Huge oysters in the congee @ 新九記粥麵

In the midst of Wanchai, this location is quite interesting, right next to a pet shop selling chirpy birds. Eating congee and noodles, with birds chirping away! It feels like being near a park.

Anyway, the noodles here taste how it should be, it also contained miso soya beans as shown on the picture.

However the congee is worth mentioning.
The dried oyster congee I had was amazing, full of oyster and oyster taste!
For $28, they were a bit different from normal dried oysters, still greyish in colour, not the dark orange hard oysters. Yet when you bite into it, the soft body crumbles into sandy lumps, just like salted egg yolk.
Definately worth trying the dried oyster congee, since the oyster is not dried to a hard form state.

In the congee were bits of finely shredded ginger, so fine, that you can taste the texture but not the over powering taste, then there were little bits of fruit peel!

 

Hokkaido milking pudding @ 甜品大少 Mr. Sweetheart

A white dessert house that shines amongst the dull backstreets of Tinhau.

I came here especially to try the Hokkaido milking pudding, since one of my favourites in Causeway Bay is shut.
Anyway, there were a few displays of other desserts, the menu separated into Chinese style and Western style, so I picked the Hokkaido milk pudding and the chocolate cake with chocolate sauce.

Both were presented nicely, the milk pudding tasted slightly different from the ones I tried before, it was slightly thick and panna cotta like, as described by FoodieWil. However I would have preferred the normal thick creamy texture rather than the gelatine texture.

Jumping from the light pudding to the rich chocolate, it was totally strong in every way, perhaps a little bit strong and sweet.

 

Shanghai food @ 八喜 8 Happiness

Ordered Shanghai dumplings, Pan fried dumplings, and noodles.

Shanghai dumplings: steamed just right, and the skin was still intact after using the chopsticks to pick them up,

Pan fried dumplings: tasted good with the vinegar sauce, however the skin was slightly thick.

Noodles: Tasted ok, but the noodles were too soft.

 

 

Happy me @ Jollibee

A really good place for Philippino food, I was surprised, there were not many reviews during that burger madness period.

During this visit, I tried the Palabok, Savory Beef rice, Wonton noodles and the Pearl coolers.

Palabok:My favourite, glass noodles with thick shrimp sauce.
Although the flavour was not strong or salty enough, it was good with lemon juice.
The sauce was a bit thick.

Wontons:A bit bizzarre seeing wonton noodles in a Philipino hamburger shop, so ordered it,
very strong taste in garlic, with glass noodles.
Also the wontons were wrapped different to the chinese one, u can see the prawn.
The portion was very small.

Savory beef rice:Yummy minced beef in tomato sauce and rice. (forgot to take pic)

Pearl Coolers:Very strong in coconut taste, and very sweet!

 

 

original and green tea @ Yo Mama

Basically the same as Berrygood, except that they specialise in two flavours,
original and green tea. Topping wise, there is more choice on the candy side, ie coco puffs, rainbow cornflakes etc.

For the price, the portion is bigger here, or rather the cup is bigger.
Service wise, Berrygood has more heart to it.

Portugese chicken and rice @ The Dog House

Ranging from Western food to Asian foods such as Portugese chicken.

Anyway the usual soup/salad, drink is included with the set lunch, and it was a bonus to get fruit after the tea and meal.

Food wise, it was good, my friend chose Portugese chicken and rice, which turned out be best, I was biased into thinking it would not taste good, because of all the HK styled ones being strong in coconut and sweetness. But here it tastes really really good.
Also the pasta was good, I did find a piece of small clamshell, but eating food with shell fish, you should be careful anyway.

So here are the pictures of Asparagus salad and grilled chicken with black peppar sauce for this visit.
The staff are very friendly, and they even let me borrow their pretty skirt, as I spilt some stuff on mine!!