Venchi world in Central

A while ago you could only get Venchi chocolates from specialists shops like The Royal House in To Kwa Wan.
Now, there is a Venchi on Stanley Street, Central serving chocolate, coffees and gelato.








Quoted from the press release: “Founded in 1878, the secrets to Italian premium chocolate brand Venchi are fresh and quality natural ingredients, having developed over 250 unique flavors exuding truly Italian taste, including chocaviar, chocolate cigars, and chocolight series that is low in calories and has no added sugar.”
The shop offers “Pick & Mix”, where customers can pick their favorite chocolates to be measured by weight.











For diabetics, they have Venchi Chocolight which has no added sugar and low in calories as well as a gluten free range.

Mini book metal tin cudotti chocaviar gift box













The creme brulee was my favourite because it had gooey sweet caramel in the middle.
The other too were rich with a heavy cocoa taste.
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Creme brulee:



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creme cocoa:


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75% Cocoa:




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Wild hot kudzu drink @ 葉香留

葉香留 (Wan Chai)

Since my last visit, the Kudzu drink has gone up from $9.5 to $11.

I like the taste of it because it tastes lke boiled bitter watercress and not because of its health benefits.



It probably does not have any herbal benefits because the lady was really moody and depressed like she was going through menopause.
As I said, I went for the taste and not the Qi, Yin Yang BS!

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kudzu drink:



It was warm and savoury with a sweet aftertaste.
You can also add salt to enhance the taste but it seemed that salt was already added.
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Taro McFlurry

I was really looking forward to the new Taro McFlurry so got it as soon as it was launched.



Basically it is McDonald's softserve, oreo cookies and taro syrup mixed together.
I had mine without oreo cookies because I don't like them.
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Taro McFlurry:




The McFlurry had a nice taro syrup fragrance but unfortunately it was too sweet because the softserve is already sweet and the taro syrup made it even more sweet.
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Battered oysters at Hooked

Hooked (Mid-Levels)

Came here again and was glad to see some changes!!!!!!

PICKLED EGGS ARE NOW SOLD HERE!!!



FINALLY, THERE ARE CHIP FORKS FOR PEOPLE TO USE!!!!

This time had the oysters, 3 for $40.


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Oysters:

The oysters were huge and they were about the size of big chicken wings.
I was surprised that they did not shrink after being fried.
Anyway, the batter was golden and thin while the oyster was creamy and juicy.




The oysters were just amazing and the salt enhanced the taste effortlessly.
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Sweetcorn option at Sun King Yuen Curry Restaurant

Sun King Yuen Curry Restaurant (Wan Chai)

In general, takeouts are half the price, and the choices are either curry, tomato, or sweetcorn, with a choice of fried pork cutlet, fried chicken, or fried fish fillet.
Basically the chicken, pork, fish fillets are crunchy, so it will go well with any of the options.
The only items that is not available for takeout is the stir fried beef noodles.

Since I have tried tomato and curry, I got the sweetcorn sauce with chicken.
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Chicken and sweetcorn sauce:

I was expecting more sweetcorn in the sauce.



Anyway, the sauce tasted like a mix of sweetcorn brine and corn flour which made the sauce thick.
The chicken came in big chunks but it was still juicy however the rice was a bit hard.
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Cheese and Ham croissant at McCafe

Came here for a quick croissant because the queue at Simplylife was long.

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Cheese and ham croissant:





The croissant was reheated before it was served but the middle was still cold.
As for the taste I was disappointed with the ham because it was hard and plastic, while the cheese was just American processed cheese.
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Surprised by the presenation of the rice

Chee Kei (Central)

Came here because Jolibee was closed

For dinner, there are just sets so I decided to order the pork with rice but it came with chicken wings/dessert/soup which I did not want.
Luckily I asked if I could order it a la carte without that crap and she suggested the tea set which was highly appreciated.




It was just the usual stuff, but I didn't like the vegetable rice with salted meat because it had pieces of fatty pork in it.
The pork was nice and the bones were gelatinous and soft but the sauce was too oily.
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