The famous joint for Rice rolls

I visited Superior Steamed Rice Roll Pro Shop in 2011 and felt that it had potential because the rice rolls were fantastic.
Shortly afterwards they were recommended by Michelin.

Recently went back for the ricerolls because I was craving for them.

I had four different rolls and the plain one with spring onions and dried shrimps were the best.

The quality of the rice roll sheets were still elastic, thin and translucent which is good but the ones filled with meat were disappointing because the duck wasn't fresh and the liver was too rubbery.
I consider myself lucky when the meat is fresh in Chinese restaurants but the people here can't seem to taste that it is not fresh.
As I always say, it is so sad that you have to go to expensive restaurants for fresh food because having fresh food is such a basic requirement.

Superior Steamed Rice Roll Pro Shop:
Address: G/F, 384 Portland St, Prince Edward
Phone: 2380 7790

McDonald's Angus beef burger by Christian Yang

Tried the Pacific Sunshine and Alpine delight angus beef burgers by Christian Yang.

The Alpine burger was just a common combination of mushrooms and cheese which is expected for such a name Alpine burger.

The Pacific Sunshine was a bit different because you would associate Pacific with seafood and lobsters and here the burger contained apple.

Despite being a bit weird, the bits of apple and bacon tasted nice but I would have preferred green tart apples.

[華 Hana Soft Cream] Raindrop cake

I don't often go to Sham shui po but went here because I wanted to try QQ rice one more time before they close down.
While I was there, I discovered this joint selling Hokkaido 8 soft serve, stevia tea and this raindrop cake (water cake/Mizu Shingen Mochi).

As it was only $15, I decided to give it a try.

It literally looked like a blob of water an a bit like breast implants surrounded in brown sugar syrup and bean powder!!

Basically it was like eating a very soft jelly with a hint of sweetness, if you want it sweeter you can spoon more of the syrup.

華 Hana Soft Cream
628 6/F Dragon Centre

Sham Shui Po

Toyosu Suisan debuts in Hong Kong

Tried Toyosu Suisan because of the fact it has endless queues and good comments from bloggers who know their Japanese food.
Started with the soup which comes with every bowl.

It had a strong miso taste with lots of fish in it.


It was really difficult to choose because every bowl looked good.
In the end I went for the Minced maguro and snow crab bowl with yam.

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Minced maguro and snow crab bowl with yam:
To be honest, it was soooo tasty I didn't need any soy sauce.
The ingredients are freshly flown from Hokkaido and the wasabi is freshly grated not the powder.
There were bits of yuzu peel and tomato that did wonders.




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maguro eye:
This was the prized Maguro eye that I have always wanted to order and it is hard finding a place in Hong Kong that serves it.
It had a rich sweet taste and it was very gelatinous.


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I cant wait to come back again and hope that it will be consistently good.

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Beautiful fine dining at Le Rêve

After reading a glowing review on this place by FoodMeUpScotty, I knew this place was going to be good because he dines at the best places.

There is a eight course set menu and the one I had was A harmony of earth and sea.

Started with warm crusty bread rolls which were inside this brown bag on top a huge dried brown leaf.

The first course was EVOLUTION which was scallop tartar with radish, pears and Japanese ginger with a slice of beetroot on top.

A refreshing sweet and cool start to dinner.


It was then followed by tomato soup which was actually tomato essence. I loved that concentrated tomato taste.



Next came SAISON which was presented like a beautifiul painting.


It was Saury fish with tofu sauce, aubergine puree and my favourite couscous.

The elements blended well nicely and the bitterness of the herb helped cut through the strong flavours.

The third course was TRADITION.

It was Kimedai, I absolutely adore this fish and it was nice that the sauce wasn't too overpowering so I could taste the lovely fish with the spring onions and ginger.
I even drank the bit at the bottom because it had a brilliant infusion of the fish and spring onions.

Moving on to a slightly heavier course, it was CONNEXION which was lobster and spelt wheat.
The lobster was springy and the spelt which had a nice mouthfeel was in this creamy sauce.


Moving on to the EARTH element of this dinner, SAUVAGE was next.
An evenly marbled fat Satsuma beef from Kagoshima served with salt, wasabi cream, black pepper and sauce.
The beef was nice on its own and personally I think just adding salt brings out the best taste of beef.

Before we had desserts, RAFRAICHISSANTE was served.
It was a very sweet refreshing sorbet with sweet peeled grapes on top.



It was then followed by POUSSE, a fluffy white chocolate mousse with olive oil which you mix into it.
An interesting dessert.


The last course PAIX was petit fours which were a perfect ending with tea of coffee.


In addition we also had this CREME BRULEE mocktail which was so addictive with mini grilled marshmallows on the side.

Can't wait to come again when they have a new menu.

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The right place for me

At the beginning I thought this was just an ordinary bar serving food because the menu just looked like the standard ones you find in every bar.

We ordered drinks first which really surprised us by its presentation.

Dr Healthy (a mocktail) was served with a side of salad that you can eat.

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Fantasy place ( a mocktail) was served in a dimsum basket with grapes decorated with blueberries and a halved passionfruit topped with preserved plums.
Adding the preserved plums gives the drink a slight bitter and tart taste.


For cocktails, we had "My cup of tea" which was served with tea leaves and a tea pot.
It had a lovely infusion of elderflower and gin.


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Foodwise, we had 65 deg C sous vide grilled chicken wings with garlic and chili because nearly every table ordered it.

They tasted like typhoon shelter chicken wings with a good degree of spiciness.


Next were the Sake US Manilla clams with chili and garlic.


The taste was amazing because the chili was really aromatic and there was hint of butter in it without being too heavy. There is a piece of garlic bread to soak up the sauce but I ended up drinking it because it was so nice.

Last but not least, the octopus with baby spinach salad tossed with pommery honey mustard dressing was really appetizing because the sauce was sweet and moreish.

While I was dining there, I enjoyed what they were showing on TV because it was artistic and about designers and fashion which is more entertaining than other stuff in my opinion.



To summarize, I like the way they serve healthy food and drinks with a touch of Modern and Chinese to it.

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Saravanaa Bhavan debuts in Hong Kong

Saravanaa Bhavan is famous in the UK so I was elated to learn that they are in Hong Kong.

Definitely highly recommended because this is the stuff you get in UK.

Saravanaa Bhavan is vegetarian so it is now competing with Branto, Woodlands, and Khana Khazana.

To be honest I haven't really tried the others but I remember vaguely dining at Khana Khazana's WanChai branch.

Anyway, I was really looking forward to dinner here and it definitely didn't disappoint because it is just as good as the one in UK.

I had an extremely difficult decision choosing the dishes because there were so many choices for dosa and uthappam.

Luckily the rice pudding dessert was not available that night because I am going to go again soon with my brother so we can compare it with the Tooting branch.

Here were the dishes that we had:
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Cheese dosa:

I chose this because it contained grated cheddar cheese!
Basically it was crispy filled with delicious melted cheese and you can think of it as an Indian crepe!
As well as cheese they had other fillings and the rava dosa is also good so you can see how difficult it was choosing a dosa!
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Idly Vada:
I have never tried this before so I got the Idly Vada so that I could try both the Idly and Vada.
Idly is Steamed rice and lentil patty patty and it is like a steamed rice cake but savoury and damn delicious!
Vada is a fried lentil donut which I tried the first time and it was so fxxing good!
Strangely it tasted like a light fluffy potato donut.



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Tomato uthappam:
uthappam is a Rice and lentil pancake and again there were so many damn delicious choices to choose from so I have to dine here again!
Every damn combination they had is going to be damn delicious such as onions and peas, tomato and peas etc.
The tomato pancake was how I imagined it to be, crispy and fluffy with bits of tasty tomato.

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bagalabath:
bagalabath is kurd rice which is yoghurt and rice.
Previously tried this before at some restaurant in Central but they don't always serve it.
The bagalabath here is so creamy and it is like a runny rice pudding with lovely bits of ginger and chili in it.
I had to be careful of the bits of chili though because it was too spicy for me.

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To summarize, I enjoyed this meal because the items I chose were starchy and tasted like potatoes and I love anything that tastes like potato!

COMING BACK SOON!

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