Cute Bite sized donuts @ Jimcus

Came across this place whilst on the mini-bus, the shop stood out amongst everything on that dull street. Later I looked up the name on OpenRice to discover it was a donut shop.
After reading other peoples comments, it became one of my MUST-GO places to try, because the comments on it were good, mainly because it was not so sweet and they were bite sized, so I had try it. Generally the pictures were fascinating, the donut flavours, appearance etc.

On arriving, there were quite a few customers there, so I took a look at the menu, there were two main types of donuts, the marshmallow ones, and the plain ones.

The marshmallow ones were donuts topped with grilled marshmallows, and the plain ones were just plain sugar ones, both types could be flavoured with your choice of flavour. The staff there told me that the flavoured ones were coated in the relevant flavours, so in my mind, the flavours would taste artificial rather than fresh fruit.

Anyway, I ordered the marshmallow ones, one of each flavour, same with the plain ones.

After trying them, the texture of the donut was denser dough than the American ones, but still soft enough to be a donut, like Tesco’s or Sainsbury’s.
Personally I like the plain ones, plain marshmallow, or the common flavours, such as chocolate, cinnamon because the rest of the fruity flavours taste artificial, more of a scent, which leaves you the strong artificial after taste in your mouth.

All the orders there are freshly done so expect to wait a bit for your order.

I would recommend two ways of eating the marshmallow ones, fresh and after a few hours.
When it’s fresh, the donut is nice warm and soft, and the marshmallow is like fluffy meringue cream topping, then if you try it after a few hours, you can get a different texture, the marshmallow is chewy, and the dough is slightly firmer, and you can taste the chewyness of the marshmallow and the wholesomeness of the donut.

Overall the size of the donut is really good, very small, and lots of flavour to choose from, even though the regular flavours are the best, and the marshmallow. For the fruity ones, I would prefer dried fruit sprinkled on it rather than the powdered flavours.

For the shop décor, it was very fancy, a display cabinet of the donuts, the little cubicles of boxes of different flavours. Although the shop was trying to portray London, I don’t know why, but it felt like metro France.

Packaging wise, the logo and everything was OK, but the big bag looked more like a clothes bag, and the bag is much bigger than the contents, if they designed a box, it would be much more elegant and practical.

 

Choc-Marshmellow Pie cute packaging @ KFC

Saw the advert for the new chocolate marshmellow pie, didnt really have any expections, but the packaging was nice.

The chocolate filling and marshmellow, was hot and gooey.
But the pastry had a strong taste in wheat, almost like McVities digestive biscuits.
After eating the pie, I thought the pastry had a more prominent taste than the filling.

I would have prefered a more chewy marshmellow.

 

Executive fine lunch @ Dap JP‧Wine‧Dine

I have been meaning to go to DAP for along time, just that it’s a bit of a trek from Wanchai station, through the sunny congested roads of Spring garden lane.

Anyway with the coupon from Openrice, and Openrice holding an event there, this place must be good, so this was the final momentum making me go!

After my first visit, I was given another discount, so I have been twice already for lunch.
The first visit, I didn’t take any pictures, but the setting and furniture was relaxed European French style. The modern tables were facing the large windows with long curtains and the sun shining through, over looking some tall buildings in front of the green hills.

On my first visit, I had 4 courses.
Amuse: Oyster
Entrée: Asparagus with Cod roe
Main: Salmon
Dessert: Cheesecake

The oyster was fresh, and I liked the effort the chef stuck the oyster shell on the plate with sticky dough, so that it doesn’t slide about. The oyster was detached from its shell drenched in its lovely sauce, so it was easy to eat.

Then came the Asparagus with salmon roe, tender asparagus with large salmon roe sprinkled on top.

After the Entrée was finished, I was served the Salmon, a reasonable chunk of pink juicy salmon, and I do mean juicy, it wasn’t dry at all, very soft and supple, almost like jelly!

As for dessert, the cheesecake was served with berry sauce, not too sweet, and smooth that it melts in the mouth.

On my second visit, I had 4 courses which I did take pictures:
Amuse: Kimamoto oyster with ponzu
Entrée: Antipasti (Parma ham and melon, sautéed black mussels, Tomato and mozzarella)
Soup: Chicken consommé with inaniwa and Spring onion
Pasta: Orecchiette with river prawn and lobster cream sauce.

The oyster was as good as the first week, but this time even better with the salmon roe.
Then came the Entrée, which was fun to each, I firstly at the Parma ham and melon, soft ham with sweet melon, then I ate the tomato and mozzarella, creamy cheese with tomato, and finally the mussel, I was surprised they were fresh and soft, not the frozen ones.

As for the soup, I just had to check it out, because it had noodles in it, after having the soup, I had the pasta shells with prawn and lobster sauce, there were many prawns in it, and the sauce was quite rich.

Overall, I like Dap, because what is stated on the menu is what you get, and I credit the menu, because the chef/management have actually researched into it with all these fancy Japanese and French vocabs!

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Eating on a BOG! @ 便所主題餐廳 Modern Toilet

Didn’t have a clue on what to eat in MK, so decided to try the Modern toilet,
Personally I wasn’t expecting it to be fantastic, rather just something to fill me up that evening.

Didn’t have to queue, the restaurant next door was stealing its show.

Basically furbished by toilet seatings, and basins as the dinner table, and the food was served on mini toilets and basins. The dishes offered were Taiwanese style,
I ordered the Mexican chicken lasagne and baked Indonesian curry with rice.

The lasagne was not Mexican at all, no kidney beans, or anything along those lines, just mushroom, chicken and baby sweetcorn, as for the curry, just tasted like ordinary curry from the Chinese styled cafes.

Finally for the drink, had Ice-cream jasmine tea, hmm quite a weird drink, I was expecting milky jasmine shake with a scoop of ice-cream, but infact it was pure jasmine tea, just jasmine flavoured water with ice-cream.

 

Mochified snowy mooncake~! @ Mochi Cream

After reading the review by FoodieWil, I just had to try for myself.
Totally agree with FoodieWil’s comment that it is a Japanese version of ChineseGoGo.

ChineseGoGo is a high-end version of the glutinous sweets with various fillings, and now top class Mochi has appeared.

There are 19 flavours: Apple pie, Chocolate banana, White chocolate, Mango, Peach Yoghurt, Bluebery Yoghurt, Sweet Potato, Darjeeling tea, honey cranberry, Café Au lait, Rum n Raisin, Chocolate, Green Tea, Black Sesame, Green Soybean, Red Sweet Potato and Sakura.

I am not really into Adzuki beans, or the conventional Japanese flavours such as green tea, sweet potatoes etc, so I chose six flavours APPLE PIE, PEACH YOGHURT, DARJEELING TEA, HONEY CRANBERRY, CARAMEL PUDDING, and RUM RAISIN.

I tried the APPLE PIE first, the texture was interesting, just like eating eggshells, like the sugar shells on the mini easter eggs, then oozing with apple sauce with bits of apple in it, and exploding with fluffy light whipped cream.

Then I tried the honey cranberry, also oozing with sweet cranberry liquid, this one contained bean paste, same with the Darjeeling Tea, packed with strong Tea flavour.
The Rum raisin one also surprised me with a strong Rum infusion with the cream.
I didn’t like the Peach Yoghurt one, because the Peach was a bit perfume like, not natural giving an aftertaste, I would assume the same for the blueberry one too.

However the Caramel Pudding was the best along with the Apple pie, it was thick smooth custard filling inside, with a strong bitter caramel syrup in the centre. The brown syrup tasting and looking EXACTLY like the real caramel puddings.

Anyway if your not a fan of Adzuki beans, then Apple pie or Caramel pudding would be the choice, its sweetness is different to the sweetness of the bean paste. Although both are as sweet as each other.
To me the ones with bean paste inside remind me of the Snowy moon cakes during moon cake festival, both full of bean paste. Maybe one day, they will have cheesecake flavours!

 

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!!