Top notch Filipino Kamayan Cuisine

Kawali Filipino Kamayan Cuisine (Wan Chai)

When I saw this place listed on Openrice, I really wanted to go, it is interesting that this place has a Chinese name too!

Compared to my usual Flipino fare, the prices at this place are quite expensive.

In Wan Chai, there are now three places where you can get Flipino food.
Cinta J which is quite Chinese during lunch, while the new Cinta J Express was more authentic but only open during the evenings and Quezon which provides really cheap authentic Flipino food.

The decor of this place is green and vibrant.


After browsing the menu, they had steak sets and chicken but I wanted some real native dishes.

The a la carte menu seemed a better choice.


The good thing about this place is that the rice is unlimited and the food was so delicious that I had two plates of rice!


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Chicken adobo:
Adobo is basically a vinegary sauce.
On first sight, it looked quite Chinese, it had lots of cracked black pepper.
The vinegar was quite strong but it made the chicken extremely appetizing.
Beneath the pieces of chicken, there were four chicken wings.
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Dinuguan:
This is basically pork and offal cooked in spicy dark gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili, and vinegar.
There were pieces of beef stomach as well.
I really liked it and expected it to taste good, the porks blood was fresh and the sauce did not have a rancid smell or taste.
The pork in this dish was lean so there was not much oil compared to other Dinuguan dishes from other restaurants.
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Luckily the rice is refillable so you can have as much as rice as you want!

Heart shaped Pandan cake

Hoover Cake Shop (Kowloon City)

After a dinner gathering, someone brought out a Heart shaped Pandan cake for dessert.

The Heart shaped Pandan cake was from Kowloon City's Hoover cake shop.


I have tried their pandan cakes before so I expected this to taste good.

The cake has two layers, there is no filling in between so the top and bottom layer can be eaten separately.

The taste of this cake was delicious, it was soft and eggy just like the Chinese paper wrapped cakes with a strong hint of pandan.

McCafe Hong Kong: Creme brulee cheesecake

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Creme brulee cheesecake:


The creme brulee cheesecake looked really nice, it had a glazed top with different layers.
I found the cheesecake really heavy and it was too sweet as well.

It had a really strong sweet smell of caramel.
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McCafe Hong Kong: Royal Milk tea

Tried McCafe's new Royal tea because the poster was captivating.

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Royal Tea:

Basically it was tea with a lovely frothy top dusted with a crown pattern and the Chinese character tea.
As for the taste, it was a milkier version of Hong Kong style tea without the bitterness.
The sweetness was quite sweet but after you have had the creme brulee cheesecake the tea is no longer sweet because the cheesecake is much sweeter!
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Green tea and red bean roll spoiled by sweetness

Shop: Pie & Tart Specialists (Tsim Sha Tsui)

Saw these nice looking green tea rolls at Pie & Tart Specialists and they were really cheap too for $5.5.


So got two of them because they do not give you a box if you only get one.
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Green tea and red bean roll:


The appearance of these rolls for $5.5 were quite good, it had cream on top, garnished with lantern berry leaves, red beans, chocolate and a cube of green tea pudding.
The green tea taste was strong and there was lots of cream.
Inside the roll, there was a long piece of green tea pudding/jelly.





If there was less cream and it was not so sweet it would have been perfect.
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Delicious crunchy fried octopus

Shop: Wagashi No Sato (Causeway Bay)

Thanks to Mjqueen7e for getting me these expensive delicious crunchy octopus snacks from Wagashi No Sato and also helping me to list this on OpenRice.

The packaging was really nice, with a drawstring on the top.

When you open the box, the crunchy octopus are in a sealed bag that keeps them crunchy.

When I took them out, you could immediately sense how crunchy they were.
It is really difficult to get octopus to be crunchy and not chewy!!!


You can actually see it has real octopus in it from the flattern octopus suction cups.


The middle shows the octopus sandwiched in the middle.


The taste of these crunchy fried octopuses were really delicious, they were extremely crispy just like hard tempura and the octopus in the middle had that same crisp texture.
The saltiness was just right and the octopus taste was brought out from being fried.
The coating tasted like rice cracker coating.

My first Canelé

Monsieur Chatte (Sheung Wan)

Thank you Connie for getting me a Canelé and the tube of candies from Monsieur Chatte.

I have always wanted to try them.

The only two places that I know have them are this shop and this private one which I don't quite understand how to order from them so I have not bothered.

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Canelé :
This was exciting because I have never tried it before so I did not know how the texture and taste would be.
When I bit into Canelé, the exterior was hard and crispy and the inside was amazingly moist and soft!

It reminded me of a sweet yorkshire pudding with custard flavouring.
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candies:
These candies were really cute, they reminded me of fruit pips in the UK but slightly bigger.
There are three flavours which are different in colour, the orange one is orange and the darkest one is honey, the light brown one tasted like ginger/aniseed with a minty cooling tone to it.

I liked the honey one the best.
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