Chinese food @ 彩雲軒 Choi Wan Hin Seafood Restaurant

Rarely go for chinese food, unless its a gathering, so not much to comment, ordered the usual roast pork, roast duck, etc.

The only thing I liked here was the egg white dish, a shanghai imitaiton of crab, very smooth and tasty, very good to have it with rice.

Also ordered the dungbor pork which was on promotion, it was a tiny portion served in a cute bowl. Frankly I dont know why the chinese eat that, plain fat to me. Infact a large piece of fat.

The cumin beef skewers were ok, but the beef had too much fat in it, I would have preferred lean beef on skewers.
The roast pork was ok, the skin was crunchy, and the meat was lean.

 

 

 

Sea cucumber and fish maw @ 金滬庭京川滬菜館 Shanghai Restaurant

Among all the Shanghai cuisines in Hong Kong, this one is quite recommendable to foreigners, firstly it has a English menu with pictures, and frequently there will be foreigners eating there, so quite well established in that community.

I eat here quite frequently, so I will not review the little dragon buns, or the noodles etc.

In addition to the regular items, I ordered sliced abalone in mustard sauce, which is just canned abalone. For $54 is it a bit pricey, it is a rubbery texture you get from the cans. Also it is not in mustard sauce, there is a separate dish of soy sauce with wasabi for dipping.
To me if it was mixed in a creamy mustard sauce, it would taste much better.

As well as that I ordered the Sea cucumber and fish maw with prawn roe.

This dish was very delectable, rich and thick brown sauce, very pungent of prawn roe covered the sea cucumber and fish maw. The sea cucumber could have been softer, and the fish maw was perfect. Both the sea cucumber and fish maw are quite plain itself, so it tasted good with the strong sauce.

After I finished the dish, there was still sauce left, and so put some of my noodles in it, and made my noodles tasted so good as well.
The waitress was a bit annoying, because she was just about to collect that dish, and I said to her, its not finished, but she still tried to take it, I had to say it to her three times to stop her collecting it, or else I wouldnt of been able to put those noodles in that sauce.

Taro snowflake ice with milk pudding @ 甜蜜子甜品店 Sweet C. C. Dessert

Firstly, i think I might be biased, because I like taro flavoured desserts, and not many places have it.

The standard of this one and China Town is quite good, both located in TST. But I preferred this one more, because apart from the usual toppings, you can also add mini puddings to it, such as mango pudding, milk pudding, green tea pudding, champagne peach Jelly etc.

As for the toppings range, there was alot of variety from small crystal pearls to large crystal pearls. They also had my favourite black sugar jelly bits.
Usually I dont like the big pearls found in the Taiwanese drinks, a bit irritating to have to chew and drink at the same time, but with the desserts, it make its fun, to have cold ice in your mouth and something to chew at too.

Overall, everything was presented nicely, and the portion was decent, at least I felt full for the first time after eating a dessert.
The milk pudding was nice and creamy, and the green tea pudding tastes the same as the one in China Town, except here its present in a pudding form, and in China Town, its cut up into squares.

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.