Cali-Mex invades Causeway Bay

Little Burro used to be the only Mexican place in CWB but now there is Cali-Mex.
Spotted it earlier when they had bright boards around it.






Now they are open!


Tried the breakfast which was only served in the mornings before and now it is served ALL DAY! Hoooray!


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All day breakfast Crispy bacon bowl:





I love their bowls but the breakfast bowl is even better because there are fried eggs.
The runny egg yolk with the guacamole and salsa tastes so amazing and beneath the sauces there is tasty Mexican rice and my favourite refried beans.
I also added extra spinach for $8 but it wasn't really necessary because the bacon was good enough as it was crispy and delicious but it would be great if the whole bacon was crispy.
Unfortunately, one of the new pressed juice flavours was sold out so I got a bottle of coke instead.
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Cali-Mex:

9-11 Pennington Street

Dessert pastas

This place is called Pasta oyster house, which obviously specializes in oyster and pasta. 

A few years ago tried the North point branch, which was great.

This time went to the Sai Wan Ho branch because there was no one in the restaurant.

For lunch, the choices are pathetic because during lunch, no one is willing to pay more and restaurants have to cook simple stuff because people only have an hour for lunch and so that they can serve more people as well.

Tried the pasta and curry, which were both disastrous.

The curry was cloyingly sweet and the tomato sauce was also sweet.

Great condiments and broths for hotpots

Hotpots can be boring when the broth and condiments are just the typical items.
I liked it here because there are some unique dipping sauces for the hotpot

There were other options as well as hotpots such as the roast suckling pig, plump meaty goose and sashimi.

Here was what we had:
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Fresh Chinese yam with blueberry sauce:

Started off with fresh boiled Chinese yam which has a starchy texture complimented by the sweet blueberry sauce.
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Crispy pork belly:

Next we had the crispy pork belly which were cut neatly into cubes.
The pork skin was crispy and the layers of fat and pork were even that it gave it a soft and meaty texture.
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Roasted goose:

The goose was served in a glass dish and it the goose meat was velvety.
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Roasted suckling pig:

The suckling pig was served sizzling on black pebbles which kept it hot.

The pork was soft and tender that it almost melted in your mouth.


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Double boiled whelk and peach tree gum soup:



I liked this clear soup because there was a strong whelk taste and there were bits of glistening peach tree gum which is resin from peach trees.
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Sashimi:

This was a fresh platter of assorted sashimi.
My favourites were the salmon and scallop.
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After we finished the starters, it was time for hotpot and the first thing you do is mix your sauce.

They have minced dried prawn paste which is different.

There is also grated galangal (sand ginger) and crispy XO sauce.
I definitely recommend lots of galangal because it has an aromatic taste and makes everything in the hotpot taste good.

Chinese drunken chicken broth:

For the broth we had the drunken chicken which had a strong Chinese herb taste.
It got sweeter because of the red dates.

Here were the items we put in our hotpot.
Deluxe marble beef slices:

Sea cucumber with prawn roe dumplings:

Assorted minced platter:

Black and white cuttlefish balls:

Vegetables:

Fish:

The fish was great because they gave you the WHOLE FISH.
Personally I think the head, fins and the tail taste the best.
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Dragon Court Premium HotPot Cuisine
旺角西洋菜南街51號友誠商業中心2至3樓

J'adore Big Fernand

There are lots of mixed reviews on this place, the main complaint is that the patty is too thin but if it is tasty I prefer quality and not quantity.


After trying it, I am convinced to go back because the patties are good and they put decent and FRENCH cheese in it.

You can either choose a burger from the menu or mix and match the way you want it.


The environment was different and I love the French humour because the seats have French jokes on them.




Perche means butt in French and Perche Derche means lick bum!!

Tried two combos, one with salad and one with fries.
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La Bartholome:
This was a beef patty with raclette cheese, pork bacon, caramelized onions, chives, BB Fernand sauce and Tata Fernand sauce.

The beef burger was on the sweet side because of the sauce and caramelized onions.

The patty was juicy and tasty quality grounded pure beef without any chewy bits that you couldn't chew!
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Create your own burger:
Lamb patty with Fourme d'Ambert, grilled eggplant, coriander and tonton Fernand.

Each bite was amazing because the cheese was strong with a slight tart flavour and the lamb was velvety and didn't have a gamey taste.

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Fries:

Finally a place that serves proper French fries, what I mean by that is freshly cut fries that are fried and served on the same day.
They had a delicious sweetness in it with a silky centre.
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Homemade salad:

It was topped with delicious sun dried tomatoes which gave it a delicious savoury flavour.

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Big Fernand lemonades:
There are three flavours: original, lemon and grapefruit.


Each one has a French joke on it, the grapefruit one says to get your lover back if you drink it and the original says hair will grow faster and longer, while the lemonade one says to run faster and longer.
The original tasted like 7-up and the grapefruit had a natural taste and the lemon tastes like home made lemonade.
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Anyway, I am addicted and coming back soon to try the VEAL burger!
BIG FERNAND coming to LONDON soon.
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Big Fernand (Hong Kong)Shop 2017, Podium 2, IFC Mall , 8 Finance Street, Central

Light lunch at M & S Cafe

I have always wanted to try the Jacket potatoes here but they are always sold out because they are the cheapest items on the menu as well as the paninis and baguettes.

They still had them when I got there so I had the jacket and the cheese and ham ploughman panini.

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cheese and ham ploughman panini:

This was delicious because of the cheese so next time I am going to get the cheese and tomato with pesto sauce.
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Jacket potatoes with cheese and butter:

It was small potato served with mixed salad leaves.
The potato was lovely with melted cheddar cheese on top but it was weird there was some mashed potato in the middle which made it tastier.
The potato itself was actually a bit too hard for my liking the potato skin was not brown and crispy.
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