Korean BBQ trend hits CWB

Attended a soft opening at this new restaurant.

The decor of this place was very Korean with oil drum seats.

Each table had a grill and directly above the grill was a fume extractor.


Here was the set we tried.

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Hongchoade:

Hongchoade is a diluted vinegar drink which was great with the grilled meats.
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Set meal:
The set meal came with salad which had a black sesame dressing.

A dipping sauce

Kimchi and pickled daikon.

More vegetables.

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Meats:
For meats, there was pork and beef and on the top plate, there was seafood.





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Egg:
While you are grilling the meat, there is egg on the rim which slowly cooks.

I was surprised the egg was really tasty that we had seconds.

The grilled meats were tasty and my favourite was the marinated beef which was juicy and sweet.
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Patbingsu:
For desserts we had Patbingsu which is shaved ice.
There was one with red beans and one with yellow bean powder.


The texture of the dessert was amazing, it was like snow and dessicated coconut and it just melted in your mouth.

Video:

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Shin Mapo BBQ:
2/F, Po Hon Building, 24-30 Percival Street, Causeway Bay

A real mooncake at Twelve cupcakes

Every year, Chinese people celebrate moon festival with moon cakes.

Although it is called a mooncake, it does not actually contain any cake because it is filled with lotus paste and egg yolk.

The mooncakes here are going to go down well with Westerners and people who do not like the traditional mooncakes.

There are four cupcakes in the box, each one is decorated with moon festival related chocolate plaques and comes with Twinnings fruit tea for $190.

The cupcake flavours are:
Cranberry and chocolate
Strawberry and vanilla
Expresso
Earl Grey

The sachets of tea are:
chamomile, honey and vanilla
hibiscus and rosehip
Passionfruit and mango
strawberry and mango

If you order before 31st August, it costs $161.5 and $180.5 before 7th September including Two x 1 free cupcake coupon.

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Earl Grey:

As soon as it was sliced, you could smell the earl grey.
It was moist, soft and sweet infused with earl grey tea leaves in the cake.

In the middle, it is orange to mimic the yolk.
I paired this cake with the strawberry and mango tea which had a sweet scent.
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Strawberry and vanilla:

The vanilla cake was rich and buttery which was best paired with Rosehip and Hibiscus.

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Expresso:


The expresso is great for coffee lovers because it had rich expresso buttercream frosting.
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Cranberry and chocolate:


This was my favourite because it had a strong taste of cocao decorated with chocolate buttercream and dried cranberries.
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www.twelvecupcakes.com.hk

McScam x Earl Grey

Went to McCafe because of the new Earl Grey cake and the Earl grey jelly latte.




The Earl grey cake only costs $16 with the purchase of a drink from the Earl Grey series.



I didn't get a chance to check the bill because I was not given the bill, but since they gave me the wrong drink I had the bill reprinted and discovered that I was overcharged.

The rude biatch insisted that it was because the hot drink and cold drink costs different but I was not even on this issue.
The cake should have cost $16 not $2X.

Finally had the issue resolved when a smart senior spotted the problem.
Surely, special offers should be pre-programmed into their POS systems??!!!

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Iced Earl grey jelly latte:

I was given the usual straw hence the jelly cubes got stuck!!!


The drink was a bit dissappointing because the Earl Grey taste was not strong enough.
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Earl grey cake:

The Earl Grey taste was really artificial and the cake was too sweet.
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Finally tried Musang King durian

I have always wanted to try this place but Yuen Long is too far.

Before I went in the shop, I was given a flyer which I did not really take a look at.

The lady who gave me the leaflet strongly recommended the durian softserve.

There were other items I wanted to try such as the durian milkshake which was not available yet.

The only items that were available were the pancakes $42, crepes $58 and soft serve (dine in $68, takeaway $38).

The menu was rather weird, the crepes were called pancakes and the pancakes that looked like French crepes were called pancakes.

The guy at the till recommended the soft serve to dine in or the pancake (French crepe).

As I have not tried Musang Durian on its own I opted for the pancake because it was just pancake with durian meat. The crepe had Musang durian meat as well but it had cream too.


Anyway, after I finished the dessert my bored friend who does not eat durian noticed on the flyer that you get a free soft serve icecream with any purchase.

Initially I couldn't be bothered to redeem it but my bored friend did the deed.

It seem's that they print these flyers to attract people but if you were already intending to dine there they won't bother to tell you about the offer because they just want you to order the most expensive item on the menu ie the softserve!!

Just for fun a 2.5kg durian would cost £37.99 (HKD46X) in the UK.

When I got the pancake, the first thing I did was try the durian on its own and the taste is evidently stronger and richer which a heavy savoury taste.
I am glad to have finally tried Musang durian because it would be difficult to have a whole one to yourself.



Finally tried Musang King durian Musang King

【La Forêt-Noire】

Black forest is always my favourite cake because of cherries and chocolate.

At Maxim's, they have launched a luxury version of the black forest cake called 【La Forêt-Noire】.


There are two sizes, the big one which weighs 1lb ($218) and a smaller one ($128).
*** Please note that the cherries on top may be replaced with other berries due to seasonal availability.***

To match the black forest cake, they have a specially designed box for it.

The cake is covered in thin chocolate pieces and garnished with a layer of cream and fresh cherries on top.



The cake contains French chocolate with a layer of Bavarois cream in the middle, and cherries soaked in wine.


There were layers of delicious chocolate cake in between.

It was such a delicious cake with all these layers with juicy alcoholic cherries, cream and Bavarois cream which tasted a bit like custard.

If the cake is too much for your sweet tooth, there is also a dessert version.