3 wishes in 1 - Tea, Dessert and Vegetarian fare

As well as food, tea is another big thing for me, be it Chinese leaf tea or English tea.
At 2dp, they serve Brewteaful tea, desserts and vegetarian food which all happen to be my thing.

It is a modern Chinese tea house that uses Chinese teas in their icecreams, cakes, bakeries and of course their artisan teas while modern vegetarian food is served on the menu as well.

Vegetarian and Tea menu:

It was good to see blackberries as not many places source them in Hong Kong.

For drinks had the Lavender blackberry tie guan yin, white rose tea and lychee grapefruit white tea.

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lychee grapefruit white tea:

 Lavender blackberry tie guan yin:

 white rose tea:

Anyway, started with some vegetarian bites which were as good as expected.
The tofu bites were tasty and the cheese, potato and leek bites were crispy filled with fluffy potato filling. It was interesting to see it paired with pickled cabbage which reminds me of this Chinese takeaway in UK.

Homemade tofu balls:

 Potato and cheese potato wontons:

For dessert, I managed to scoff more than I expected because they were not sweet at all which is healthy and infused with a fragrant tea taste. The cream horns are a must try because the pastry is soft with a slight chew coated in a sweet glaze filled with fragrant tea custard. 

There are two flavours puer tea or tieguanyin.

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tieguanyin custard cream horn:

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puer tea custard cream horn:

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The teapot cake, again in two flavours was also good because it was tea flavoured mousse with cake layers in the middle, I chose the tiegwanyin apple teapot cake because it was flavoured by refreshing apple puree in the middle.

Tie gwan yin apple teapot cake:

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Finished with the icecream, again there are two flavours. Personally I liked the puer chocolate because the tieguanyin was a bit bitter.

Definitely will be back soon for the vegetarian burgers and breakfasts!~ The HAND DRIPPED TEA is also very interesting.

2DP - 2decimalplacest

https://www.facebook.com/2DP-2decimalplacest-1709932289035851/

Souper duper soups at Souprb

There are lots of options for Chinese soups in Sheungwan like Soupreme 湯品小棧, Souper Authentic 球哥燉湯 and 靚湯王 at Dor dor eatery (with rude service) but NONE for Western soups unless you go all the way to TALLORE in Wanchai.

Finally Souprb has popped up serving soups with 5 choices which they change every week. The soup choices were impressive because there were 4/5 that I wanted to try: pumpkin, beetroot, Mexican chicken, portobello and chestnut, Prawn and crab gumbo (premium choice +$10)

As a soup fan, I got the tasting set which comes with two soups while my friend got the Stew set which comes with rice and a curry. They also had toasties which I really really wanted to eat as well.

We both added $30 for the made to order freshly pressed juices which were refreshing but a bit too sweet.

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Tasting set:
Prawn and crab gumbo soup + Mexican chicken

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Stew set:
curry, rice and chestnut and portobello mushroom soup

The curry was Japanese curry served with Japanese rice.

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As for the soups, the chestnut portobello mushroom was really good, it was thick and there were so much mushrooms and chestnuts in it.

The gumbo was a little disappointing because the cajun and spiciness was not strong enough and there were bits of shell in the soup.

The Mexican chicken tasted like Chinese style borscht soup with chicken added to it.

Will definitely be back for the toasties but the tasting set was not very filling, but then I probably have a big appetite.

[Souprb]

100 Jervois Street,

Sheung Wan,

Hong Kong

https://www.facebook.com/souprb/

[Mr. Greek] Given a second chance

At the beginning of this year, I was bored so went to MK and discovered Mr.Greek so decided to go the next day but shockingly when I got there it was closed down.
Anyway, it was odd that they were located in MK because there are not much expats around there.

Mr Greek is from Canada and they serve Greek food as well as POUTINE.
Again, I discovered this shop by luck because I was trying restaurants nearby.

There were not many people as they have only been open for two weeks.
Started with spanakopita which was flaky filled with spinach and cheese.
It was flaky and stuffed with lots of spinach, a great appetizer if you like light snacks.

Also had the moussaka which was piping hot loaded with minced lamb and layers of potatoes and aubergines.
Tasted similar to British shepherds pie but the lamb was very strong.

The poutine which I was really looking forward to was disappointing because there was not enough gravy and it was lumpy.
Hopefully they will improve on the gravy and serving it in a bowl might be better.

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Gyros:

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[Mr. Greek]
45-53 Garley Building,
Graham Street,
Central.

[The Night Market] Taiwanese fare in Central

When this restaurant opened a few years ago everyone was raving about it. Finally tried it and the dishes were up to my expectations.
I chose the Central branch because quality is often better and it has more positive reviews than the branch in Tai Koo.
Started with the noodles in sesame soup with chicken.
The sesame flavour was strong and not sickly.

I liked the fried oysters because most Taiwanese joints serve greasy oyster pancakes so the individual fried oysters were much nicer complimented by the chili sauce but unfortunately they were a bit too salty.

The tea was good with a huge block of herbal jelly but it tasted like HK style milk tea.

Finished with the soup which was light and clear.

My friend had the minced meat with gravy which she said was too sweet.

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The Night Market:
11 Stanley Street,
6th Floor,
Central

[MO Bar] Stylish afternoon tea

MO Bar is a stylish swank bar located at The Landmark, when you go in, there is a huge bar on the right with a mirrored glass bottle cabinet where you can see all the bottles they have.
The bar was surrounded with lots of people enjoying themselves.

We sat near the back and had the afternoon tea which costs $260 per person.

There was a good selection of savories and pastries:

It was such a treat having the champagne shooter with strawberry and rhubarb because rhubarb is rare in Hong Kong and the champagne was strong with went nicely with the sweet compote.
The lobster medallion was springy and meaty, while the luscious green asparagus and comte cheese was divine.
For the veggie bites, I loved the filo shell topped with zucchini and green pea garnished with goats cheese and lemon.

Last but not least were the deliciously crumbly scones paired with clotted cream.

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MO Bar:

http://www.mandarinoriental.com/landmark/fine-dining/mo-bar/

[食好啲] Kaiping cuisine at food Terminal 啟業市場

In London, there are Boxparks, where a bunch of shipping containers are made into shops and eateries.

Recently Kai Yip Estate market had a makeover where it was given an Industrial theme with a shipping container outlook so I decided to check it out.

The outside display window had realistic chops and meat hanging.

The location is not exactly convenient because it is a bit of a walk from choi hung MTR station or you can get a bus to Kai Yip Estate Terminal.

As well as checking it out, I was clearly there for food.

There were various stalls from dimsum, fried stuff, noodles etc but 食好啲 clearly was unique because they had these strange looking ricerolls, silver pin noodles which were filled and these items on the menu which I have not seen anywhere else.

It turns out to be Kaiping cuisine after asking the guy there.

I ordered the rolls and a rice, it was difficult deciding between the salted fish rice or dried dace fish but he recommended the salted fish because they salt and sun dry it themselves.

On the counter, there some mouth watering condiments like red and green chili sauce made by them as well.

The rolls were slightly sweet with a strong soybean taste filled with bits of minced meat in the middle but not too much and the chili sauce complimented it nicely.

The not so photogenic salted fish and pork belly rice was amazing because the salted dried fish texture was like fresh fish but slightly firmer like bacalhau, and there were no bones.

It was steamed with pork belly and ginger which releases some oils and goes perfectly with the rice.

Video of 食好啲:

Video of the market:

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啟業市場
Kai Yip Estate, 18 Kai Yip Road, Kowloon Bay
Opening Hours:

(Food Terminal) 8:00-22:00

https://www.facebook.com/foodterminal.kaiyip