Tortellini @ Okapi Cafe

Wanted to try this place for a long time, was attracted by the wooden black doors and grand logo.
I was expecting high quality food, from its design and menu range.

However I felt that top quality could probably be reached by ordering their most expensive items, because the set meals offered, could be offered by similar restaurants nearby and probably cheaper. I couldnt find anything distinguishing itself from other restaurants.

The soup was OK and light.

 

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The beef was rather tough and had lots of tendons in it, the vegetables that came with it were onion rings and broccoli, which i thought was not that balanced. Not even a potato to be seen.

 

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The tortellini tasted good, but this is really a ready made item, that is just baked and their sauce added on top.
 

 

Fish burger @ Triple O's

Came here to try their new fish burger, initially I did'nt want to try it, because on the picture the batter looks rather thick.

Initially thought it was slightly over priced for $42 for a single burger, however comparing it to the others at Triple O's, they all cost around $4x for just a burger alone.

The burger was presented as shown, with a lemon wedge on top.
I wasnt impressed unwrapping it, there was tartar sauce on the wrapping so I got tartar sauce all over my fingers.

The burger looked rather big and daunting, anyway, I squeezed the lemon onto the fish.
Then started eating it, tasted really nice, surrounded with tartar sauce, the batter was slightly overcooked, and the edges were rather too hard. Luckily not too greasy and sickening.

Chunky juicy firm Cod fish, and didnt taste like frozen stuff.

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.