Wednesday, September 12, 2012

100% Liver broth satisfaction that is PIPING HOT!

After eating at Hop Yick I was not that hungry so I wasn’t so bothered about queuing a long time for this restaurant to try their famous instant noodles with pig’s liver.
Finally got a seat so ordered the instant noodles with liver and before I even took my camera out the noodles had already arrived!

Even though it didn’t take a few minutes, there was so much hot steam coming from the noodles you could see how hot it was, but not yet hot enough to reach its fourth form Plasma!
Since the broth temperature was way above the boiling temperature it was a challenge to eat the noodles quickly before they went soft so I had to leave the livers last.

It was amazing to see all this hot air/steam coming off the noodles when you picked them up, I had to hold the noodles higher up in the air so that it had more surface area to cool.

I tried the soup and it was pure liver broth with some salt, it tasted exactly like the broth’s that Chinese families make to increase their diet with iron.

The spoon that was given was quite good too, it was rounded and could hold more contents.
The taste of the liver was great, they were thinly sliced and not bitter at all, there was a slight creaminess when you ate them.

After I finished noodles, the remaining broth still had piping hot air coming off it which was hard to photograph.
I have to come here again in the winter when it is not so hot and while I was there I found out that you can request to have the noodles hard which should give me more time to eat them before the rest goes soft.

They had toilets at this joint which was surprising.
On my way out I could understand why the temperature of the noodles and broth were almost going to reach Plasma State.
The fire was turned on to its max, the flames were almost taller than the saucepan and the saucepan was heated so much that contents inside were frothing and overflowing as if they applied nucleate boiling and superheating cooking these noodles.
For normal cooking no one would have the gas on that high, as there would be pretty much clean up afterwards on the stove and the evaporated liquid on the sides of the saucepan.

麥菲茶餐廳 Mathy dishes in 2012 versus 2011

The dishes here in general taste good and the Chef has been very creative, however the Chef seems to have changed lately because the dishes have not been so creative.
Some dishes have been repeated on the menu such as the pickled vegetables with pork belly hakga style but not as good as it was a year ago.
Hope the food will taste like it did a year ago because there is a serious competitor nearby.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Pickled vegetables with pork belly hakga style:
2011
2011
 
The 2011 version was much better, the sauce was like gravy and the pickled vegetables were more prominent.
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The 2012 version is very watery and it only had one type of pickled vegetables, in 2011 there were two different types.
Althought this is Hakga Style, I have tried the real thing at a Hakga village and it contains wood fungas as well.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Crab with glass noodles - 2011
They offer a lot of crab dishes, the crab is fresh and meat comes off easily.
When the crabs are small, they will give you three.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Steamed crab legs in egg white and Huo Diao Wine

After trying the hot pot, found out there were some other dishes to try so went back for the Steamed crab legs in egg white and Huo Diao Wine.
I have always wanted to try this dish but not many places have it.
The difference here is the crab, you are given crab legs instead of a whole crab and they do not have chicken oil on the egg white and it does not have 陳村粉 as served at The Chairman in Central.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Steamed crab legs in egg white and Huo Diao Wine:
When it came the dish was piping hot, I tried the egg white first and I could not taste any Huo Diao Wine, however after letting the dish cool down for a while it tasted much nice and you can taste the wine.
The texture of the steamed egg was smooth.
The crab legs were managable and with the aid of scissors the crab meat came off easily.
The crab meat was fresh and the unami taste was present.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Bamboo Piths:
Had the hot pot a well and this time they were promoting bamboo piths which were impressively clean without sand.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Thursday, September 06, 2012

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
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
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
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