Starbucks deformed red velvet cake

Although LLWL has reviewed this, I still wanted to try it even though I knew the taste was going to be bad.
There were quite a few in the cabinet and one was deformed with the filling exposed.

I knew I was going to served the deformed one but I couldn't be bothered to ask her for a different one as I knew it wasn't going to taste good.

Here was my deformed red velvet cake.

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deformed red velvet cake:


The taste was weird, and the cake was dense and mushy with a strong buttery smell and taste.
As it was deformed the filling was not runny but it a thick paste!
There are no other words to describe the taste other than a dough taste with smelly butter.
It reminded me of Kid's Calpol fever medicine which is thick and has a bright pink colour.
For Xmas I would have appreciated berries and not red beans on top because I hate red beans!
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Although the cake was crap, the Xmas drinkware was quite nice.


My favourite one!

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The bill: $38

$20 for a bowl of yummy noodles at 豆花妹撈米線 (Mong Kok)

豆花妹撈米線 (Mong Kok)

I love these noodles, they are cheap and addictive.
The noodles are always soft and the meat sauce is strong with a fragrant Sichuan peppercorn taste.


This time I got the big bowl which was only $20.
The noodles were just as good but they were not that spicy this time.

New panfried Vegetable dumplings at 八方雲集鍋貼水餃專門店

八方雲集鍋貼水餃專門店 (Tseung Kwan O)

If your a regular here, you will know that all their dumplings are meat based.
They have launched a new dumpling which is meat free.
But saying that, it is probably cooked on the same pan that meat dumplings are cooked so if you are on a strict vegetarian diet, these are not for you.
Seemingly healthy because they are meat free, they are still panfried so they are just as bad a the meat version except that it is less fatty.


This joint is extremely tiny.

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panfried Vegetable dumplings:

The dumplings were quite nice but the dumpling skin was weak which didn't hold the dumpling together.


The filling was moist with a nice crunch filled with carrots, cabbage, black ear fungus and burdock.
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The bill: $16

Guacamole, chicken and egg sandwich at A-1 Bakery (Lok Fu)

They had a nice selection of sandwiches.

There was a choice of: The club, pastrami, smoked salmon, guacamole and chicken.


I had my eyes on the salmon and the guacamole so in the end I got the guacamole.



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Guacamole, chicken and egg sandwich:

There was quite alot of filling in the sandwich but it was not even because the edges were empty.
Anyway, the sandwich was really good because the avocado was really creamy, and it was filled with egg and chicken as well which made it filling.
The guacamole element was a bit disappointing because there was no guacamole at all, it was just plain avocado which you can't really call guacamole!
The charcoal walnut bread was nice and nutty.
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Pina colada froyo from Appolo

Appolo (Tseung Kwan O)

I have been addicted with these froyos because everytime I try a new fruit combination my mind is already thinking ahead on the next visit.

This time I had the pineapple and coconut.
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Pina colada froyo:

The pineapple and coconut was actually really good because it tastes like pinacolada and the pineapple chunks are juicy and refreshing.
However the pineapple and coconut bits can be rather woody because all the juice is drawn out when they are constantly stored in the freezer.
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The first REAL vegetarian review at 素心齋 (Kwun Tong)

It is quite strange this shop has a vegetarian name when it sell mostly non vegetarian items such as fish balls, grilled meat skewers etc.

Anyway, on the side I did spot some standard vegetarian items such as sweet and sour, beancurd rolls etc.

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Beancurd combo:

Frankly they need sauce so I put some Chinese red sweet sauce on it which made it much tastier.
My favourite was the seaweed beancurd rolls because the seaweed gives it an umami flavour.
As for the other one, the outside coating was really tough and chewy since they were not freshly fried.
I ate the soft beancurd sheets in the middle which were tasty with the delicious sauce.
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Cold and oily rice at Flames Charcoal chicken

The tomato rice was cold and oily that it tasted like the Chinese "Western fried rice (sae chau faan)".

It was very sweet too and lacked real tomato taste which is nothing compared to the delicious tomato rice at Healthy chicken.