Afternoon buffet at The Market

Previously tried the buffet before and the food was amazing but booking a table is extremely difficult because this place is seriously popular!!
Now they do afternoon buffets at $298 per adult so I tried reserving a table.
Saturdays were quite full so I ended up going on a Sunday.

When I got there, I was greeted with a Cupcake tower:

There were cream puffs as well as Malaysian durian desserts.

My favourite desserts:

Finger snacks:

Chinese options including prawn toasts, roast pork puffs, spring rolls etc.



Hong Kong Style Milk Tea:

Peking Duck:


Grilled toast with Kaya:

Here is a glimpse of what I had:
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Delicious peking duck.

Seafood congee with preserved egg.

Freshly made souffle delivered to your table.

Japanese seafood pancake filled with chives and seafood


Finger sandwiches

Chinese pork chop bun!!

Har gau

Roast pork puff

They also have a noodle station where you pick your noodles and toppings and have it ready at your table by giving them the table number keyring as shown below.

After all that I was full and started on desserts.

Lemon and lime sorbet

The Kaya toast was amazing, it was fluffy and crispy with a delicious kaya paste on top.


Definitely coming here again!!

The Market:

Hotel ICON

2/F, Hotel ICON, 17 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

InnoVative Vegetarian food

Since my last visit, there are so many new dishes ranging from Italian, Thai to Chinese!!!!!


Here was what we had:
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Innoveggie salad $68:

To start off with, we had a refreshing salad.
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Toast with beancurd and cheese $48:

This was delicious toast with soft and supple tofu topped with grilled cheese.
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Crab croquettes $48:

The croquettes were wrapped in crispy noodle strands, in the middle they were filled with mash.
They came with a sweet mushroom sauce but they were good with or without the sauce.
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Japanese pancake $38:

This was like eating a Chinese radish cake because it was loaded with julienne radish and vegetables.
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Innoveggie pizza $98:

The pizza was amazing because there was fermented beancurd spread as well as cheese which gave it a stronger taste.
The pizza base was thin like a cracker.
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Innoveggie assorted cold dishes $98:

The platter had red cabbage salad with sesame, cold beancurd with sesame dressing, preserved duck egg and ginger, FuQiPeiPian, Marinated dried bean curd.
My favourite was the red cabbage which was dressed in citrus juices and the cold beancurd was good too because it had soyabrean taste and not the tasteless silky beancurd that comes from the packet.
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Mashed potato with truffle $38:

The potato mash was a nice filler, flavoured with the lovely truffle paste on top.
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spinach lasagne $88:

The lasagne was my favourite, a decent portion filled with so much spinach and sliced mushrooms.

A tasty and filling dish!!!
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Chinese cabbage in soymilk broth $39:

This was also my favourite because it was SIMPLE and DELICIOUS, the Chinese cabbage was fresh and sweet drenched in nourishing savoury soymilk which I drank after finishing the vegetables.
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Crispy fried soymilk $45:

Finally a vegetarian version of fried milk~!
It was crispy filled with delicious sweet soymilk curd in the middle.
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Barley soymilk:

The barley soymilk was really relaxing because it tasted like muesli and the sweetness was just right.
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dessert platter $88:

The dessert platter had Cassava with coconut puree, apple crumble, pandan pudding.
My favourite was the cassava because it had a nice starchy hard texture.
For apple crumble and icecream lovers, I suggest ordering a Icecream from LabMade to go with it!!
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Coming back soon to Innoveggie!!

G/F., 2-4 Fort Street, North Point

Dinner delights at Loong Toh Yuen

Loong Toh Yuen is a lovely Chinese restaurant located in the heart of 1881 Heritage by the courtyard.

Inside, there is nice oriental decor which expats would love.


At the moment, they are doing special Hairy crab dishes as well as their regular menu.


We had some chef signature dishes and some hairy crab dishes.
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Tossed green bamboo and black fungus with hairy crab roe $98:

We started off with this dish which tasted great with or without vinegar and the green bamboos were incredibly crispy and juicy. The black fungus and green bamboo were heavily flavoured with a delicious sesame oil taste which was then tastier with the crab roe.
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Roasted peking duck served with chinese pancake $438:



I love duck with pancakes but in Hong Kong they eat them differently because they just serve the skin.
At this place, the duck skin was divine because it was crispy and there was not much fat on it which made it sensational with pancakes, cucumber and the sauce which is the key to a perfect pancake.
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Stir fried egg white with black truffle and hairy crab roe:


The egg white had a nice chunky coarse texture which mimicked the crab meat nicely while the hairy crab roe and black truffle complemented it nicely.
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Pan fried spare ribs with strawberry and champagne sauce $198:

As they always say Champagne and strawberries!!!
Here it was spare ribs in champagne and strawberry sauce which was really luxurious and a nice treat for people who don't drink champagne.
Apart from spareribs, their champagne prawn dumplings are also famous.
I am not good with eating Chinese spareribs because they are cut differently, neverless the sauce was beautiful and dreamy with the champagne flavour.
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Fried homemade noodles with wild mushroom and spicy minced pork $168:

When the noodles came, I thought they were stir fried flat rice noodles because each strand was perfectly uniform and did not look like they were sliced with a knife.
Anyway, I really liked it because it was tasty with earthy mushrooms and a hint of spiciness from the pieces of pork.
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Fried rice with vegetables wrapped with Lotus leaf $148:


The fried rice was vegetarian which suitable for vegetarians.
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Sweetened almond soup with glutinous rice dumplings $48:

After the mains we had almond soup which was creamy with a strong nutty almond taste.
There put bamboo piths in it which had a texture strikingly similar to birds nest.
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Chinese petit fours:

Ended dinner with cashew pastries and chrysanthemum jellies.
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Loong Toh Yuen:
G/F, Hullett House, 1881 Heritage, 2A Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Lovely syringe gimmick

Honestly I came here because of the syringe!!!!

Oddies Foodies is also doing a dessert served with a syringe but the queue is endless which is why I came here.

The idea of using syringes as a gimmick would be absurb to the older Chinese generation because the Chinese culture is very superstitious about hospitals and anything related to it.
They try to avoid the taboo if it can be avoided.
Sometimes, when people talk about a morbid subject, they will mutter something like "choi" [o彩過你把口] or ask them to spit it out and say it again because they fear it will bring them harm or illness.

Things have now changed and the younger generation are more open to ideas and things like plastic pills which are commonly used in designs and decorations.

Anyway, lets talk about the really cool dessert.

I ordered the apple crumble which came with a syringe filled is jam!!

The icecream was really smooth and milky, the taste was bland but very buttery, after adding the jam and eating it with the crumbs and pieces of apple, it was really nice because all the tastes went together and the sweetness was just right.
I loved the pieces of apple because they were crisp with a hint of cinammon.


I was expecting an ordinary syringe (possibly a novelty one) but it was a real medical one by a reputable brand called Terumo.

The syringes that they use for the dessert are sterile and come in sealed packs which indicate one time use only because in the medical world they must be disposed safely after use to prevent needlestick injuries and contamination.

Terumo is a Japanese medical equipment company which specializes in Intravenous catheters, Infusion sets, Artificial heart and lungs, Blood glucose and blood pressure monitoring systems, Blood transfusion-related products, Oncology safety products, Peripheral stents and Oxygenators.

So if you are a Medical professional, you should know about these Medical directories called Medi-Bank Drug and Equipment found in hospitals and clinics for looking up dosage information, medicines, pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment.
[Apart from Medi-Bank, there are other publications available such as the BNF and MIMs for medicinal information but personally I find Medi-Bank easier to use because of the colourful tab sections.]


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