Poutine dans L’Hong Kong @ New York Fries

Finally more variety of chips in Hong Kong, I first encountered gravy and chips at the Cul De Sac joint or back home with the traditional gravy and chips or Curry sauce and chips.

Next came The Big Bite, rather crunchy chips. Then Ireland’s potato, a Taiwanese joint packaging itself to be Irish.

Now, the notorious New York Fries are in town, even looking at the pictures from OR users, it looked good, the cheese on the Poutine were not Mozarella, the substitute commonly used, but lumps of cheese curds. Although the fries look rather brown, not like the regular golden fries elsewhere, that how they are meant to be, not so crunchy on the outside, but soft and piping hot in the inside, as they are freshly cut, just like the ones in France. The famous Poutine originates from Canada, later being popular all over the world.

Anyway, the Poutine served at NYF is so good, the fries are slighty soft, and adhering to the gravy, and the cheese curds adds some punch to it.

Apart from Poutine, I also tried the plain fries with extra cheese sauce, a thick cheddar sauce, which is different to the quick hardening cheese at Irelands potato, then the remaining fries, I went crazy and sprinkled so much vinegar on it, just like the chips in UK. The condiments there were also good too, such as the Cajun, and California sweet BBQ powder.

We shall hopefully see more branches in HK, as it is a franchise, and a minimum of ten are supposed to open in Hong Kong and Macau within 5 years.
Despite the name, there are no branches in New York!!

2008 Roast Turkey @ Devil's Advocate

Third time having official roast this year, twice at Delaney’s, the first time wasn’t complete, as cranberry sauce was not given, despite being listed on the menu.
On the second visit, was given cranberry sauce, however no pictures were taken for this restaurant.

With Christmas rapidly approaching, I just had to order Roast Turkey when I had the chance, however it was a Saturday, and not many places were offering lunch on a non office day.

My first choice was Mes Ami, but it was closed, then I went to the Devil’s Advocate, and managed to order it, as it was a Saturday, I was lucky to be served Roast Turkey, and order it A la Carte.

The Roast here was good, the turkey here was a little dry, but at least it had roast parsnips, which I haven’t had in years, the caramelized baby carrots were absolutely gorgeous, chewy, and sweet, with a roasted skin. I usually don’t eat carrots, but the ones here are good. The potatoes were soft and well done, and the mash was good too.

2008 Chrstmas dinner @ Les Amis

The turkey was juicy and tender compared to the other two places I tried, the downside is that they don’t have my favourite stuffing or gravy, however there was foie gras. The cranberry sauce had whole cranberries in it which can be seen on the picture, but the sauce was slightly sweet.

Like any usual set lunch, it included starter and a drink; my chicken salad was more like Caesar salad with three shreds of chicken on it.
Then we were given a mince pie with cream to share, which tasted like the normal mince pie with raisins and sultanas.

Christmas edition chocolates @ agnés b. DÉLICES

Recieved a box of Agnes B chocolates for Christmas, each chocolate is fun to eat and look at, since it has a pretty drawing on it.
The tea flavoured ones remind me of Cha Ke Li.

I like the fruity flavours, and nutty ones, as the dark chocolate, or chocolate filling ones were a bit plain.

 

Duck tongues soaked in Chinese wine @ 味家作 Original Taste Workshop

Another soup chain has entered hong kong, with a convenient location in LKF, very convenient for people in central.

It offers a wide range of snacks to filling food, such as garlic conch, ducks tongue to mixed grain rice.

For me, I ordered soup, and felt peckish so also to tried the ducks tongue, never tried it before in my whole life!! It appeared a little different to the picture advertised, anyway it tastes good, and strong in wine, but you just have to imagine your eating something other than a tongue!! I was expecting it to be opaque Jelly like and soft like the picture.

I am looking forward to my next visit to try the garlic conches, rice and other little snacks. I would recommend this place to try delicacies as it is neat and most importantly clean.

 

LKYCS's last christmas @ 樂香園咖啡室

Heard it was shutting down soon from Chan Jan, so decided to pay a visit to this Chinese style cafe, a place I don't usually set foot in. The calendar at Lok Heung Yuen signifies the cafes age, it is one of those manual old date boards.

Before going, I checked its reviews, and saw that it was famous for Oyster cakes and tomato cakes. I was a bit puzzled because not many Chinese cafés offer them; all was answered when I got there, because it is a Chiu Chow styled café.

Apart from the fried cakes, I was recommend the chicken pie by Chan Jan. Before ordering it, I really did not know what to expect of a Chinese pie, never tried a Chinese pie before, ie would it look like an English pie? What would be inside it?

Anyway, I ordered the chicken pie, scrambled eggs with prawn and rice, stir fried black bean sauce clams and the oyster cake too. The tomato cake the one I most wanted to try was not available that day.

The chicken pie turned out looking like a normal pie, with a sweet crunchy short crust pastry, and chicken inside.
Then I had the scrambled eggs, the best I have eaten so far, just like Australian Milk co, the egg has a yolk like layer on top of it, just like a half cooked egg, and tasty spring onions mixed in it.

As for the evening snacks, they were ok; the oyster cake was a bit greasy, would have been perfect if I could have tried the tomato cake too, but that’s just life!

 

 

 

Scones and clotted cream @ Portabello

I was drawn to this cafe by its name "Portobello", a popular street market in Nottinghill London.
The restaurant name sign just brought me back to London, the name Portobello in white background within a black border. The typical London Street sign with a postcode in red, and the borough below the street name.

The interior of the café had a tall ceiling, with shelves of books at the side, totally taking you to another world. Even the W.C didn’t look like one to me from the outside, but it was good they had their own there.

I ordered a pricey scone set with tea, served with a tea strainer.

The scone set came with clotted cream and jam, heavily clotted cream with a touch of sweetness from the jam.
It rounded off with a lovely cuppa of fragrant tea, owing to the loose tealeaves as opposed to teabags.