Australian icecream with a twist of Italian-US @ Gelare

First time I visited this ice-cream parlour, I was not imediately attracted, the flavours were the ordinary ones you can get for any other brand.

After visiting their site, www.gelare.com it turns out there are much more better flavours, but not in hong kong. If they had been available I would have tried without hesitation.

The flavours I want to try that are not available in Hong Kong are:
Geláre Super Premium Ice Cream Butter Pecan, Geláre Low Fat Frozen Yogurts Apple Pie Crunch and Geláre New Flavors Asian Ginger Fig Ice Cream.

So in the end I tried Honey malt crunch, and low fat hazelnut, the honey malt one was sweet with bits of malt in it, but not crunchy, the hazelnut was quite good too with plenty of hazelnuts to chew on, both not crunchy, but chewyness with a slight hardness.
The ice-cream texture was very soft that you can stretch it, a bit like mado's, but not as elastic.

White taro snowflake ice @ 糖仁街 China Town Dessert

Initially intended to visit another dessertery nearby, but due to limited time, I came here.

Anyway, ordering snowflake ice, has now become similar to ordering car noodles, choosing your ice flavour, toppings, fruits, sauces etc.

I ordered the Taro flavour as my snowflake ice flavour, and chose 4 toppings: caramel pudding bits, angel jelly (which is just grass jelly), green tea pudding, and rainbow pearls, and had black sugar syrup as sauce.

The taro snowflake was white in colour, rather than purple, so probably it was flavoured by taro oil essence rather than the powder used in the Taiwan milk teas.
It didn’t taste very strong of taro, but there were slight hints of it. As for the toppings, the green tea cubes had a texture of milk pudding, the rainbow pearls just had the normal chewy texture with a hint of citrus in it, yellow with lemon, green with lime and orange with orange. The rainbow pearls were not on the ordering form, you need to enquire for it.

The grass jelly, was a bit bland, but I preferred it that way with my dessert, or the strong taste would over power the sweetness. The caramel pudding bits, was slightly different, they were like hard gelatin, and quite sweet, cut to tiny rectangles, clear brown for the caramel, and the custard colored bits for the pudding.

 

Potato wedges in my curry noodles @ Cambo Cafeteria

After rennovation, the process of eating there has become more convenient, it is not self service, you can sit down, place your order and pay at your table.

i did not like it much before, you had to order, then find yourself a seat, and then go over to collect it, just like a food court.

This time ordered the curry noodles with large prawns, was presented well when it arrived, not spicy or hot at all, despite all that red oil on the top.
The soup was not that strong, and the noodles strands were so short, it was so difficult to pick up with chopsticks.

Also there were potato wedges in it too, which I didnt like, the combination is a bit weird.
The prawns were not that fresh, also had some smokey grease odour to it.

Food wise, you can say there is more choice or less choice, depending on what you like.
They have native bottled lime soda.
Anyway I miss the baguettes they had before with lots of liver pate in it.

Ramen salad @ Yoshinoya

The Yoshinoya salmon and roe rice bowl always tastes consistent, the only draw back is that it is not available as a take out item, which is understandable as the fish roe may go off.

I also tried their noodle salad side dish, which is ramen topped with fish roe, and shredded cucumber. I was expecting some sauce to pour in, it turns out the sauce is already mixed in, a light coloured thick sesame Japanese mayonnaise at the bottom.

Didn’t really taste that good to me, but if you like grounded sesame, it should be OK.

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.