Delish all you can eat seafood [Bella Vita]

Tried the Bella Vita Sunday Brunch on the first day it was launched.
Basically it is all you can eat for $498 including Prosecco, white and red wine, juice.
I liked the grapefruit drink because they mixed it with some carbonated water which gave it a nice fizz and they had tea as well.

There is a buffet table for the antipasti which had:
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Assorted Italian cold cuts, Parma ham with melon


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Smoked salmon


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Burrata cheese and tomato, Deep fried calamari

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Selection of cheese


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Pan seared foie gras

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The seafood is all you can eat and they will serve a seafood platter and oyster platters which you can order again when you want some more.


For pastas, these are cooked to order.
Basically you select a pasta from a choice of Linguine, capellini, penne and spaghetti and choose a sauce from a choice of Arriabiata, vongole, carbonara and bolognese.
The sauces I recommend are bolognese and Arriabiata and for pastas I like linguini and capellini.




The portions of these are quite small which is good because you can try more pastas.

For the mains, there are steaks, lamb and seafood to choose from.
We chose the Florentine steak which can be ordered for an extra $80 per person (minimum of four people because the steak is quite big).
The Florentine steak is a T-bone steak with tenderloin and strip steak on the other side.


The mustard variety was good too because they had fruity mustards!


To finish off, there were a nice choice of desserts such as chocolate pudding and mixed berry mousse.

McDonald's cocnut pie 2015

I was finally able to buy the coconut pie a la carte because all the branches I went to sold the a la mode version during 1-3 of May.
It came in a nice black and white pie packaging and the pie was a dark brown black colour which had a slight taste of chocolate.



The filling inside was piping hot coconut, which basically tastes like the coconut paste you find in Thai coconut puddings.
It is definitely nice to have something new once in a while.

Cousin's treat at Tinello

Went here for Italian food with my lovely cousin.

Started off with bread, which was a cake because it was sweet and eggy with a browned crust that tasted a bit like a Cannele.

For mains I had the veal Saltimbocca, when it came the colour and texture looked like chicken.
The texture of the veal was very soft but at the same time it was very elastic so it was very difficult to cut.
I think the texture of veal is supposed to be soft and tender but they probably gave me the part that was not so soft.


The veal was deliciously flavoured by the salty ham paired with roasted vegetables and mash.
One of the vegetables was weird because it was Chinese radish which I don't appreciate in western food making it Chinesy!!

Spacious Japanese Seiro steaming [Kiwa Japanese Cuisine]

Kiwa is located in Sai Ying Pun near the Connaught Road exit of SYP MTR.

Went there for Japanese seiro which is food steamed in the seiro.
Kiwa is a very spacious restaurant hence the tables are big enough for their full sized seiros.

As well as Japanese fare, they have a good range of sakes with a pamphlet that shows all the sakes they serve.

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Started off with the appetizers which were poached fluorescent squids and fish slices. Both were a good starter.
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Then we had sashimi with 5 different types of fish including: threadfin, golden pike, fatty tuna, prawns
My favourites were the threadfin.

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Next was the soup which gave me a surprise because they had sponge tofu and the tiniest cute clams which I have never seen before.

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Then it was Hiroshima oysters cooked with konbu which had a strong taste of the sea.

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After the soup and oyster, it was time for the seiro, the fish slices were put in first, and then the prawns and alaska crab legs.



The steaming helped keep the freshness so that the seafood was delicately cooked without losing its flavour.




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Finished off with a grilled rice ball and inaiwan udon which was really filling.



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For dessert they had icecream but I was too full to eat it.

Oven roasted chicken at Goobne Chicken

Fried chicken is popular because of the Korean trend but it can be unhealthy.
At Goobne, they serve roasted frozen chicken.

Tried the chicken with curry powder and the Sichuan chicken, which is covered in sauce.

The chicken for both styles were stiff and the meat was firm because they are frozen chickens so you can’t expect a springy chicken texture.

Anyway, despite all the strong seasonings and spices, it had an odd taste that could not be overpowered by the spices.

The Sichuan chicken fared better because it was in a tasty fiery sweet sauce but unfortunately they also put the signature Korean chili powder in it which made it really spicy.

Chinese bread from Prince Bakery (Tai Koo)

I wanted to make a sandwich so grabbed some white bread from Prince Bakery.
It looked quite normal, but it didn't taste soft and yeasty and had the typical Chinese taste and texture.

Apart from the bread, I loved the labels there.

Okinawan brown sugar roll @ Saint Honore

The Okinawan kokuto (Kanji: 黒糖) roll looked delicious because it was filled with okinawan sugar mousse, okinawan sugar jelly and purple potatoes so decided to get it.



The box reminded me of Anna Sui!

As you can see, there are chunks of jelly, sweet potato and mousse in the centre.




I ended up eating half of the roll because it was not too sweet and the roll was soft and light with fluffy light mousse and bits and pieces that gave it an interesting mouthful.