depends on the ratio of ribena concentration, and if they had used real ribena or a substitute.

Mushroom Swiss cheese and the bacon burger

Golden prawns @ 金源小館 Your Restaurant

Last time I came, I had the Shandong chicken with Vinegar spare ribs, this time ordered the fried soy sauce prawns.

During the last visit, the table next to us ordered that dish, it smelt so nice sitting next to them, and also the people were saying out delicious it was.

Same with the vinegar spare ribs, you could smell it before it was brought out.

All their dishes are simple, yet delicious, and this is what I call real Chinese food, not the weirdo fusion from the cha chan teng's which is just any stuff cooked together and served as a dish, but dosnt taste nice at all.

The prawns, were fried and there were crispy bits of spring onion and garlic around it on a bed of finely chopped cabbage.
Even the cabbage tasted good, drenched from the saltiness of the prawns and soy sauce.
I really appreciated the fact that everything is edible excluding the plate and bones!!!

Anyway the prawn shell tasted really nice, especially the head, it tasted like burnt soy sauce, but not to the extent it was bitter.
I reckon the prawns were probably soaked in light soy sauce, then deep fried and tossed in garlic and spring onions.

Passionfruit snow flake ice @ 四哥台式雪花冰專門店

When I hear the name four brother, I immediately associate the chinese actor Tse Yin, anyway it probably has a different meaning to them.

I thought I might as well try this place even though I have tried most the places for snowflake ice.

The décor is quite colourful, colourful take out bags, straws and calpis bottles.

As the place was quite vibrant, I decided to order the passionfruit flavoured snowflake ice, with Aiyu jelly and caramel sauce. The Aiya jelly was much firmer than the ones at Sweet pak fu.
The passionfruit base did not have any artificial taste to it either.

They have also put up pictures of Marsha Yuen at the place too, the last time I saw her, she had dessert at berrygood in central.
cute display with their name
cute display with their name
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colourful straws
colourful straws
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colourful takeaway bags
colourful takeaway bags
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green calpis?
green calpis?

Buffy the bakery @ 波菲 Buffy's Bakery

The name of this bakery reminds me of buffy the vampire slayer, however the bakery there is fabulous.
I really like their simple packaging, they have used self adhesive plastic bags.

I have brought good buns from here before, but the shop looks different to the one in Tsuen Wan. Anyway today I got the pistachio souffle cake and the seaweed crunchies.
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Souffle cake:It was so dreamily delicious, I need to get more next time, I was expecting some sweet old cake, but it was soft like chiffon, and the pistachio paste in the middle was smooth as truffle.
The pistachio paste was very nutty with a slight bitterness.

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Seaweed crunchies:Not as good as it should be, like all Asian bakeries, all the savouries items will taste sweet.
However its textures and shape is exactly the same as the british JACOB’s Twiglets, a wheat based crunchy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiglets

Bacon and egg taiyaki @ The Taiyaki Crispy Hot Sandwich

The bacon and egg taiyaki was just simply an egg and a slice of bacon sandwiched in between the crusts.

It was interesting that the egg was well done inside and didnt have a runny centre.

The bacon was ok, I would have preferred sausage.

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