Back for more rice rolls with beef

Shop: 潮城燒臘粥店 (Wan Chai)

Came back for more delicious rice rolls with beef.


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Rice rolls with beef:
As always these were delicious, they had delicious dried tangerine peel in it.
After I had half the plate there was not enough soy sauce, and the soy sauce on the table is different.
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Rice rolls with fried dough stick:


They did not taste good this time because the fried dough stick tasted rancid.

Since I found this better place for these, I do not come here for them anymore.
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Congee:
The congee was too oily and thick.
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Fried noodles:Although the noodles were tasteless, you can add soy sauce and chili oil to it to make it taste better.
The temperature of the noodles were hot which was good because on my last visit they were cold.
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Vegetarian dim sums with traditional Chinese Tea

Shop: Lock Cha Tea Shop (Admiralty)

Lock Cha Tea Shop is a nice place for Chinese tea and vegetarian dim sums.


I have always wanted to try their tea and dim sums but whenever I came it was closed.

They change their dim sum menu daily so if there is something particular you want to eat you have to call them to find out because their website is not update.

You would think they would be kind enough to email or fax you the daily menu but they do not have a fax machine or computer to facilitate this.

There were a few items I wanted to try but it was not on the menu that day, they were 梅菜煎餅 (panfried preserved vegetable cakes) and the 煎薯仔餅 (panfried potato cakes).

The portions were quite small too, normally you get four pieces but here you only get two pieces which is very filling (not).
This place is famous for Chinese tea but not every table had a heater (shown on photo below) to keep the water hot because there was no plug underneath my table and they did not let me change tables.


Interesting door handles made from mooncake molds.





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Wrapped Glutinous rice with mushrooms:




The glutinous rice had strong black pepper and the filling was mushrooms stalks! It tastes better than the ordinary glutinous rice with meat because it does not have any fat in it!
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Vegetarian shaomai $22:

I was surprised there were only two in a portion, usually there are 3-4!!
The texture of this was quite mushy and sticky with pieces of mushroom in it.
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Stir fried pasta:

The pasta was nice but the black pepper was too strong.
Each strand of spaghetti was too short to be picked up with chopsticks and too long for the spoon.
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Beans with tofu noodles:

This was quite nice but could have tasted better with Chinese wine in it and the tofu noodles were not soft enough.
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Vegetables wrapped in chayote slices:

This was quite boring and tasteless.
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Sesame dumplings in Jasmine tea:



The idea of this dessert was really good, it was dumplings in unsweetened Jasmine tea and not the usual sweet liquid.
Usually I love Jasmine tea but the Jasmine they used was too flowery for my liking.
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Chinese tea:I was expecting their teas to be good but most of them had a really strong flower scent which I did not like it.
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Bakewell tart icecream

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Bakewell tart:

I have never liked the bakewell tart because of the icing sugar and almond flavouring but I decided to try the icecream because whatever I dislike is made to taste nice at Lab Made.
Instead of the cherry on top they put cranberry sauce on top which was really refreshing and they let me have extra sauce too.
The icecream had grounded almonds in it which tastes better than almond flavouring.
The taste was just amazing and it was a bit like eating wholemeal biscuit icecream that is not cloyingly sweet like a real bakewell tart.
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Green tea ice-cream @ LabMade

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Green tea:
The green tea was slightly boring for me and the taste was slightly bitter too.


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Easter Chocolate Garden @ Lab Made

These days I go to Lab Made because of the funky flavours and not because of the Nitrogen gimmick

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Easter Chocolate Garden:I was looking forward to this flavour because it was packed with goodies, it was chocolate icecream with hazelnuts topped with mint cake crumbs topped with colourful candies.
The icecream mixture was already pre-mixed so all they had to do was freeze it into icecream.


After the icecream was made it was topped with delicious mint cake crumbs and candies.




The final product.


Usually they come in scoops but to put the toppings on, they had to flatten it.
The icecream was delicious, it had chunks of hazelnuts in it and the candies were giving it an extra crunch too.
The mint cake crumbs were delicious as well but the mint taste was not that strong which was good because not everyone likes mint.
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Grilled satays

This joint has been here for at least ten years, I used to dine here for noodles which were delicious but I never wrote about them.




I once forgot to pay because you pay when you leave so when I remembered on the bus I got off the bus and ran back to pay and they were quite surprised and said I could have come back another day to pay.

This joint is run by a few ladies who have been there for years.

At the front of the joint hey have a grill that grills all sorts of snacks so I ordered two chicken skewers.

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Grilled chicken satay:When the chicken satays came, they were huge! Skewered with big pieces of chicken on it.
The picture below shows that without the sauce, it is well marinated, the one at the front is turned over.


The chicken was really tender and had hints of curry spices on it and the peanut sauce was sweet with crushed peanuts giving it more flavour.


They were very filling but I felt slighty thirsty afterwards.
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Shop: 金發車仔麵 (Choi Hung)

Let your tastesbuds sense molecular gastronomy

Restaurant: Sense Dessert Cafe (Yuen Long)
I have not tried food made by the gastronomic process so I really wanted to try this place.


This place is located in Yuen Long which was really pushing my boundaries as I do not usually travel further than Hong Kong or Kowloon for good food.


Since the introduction of the Giant Green Tea lava cake at the Steakhouse and the one persons portion at Sin Mei they also have it here.

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Tiramisu:
Basically when it came, it looked like a plant in a flowerpot.


It was tiramisu covered with crushed biscuit crumbs to mimic the soil with a sprig on mint in the middle.


It just tasted like ordinary tiramisu jazzed up although the coffee and alcoholic taste was strong.
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Rose leaf drift on the mousse:
I do not like the taste of rose but I tried it anyway.
The rose pudding at the base was extremely milky and the taste of rose was strong.


The foam on the top was just frothed up milk made into extremely fine foam.


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Floating Island in the smog/illusion:


This was frozen ice cream with fruits. The white part tasted of coconut and the orange part tasted like pineapple sorbet.
The pairing of these two flavours reminded me of pina colada.
One of the blueberries was really big.
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Sinking chocolate in the red sea:




The frozen icecream was made in the same way as above, there were two flavours, the white one was vanilla, and the burgandy colour tasted like berries.
The frozen icecream just tasted like Mini Melts icecream which is also made by using Nitrogen to flash freeze it so that there is no air whipped into it.
The chocolate lava cake in the middle just tasted like the usual fare!
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Chocolate caviar and milk pudding:




The milk pudding was really creamy and silky, and there was a spoon of chocolate caviar served separately.
The caviar was made by using a pipette dropping the chocolate droplets to made it solidify.


The chocolate taste could have been stronger.
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