Sparkling clean cutlery @ 筷子記 Chopsticks

This was one of my priorities to try out, noodles in sauce.

Went here on a sunday afternoon to avoid the crowd, and ordered instant noodles with satay sauce, and two other snacks to go with it: fried tofu skin and fish rolls with abalone filling. Also ordered two more snacks to go with it, spicy egg and beancurd fish roll.

The spicy egg turned out to be fried egg with curry powder, and the crunchy beancurd skin with fish meat was crispy and tasty.
The noodle was my favourite too, with lots of satay sauce, but next time I think thin noodles would taste better, as the instant noodles have a slight sweet taste to it.

When I was served by drink, I was amazed at the plastic glass cup, it was so clean it looked like brand new, the sides of the glass was shiny, and it was so clean, that droplets could form on the side of the glass shown on the picture.

Even their chopsticks were clean, there was no stickyness on the chopsticks like the other cafes, they were so clean, I took the other chopsticks out to examine, and all of them were just as clean as each other and shiny too!

On leaving the restaurant, I obtained their take-away menu, and even the menu was printed on good quality laminated card, unlike the other single sided menus.

 

Basil leaves and frog meat @ 泰式燒王 Chai Rung Thai Food

As I know of, this is one of the shops that do fresh cockles, I mean REAL fresh,
while I was eating them, I thought I was seeing them twitch, then after eating half I confirmed they were partly alive when I poked them with chopsticks, it really twitched!!

Despite them being alive, it tasted so good with the chilli sauce, and full of cockle juice. (Not everyones cup of tea)

The other two dishes I ordered were also delicious, fried basil leaves and frog meat, and curried clams with roti.

The basil leaves and frog meat reminded me of Chiuchow dishes, where the leaves are fried to a transparent green. The basil leaves were nice and fragrant, and the frog meat had a crunchy outer layer with strong garlic soy sauce.

Finally the curried clams, when it came, the dish was filled with curry sauce, which looked like golden crab yolk, it wasnt very spicy and had a slight tinge of tomato in it.
It it slightly thick in consistency just like starch gravies with strings of egg in it.

The sauce was so good for dipping the freshly made roti, flakey and crispy, and there was so much sauce left over, we ordered an extra roti to finish the sauce.

The only thing I wanted that wasnt available was their native Thai dish (taion), its supposed to be an undeveloped chicken egg without the shell
(泰式雞仔蛋). I just like to try anything, but shame it wasnt available.

 

 

New hot chili chicken nuggets @ McDonalds

Saw the advert so had to give it a try, just to see how chilli hot and numbing they are.
From the advert, it has bits of chili in the nuggets, and on the actual nuggets the chicken patty inside is slightly pinkish.

With all Mcdonalds ads, I usually expect a visual difference between the actual product and the advertised product.

Anyway the chilli nugget tastes like grilled chicken burger that McDonalds also do, which is also has chilli powder in it too, but with a crunchy coating. The intensity of the chilli is acceptable.

 

Wrapped glutinous rice @ Saint Honore

Apart from bakery items, Saint Honore also produces hot items such as chinese buns, Wrapped glutinous rice etc.

When I walked it, the rice in abalone sauce wrapped in Lotus leaves had just been made and put in the steam baskets.
So I ordered one of these freshly made parcels, the parcel was neatly wrapped and tied with those organic twigs.

The rice was moist and lots of egg, dried scallops inside, anyway I think it tasted good, and I want to eat another one soon!

Strawberry fool @ Pret A Manger

Everytime I get food from here, I have my favourites, the strawberry fool, a thick and light yoghurt with chunks of strawberry and rhubarb in it. Then the sandwiches are also good, but this time I had a wrap.

I had the California crayfish wrap, filled wasabi mayonnaise, lemon juice, rocket lettices and crayfish, and in between the wrap, there was a piece of laver too, so it made it a bit like sushi.

Lastly I had chili con carne soup, not very spicy, but tasted how it should be.

Juicy grilled chicken @ Wing Sik

Ordered the signiture grilled chicken steak with rice.

The chicken was juicy and tender, freshly skilletted chicken thigh off its bone, and marinated with various of sauces, vegetables were also included to make it look healthy, but not significant enough to be a portion. The courgettes and cabbages were drenched in oil.

There were bits of picked white carrot with chilli that spiced it up, but I wish there was more, as there was more spring onions instead.

The food was great, but it took me ages to finish it off, I was battling with the weak chopsticks and floppy spoon, in the end I had to use another pair of those disposable chopsticks as knives and forks to tear up the chicken.
It is also much more peaceful to have a takeout with out those waitors sounding like loud speakers across your head!

Fish Pop @ KFC

Normally you would come to KFC for chicken, but today I came here for fish!

Little pieces of fish coated in crunchy flour, tasted just like chicken, but juicier.
Just like their other recipes, thirstiness is expected from the MSG in the coating.