Delicious and colourful Omerice

Omerice (Tin Hau)

I would just like to Thank IVY_CWK and Mjqueen7e for treating me to this delicious Omurice dinner.
This is a mega late review as we dined here ages ago!

Omurice is an omelette made with fried rice and usually topped with ketchup.

At Omerice, they specialize in Omurice and offer so many different flavoured omelettes with different sauces to choose from.

For the omelettes there were so many types: squid omelette, tom yum kung, spinach and scallops and sea urchin.

All the omurices are served with ketchup but here they have curry sauce and cream sauce to choose from as well.

When you order you can ask for the omelette to be semi-cooked which we did because it tastes even better.

We decided to try the spinach and scallop omerice and the squid ink omerice with stuff chicken wings with cheese and spinach.

While we were digging into the delicious omerices, the manageress gave us some jellyfish salad.

The cutlery there is quite cute and matches their logo, the fork resembles the cracked egg.

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Chicken wings stuffed with cheese and spinach:
The chicken wings were lovely and crispy and it was filled with delicious spinach and cheese.

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Spinach and scallop omerice with cream sauce:
The texture of the omelette was really nice because we ordered it semicooked so the omelette tasted really delicious with strong spinach taste.
The rice in the middle had generous pieces of scallops in it.
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Squid ink omerice with cream sauce:
Compared to the spinach omerice, the squid ink had a stronger taste which tasted great with the hot fluffy rice in the middle.

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Jellyfish salad:
The salad was really refreshing complemented by their Japanese vinaigrette sauce.
The jelly fish was nice and springy.
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On the menu it was interesting that they had Pigeon's egg too which I tried recently at a restaurant in Ho Man Tim.
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Thanks to IVY_CWK's arrangement we got a shared room which was really nice.

I can't wait to dine here again and try the other Omerices.

Banquet food at Paramount

Paramount Banquet Hall (Kowloon Bay)

I do not bother reviewing foods from banquets because it is just the usual boring food but this time the food was actually ok!

The Chinese banquet always starts off with roast suckling pig, fried items, chicken, fried rice, noodles and desserts which do not taste as good as the banquets in the UK.

This time it was actually quite good because I took seconds of nearly every dish.

As it was a media gathering, it was hosted by handsome and tall Andrew 袁文傑 from now TV, formerly an actor from Asia Television!


It was held at MegaBox's Paramount which was quite an inconvenient location.

Started off with the roast suckling pig which had an even distribution of meat and crispy skin.

The scallops rolls were not that nice because it was filled with salad cream, scallop and fruit.


The braised ducks feet and abalone were delicious especially the ducks feet because it was soft and gelatinous.
However it was slightly too salty.

Then there was fish and I had the huge fish head which was rich in collagen and has the fish cheek which is the most delicate part.

Lastly the dessert was good because it wasn't the usual boring stuff, it was a square block which tasted like the Taiwanese pineapple cakes, it was lovely and chewy and not too sweet.

Lovely private dining fit for celebrities

Amina Modern European (Tsim Sha Tsui)

Thanks to Amina Modern European restaurant for inviting me to this tasting.

Before I came, I did not realise it was a private kitchen so when we were walking down Cameron Road, we over shot it because I was looking for the commercial buildings.
This building requires an entry code access.

When I arrived at the restaurant, we had a really nice spacious private room.

I felt that this place is a really good place for celebrities to dine because it was truly private without windows.

We tried their monthly set menu and oysters from their bar.
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Bread with aubergine puree:Started off with the bread and aubergine puree.
The aubergine puree reminded me of Mediterranean baba ganoush.
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Oysters:
The oysters are from the US and the size of them were huge.
The oysters were opened nicely and did not have any shell fragments in it.
I like my oysters in natural form so I only applied lemon juice to it and the oyster was lovely and creamy.
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STARTER: Crab pumpkin salad:
The colour of this was really nice and on top of it there was a poached quail's egg which was mega cute!
It must be hard poaching a quail egg because of its size.
The pumpkin salad was lovely and moist packed with crabmeat on a bed of delicious sprouts.
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STARTER: Beef Tartar:
The beef tartar was nicely done it had finely chopped garlic, black pepper in it.
The cracker on top was extremely delicious and reminds me of a Ryvita.
For improvements I felt that the beef could have been minced more finely because the beef was still in long strips.
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Seafood ink soup:
I was really looking forward to this soup because the ink soup I had at Naha did not bear much squid ink taste.
When it came, it was artfully decorated with white cream on top.
The soup tasted really nice because it tasted of fish as well as squid ink which was added when the soup was nearly done so that the taste is still there.
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ENTREE: Foie gras, parma ham and hollandaise sauce:
The foie gras was thinly sliced and cooked evenly which was delicious with the parma ham and toast.
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ENTREE: Crab cake:
Usually crab cakes are round but this one looked like a croquette.
It had fish roe on top which gave the crab cake more flavour.
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ENTREE: Guava sorbet:
The sorbet was interesting because it is usually served for dessert. I believe it was there to act as a refresher and prepare you for the main course.
The guava was really strong you could smell it despite it was frozen and it had real guava in it because I could taste the grounded guava pips.
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MAIN COURSE: Beef cheek braised in red wine:
I love beef cheeks because it is the most tender part of beef.
When I put my fork into it, it did not need any effort because it was so soft that you could use your fork to separate it!
The taste of this was delicious with rich red wine sauce and buttery mash beneath it.
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MAIN COURSE: Chefs special – Scallops trio delight:
Each scallop was seared and topped with toppings, from left to right was dried prawn roe, caviar and carmelised scallop.
The size of these scallops were huge, they were slightly seared and still tender inside.
My favourite was the first because the prawn roe acted like salt with a prawny taste.
The carmelized one was good too because the caramel was glazed onto the scallops giving it a crispy texture.
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Jasmine and osthmanthus tea:
I do not really drink floral teas but this was surprisingly nice because the osthmanthus was not that strong and the Jasmine balanced it out.
It was pretty with osthmanthus flowers floating on top.
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Dessert:
The raspberry sorbet was really nice and refreshing, it was lovely and tart followed by the delicious macarons.
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Delicious chicken tandoori drumettes

Pizza Max (Jordan)

Tried this restaurant because of sunflowerting's photo featuring Mo Mo on the menu which is Nepalese.

It was interesting because this shop is called Pizza Max which obviously serves pizza and pasta but they also serve Indian and Nepalese food.

I was meant to come here ages ago but I didn't know the had seating so I left it for a while.

Anyway finally made it there and the capacity for diners was bigger than I imagined.




They have simple sets which is quite a good deal because it includes a slice of pizza with nepalese dumplings or the chicken tandoori drumettes.

For lunch they have my favourite butter chicken curry and if you don't eat Indian food there is spaghetti bolognaise.

As well as those delicious selections they had my favourite pita bread and chips!!!

I really liked this cosy joint because it reminds me of London and the people that work there spoke good English.
The guy is Philipino which was hard to believe because he had no Philipino accent, but Philipino's are the best connoisseur for food.
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Mo Mo with chili sauce:Mo Mo's are Nepalese dumplings which are served with chili sauce. The dumplings are made with onions.
There are three choices for dumplings at this place: steamed with tomato sauce, panfried with tomato chutney or steamed with onions, green peppers and sweet chili sauce.
I ordered the last one because the ones I have tried before came with Chili sauce.
I used to get them at 2 Star's Fast Food in Wan Chai but it takes ages for the dumplings.
Anyway, the dumplings were served soon after I ordered.


They looked delicious when they arrived and I imediately took them out and put them on another plate because the sauce was quite spicy. At other places you add the sauce yourself.
The sauce is different too. At this restaurant they have made a sauce especially for the dumplings rather than a condiment.
Anyway the dumplings were delicious, the minced chicken was packed with onions and the delicious sauce spiced it up.

The sweetness in that sauce was soothing too because the chili was very spicy.
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Buffalo chicken wing lollipops:Although they are called buffalo wings they were Indian style with Tandoori spices and mint sauce, but it stated that on the menu which was why I ordered it. I love TANDOORI chicken.
It was good the dumplings were served first because the taste of this was strong.

The drumettes were perfectly grilled. The skin was removed and the chicken had been loosened around the bone so that it was marinated all the way through and the chicken comes off the bone easily.

Parts of the chicken drumette were slightly crispy but it was not at all dry.
There was lots of thick tandoori paste on the chicken and the texture is hard to describe because it was velvety and almost felt like it had pate all over it.
The Tandoori chicken that I have tried before were usually chicken legs or chicken breast but here they have used the drumette part which makes it so tender and tasty.
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I will be back for the butter chicken curry and pita bread!

Why is it called mousse when it is not mousse!

Crumbs (Jordan)

Walked past and noticed this Premium green tea mousse with green tea mochi so decided to try it.


At this branch you can dine there so the menu offers more variety than the other branches other which only offer froyo and scones.


I have tried their scones and froyo which were quite nice but not addictive enough to make me come back.

This branch only did takeaways according to the photos on Openrice.

Water is self service.

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Premium green tea mousse:When I ordered it I was quite suspicious whether it was really mousse but the Chinese and English stated it was mousse so that was why I got it.

However when it arrived I was quite disappointed because it was not mousse, it was evidently a pudding so why call it mousse.


Luckily the dessert was ok and not too sweet and the mochi was nice.

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