Home-made Cuisine and homely portions @ 愛吃家常便飯

Wanted to try this place because of the product pictures, they had a set dinner but I did not want to try it because there were other items I wanted to try.
The lotus patties were slightly different from what I expected they were meat patty on top of a sliced lotus root, usually they are both chopped up and fried.

I wanted to find out more about the Portuguese patty 葡式窩餅釀肉鬆 because obviously I do not know what a 窩餅 is so I asked what it was, she asked me if I knew what a 窩餅 was.
If I knew what that was, then I would obviously guessed it was a 窩餅 stuffed with minced pork as stated on the menu.
But I didn’t know so she said it is similar to a 窩 baa whatever that is.

Anyway ordered:
Stir fried prawns infused with healthy green tea Japanese wasabi and Tender duck stew sauteed with preserved red bean curd, hoi sin sauce and broccoli floret topped with beer

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Tender duck stew sauteed with preserved red bean curd, hoi sin sauce and broccoli florets topped with beer

 

This was the best tasting dish because it had my favourite red bean curd flavouring and the beer that was poured in was dark black.
They chose this beer because it has a strong malt taste that comes out.
It sounded like "Bore DAh something" in Chinese so I am guessing they mean BODDINGTONS??
The broccoli was eaten last after it soaked up all the sauce and it was delicious.
The duck was also good but there were too many brittle bones.

南乳芥蘭啤酒炆鴨  $78
Tender duck stew sauteed with preserved red bean curd, hoi sin sauce and broccoli floret topped with beer
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綠茶青芥末炒蝦仁  $80
Stir fry prawns infused with healthy green tea Japanese wasabi
Stir fried prawns infused with healthy green tea Japanese wasabi

 

The English was slightly different to the Chinese description, the Chinese description mentioned mint leaves but the deep fried leaves tasted nothing like mint, anyway they tasted like deep fried spinach.

 

Later asked the staff and they said it was chuen jiu leaves which I have no idea what they were.
The wasabi taste was strong but I could not taste any green tea or see any green tea leaves, perhaps they used a green tea powder.
The sugar snap peas were fresh and destringed.
I felt that this dish was a modernised version of the Hangzhou prawns cooked with Loongjeng tealeaves.
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秘製士多啤梨醬炸魚塊  $70
Crispy deep fry fish served with special strawberry sauce
However after looking at the real dish from Open Rice, the strawberry sauce looked like pink salad cream.
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http://www.homecuisine.com.hk/dishes.php

Wine Jelly and milk cubes @ Tak Fat Restaurant

Apart from Sham Shui Po, they have another restaurant in Kennedy Town, however the star Chef seems to cook at this branch.

This restaurant was on my wish list but since I did not know the restaurant name I could not locate it, I came here for the desserts only, but after sitting down and checking out the menu I am tempted to come here later for the Chinese dishes.

 

 

When I opened the door I was greeted by the a smiling guy in a Chef's coat, after sitting down and seeing the newspapers I realised he was the head chef.

 

 

 

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Front shot of the smiling chef posted by an OpenRice member
http://static4.orstatic.com/UserPhoto/photo/2/2AT/00GCY11515B0AB6AD6047Dl.jpg
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Anyway ordered the Coconut milk cubes and the Red wine Jelly.

I wanted to order the beer jelly but it was sold out so tried the wine jelly.
As well as the beer jelly there were other items that I wanted to try such as the souffle so I guess I will have to leave it for my next visit.

 

Since it was the afternoon session, it came with a drink.
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Coconut milk cubes:

 

 

 

These were cubes of smooth milk pudding coated in dessicated coconut.
The taste was really milky and not too sweet with the occaisional touch of coconut.
I would have like a lighter mousse texture.
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Red wine jelly:

 

 

The red wine taste was extremely strong and the jelly texture was really light that it was almost not jelly form and it was more like gel.
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Lemon tea:
The tea they used was very bitter.
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