Bright red sweet and sour sauce

The place I wanted to go to was packed so randomly came here because I have not tried it.

You can choose 2 dish combinations or you can choose set meals.


The seating is cramped so you normally have to share tables with others.

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Sweet and sour fish:

The sauce obviously had a lot of colouring in it but it was not really sweet nor sour so it failed as sweet and sour sauce.
The fish was crispy, soft in the centre and not too salty.
Overall, it was ok, nothing spectacular about it.
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表妹美食燒臘茶餐廳 (Wan Chai)

Fried chicken from HOF & SOJU

Chicken HOF & SOJU (Tsim Sha Tsui)

Unfortunately there are not many Korean restaurants on the Hong Kong side so people have to cross the harbour to Kimberly Road which is like a Korean Street.

I wonder if the Koreans like that street because Kimberly sounds similar to the Korean name Kim!


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Cabbage salad:





The cabbage was nice but found some black stuff.
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Fried chicken with spring onions:





The chicken was dry compared to this other Korean place I tried and it was spicy when the Korean staff said it was not spicy.
It was mainly chicken breast and chicken wings which was annoying because at this other Korean restaurant it was an equal mix of breast, thigh and wings.
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Radish:


Compared to the previous reviews, the amount of radish was stingy.
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Great food trashed by the box

On my previous visit, the food was disgusting but decided to come back for the rice in lotus leaf.

I was expecting the rice to be wrapped in lotus leaves served in a steamer as shown but it when it came it was placed in an old wooden box.


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Lovely hygienic wooden box:


I wonder how much bacteria was on the box!!





From the colour it seems that the box is really old.
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Steamed rice in lotus leaf with minced pork and preserved vegetables:
Anyway, I just spooned the rice in the middle.


Each grain of rice was coated evenly in sauce and it was slightly oily.


There were lots of dried squid in it which made it delicious.
However the rice could have tasted better because the box had this unpleasant odour.
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Virgin apple pie mocktail

Stumbled upon this restaurant on the way to Ole's Spanish restaurant so decided to come here instead.

When I arrived, the waitors obviously had the impression I was just venturing up there to have a look but when they were nicer when they realized that I was genuinely going to dine there.

It seems that photos are not appreciated so I am just going to write about the drink.

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Virgin apple pie:

The Virgin apple pie drink which was a nice mix of apple juice, pineapple juice garnished with cinnamon.
It was refreshing and not too sweet and tasted evidently of just juice because the cinnamon did not come through.
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Lettuce with deep vein thrombosis!!



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Colette's (Central)

Bare your mind, body and soul for food

Naked Gurume Gyarari sounded like a taboo at first!!


When I heard the name I thought it was going to be wildly exotic with topless sexy male models serving food!
However, when I got there, the entrance leading to the restaurant was quite mysterious because it was plain black and white.
Naked Gurume Gyarari combines art with gourmet food and they have an exhibition room next door.

Here was what we tried.
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Black truffle lotus roots chips:

Delicious crispy lotus root slices that came with a lovely dip with Yuzu garlic cream and black truffle paste.
I couldn't quite taste the Yuzu but the truffle was nice and strong.
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Hotate with jewel leaves:

Diver scallops, mixed mesclan, crispy bacon bits, tofu cheese vinaigrette.
I loved this dish because it had my favourite jewel leaves which are crisp and sweet paired with the fresh tasting scallops.
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Lobster risotto bisque:

Smoked turkey cognac reduction, parsley lime risotto, croutons, lobster bisque.
The soup was nice and filling with a substantial amount of risotto, however the saltiness could have been toned down.
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Tuna tartar:

Poached quail egg, big eye tuna, cucumber, ginger cilantro truffle oil served on a Crispy wonton wrap.
Delicious minced tartar packed with flavours from the ginger and truffle topped with a perfectly runny quail egg.
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Toro y 48 months Iberico ham wrap:

Tuna belly, 48 months Iberico cured ham, seagrapes, negi, mixed quinoa and Shiso cress.
The tuna belly was quite similar to the tuna tartar above but it was refreshed by the juicy seagrapes and flavoured by the Iberico ham while the crunch of the Quinoa balanced out the oiliness.
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Fiddlehead fern and shimeji mushrooms (to be launched):

Again another one of my favourites because fiddlehead fern is crisp and sweet, similar to spinach.
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Foie gras with guava sorbet:

The foie gras was paired well with blueberries which took away the greasy feeling and the guava sorbet helped to refresh the palette for the main course.
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Uni and quinoa pasta:


sea urchin, mixed quinoa, bacon loin, cherry tomato, garlic cream, parmesan and linguine.
The pasta was quite creamy and heavy but the crunchy quinoa helped to balance it out.
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Braised tako and bone marrow pasta:

Octopus, bone marrow, tomato, cilantro, quinoa, kombu, bonito and linguine.
The linguine was really tasty in tomato and herb sauce with slices of braised octopus.
On top of the linguine there were two slices of bone marrow which added to the silkiness of the linguine.
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Blueberry sushi:


Star anise, Japanese black sugar, muscovaso and pistachio.
The blueberry sushi was fun and creative, it was sponge cake wrapped with thin slices of cucumber which replaces the seaweed.
The taste was surprisingly nice because the cucumber slices and cake were refreshing.
The sauce had some agar in it which made it interestingly viscous
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Naked Gurume Gyarari

1/F, 28 Elgin Street, Central

Mother's Day cake range by Maxim's

HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!!!



Maxim's have launched a good choice of cakes for the big day.
My favourite is the Diamond Box which is a strawberry cake with a beautiful box and a white chocolate shaped diamond on top with flowers beside it.




The next on the list in terms of taste and appearance is the Flower Cake and the Sunflower Black forest.



I like the flower on the cross section when you slice the Flower Cake and the Black forest is always a popular flavour.



Then there is the sweet Macaron Tower or the Flower rainbow cake to choose from.



For mango lovers, there is the Sunflower mango crispy or the Rose blossom for rose lovers.




If all those choices were not enough, there are also two more fruity and summery cakes for energetic mums:







For down to earth mums, there are Chiffon cakes and for mums with green fingers they will love the Tiramisu Garden!!



It appears that Maxim's was a popular choice for the Mothers day cake.



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Diamond box:
Thanks to Maxim's PR for sending me a redemption card for the Diamond box.


Basically there was a strawberry chocolate base that was part of the bottom half of the pillow, in the middle it was soft cake with fresh strawberry slices and strawberry mousse.


The mousse was light complemented by the strawberry slices.
On top of the cake, it was decorated with a pretty jewellery box containing a diamond made from white chocolate.


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