Famous rolls @ Jenny Bakery

There have been many reviews for Jenny’s Bakery, but I still haven’t distinguished whether they are real western cookies or Chinese version of cookies so it hasn’t been on my priority list to try.

I only tried them recently when my friend got some, apparently they are the Taiwanese pineapple cakes/rolls. However the ones at Jenny bakery have a more crunchy buttery shortcrust.
The normal Taiwanese pineapple rolls are rectangle shaped, exactly like the fig rolls (see picture).

The ones at Jenny Bakery appear like cookies, the filling wrapped in the crust.
It smells very buttery and rich, and the filling is generous too, although everyone saids its Pineapple, to me the colour and taste is more like Apricot.
The texture of the whole roll is chewy, and the crust crumbles and gets mixed in with the filling.

 

Fig rolls

Vegetarian cakes @ Loving hut

The last time I had a good vegetarian feast was at this western vegetarian restaurant at Causeway bay, a branch from London. The food is not the regular flavoured dough, or gluten pieces, but real food such as fried rices, real vegetables that I feel are healthier than the greasy fried items with the intention of filling the stomach.

This new place, the Loving hut, is a modern setting, bright and vibrant, a bit similar to Buddha Hut at Kowloon Bay, however the name and design is much better at the Loving Hut.
It’s style is rather different to the usual vegetarians places, it is set out like the ordinary Café de Coral where you look at the menu board, order, pay and collect at the counter.

Ordered the rice with vegetarian meat, and the vegetarian rice, both included drinks, so ordered a tea, and a hot wintermelon tea.
The wintermelon tea tasted very good, when it was warm, it wasn’t too sweet.
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The vegetarian meat came with a green sauce, the chef said it was Middle Eastern sauce, the taste is not the usual taste, but it was strong, and managed to baffle me as I couldn’t make out the taste.

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As for the rice with vegetarian meat sauce, I really enjoyed that too, I could see bits of black bean in it, so I was assuming the pieces of vegetables could be bittermelon, however when I tried it, it was the stems of pickled cabbage and snow cabbage.

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As for the rice, it wasn’t that strong in flavour, but good enough.
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After the meal, I decided to tried the blueberry cake to, the cream topping looks like egg white, but its more of a dry brittle curd like cream.
The different layers were interesting, the texture was not like cake at all, some layers were like hard jelly.
The chef said the cake was from Taiwan.

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We were also given other desserts to try, and the strawberry and kiwi jelly was very delectable, very light, and there were real bits of fruit in it, the colour was a light pretty pink too.

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Next dessert we were given, was the green cake, this was one of the desserts that was a real cake, also good too, not too sweet, the cake texture was firm and not too dry.

 

 

 

Carrot dumplings @ Star of Canton

Tried the fried prawn wrapped in beancurd skin, it was rather nice, the beancurd skin was light and crispy, fried with clean oil, so no complaint about it.

However the new carrot dumpling looked a bit different from the product shot, it didnt have the flakey skin, but had the dumpling skin, also the fillings inside was not clean and had some sand in it.
It was filled with julienne carrot and white carrot.

Duck leg in dried fruit peel broth @ 名軒美食

Came across their banner showing this duck leg in dark coloured broth, instantly reminding me of the Singaporean version of Pork bone tea, so decided to try it.

As I have never tried it before, I was expecting a strong herb taste like the pork bone dish.

Anyway it turns out, it just tastes like the rice with soup and pieces of wintermelon served in the normal restaurants.

I suppose the duck was nice and soft, and came off the bone very easily, but not the taste I was expecting.

I was also given a duck head with it too, I didn't know whether it was for eating or for fun!!

Also ordered the baked chicken with salt, it just tasted like normal chicken from the chinese roast shops.

Broccoli curry bun @ Panash bakery

I like this bakery as it not only it tastes good, but they have spent revenue and effort into packaging and the layout of the store.

I got the pork chop bun, and a broccoli curry bun.

Pork chop bun:not the usual pork chop sandwiched in between a bun with the lame salad cream, but sliced pork with sauce drizzled over the bun and sweetcorn scattered on it.
the pork was still crunchy and not too greasy.

Broccoli curry bun:Attractively decorated with three pieces of broccoli, and the curry secretly concealed in the bun. The broccoli was not as dry as it looked, slightly crunchy. The curry was not too spicy.

Cream and salmon pasta @ Bubble green

Nice pastas but the pasta is always too soft.

your average chinese-thai chicken @ 泰國人海南雞 Koon Thai Hai Nam Chicken

Ordered the two person set dinner for $96 including their signiature chicken, the set includes 3 satays, plate of chicken, water spinach, soup/dessert and rice.

The rice was quite a big portion, also equivalent to 1.5 bowls of rice, the chicken was tender, however the sauce that came with it didnt taste that authentic, more chili and sugar based.

The soup was the usual wintermelon soup.

The satay, we ordered chicken, but they gave us pork.

The water spinach was boiled for too long and seemed to have gone yellow.