Peanut flavoured snowflake ice @ Tong Bak Fu

Although this is the first one to open in hong kong serving snow flake ice, the long queues deterred me to come, finally another branch has just opened in Hong Kong, so I had to take this opportunity to try it before the congestion starts.

I feel fortunate I didn't go to the Mong Kok one and queue for it, because after trying 6 dessert houses including this one, I felt that other places offered more choices.

The only thing I liked was their mini white flour balls (tong yuen), cute in size and rather chewy, unlike the ones I had at Mr Sweetheart, which were rather soggy.
However the white pearls here were too soft, and less chewy.
I also tried the Aiyu jelly, it was light and melts in the mouth, not as firm as Fangfiona describe, but probably due to the ratio of ingredients when making of it.

I just felt their "pick your choice" forms could be printed better, the chinese characters are all blurred together. (see pic)

For menu design, Mr Sweetheart must be praised for, as the menu has clearly been given thought to it, also it has English as well.

In terms of portion size, quite reasonable, and texture was reasonable.
However the one in Yuen long called "min min bing" is just like ice-cream, and not worth travelling for it.

Lately, the two at TST, China Town and Sweet C. C are quite good too, also with plenty of choice, both serving taro flavour, the one at China Town is white, and the other one is purple.

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illegable chinese characters

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receipt that clearly confirms wat u ordered

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aiyu jelly pictured center of marshmallows

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yummy chewy little flour balls

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Curry pork cutlet @ Sun King Yuen

Never really noticed this shop, in the middle of Spring Garden Lane, walking on this street, there is no chance to pause or stop, all the people are like fast zombies getting from one end of the street to the other.

I only aroused interested in this restaurant when I saw pictures of crispy pork chops, curry sauce, and fried beef ho fun on OpenRice.

So I went there and ordered just that.

There was an empty table, so sat down, the waitress was a bit busy to take our orders.
Were given chopsticks and bowls, did'nt expect to have to clean them, cos there was some dirt on the bowl.
The curry pork chop came pretty quickly, curry sauce is in a separate dish.
The pork was a huge cutlet cut in strips that almost covered the whole plate, still crunchy and piping hot, however I felt the pork was a bit fat like the neck part, and it was pink inside probably from the soda flour used to soften it up.

The curry sauce tasted very good, if you request for the curry to be less hot, the sauce is thicker and lighter in colour.
The beef ho fun, was nice too, but not salty enough, after putting curry sauce, it tasted better. The beef in it was nice and soft, just like the ones in UK.

Also there is a huge difference in eat in/take out prices.

 

Chinese Laksa @ 壹麵館 Eat Garden

This restaurant is always packed with people, and it never crossed my mind to try this place.

However, there were not many customers that day, so I gave it a try.

I entered the restaurant as you would normally do, however I waited for ages and no-one came to take me to a table.
After a while, someone finally took me to a table, and then I tried to order, but it turns out you have to go to the counter and pay for it then sit down.

After discovering that, I went to the counter and ordered a Laksa including a drink for $28.

Then after a while I was served and had no expectations for this place.
I made the mistake of ordering ramen because the noodles looked like Shanghai noodles and instant noodles would probably taste better with the laksa soup.
The fried egg was so Chinese and the presentation could have been better without those chilli oil spots splattered all over the rim of the bowl.

Banana fritters and Laksa @ Ma Thai

As mentioned in my earlier review, I would revisit this place to try either the Laksa or the Buk Ku Teh.
So this time I tried the Laksa, just to compare with the other places I had before.

For a bowl of Laksa, it was priced at $60, which is the average Laksa price in Hong Kong for a seafood one. As shown on the picture, the seafood, were the frozen ones as expected with no taste, boiled and placed on top of the noodles when served.

The prawns were the peeled types, which were convenient, the only draw back, is that it doesn’t have that prawn taste.

Anyway tasted better than I expected, the soup was much stronger, it was thick and full bodied, creamy, but not too strong of coconut.
The noodles were the thick white ones like spaghetti, they were soft and flavoured from the soup.
The tofu was slightly harder and chewier than preferred, the soup was not spicy at all, so anyone who cannot eat spicy laksa, can try it here.

For dessert I had coconut banana fritters, the batter was just right, light and crispy, inside with pureed banana, and topped with lots of desiccated coconut. The sweetness was acceptable.
Quite a good dessert too.

 

Fried cheddar and Camembert cheese @ 嵐山料理

I love fried food, so was happy to see one that just specialises in fried take-out snacks.
Luckily I am not affected by sore-throats or any after effects and myths I hear about fried food from the Chinese ppl.

I ordered the fried cheese and prawn; both were covered in cutlet coating.
Next time I will try the fried oyster and banana fritters.
Personally I prefer tempura coating, but cutlet is ok too.

Each item comes with a few pieces of flat cut chips, which lightens out the snack a bit.
The prawn cutlet was ok, however I preferred the cheese. There were two types in the portion, Camembert and Chedder cheese.

Chedder tastes stronger, and Camembert is creamier and oozes out with a sharp taste from the white Camembert rind.