Tornado potato skewers whizzing in cheung chau

As soon as you arrive at Cheung Chau Island you will see people holding sticks of Tornado potato skewers / spiral potato skewers.

Basically, they are whole potatoes cut into a spiral and put on a skewer and fried.
I tried this place because they were fried to order and the skewers coming from this joint were not that brown because most Hong Kong people like to deep fried their snacks to a brown colour.

I would have ordered the frozen fruits on a stick but they were sold out.

The tornado potato skewers cost $27 a la carte or you can get it with drinks or fried icecream for $30.

After ordering, she takes a potato and puts it on a skewer and spreads it out on the stick.

Then she puts it in the fryer.

When it is ready, you can eat it unseasoned or you can season it with powders on the table.

There are eight seasonings to choose from:

Chicken and lemongrass
Salt
Cheese
Plum
Sichuan seasoning
BBQ
Spice salt
curry

Anyway, I liked mine plain so that I could taste the potato.
It tasted like freshly fried unsalted crisps and parts of it were soft as well which is why I liked it to be gently fried.



Basically it was one of those been there, tried that experiences.
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潮食坊 (Cheung Chau)
Price: $30
Service: OK
Yummy factor: ok
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Maxims rainbow cake

Tried this cake a year ago but forgot to write about it so here it is!!!!


I tried each of the coloured layers but they all taste the same.

Overall the cake was fun to eat and tasted better than their traditional cream cakes with canned fruit!
Basically it was sweet soft crumbly cake layers paired with cream.

If the cake layers had more distinctive flavours then it would not feel so artificial because of the colours.
Compared to the same rainbow cake I tried from Maxims a while ago, there were less fruit in this one such as sliced strawberries and kiwis.

$10 for an unusual experience

Initial Ice Cream Store (Tsim Sha Tsui)

After reading the reviews I was curious about their softserve icecreams.

Currently there are two flavours:
-Usual experience - 3.6 hokkaido milk
-Unusual experience - I dig leather

There is some speculation that there will be a new flavour to come called "tears".
(I wonder if it is going to be savoury!)

The softserve costs $10.

It was hard deciding which one to get, so I asked the guy about the Unusual experience and he said it tastes like tea.

I was silly to have thought that he meant Western milk tea coming from a Chinese guy because for milk tea they only have one kind which is the one I hate.
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I dig leather :


Unfortunately I did not like it because it tasted just like Hong Kong Style tea.
I really regretted not getting the Usual experience because it tastes like white rabbit sweets according to the reviews.
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Maintenance!
Yeah right!
I was so annoyed they stopped serving softserve because no one eats froyo/icecream during the winter except me because the temperature of winter here is probably autumn in the UK.
COME ON... ITS NOT COLD!!!


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Clean roasted chestnuts

China Dragon Arts (Sheung Wan)

Walked past this shop after trying Man Mo Cafe, these small chestnuts that were merely bigger than hazelnuts in their shells caught my attention.



These chestnuts are from Tianjin and I was compelled to get them because they were contained in a wooden tub.


I never buy roasted Chestnuts in HK because they are always roasted on the street surrounded in black coal. It STINKS when they do that and I wonder if the person who roasts them gets cancer cos its seriously toxic!
The smell is so bad that it makes me choke and throw up.

The chestnuts were only $36 per pound and you get quite a lot in the bag and they still feel warm.
They are easy to eat as well because the chestnut lining does not stick to it and they taste sweet and not starchy.

I am definitely coming back for more.

Mandarin hotel also does chestnuts but I have never seen that stall.

Love bites with the apple of love

Jam Bakery (North Point)

According to my reviews, it has been four years since I last visited Jam Bakery.

They used to be located in Tai Hang and closed down for a while until they reopened here recently.

Jam Bakery is on the corner and the shop is quite see through.


This branch is much bigger than the previous place with a cake cabinet, cookie shelf and a reasonable dining area.




I decided to go to Jam Bakery because of the apple cheesecake which is also being sold at Sogo branded with Hello Kitty.

There was a green one and a red one.


To be honest, the green one was not appealing because the shade of green looked a bit like gunge and slime so I got the red.

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Apple Cheesecake (RED):
I do not like the colour red, but red was more appealing than green in this case.
The apple looked so realistic I was tempted to bite it just like can apple, but in the end I dug in with a fork.



As a cheesecake, it tasted nothing like a cheesecake, but it was delicious if you treat it as a apple cream cake.
Fresh apple and cream with light sponge cake in the middle that was not too sweet with a hint of cinammon.
However it was weird it had raisins in it.


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Apple Cheesecake (GREEN):
Came here again for the cheesecake because it was really nice.
The service was much better this time because this time I got a glass of water.


The green one had an extra piece of chocolate on top which was not there before shown on the first photo.
According to the earlier reviews, both the red and green should have a piece of chocolate on top.



I was expecting the RED and GREEN to taste the same, but as you can see there is much more apple filling in it.
The green one was much sweeter too, so in conclusion, I prefer the red one that I tried before.
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As well as the cakes, I was hoping to try Froyo because they had a unique cactus topping that you could choose.


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Previous visit:
http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2056396&tc=sr2&con=rvw

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Price: $42
Service: OK
Yummy factor: not consistent
Napkins provided: yes
Glass of water provided: not on first visit
English Menu: Yes
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Lucky students at HKU

I was quite surprised that at HKU they had a Vegetarian restaurant because most educational facilities don't have one.
In London, I was expecting universities in East London to have Halal restaurants to cater for Muslims but there wasn't.

At Bijas Vegetarian Restaurant, they have self service lunches which are priced by weight similar to Harvester.
Rice and soup are unlimited.



We arrived there quite late so missed out on the potato and olives.
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My lunch:



Here was what I picked.
My favourite was the bun because it had tasty salted vegetables in it.

The rest of the food was ok but not hot enough.
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mushroom noodles in buk kut teh broth:


These noodles were made with shiitake mushrooms which was interesting but I found the broth rather bland and couldn't taste the buk kut teh.
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Bijas Vegetarian Restaurant (Pok Fu Lam)

Price: $6X
Service: OK
Yummy factor: ok
Napkins provided: yes
Noise levels: None
Glass of water provided: yes
English Menu: Yes
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Queen's Konditorei nougats

Queen's Cafe (Wan Chai)
When branches of Queen's Konditorei 皇后餅店 went extinct in Hong Kong, I thought I saw the last of those nougats, but now they are selling them at Queen's Cafe 皇后飯店.
Thanks to wanttoeat for getting me them.

She got me two flavours:
peanut
chocolate

Both were packaged in these cute cardboard packets which look like Russian dolls.

The chocolate one was really nice and chewy with crispy bits of rice and the peanut one tasted nutty, milky and not too sweet.