Macau's 金隆 Restaurant in Hong Kong

Came here especially for the dessert and the chicken looked good so decided to try that too.
Although the food served here is not Macanese, this restaurant is from Macau where they have more than one branch.

 

The menu was interesting and there was a pictoral Chinese character.

 

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Fragrant chicken:

 

According to the product shot, the chicken is pale, but when it is served, it looks more like chicken in soya sauce.

 

The chicken was really tender and soft, the sauce that it was in was really nice, however after eating one piece, the chicken beneath it was chicken wings!

 

I was a bit annoyed that I got two chicken wings because there is no meat at all, just bone and skin!
Luckily, there was ginger sauce and spicy pickles to finish off my rice!

 

 

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Jelly:

 

The jelly is made from papaya seeds according to the menu and it is served with rose syrup.
Luckily the syrup was slightly sweet and the rose flavouring was faint.
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Maxim's 45th anniversary celebration - BB cakes

A while ago, Maxim's launched their Happy Rainbow cake as a kick off to their 45th anniversary.

In addition to that, they have now launched the Baby cakes which represent the cakes sold at those different decades.

There are four cakes:
1960s - German black forest cake
1970s - Chestnut and cream cake
1980s - Fruit and cream cake
2000s - Crispy mango cake

The cakes look really cute on display and are about 4 inches in diameter.
Visually all of them looked really good and scaled to the right proportion especially the chestnut cake and the fruit cake.

They can be bought in twos or the complete set.

There were only two that I thought were going to taste nice so I just got the Black forest and the fruit and cream cake.

It would also be interesting to try these cakes as they were not around in my time nor was I brought up with Maxim's.

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Rainbow cake:

More photos and the full review please read:
http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2276752
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German black forest cake:

This was surprisingly nice because the cream was light and not too sweet, and between the layers there was jelly and cherries.
The jelly had a nostalgic taste which was quite artificial and it was nice with the cream and chocolate shavings.
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Fruit and cream cake:
The fruit cake tasted really nice and I forgot to take a picture.
I really liked it because there were less fruit in the layers which I do not like and the cream tasted normal for once (ie not salted).
The roasted almond slices tasted really nice with the cake and cream and gave it so much more depth.
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To be honest, I have never liked Maxim's cakes because it is Hong Kong style, but their vintage cakes actually taste like Western cakes.
I have not tried the chestnut cake so at the moment I do not know whether I like it or hate it.
The Happy Rainbow also tasted Ok but it is a copycat of Mrs B's and apart from the colouring, the Maxim's version just tastes like an ordinary cake.

Cupcake in a real ceramic cup @ Passion by Gerard Dubois

Came here a while ago with friends and they tried the cupcakes.

 

Usually they are served in paper cake cases but these are served in ceramic cups so you need to eat them with a spoon.
I was curious if they gave you the cup for takeaways so I got and takeaway, and they do give you the cup too!
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Pandan on chocolate cupcake:

 

With quite alot of these artisan cupcakes, I have had alot of disappointment because they look better than the taste, however the cupcakes here look good as taste good.
I chose the Pancake cupcake because I like Pandan.
It was pandan buttercream on top of chocolate cake.
Intially I was a bit skeptical with the combination because I thought the chocolate taste would be too strong to be paired with pandan but I was wrong!
The chocolate cake at the bottom is richer and denser than the usual cupcake style cakes and the colour of it was BLACK!! and to illustrate the BLACKNESS I used flash.

 

 

I was astonished by the taste of the chocolate cake base because it was not sweet yet it still had a rich cocoa taste which was good because the buttercream was sweet so it was perfect having the pandan buttercream and cake together. I usually scrape away the decorative cream because it is too sweet, but here the sweetness was just right.
The decorative sugars were pretty but I did not like them.
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I will be back for the other cupcakes!

Hot cheese and chicken pie again

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cheese and chicken pie:

 

 

Eating the pie hot really made a difference because the taste was so much nicer.
The crust tasted more buttery.
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