Crispy tofu fish puffs @ Kam Wing Tai

甘永泰魚蛋 (Cheung Chau)

After trying these on my first visit, I was back for more.


They have two branches next to each other and I always go to this one.

I am slighty confused because some reviews say that it is minced prawn tofu puffs but the woman that sells it says that it is minced fish.


The exterior of this looks like smelly tofu with an interesting surface similar to loofah/bamboo pith.

This texture is created by slicing tofu puffs in half, turning it inside out, stuffing it with minced fish paste, sticking them on skewers and frying them.

The exterior is extremely crunchy, and the filling is slightly chewy with lovely fish taste.

It costs $10 per stick with table tissue wrapped around it which keeps my fingers lovely and clean.

Thai style Ice lollies at Cheung Chau

The Garden Cafe/Pub (Cheung Chau)

On my previous visit to Cheung Chau I have always been captivated by this stall selling ice lollies but I never tried it because there were always people surrounding it.


I found the huge revolving metal barrel/drum interesting and the Chinese letters seem to say that they are made to order.

Anyway, I am not quite sure how they can freeze the ice lollies that quickly but all of the lollies are in a slim metal mould with a chopstick in the middle acting as a lolly stick!
They look similar to the British brand of WALL's mini milk ice lollies

I have not been to Thailand before so I do not know what Thai style ice lollies are meant to be.

These Thai style ice lollies only cost $8 and the size was not too big which was good.
It was perfect for people who were going to try snacks at every stall.
The ice lollies probably froze quicker at that sizel.

There were eight flavours: Watermelon, sesame, tea, coffee, coconut, mango, melon and taro.

I only considered the taro because the rest were standard Chinese flavours which I was not fond of.

After ordering, the guy rotates the drum/cylinder to get the required flavour.

He either lets you take it out of the mould or he takes it out for you.


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Taro ice lolly:


The ice lolly was quite watery and icy, it was not milky but tasted of taro.
The sweetness was just right and the size was not too big which was good because it meant I could try other delicacies on the island.
Basically they tasted the same as WALL's mini milk ice lollies with taro flavour.
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Festive steamed buns for the Bun Festival

Toy Store (Cheung Chau)

I never eat Chinese steamed buns because I don't like the fillings and it is frankly too sweet.



At this stall they had the usual boring lotus seed, red beans and custard, but then I saw two unusual flavours which were taro and pumpkin.

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Steamed bun with pumpkin filling:


There was not much filling inside which was good and the size was smaller than the buns sold at the stalls nearby.
The pumpkin filling was natural pumpkin meat which was not too sweet.
Although these flavours are unusual for Festive buns, you can get these flavours easily at bun specialists such as Tong Kee and Mr Bao Dim.
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Deliciously guilty secret unveiled

Secret Ingredient (Sheung Wan)

Thanks to Secret Ingredient for letting me try their delicious meals.

Now with Secret Ingredient everyone can be a master chef if they keep their secret while Secret Ingredient does the hard work and thinking!

Basically at Secret Ingredient they offer so many delicious and healthy dishes that are made simple for you to cook.
All the ingredients are marinated, washed, cut for your convenience.

Each ingredient is labelled with an alphabet and the recipe is as simple as ABC, you just look for the required letters and put those ingredients in.
The instruction sheet is crystal clear and tells you what cooking utensils are needed.

After browsing their website, I was really impressed because the dishes they offered were dishes that you would expect to order in restaurants, but now they can be easily cooked in everyone's homes and you can pretend to be master chef without anyone knowing the secret behind.

I loved the Western dishes they offered.

Examples of the dishes they offer:
-Crunchy Tilapia with Fennel Tzatsiki and Mediterranean Couscous
-SI’s Tuna Tacos with Fresh Guacamole and Signature Chilli-Parm Corn

The orders are ready on the same day if you order before 5pm and can be delivered to your home or office.

I was amazed by their hospitality because I really wanted to try the salad, desserts, soup, and vanilla soda too and they were able to accommode that.

After I made the order, their menu was changed the next day and they informed me that I could take a look at the new menu too and change my order if I found something else even better.

Anyway, I was such a greedy pig and tried:
Greek Salad
Pumpkin Pie
Pecan Pie
Celeriac Soup
Vanilla Dry Soda
Veggie Thai Curry

I was really looking forward to cooking again because the environment and climate in Hong Kong is too hot and the accommodation here is so cramped compared to the "normal conditions" in the UK which I took for granted.
Luckily it was not that hot the day I cooked and just as I thought everything was going according as planned I was furious to find out that the cooker was out of gas.

In the end I resorted to using a rice cooker to cook and surprisingly it turned out fine.

My food was delivered in a lovely brown paper bag.


The items were packed in perfect equilibrium with the sauces at the bottom giving the bag a sturdy base and platform for the other ingredients on top.
Some of the vegetables were vacuum packed which kept the vegetables fresh and other ingredients were packed neatly in clear tubs and lettered.


I am sure it was just as fun for them packing my order as it as for me unpacking it!
All the packaging they use is environmentally friendly, corn based and not plastic.
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Greek Salad:
The greek salad was an easy starter, it was just finding the required letters and mixing them together.



There were delicious yellow peppers, feta cheese, olives, cucumber, parsley and purple onions and dressing.
The salad was colourful and sweetly delicious because of the yellow peppers and the feta and olives paired perfectly with the onions giving a crunchy Greek salad medley.
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Veggie Thai Curry:
Unfortunately, I had to use a rice cooker for this because I ran out of gas, but it still worked.


I only failed with the noodles because I left them for too long so they were a bit soft, but cooking the Thai curry sauce was easy as 1-2-3 and the curry pastes and ingredients supplied smelt so gorgeous with plenty of lemongrass leaves which is an essential for Thai green curry.


The vegetables tasted amazing because the curry sauce that was developed by them was delicious and when the noodles were mixed in, it absorbed that delicious curry sauce.
It was slightly spicy with a delicious creamy coconut taste.



It was truly a hearty vegetarian meal with broccoli, baby sweetcorn, aubergines, potatoes and fresh peas.
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Celeriac Soup:
The soup was in a vacuum sealed bag so all you had to do was boil it in water and pour the contents in a bowl.

The apple was the only ingredient I had to cut because it oxidises easily.

The taste of the soup was also amazing, it was creamy and full of celery flavour, the pieces of apple and the celery soup were delicious together and the pairing of celery and apple always works.
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Pumpkin Pie:

I have been craving for this ever since Thanksgiving because Pumpkin pie is gorgeous, it tastes different from normal pumpkin because the pie version is mixed with cinnamon and other spices and the texture of the pumpkin pie filling was thick and creamy.
The sweetness was just right and the crust thin and crispy.
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Pecan Pie:

The pecan pie was also delicious and I am sure anyone would like it, the sweetness was just right with lovely pecan nuts.
Both pies were delicious and I was so lucky that Secret Ingredient partnered with Tai Tai Pie Pieto launch their first dessert collection, otherwise I would not known about their delicious pie collection.
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Vanilla Dry Soda:
This is the BEST soda I have tried in my life. If you know me, I rarely drink sodas because they taste artificial and I find them syrupy, but this bottle of dry soda was PURE soda.
What I mean by that is the taste was NATRUAL and it tastes like fizzy water with a hint of vanilla and no other artificial tastes.
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Inconsistancies at Tomyumtomyum branches

Tom Yum Tom Yum (Kowloon Bay)

Took my fellow foodies here because the branch at Hang Hau was quite nice.

I recommended this place because you can choose the level of spicyness for the Tom Yum Kung soup base .
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Vermicelli in tom yum kung broth:

The tom yum kung broth was much spicier and stronger than the version I had at Hang Hau, and to be fair I chose the same spicyness level to compare the two restaurants.
This restaurant was a tad spicier than the Hang Hau branch and there was less tomato in the taste.
The vermicelli disappointed me because they were thicker than the ones I had at Hang Hau and I thought the vermicelli used in all the branches would be the same.
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Fresh hand cut fries @ Lamma Grill

As well as Tai O, Lamma Island also offers fresh Handcut fries at the Lamma Grill.


I already had lunch so stopped by just for fries.



When I went to order the fries, you could see a tray of freshly cut fries ready to be fried.

The fries were piping hot when they arrived and I put my favourite salt and vinegar on the fries.



The fries were delicious, with crisp skin, delicious starchy potato inside with a hint of sweetness.
They tasted perfect with salt and vinegar.

While the fries were divine, the biting insects were hell, I was bitten at least eight times before I finished the fries hence the low rating for the environment.

QQ Rice 10th anniversary

QQ Rice (Choi Hung)

Since my last visit years ago, they are now approaching their 10th anniversary

Usually I do not eat glutinous rice or Shanghai style rice with fried dough inside.
The rice at this place was rather different as you get to choose different rices, and as a standard you can choose 6 different fillings, which is quite a lot since you normally would probably get to choose 3 or 4.

The fillings are displayed in front of you, so you can see what there is to choose.


I have not been here for years so I forgot you could choose up to six choices, so I chose four.

First of all I chose the Ice lake wild rice which was sold out, so I had mixed grain instead.
They used to have shrimp bran as a filling but they don't have it anymore.
For my fillings I chose Crisp Caraway, pickled vegetables, vegetarian Meat, and chicken in wine sauce.
I also ticked the curry powder but they forgot to add it.


After paying for it, the staff scoops the rice from the tubs and adds the relevant fillings.




The rice filled with fillings was quite nice, it was still lovely and soft and the fillings inside were delicious.

SADLY THIS BRANCH IS NOW CLOSED!