Thursday, April 18, 2013

Main St. Deli for downtown food

Main St. Deli
Lower Lobby Level, The Langham Hong Kong, 8 Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

I have always wanted to go here but I got this restaurant confused withDuke's Deli because both were American style and the decor was similar when I saw the reviews.



I found out about the grilled cheese night from OpenRice which is available on wednesday nights only.

Every week I would attempt to go but when I remembered it would be thursday so I would have to wait the next week and by the time I remembered it would be too late and the cycle goes on!

Anyway I finally remembered this time and checked their website to see if it was still on. According to their website the Grilled cheese night is available until 30th April so I phoned Main Street Deli to make a reservation but they said the Grilled cheese night had finished last month (March).
I was quite confused so I just assumed the website was not update but anyway I submitted an online enquiry to ask if the Grilled Cheese night was still on and I got confirmation through email that it was still on so I booked again.

I read the reviews again to see the best items to eat and found a similar issue that the staff thought the promotion has ended.

Quoted from previous review by 輕雲: 餐廳好像沒有很積極的推廣Grilled Cheese Night這個主題,因為店員沒有主動把有關的菜單給我,其他食客也似乎沒有意識到這個主題的存在,只點了平常菜單供應的食物。這麼棒的主題和食物,店員怎麼不積極地讓更多客人知道呢?

When I arrived, I was greeted by a lovely glass cabinet of cakes which were huge, the sofa chairs were like a classier version of the ones at Ed's Diner (a retro-American style diner).
Sat down and browsed the menu.
I was planning to order an item from the grilled cheese menu and a burger from the a la carte menu.
The grilled cheese night set comes with a soup, grilled cheese solders and a sandwich.
The choice for the grilled cheese sets was quite good but I would have preferred if the set contained sandwiches with all the different cheeses so you can sample them all or at least two different cheeses.

There were six choices:
Croque Monsier: ham, gruyere, wilted spinach and mornay sauce
Provolone, cured italian meats, olive, tomato and basil pesto in sourdough
Cheddar cheese, shredded BBQ pork and caramelised onions
Brie, smoked pork loin, rocket and jalapeno Mozzarella, ripe tomatoes, basil and balsalmic syrup in Italian sesame oil
Swiss cheese, avocado, sauteed mushrooms and roasted red peppers on multigrain
Canadian bacon, stilton, and swiss cheese on light rye all served with roasted tomato bisque with grilled cheese soldiers.



As I am not really a meat eater I was choosing between the croque monsieur and the Canadian bacon and in the end I chose the Canadian bacon.

For the burgers, it was hard choosing between the cod cake burger and the vegetarian burger coated with Matzoh,
in the end I chose the cod cake burger.

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Cod cake burger:



I was expecting the burger to be huge but it was gigantic!
It was a cod cake between a crispy maize muffin.

I felt that there was no coating so the cod cake was nearly 100% cod with potatoes and herbs so when it was cooked, the surface of the cod cake was directly cooked giving it a delicious crispy tasty surface.

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Canadian bacon, Stilton, and Swiss cheese on light rye:

The sandwich was just delicious and the rye bread was fantastic because it had caraway seeds in it which gave it a distinct fragrant flavour and balanced out the heavyness of the bacon and cheese.
The Stilton in the sandwich was nice because it made it cheesier.
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Tomato soup:

The soup was very sour but I loved it because the tomato taste was natrual and there was real tomato puree in it.
The taste was similar to eating canned plum tomatoes.
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Cheese soldiers:

These were two pieces of toast with delicious melted cheese in the middle.
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It would be great if they could offer a cheese soldier platter each with a different cheese inside so you could sample all the different cheeses.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Free herbal tea to prevent colds and flu

Kung Wo Tong (Tseung Kwan O)

Earlier I walked past the Wan Chai branch and they were giving out free herbal teas to prevent colds and flus.
(picture shows Wan Chai branch with herbal teas ready for people to take).

Anyway, I took one and drank it as a normal drink, it was pleasant with a slight bitterness.

Later I was in different area so I went to the nearest branch to see if they were doing it too and they were.
However this branch was not promoting it and you had to ask to get it.
As for the taste, the drink at this branch was not as strong as the Wan Chai branch.



But anyway, Thanks to the generosity of Kung Wo Tong for giving people free herbal teas.

You can get yours at any branch from 1-2pm and 7-8pm.


Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Mini meat mountain pile for lunch

民聲冰室 (Shau Kei Wan)

After trying the Tai Hang branch, I went to the Shau Kei Wan branch to see if there was any difference.

It was much bigger than Tai Hang and you can dine there more comfortably.


I did not try the famous meat patty before so tried it here.

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Mini meat mountain patty with salted egg:



For lunch they serve a smaller version which was great because the full portion is too big.
The smaller version was much more manageable and there was more salted egg in ratio to the meat patty which was good.
The salted egg is basically cracked on top the patty and steamed, and the lovely egg white is all over the edges of the patty.
It tasted nice but I was not really wowed by it because I have tried better meat patties before. The egg white and the meat patty eaten together tasted the best and the salted egg yolk was nice and starchy.
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Chicken in soya sauce:



The pot was huge making the portion look big.
I felt that the soy sauce was too sweet and salty.
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Mini Yorkshire puddings at Yorkshire pudding

Categories :British | Western Restaurant

Although this place is heavily decorated in a British theme serving my favourite Yorkshire puddings, it failed to make it on my priority list.
This restaurant reminded me of Limehouse in WanChai.

I only tried it because I was at a tasting nearby.

I ordered the mini Yorkshire puddings.

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Mini Yorkshire puddings:

When it came I was surprised there were four of them.
They were very crispy and reminded me of BLT's popovers.

The taste was slightly disappointing because they did not taste as good as the Yorkshire puddings at Delaneys and the gravy did not taste meaty enough.

The yorkshire puddings were too eggy and not as yeasty and chewy as the ones at Delaneys.
There was not enough gravy to finish off the Yorkshire puddings.
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Nice glass for the water

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Menu


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