Noodles @ 味皇魚蛋粉 May Wong Fish Ball Noodle

May Wong has a higher standard than most of the HK style cafes.

The quality can almost match that of Tsui Wah, except the variety is not as diverse as Tsui Wah.
Tsui Wah has more sophisticated dishes such as Ox Tail in red wine sauce, noodles made of tofu.

Although the dishes here are much simpler, they have very good combinations such as the thick noodles with soft pork bone and fried fish patty. Their drinks also make them unique, such as the green tea with Jelly, adds some fun to it, rather than the boring standard drinks, such as Tea, Coffee, Lemon tea etc.

The noodle set I ordered came with Organic beanshoots, making it a balanced meal of meat, carbohydrates and vegetables. The portion of beanshoots was quite decent too, a bowl of beanshoots in soup with strong sesame oil seasoning.

 

 

Japanese kanten 寒天 Dessert @ Hui Lau Shan

After trying black sugar kanten in various desserts, I fell in love with the chewy dark brown jelly.

Kanten is the Japanese word for 寒天 meaning cold weather (according to Wikipedia).

I ordered the White snow with Kanten, which is just basically dessert tofu, mango pieces and mango sauce and Kanten.
I have a hatred for Asian mangoes, or to be more specific, amber coloured ones (phillipine ones). I only eat Puerto Rico mangoes, the one with a greenish/reddish skin.

Anyway, the dessert was presented nicely, I spooned some tofu with the jelly, and just a tiny bit of mango sauce, it tasted really good as expected. The bean taste in the tofu took away that nasty mango taste. The jelly was nice and chewy.

After a while, my mouth got a bit numb and couldnt really taste anything.

I rarely go to HLS, only when they have some hard to resist desserts/snacks, the last time I came was for the pancakes and curry sauce. It is not the sort of place I would go as I dont eat the traditional chinese desserts, and mangoes put me off from coming, so does watermelons, and the usual Hongkie stuff. So I wonder, what is the next dessert/snack that will make me visit again.

 

Taro tea with Black sugar kanten @ 麻吉 Match

Out of the blue, saw people queuing, so noticed a shop here selling Taiwanese drinks.
As it is the only shop on that side of the road selling drinks at a reasonable price, I think it should do quite well, from people waiting to get the buses to people from the Southern playground.

The overall shop decor was impressive, clean and slick. The drinks list was clear and easy to read, the best thing was, it had English. The choice is quite wide, and you can choose the sweetness of the drink too.

There was quite a range of things you can add in your drinks too such as Aiyu jelly, pearls, Aloe Vera, Grass Jelly, Brown sugar jelly, Tri colored konjac jelly, Coffee jellys and capsules filled with liquid chocolate, coffee, or fruit.

Anyway ordered the Taro tea and added sugar jelly to it.
Tasted Ok, the milk was made from milk powder, and the brown sugar jelly tasted as it should.

 

lunchtime cravings for $69 @ Joe Bananas

Havent been to JB's for ages since their kitchen stopped, but recently read mandalay's review and saw they had buffets during lunch.

A wide choice of meats, salads, that were changed rapidly as soon as they were depleted. The tandoori chicken I had with yoghurt sauce was good, but that disappeared fast.

The mussels, which I had no expectations, tasted very juicy without that frozen bland taste. But of course they are the frozen ones. The fried rice was just as spicy as mandalay described.

I enjoyed the coleslaw as much as everything else, proper coleslaw, not the syrupy ones at KFC.

Apart from western food, they also had chinese food such as fish suimai's, mini wrapped glutinous rice with chicken.

The range of drinks was good as well, which were included and soft drinks that were refillable, I had the lime soda. There were also hot drinks such as coffee/ british tea at the drinks table.

Best of all was the piping hot bread and butter pudding. However I thought it had been slightly hongkongnised cos I could taste faint coconut in it. Although there was lumpy custard to accompany it, I was happy to see it.

 

 

 

Egg tarts and sliced cake @ Hoixe

Felt a bit peckish, so I got an egg tart and a cake slice for tea.

I let the egg tart cool down for a bit, so there was less eggy taste in it, the egg tarts here are sometimes ok, and sometimes not.

Today was ok, the pastry was thin, and the filling was ok.
As with all egg tarts in HK, the pastry was very oily, a patch of my A4 sheet went see-through after i placed the egg-tart on it!!!

The cake slice was nice and moist.
Not sure how many days they are pre-made and then packaged, but it seems it has shelf life of a week before the Best before date.