Fried prawns @ 大飽小包 Ippai

Walked past and saw this new restaurant, so decided to try their food.

It looks like fried food from the outside, not quite clear what sort of food they are serving, so I just got two prawn tempuras, both had a sauce each, so I got a cheese sauce and a curry sauce.

Curry sauce: lacked curry taste, also a bit watery.

Cheese sauce: tasted more like salad cream.

I think, it would be fairer to give comments in a months time when their restaurant is fully functioning. Although for the prawns they could at least de-gut them.

 

 

 

 

Good quality dim sum @ 富東粵菜 Fu Tung Gongdong Restaurant

Came to this quiet setting for chinese dim-sum, although it looks expensive, it is not as expensive as it looks.

Beef Tendons:nice and soft, however the sauce was too sweet

Braised ducks feet and mushroom:A bit dissappointing, because the ducks feets were not soft enough.

Gold and Silver egg congeetastes slightly better than the usual thousand egg congee, because of the salted egg.

Fish Maw and dumpling in soupIt reeked of some weird taste, and the fish maw wasnt that soft.

Pork liver rice rollNever tried this before, but it tasted ok, the livers was slightly undercooked.

Prawn dumplingstasted the best, at least the dumpling skin didnt break or stick to the paper.

Dessert was complimentary, purple rice with sweetcorn, tasted ok, not too sweet.

Chewy elastic ice-cream @ Mado

My second returning visit to Mado, their ice-creams are the best, I ordered the Turkish bomb, lovely and chewy, not too sweet, plain ice-cream mixed with pistachios, apricots, and coconut. A creamy full bodied ice-cream just at the right sweetness. It takes a few seconds to get used to, the gooey texture, and the difficulties in trying to spoon it out. The Turkish bomb reminded me of the nougat, chewy but cold, full of ice-cream, and lots of texture, real coconut shreds, and the delicate apricot and pistachio.

The ice-cream owes it texture to the main ingredient “Mastic” a resin cultivated from Mastic trees in Greece. ( For the real greek ice-cream, however in this case Salep)

However they do not the taro milkshake they had before, which was nice.

Best rated place for Chinese roast @ 興燒臘飯店 Joy Hing Roasted Meat

For me, I eat mostly western food, so have not made an effort to try it, until recently I saw pictures of chicken feet and beancurd skin.

The beancurd was already a sign saying it will taste good, because Beancurd is tasteless on his own, hence the sauce to the chicken feet must be rich, or else no point to have it in the dish.

I ordered a takeout, because it’s a bit too hectic to eat there, so many people, and you must eat fast. Even for ordering I needed a proper Chinese person with a boisterous voice to order, so I guess this place is really catered for native mother tongues and people who know what they want or they’ll just end up holding the queue.
Even the chinese cutlery I have difficulty, especially those chinese spoons and tacky chopsticks, the spoons are so not ergonomic for me to use.

Anyway back to the gourmet chicken feet, I think take-out is much better, it has more sauce than dine in. It had enough to soak the rice, giving the rice a rich sauce with a slight sticky gelatinous texture from the chicken tendons.
The beancurds in it was also soft, full of flavour and braised long enough.
The chicken feet was not as soft as I wanted, not the usual chicken feet from the dimsum places, also its size is slightly smaller than the normal ones.

The roast pork was ok, i.e. you get what you ask for, lean or not so lean, and the choice was more impressive than the normal roast shop. They offer ducks liver, baby pork legs.
The ginger sping onion sauce was chopped finely and not too salty.

For that price and standard including a drink, no wonder its been there for more than 10 years and so many people queue up for it.

 

 

Italian rice balls @ Pizzetteria

Ordered the Italian rice ball with the appearance resembling a scotch egg, the order was packed in an aluminium box, a box I had'nt seen for ages.
I was instantly reminded of the indian/chinese takeaways in UK.
However in HK they use the CFC boxes, which also gives the food a slight CFC odour, especially with soup.

Anyway this is my first time trying the Italian rice balls, the rice was mixed with cheese and sundried tomato.

The cheese was strong, not mozzarrella as it did not melt in a stringy mess when it was heated. I would have preferred more cheese, as the whole thing was slightly dry.
The rice was slightly hard too.
Perhaps there was meant to be a sauce to go with it?

Apart from that, I really enjoyed it, and next time I shall try the fried dough with anchovies in it.

My voice isnt loud but i am not deaf @ Joda's cup

After battling and choking through the polluted streets of Fortress Hill, I finally made it to Joda's cup, located right on the main streets with plenty of buses and cars passing by.

The environment made it extremely difficult for me to order, I had to repeat myself about three times for my order to be heard, I even waited till there was only one or two customers to order.

Ok my voice may not be loud, but I am not deaf, the waitress repeated what I ordered very loudly to emphasize she couldnt hear me.

When they finally called my number, one of the staff realised she had put normal amount of sugar when I requested less sugar and no ice. So I had to wait another few minutes for the right one.

Anyway, I finally got my elegant Jasmine tea, with flower buds floating at the top.
It tasted very strong of Jasmine just like the expensive Jasmine teas.

It differentiates itself from other Taiwanese tea's in HK with the inclusion of flower buds, just like the one in Jordon that contains pieces of fresh fruit which I am going to try.