Take outs are cheaper than dining in ! @ Bubblegreen

There is a price difference here when you dine in and take out, being more expensive dining in, but still in served in those plastic boxes dining in.

Anyway with the new restaurants opening nearby, there is $2 discount for take out.

Got the chicken steak with Teriayki sauce, tastes how it should and served with pearl rice.
Whatever choice you order, they always give you a carrot slices and pieces of cabbage.

Noodles @ 八記粉麵專家

Due to the TKO signal failure I was forced to change my travelling plans, so stopped over at Kwun tong for food!

Didn’t feel like going to APM, so went out to the streets and found an alley way with lots of noodle shops, selected this one purely by random, sat down scanning the table for a menu, realised their wasn’t a menu, damm. Then realised it was written on the wall.

The whole situation reminded me of my holidays coming to HK, clueless and lost, as not knowing what and what there was to order, also friggin hot!
There were no pictures either, how helpful!

Ordered pork balls and cuttlefish balls with noodles, and wontons with noodles.

There was nothing special about the cuttlefish balls or pork balls, but the wontons were interesting, when you bite it in half you can see bits of brown stuff in it, my initial guess was grounded wheat, then I saw dark brown sesame seeds in it, so maybe they could have been grounded fried sesame seeds.

Also the whole experience eating there was a slight nuisance, I must have problems with the use of chopsticks, the wontons were firm and hards and perfectly round which made it hard to pick up with chopsticks, also the soup was VERY HOT, so I was fuming!

I gave up using the friggin chopsticks, so I used a toothpick to pick the wontons.

The table sauces were interesting too, I have never seen them at the supermarket, Lychee vinegar! I couldn’t taste any lychee, but tasted refreshingly appetising.

Western breakfast @ 新軒尼詩茶餐廳 New Hennessy Restaurant

Saw the good pictures posted of the breakfasts served there, so decided to try it.

Ordered the western breakfast including a drink, had chicken steak from a choice of beef, chicken or pork, it came with baked beans, and I chose 2 eggs instead of other stuff like ham or sausage, which is quite lame, the sausage is just frankfurters, and sliced ham is fried! No one fries ham in UK!!

Overall, the eggs and baked beans tasted how it should, the grilled chicken steak was a bit dry, but the skin was crunchy. Eating it was difficult with the useless weak knives and forks.

chicken steak, Baked beans n egg

 

Useless plastic cutlery

 

Interesting motto

A taste of Macau in Central @ Chopsticks 筷子記

Chopsticks Kee serve noodles a bit like the car noodle style, pick the items you want with the noodles, and the noodles have thick gravy sauce rather than soup.

The sauces they serve are tomato, onion, oyster and sa cha, so tried the sa cha an the tomato, both sauces were too sweet, the items that came with it were the standard fishball, although some were slightly different, such as the abalone fish rolls and the fried bean curd rolls.

The metal plate they used was also interesting, old hong kong style.

Clear opaque herbal jelly @ 藥生堂

Noticed on their menu the white grass jelly, so finally tried it, apparently it is meant to good for your respiratory, the owner said it was made of fruit, and a high source of fibre.
Although it is called white jelly, it is not white.

I got a bowl to take away, it was nice the syrup was a separate tub, I tried it without the sweetener and the jelly itself had a faint taste of sweetness, the appearance of the jelly was not white, it was crystal clear. The texture of the jelly was like grass jelly, although slighty chewier than grass jelly.

Vegetarian roast pork roll @ 東方小祇園

When I go for vegetarian food in Wanchai, people will assume it is this restaurant, however I finally found out this was the one they were mentioning about.

It seems popular in Wanchai for the local chinese, but it didn’t really appeal to me to try, but today I was slightly hungry, so just grabbed a quick snack to try.

I got the char siu roll, looking abit like a sausage roll.

I thought the pastry was slightly too thick in proportion to what was inside, the intimation pork was slight hard and a bit like dry chewy hard plastic.

The taste was acceptable but not delicious.

King parrot does the job @ 香辣屋 Chilli n Spice

Chilli n Spice is a subsidiary of the King Parrot group, the restaurants I have tried from King Parrot group are ok, so this one was ok too.

Ordered the set, which includes soup, starters, rice and a choice of two mains and dessert.

Crabmeat and sweetcorn soup:
Slightly different to what I expected, the soup had lots of onions, and it tasted like watery A La King sauce, I think ingredients were a bit weird together, onions and sweetcorns.
The crabmeat was not cooked together with the soup, but topped on the surface of the soup as a final touch, so don’t expect a lot of crab meat.

Starters:
Chicken satay was skewered with thigh meat, so it was tender, the peanut sauce was slightly sweet.
Crunchy garlic butter chicken wings, were crunchy as stated, however the garlic wasn’t that strong, the butter was just right, not sickly and oily as the famous vietnamese one in Causeway bay.

Katong beef: Strong in coconut and lemongrass flavour, but not spicy at all.

Steamed fish with sauce: the fish was rather big, so the fish was slightly coarse. It was scaled properly, so you only need to watch out for the bones.

Red bean dessert and coffee dessert, both these were agar based, and I am not a keen fan for these, I just found it too sweet.

If the dishes arrived in order such as starters then the mains, then it would be better, as the fish arrived first.