For "C"od and Country

Since my last visit, this place has been given a REAL British facelift it deserves!!

There's no excuse to miss it now because it's the most outstanding restaurant at the cooked food market!!

Lovely Royal Mail post box.

[Pretending to post a letter]

Fish Collection times aka Opening Times!!

Glamourous red phone box with mirrored glass panes.

A touch of royalty!

Typical UK brick walls and cloudy blue skies.

K's British Restaurant is located in Mui Wo's cooked food market which is by the sea with great seaviews depending on where you are sitting.



Shoals of fish on the sea blue wall.

This paragraph is quoted from Prestige magazine which was ABSOLUTELY spot on:
Lovers of fish and chips in Hong Kong had much to mourn about when the last purveyor of the pukka item in Town, the chippy closed a year ago or so.


Illuminated cloudy blue skies.

Overall the new look is good, but it was slightly dim for dining.

Thankfully, K's British Restaurant is here to the rescue!!!
This new STAR is going to bring tourism to Mui Wo or send expats moving there!
The traffic and accessibility is much better than Sai Kung.
Well at least I am tempted.....

THIS PLACE IS TRULY BRITISH AND THIS IS MY FOURTH VISIT!!
PLEASE CARRY ON READING IF YOUR AN EXPAT BECAUSE YOU WON'T APPRECIATE THESE PERFECT CHIPPIE CHIPS IF UR NOT ENGLISH BECAUSE THE HONGKIE STYLE CHIPS ARE BURNT!
THERE IS ALSO HEINZ KETCHUP AND MALT VINEGAR ON THE TABLES.

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Cod and chips:


OMG! The battered cod and chips were just OMG!
The cod was succulent and flakey with a uniform batter and the chips were sensational!
This is how a model chip should be, it was fat, with a shiny surface and when you bite into it, the inside of the chip was silky just like molten starchy lava.
Basically the texture of the starchy lava was like velvety thick cream with a slighty chewy soft chip skin.
Eating it piping hot when it is just served tastes the best, if you leave it for a while, the chips get a little bit firmer.
You could smell the gorgeous spud smell just like baked potatoes when it was just served.
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Pollock and chips:

Pollock is another fish similar to cod, it is used in fish fingers and fish burgers.
The fried pollock was also to die for, it was different to the cod because the texture of this fish is much softer and silkier and melts in your mouth!
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Tea:
Since my last visit, you can now choose between breakfast tea and Earl Grey.
The tea was served in a Chinese tea pot and the cups they used were those thick rimmed tea cups that you get in chaa chan tengs.
You will notice a difference if your used to thin rimmed cups.
Somehow they reminded me of the cups at BHS and Littlewood's cafeteria except the shape of the cup was different.
But anyway, it was British tea so it was the perfect quencher to go with fish and chips.
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Apple pie with REAL Bird's eye custard:


I was elated to see custard on the menu.
Custard is so simple to make and I don't know why places don't have REAL custard.
Normally I have custard with pudding or on its own, but here it is served with fresh apple pie which is made by them.
It was quite nice but I prefer sour apples.
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Anyway, I am now hooked on their food and I wish they would open another branch in Central.
Ok, there is HOOKED on Caine Road, but they don't serve these chips and if the ferry was cheaper, I would be here more often!

Address: K's British Restaurant
https://www.facebook.com/KsChippyInMuiWo

C10-C12, Mui Wo Cooked Food Market, Lantau Island, Hong Kong, Mui Wo

2984 8708

Lovely rooftop cafe in Central

Came here because my friend Ivy insisted on going!

I was a bit iffy because I thought it was a kids cafe but when I got there, it was surprisingly relaxed with homely decor.
There is a childrens' play area at the back.
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Rotary dial phone:

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The milk bottles with flowers on the floor reminds me of putting empty milk bottles outside the front door for the milkman to collect in the morning to be exchanged for fresh bottles of milk.

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Cute paper straws

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A nice selection of cakes including flapjacks, caramel slices and scones.

SUNMAID raisins!!

A lovely toiletries corner outside the toilet.

For food I ordered the grilled cheese toast, carrot cake and Ivy chose the Vegetarian toast and the flapjack.
According to the menu, it seems that the grilled cheese toast was $45 and the cake was $45, but I got charged $105.
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Grilled cheese toast:

Simple and delicious with melted cheese and ham.
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Crunchy hummus:
Hummus with sliced and diced carrots, capsicum, red onion and celery, topped with a curry vinaigrette, lettuce and tomato.

The toast was crunchy as claimed with crisp carrots and delicious hummus that had a light curry taste.
It was very filling with all those different vegetables in it.
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Carrot cake:

Moist with finely shredded carrots and a strong taste cinnamon and cloves.
The frosting was a bit too sweet.
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Flapjack:

I never liked them at school but it was comforting to eat them with the same "I don't like it feeling".
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Overall, the food was ok but the tea selection was poor.

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Address:

Rosie Jeans Cafe

Shop 3, G/F., Kam Kin Mansion, 119-125 Caine Road, Mid-Levels

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Dreaming on a Ferris Wheel

This cake shop which was opened in December last year is finally listed on OpenRice.

It is hidden in the old lanes of Sai Kung.

The shop has a nice dreamy name called FERRIS WHEEL and the logo makes you think of macarons because of the circles around it.
It also reminds me of Ferrero Rocher because of the colour!

There is a cute Ferris Wheel display.

In the middle there is a glass cabinet of cupcakes and cakes.



I ended up getting the Earl grey mousse and the chocolate cupcake.
Both were surprisingly good and I am so glad there is finally a decent cake shop in Sai Kung because the rest are local village style bakeries which I do not like.





I was really impressed with the cake box and bag too.
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MR. EARL:
Earl grey mousse


The icing made the mousse cake pretty but I would have liked it without because the mousse was sweet enough.


Although the mousse looked dense and hard, it had a decent whipped texture which was airy and light.
The taste was rewarding too, it was chocolately with a strong earl grey taste.
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Chocolate cupcake:


The cupcake surprised me as well because the texture was soft and didn't crumble.


It was not too sweet with a strong chocolate taste and it did not have that nasty buttery lard smell and taste that the local cakes have.
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Ferris Wheel Cake Shop (Sai Kung)
Room A, G/F., 20 Block Front, Sai Kung Tai Street, Sai Kung

Rockin-K-Roll

This was my first visit to K-Roll because whenever I am in Sheung Wan I end up eating elsewhere.



The staff were nice at this branch and there is a nice sitting area.

Here was what I tried.
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Crab salad K-roll:


The rolls were uniformly sliced with a clean cut.

Each piece was so moreish that I finished it quickly.
There was a fresh medley of crunchy vegetables, avocado and crab in the middle.
The crab rolls were simple and delicious that it did not need other sauces.
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Prawn korrito:


The idea of this is similar to a burrito but they have used seaweed as a wrap instead.
I loved the freshness of the salad in the middle because you could see that it was colourful and not oxidised.
There was a lovely crunch from the cabbages, crispy pieces as well as the fried prawns.
A very satisfying roll but it needed some chili sauce or something to add more kick to it.
However it was hard to eat because the fillings kept falling out.
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I liked their rolls so much that I finally tried their Sheung Wan branch, but the food and environment is much better here.

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K-Roll (Wan Chai)

Shop 1, 1/F, Causeway Centre(Brim 28), 28 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Hooked again at Hooked

Went there again with <<IVY>> after dining at Rosie Jeans!!

HOOKED must have been flocked with chip lovers because they keep running out of chips!

A friend that I recommended this place to went today [9-april-14] and they were serving crinkle cut chips.
BUT, the staff didn't ask her which salt she wanted so she missed out on the different choices of salt they offer.

Apart from Beers, they have other beverages from Australia.
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Chicken pie (pukka pie) $55:


It was so nice that <<IVY>> brought some cutlery along because I told her they don't have forks.
Anyway, the chicken pie was nice and the filling was quite thick which meant that you could probably eat it with your hands.
The pie crust was nice and flakey and it wasn't oily.
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Battered banana $10:

Tried this on another visit without <<IVY>>.
I was surprised it was a WHOLE battered banana which was not even sliced in half!
I would advise shaking the bag before eating it because the cinnamon and sugar is at the bottom of the bag.
The banana was delicious because the battered coating was extremely light flavoured by the sugar and cinnamon.
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Hooked:

86-88 Caine Road

$1 chicken from Tao Heung

This branch of Tao Heung is located in a residential area which is not near the MTR, hence it is quite quiet on the weekdays and busier on the weekends.

At the moment Tao Heung is doing a $1  chicken (approximately a few pennies) promotion to attract diners.
Obviously people are not going to get away with just ordering chicken.

Here was what I tried.
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steamed flounder fish:

This is my favourite fish and it was steamed just right which was good.
The flesh was white which meant the fish was quite fresh.
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$1 chicken:

The chicken wasn't very meaty but reasonable for $1 unlike other places where you paying $1xx and getting the same crap.

The soy sauce for the chicken was really nice because it has a hint of spring onion in the taste.
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Other dishes:

Surprisingly, just tried the spinach with beancurd sheets and it was quite nice.
The prawns were simply boiled in its shell and that tasted good too.
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rice:

The portion of rice was quite decent but it looked like a dog bowl.
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Tao Heung:

SHOP NO.111, 1/F, SHEUNG TAK SHOPPING CENTRE, SHEUNG TAK ESTATE, 2 Tong Ming Street, TSEUNG KWAN O, SAI KUNG, N.T., Tseung Kwan O

Delicious crab noodles at Noodlemi

Discovered this new shop in late 2012 so told <IVY> about it because she likes trying new shops.

At that time I thought it was expensive compared to other noodle joints but dined here this time because this other place I wanted to go was closed.

I ordered the Aromatic Crab & Shrimp Tomato Soup with Vermicelli for $68 which is cheap because the average bowl of ramen is about $70 these days.


The seating is quite cramped and uncomfortable.

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Aromatic Crab & Shrimp Tomato Soup with Vermicelli




The broth was lovely and strong with rich tomato and crab taste but it was a bit too salty.
There were cubes of meat made from minced prawn and crab roe which was just like eating crab.
Surprisingly, I liked the noodles because they were similar to rice vermicelli but slightly thicker and did not have that Yunnan vermicelli plastic chewy texture.
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Noodle Mi, G/F, 2 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan