MISOCOOL reminds me of Wagamama

Well, thought there was only one Misocool in HK, but there is one in Staunton Street, despite finding out too late, I still went to the Quarry bay one.

Quite an array of restaurants there, Epoch, Habitu, Misocool, and even KFC on that road.

Got there early in the evening, was allocated to this communal type large table, the décor and settings reminds me of WAGAMAMA http://www.wagamama.com/
At Wagamama, there are huge long tables, where people sit in rows with people opposite each other, and they are also specialists in noodles as well.

Anyway back to Miscocool, I ordered the White carrot gyozas, Stir-fried ink noodles in soup, Spicy Konjac noodles in soup, and a Miu Miu Berry (Strawberry milkshake).

The gyozas, was the main attraction that drew me to Misocool, normal gyozas are wrapped like dumplings, however these gyozas are minced gyoza fillings in between a folded sliced white carrot.

Presented on a plate with a drop of Japanese mayonnaise and fish roe on top. The gyoza is crunchy and the white carrot on the outside has been pan-fried. When dipped in the soy dipping sauce, the taste of white carrot is more evident, as the crunchiness has been softened by the soy sauce.

With or without sauce, it tastes good, however I prefer without the sauce, so that it tastes crunchier.

As for the noodles, they tasted OK, the spicy konjac noodles tasted like bean thread noodles but thicker and chewier. The noodle shape was long and cylindrical a bit different to the illustrated pictures which was long and flat like tagliatelle.
The Konjac noodles, had a sugar centred egg (tong sum daan), my first time eating one as I always had the impression it was sweet, but it just tastes like a soft boiled egg with a slight runny firm centre .

The ink noodles was also good, the bowl was worth its price, full of vegetables, seafood, even found 2 clams, 4 prawns, squid, 2 scallops. The soup base was nice and milky, however the smell was slightly milky for me. The only draw back, was the noodles were hot in temperature all the way through, which took me ages to eat, and frankly food with high temperatures, you can’t really taste it.

Lastly the milkshake didn’t taste that nice, a bit fake, no ice-cream taste in it at all, or maybe the fake strawberry taste was just the strawberry ice-cream.

 

 

 

 

 

All you can eat Dim Sum buffet @ 小肥羊 Little fat sheep

Went to try their Dim Sum buffet, $55 per person plus 10% service charge and tea.

Their Dim Sum range includes all the basics you can eat in any restaurant, such as the Prawn Hargau, Various rice rolls, Beef balls, chicken feet, dessert, and their Mongolian dishes.

I was surprised most of their dishes were satisfactory, the Har Gau was wrapped more like the Mongolian dumplings/Italian tortellini. The dishes that let it down were the beef balls, and lamb dumplings. The beef balls were very red, either caused by soda powder or being uncooked. The lamb dumplings were the worst, it tasted so foul, I wanted to puke after taking one bite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Savory Olive cherry tomato mousse cake @ caffè HABITŪ

Was intending to try the Molten sea salt chocolate cake, but it was sold out, so opted for the tomato mousse cake with Olive oil.

A bit strange, the combination reminded me of Italian Panini, anyway tasted a bit weird but ok.
The bits of tomato tasted hard and sweet, like glazed cherry.

Also ordered Breakfast tea as well, but I can never understand why people never give milk with tea, unless you request for it.

Beef fried rice @ Pokka Cafe

Ordered the Supreme beef fried rice, garnished nicely with a piece of seaweed.

The rice was Japanese pearl rice, it also had shredded lettuce, lumps of beef.
Not too salty or oily.

The portion was sufficient for lunch.