Will J&G Fried Chicken stay for good?

J&G Fried Chicken (Tseung Kwan O)

Before J&G Fried Chicken came along, its predecessor on this street was Big Big Chicken but now they have moved to a smaller unit at the Food Kiosk which is probably cheaper to rent.

I am not a Taiwanese food fanatic but Ji Guang from Taiwan has opened its first store in Hong Kong on November 20, as part of its expansion plan in Asia.
As well as Hong Kong, you can also find them in Singapore but the food options are slightly different, they have fried squid in Singapore.

For more info you can go to their site at jgssg dot com

Currently the menu in Hong Kong is limited and will probably be expanded later depending on hows thing go.
The items that they serve are:
- Crispy chicken nuggets
- Crispy king oyster mushrooms
- French fries with green onion and garlic
- Spa chicken filet (white meat)
- Ice fruit tea/Iced tea/Plum tea


I had my doubts on the chicken so I opted for the crispy king oyster mushrooms which are diced bite size pieces of king oyster mushrooms dipped in batter and fried.


Although this is vegetarian, the mushrooms are fried in the same oil that the chicken was fried in so if you're a strict vegetarian then beware!


After the mushroom is fried, they are put in the metal tray to be served.




Then they are put in another smaller metal bowl and weighed so that every portion weighs the same, and then seasoned with spices.

While I was waiting for the fried mushrooms I thought I could hear the staff singing or rapping.

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Crispy king oyster mushrooms:


Before I tried it, I assumed it was going to be really oily with lots of oily oozing out but surprisingly it wasn't and the batter coating was really crispy and thin.
The oyster mushrooms were really juicy, meaty and earthy too which went nicely with the crispy batter that was flavoured by the spices.
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Fishalicious Fish tacos

Seasalt (Mid-Levels)

"one man's misfortune is another man's gain"

Found out about the new fish tacos through an unfortunate reviewer who didn't get a chance to try the fish tacos.

Before I went, I called to make sure they were still serving them.

LUCKILY they answered the phones because when they first opened, they did not answer the phones.

Outside the shop, there was a board promoting the Fish Tacos.

From Monday to Friday, there are other offers going on, please refer to the Weekly deals.


The restaurant decor was much the same as my previous visit.


It was nice of them to provide water as well.

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Fish Tacos:

The strip of fish was covered uniformly in batter and fried nicely.
The coating was crispy and thin just like tempura.
I really liked the fish taco because of the sauce was extremely acid with a very hot fiery kick balanced by the julienne crunch of purple cabbage and chopped coriander with piping hot fish in the middle.

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The Globe disappointed me

Previously heard so many positive comments about this place and their food, but I never got round to trying it because I didn't know where it was.
Finally found out where it was located and was recommended this place again by a Scottish Chef who owns a place that serves breakfast as well.
Since a Scot recommended this place to me, I was quite confident about recommending it on an article for their Christmas meals especially since they had Bubble and Squeak.
But to be safe, I felt I had to try it out first.
Checked their online menu and was elated to see WHITE PUDDING offered for Brunch from 12-3pm on weekends and public holidays.
Got there at 2pm and the waitress said brunch had ended, so called the manager up later in the evening to ask about Brunch times and he said that she had given me the wrong information so I decided to give it another go and went a week later.

Basically you can either choose from the menu or see what pies they have available on the boards.

Ordered a pie which was a must and ordered the breakfast because of the white pudding!
The one and only place in Hong Kong that serves white pudding.
[White pudding or oatmeal pudding is a meat dish popular in Scotland and Ireland, similar to black pudding, but does not include blood. Consists of pork meat and fat, suet, bread, and oatmeal formed into the shape of a large sausage.]
After I ordered, I was told there was no White pudding so changed it to black!
I wish I just left it because black pudding is available at other places and it does not cost as much as this place which sells it for $35 per slice.

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The Globe breakfast:
Apart from the black pudding, I was also pissed with the egg and bacon.
As you can see, the edge of the black pudding is missing so I was a bit annoyed because the star of the show cost $35.

Then the second thing that annoyed me was the fried egg (sunny side up), you could see the egg white was was crispy and brown!
If I wanted an egg like that I would go to a damn Chinese Cafe, and get a Chinese fried egg.
The frying pan seemed to have bits in it before they fried the bacon because it turned out quite black too.



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Beef, beer and mushroom pie:



The pie was amazing as expected, and the mash was creamy and buttery.
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On a sweeter note, they had jars of sweets for sale.



There were dandelion and burdock, humbugs, fruit salads, banana chews, giant gobstoppers, blackjacks, aniseed balls!!
They had pickled items too.

Photos of The Globe:





At the entrance, it was quite cute that they used a Chinese ceramic pot with the handle broken off for fag ash and butts.

Grassroots Pantry at IEM

Grassroots Pantry (Western District)

It was so good that Grassroots Pantry had a stall at IEM otherwise I would have not been able to try their food.
Grassroots Pantry is located in Sai Ying Pun which is extremely inconvenient and far away.

At the stall, they sold salads for $58 per box which is a mix of all three salads.

The salads were:
Quinoa salad with dried fruits, sunflower seeds, orange and hazelnut dressing.
Sprouted mung beans, peas, edamame, seaweed, salad and ponzu dressing.
Roasted beetroot salad dressing, fresh mint and chili flakes.
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Quinoa salad:

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Beetroot salad:

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GP Salad Special:

Since I do not like Quinoa, I only had the beetroot and mung bean salad.
From the picture and the real thing, you can see how luscious and perfect the greens were with visible capillaries in the leaves just like freshly picked greens.
The sprouted mung beans, peas, edamame beans were bursting with sweetness and I loved the crunch especially the sprouted mung beans.
The beetroots were a little too hard but the greens were refreshing because of the chopped mint leaves, however the chili flakes were too spicy for my liking.
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Victory! Victorious food and no queue!

Sing Heung Yuen (Central)

Sing Heung Yuen is famous for their tomato broths, but never ending queues just like the the noodle place opposite are expected.

It is actually quite interesting that there are two famous joints opposite each other with equally long queues at the same time, so if you change your mind and decide to go to the one opposite you would have to queue all over again.

But saying that, the two joints serve totally different things, SHY serves noodles and sandwiches and the place opposite does curries and e-fu noodles.

Luckily there was no queue that day so I dined there even though I was not hungry.
It was a chance not to be missed because I tried going on a Saturday and it was closed when normally they open on Saturdays as well.

I was quite surprised that the staff there were really friendly and had a human touch!

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Salted lemon drink:

The salted lemon came with sprite.
Before adding the sprite, I tried the salted lemon and it was nice because they did not add any nasty syrup to it.

As I do not like fizzy drinks, I added the tea that was in the plastic jugs on the table to it and it tasted amazing.
I could really taste the lemon and the sourness was really appetizing while the salt balanced the super sourness of the lemon.

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Mocha:


I havent seen this drink reviewed yet or people have not bothered to review it.
The drink was called Mocha which was cool for a joint like this to come up with that name because it is usually called something else in Chinese joints.
The drink was really cute because they put super mini marshmallows in it which I thought were CFC balls/clotted milk at first!

I wish they had more mini marshmallows because it made the drink fun!


The drink just tasted of chocolate and coffee mixed together.
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Instant noodles with beef in tomato broth:


The noodles were simply delicious owing to the tomatoes!
I think Hong Kong must be deprived of ingredients because it was just sour canned plum tomatoes which you can readily get at supermarkets in the UK.
I had these canned tomatoes for school dinners too!
Anyway, the noodles were really moreish because the tomatoes were soft and tangy without tomato skin.
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Lemon and honey crispy bun:

I don't normally like these because of the butter and condensed milk, but here it's just simply Lemon juice and Honey on the bun!
The crispy bun was divine with the sweet honey but the lemon juice was not strong enough or uniformly distributed because on some parts I could not taste the lemon.
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I'll will definitely be back if I happen to walk by and there is no queue again!

Chicken with imitation sharks fin

Fook Chun Bo Restaurant (Wan Chai)

The chicken with imitation sharks fin was interesting so had it.
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Chicken with imitation sharks fin:

When it came I was surprised the chicken was in chicken soup, it was literally pieces of boiled chicken in the soup with imitation sharks fin on top.
It was good that it was pure chicken broth, but because it was pure chicken broth, there was so much yellow chicken oil which you can see on top.
Apart from the oil, the soup with rice is a good winter warmer if you're cold!
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Chicken again at 香港雞皇

香港雞皇 (Sai Kung)

Didn't see their menu outside for the herbal chicken pot so ended up just getting the chicken and rice.

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chicken:

Was given the leg part which was tender but also quite bony.
The meat near the bone was not really cooked and still red with blood.
Overall the chicken tasted quite nice because the chicken was natrually sweet and after adding the chili sauce it made it more appetizing.
The rice was too soft.
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