麻薯波'd donut Pon de ring donut @ 芭琳莎 Princess Donut

Basically as stated by their shop, not a donut!

I got the plain charcoal one without the fancy rainbow coloured candies, and found its chewyness and texture to be like the 麻薯波 sold at A1 bakery, Panash, those cheese/chocolate/cranberry flavoured Pontikeges.

Anyway I quite enjoyed my plain one, not too sweet, but when i finished it, I did feel I had a greasy mouth. It was not so greasy at the beginning, only towards the end it felt greasy.

Just like Babedolphin mentioned, it did have a slightly runny centre, same as the 麻薯波's.

 

Fried cheese with Olives @ Ireland's potato

After my food bingeing trip at MK, this was my last stop, and to finish it off it wasn’t that nice.

I got the fried cheese with Olives, I love Olives, however there was a lot of Pesto mixed in it.

I thought it had been over fried, the breadcrumb was rock hard, and broke the plastic fork when using it to break the cheese ball in half.

Also if the shop had been more air conditioned, I would have liked it more, it was baking hot in there, and the fried cheese was piping hot too, had to wait ages for it to cool down.

Next time I will try the apple pie.

 

The rise and fall of Gindaco

Since my last visit, probably years ago, I found it less busy than it was, it used to be packed with long queues, and people crammed inside eating at the stand tables.

However there is plenty more choice for snacks in Mong Kok these days, especially Dundas street, the Taiwan food street of HK, at least 5 Taiwanese beverage shops have opened there.

Anyway back to the food, they have two more flavours than just the original one, the original with octopus filling topped with egg salad, and the prawn filled one with thousand island sauce.

I was deciding whether to order the Yuk Ji one or the Prawn one, I should of known Yuk Ji was egg! If I knew that was egg, I would have tried the Prawn one, probably would of had a different taste sensation.

The one I got just tasted like the original one, however with the egg salad, made it more rich and creamy.

 

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.