Chomp chomp yummy pickled Chinese radish @ 劉森記麵家

Shop: Lau Sum Kee

Apart from Wai Kee’s this is another famous place for noodles in Sham Shui Po, they are famous for noodles with dried shrimp roe sprinkled on top served with black ox tripe.

As well as the noodles they are famous for the pickled white radish too.

I am not fond of ox tripes so I ordered the noodles with beef tendons.

 

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Soup:

 

Tasted like MSG soup!
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Noodles with beef tendons sprinkled with prawn roe:

 

 

The noodles were lovely and soft and adhered lots of sauce and dried shrimp roes so it was delicious.
However there was lard in the mixture so I had to eat them fast because when they cooled down, you can smell the lard.
The soup that was included was useful for rinsing off the lard if you did not like it.
The beef tendons were soft and gelatinous and full of flavour.
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Pickles:

 

I really loved chomping these chunky Chinese white radishes because they were lightly pickled and there was still some raw radish taste in it.
They were really refreshing and balanced out the lard from the noodles.
Although they were pickled with chili’s the radish was not spicy.
The jars of pickled Chinese white radishes were passed round the tables because they did not seem to have enough jars for every table.
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In my opinion not many places in Hong Kong serves noodles with shrimp roe for this price hence this place stands out because it offers it and does not taste too bad.
The last decent noodle shop I tried with dried shrimp roe was 楊記麵家 Yeung's Noodle in Wan Chai, which was also cheap.

My review @ Yeung’s
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=1987629

Next time I will come back and try the noodles in soy sauce.

Affogato @ JHD American Gourmet & Bar

JHD's has been opened for quite a while in Sham Shui Po but there were always things to eat before I got to it.
Again I was full this time but decided to look at the menu for fun.

The Affogato which was a drink stood out on the product shot menu, so I got that.
I am not a coffee lover but it had ice-cream so I decided to get that.
At this joint you have to order and pay first at the counter and then find a seat and sit down.

 

 

Near the counter there were some green plants/trees which was relaxing and a change of scenery.

 

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Affogato:

 

 

Forgot to take a picture of the product shot but they had rainbow sprinkles which I do not like so I asked for it without.
When it arrived the hot coffee was in a separate glass and the other glass had the ice-cream and marshmallows.
The hot coffee was poured on the ice-cream infront of you.
The ice-cream melted quite quickly leaving some marshmallows floating on top.
Overall I quite liked it even though I do not drink coffee because of the sweetness of the icecream was balanced out by the extreme bitterness of the coffee.
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Noodles served in a dinky metal pot since 2000 @ 鍋燒麵 - 烏龍苑

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After checking the reviews I came here especially for the noodles served in a metal pot.

Not many places in Hong Kong serve these Taiwanese style noodles in a metal pot, although these noodles are a common thing in the Kaoshiang part of Taiwan.

I was more surprised to find out from the reviews that this place has been opened since 2000 but there are not many reviews despite it is within walking distance from Victoria park and Tin Hau MTR.

As a standard, these noodles come in the pot served in a broth and there are so many choices you can pick to go with the noodles.
The size of the metal pot was about 5 inches in diameter (12 cm).
I should have picked the second one because it has pork knuckles and chickens wings but the name did not really mention it so I picked the one with beef balls.

 

Anyway, the broth was not too salty which was good.
The noodles were interesting because they are different from the Hong Kong ones, they are the ones used in Taiwanese oyster noodles.

 

At first the noodles were quite hard, after a while they went soft and the noodles had some slippery surface on it which was hard to explain.

I would definately come back for these noodles but the noodles I had this time were rancid, the oily odour had been absorbed by the noodles so they did not taste that pleasant.

Appauling Mandarin Chicken Rice in Tin Hau

Previously I used to dine at the TST branch because the chicken there was good so when this branch opened I did not hesitate to go and try it when I saw the recent reviews.

The interior is basically the same and left how it was from the RED FRUIT TREE, one of the female staff that used to work at the RED FRUIT TREE was retained and now works under the Mandarin Chicken.

 

Anyway, the service was not that friendly and she grouped the people to sit in one area.

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Rice in chicken oil:
I tried the rice first before trying the chicken or vegetables and I couldnt believe how salty it was!
How could the rice be saltier than the main dishes?
But considering the stingy portion of chicken, it was thoughtful of them to make the rice overly salty because when the chicken and vegetables were finished there was still a decent half bowl of rice left so the rice could not be tasteless~~
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Chicken:

 

The portion of chicken was plain stingy, after removing the skin which was extremely fatty and thick there was not much left!!

 

The amount of chicken after removing the skin!

 

 

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Chicken at the TST branch1

 

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Vegetables:
This was blanched kale and there was nothing special about it.
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Soup:
The soup was chicken soup and tasted like soup made from boiling overnight chicken bones and meat.
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Ginger puree sauce:

Ginger water with solid chicken oil floating

 

The chicken is supposed to taste nicer when it is dipped with ginger puree, but in the ginger pot there was no ginger puree left, it was just ginger water remaining with bits of chicken oil that had solidified and floating on top!~!
I also stirred the pot of ginger sauce and it was mainly ginger water and there was so little puree in it!
See video.

The picture below shows the ginger sauce at the TST branch which is much more decent.

 

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Sweet purple rice dumplings and pearls @ 松記糖水

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Purple rice dumplings in sweet ginger soup:

 

Overall these were quite good, the skin was chewy and the custard filling inside was nice.
However the size of these dumplings seemed smaller than the previous visit.
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Pearls and grass jelly:

 

They put too much syrup so it was too sweet.
The pearls were al-dente and the grass jelly had the herbal taste it is expected to have.
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