[Review 849] Is it going to stay for good @ 肥牛粉 Pho Delight Vietnamese Cuisine

31/08/2010

肥牛粉 Pho Delight Vietnamese Cuisine
灣仔莊士敦道197號地下
G/F, 197 Johnston Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/is-it-going-to-stay-e2112915

Previously this used to be a Singaporean restaurant Pasar, then it closed down, next came Satay City which didnt stay for long and now PHO DELIGHT.

I can imagine it being busy for lunches, but after office hours, Wan Chai is not a likely place for dinner.
There is also another branch in Causeway Bay which would probably fare better being in a shopping and working location.

The menu basically offers noodles in soup, the usual rices, however the prices are a bit expensive for simple noodles.
I ordered ho-fun with prawns in sour soup, it was basically noodles in tangy sauce with a few prawns on top, and pieces of pineapple, tomato.
The soup was quite acidic, and the ho fun was a bit too soft, but overall it was ok, so lets see how long they will be here for.

The other spicy beef noodles were very spicy, it was so spicy, you could feel the heat of the chilli when you smell it,
Taking a tiny sip of the soup, was enough to make me go red!

I wanted to try the grilled beef, but the sour soup sounded more interesting, so if they are still here on my next visit, I shall give it a try.

[Review 228] Macaroni rice noodles @ 越色生香 Tropicana Cuisine

越色生香 Tropicana Cuisine 30/12/2008
灣仔大王東街30號地下 30 Tai Wong East Street
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/macaroni-rice-noodles-e1962080

The usual Vietnamese menu, and then I saw the macaroni rice noodles, long rice noodles pipes like macaroni. The last time I had this type of noodle was at Lai Chi Kok Hunnan style noodle bar.

Here I ordered the Prawn macaroni rice noodles with Curry sauce as stated on the menu, however during ordering, I was told it was White curry sauce, as the Chinese is different. Although Satay sauce was also available I stuck with my original order of white curry sauce, just so that I can have a comparison to Satay King.

The food arrived in a fashionable bowl, and a separate bowl of white curry sauce.
I liked the generous pile of salted green spring onions, and the curled up prawns.
After eating the prawn, it reminded me of the plain prawns boiled in water, and it tastes good with the spring onions. As for the noodles, a bit chewy, some ends of it were still hard, and I would have preferred the holes to be bigger in the macaroni noodles so sauce cud get in. The white curry sauce is nothing compared to the taste at Satay King. The sauce is rather lumpy, and after tasting it, it all became clear, it is 70% dessicated coconut puree and ginger, but the ginger is not so strong. The taste was very milky and a little bit sickening, if it was spicier it would have been better, and if the noodles had bigger holes soaking more sauce, it would have tasted much better.
If I can have different noodles next time, I would want to try the satay sauce.

[Review 201] Bit Bland @ 新竹源越南餐廳 Sun Chuk Yuen Vietnamese Restaurant

06/11/2008 新竹源越南餐廳 Sun Chuk Yuen Vietnamese Restaurant
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/bit-bland-e1948916
灣仔蘭杜街5號 5 Lan Dale Street, Wan Chai

Ordered the vietnamese sausage with dry lemon noodles, quite a big dish, but tasteless.
In other places, everything is mixed well together, and all you have to do is add extra fish sauce or some other sauce if needed.

The sausage was just 4 slices, no effort by the kitchen was made to shred it, so that it mixes well, same with the cucumber, tomato etc.
So it was like eating the ingredients separately, or needing to make an effort to bite a bit, then put some noodles in your mouth.

The sauce for the noodle wasnt pleasing either, just sweet liquid with a faint taste of chilli, nor could the fish sauce be tasted.

[Review 199] Potent basil leaves @ 越旺 pho' 26

01/11/2008 越旺 pho' 26
灣仔蘭杜街2號3號舖
Shop 3, 2 Landale Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/potent-basil-leaves-e1947668

Finally gave it another chance to try their noodles. after the one plagued with hair.

This time i ordered the set, which consists of instants noodles with beef and scrambled eggs and fried vietnamese sausage.

The noodles came first, and I started to eat the noodles before it got too soft, it was just right, and fully flavoured by its soup. As a westerner, I found the metal chopsticks rather slippery, hard to grab the noodles.
Anyway the soup base was very potently strong of herbs, basil leaves, onions etc, but you could also taste the beef broth too.

Then the side dish of scrambled eggs and vietnamese sausage came, the scrambled eggs tasted Ok, and this was my first time trying fried vietnamese sausage, which was ok taste wise.

I would really like to try their breakfast, the white mushrooms and instant noodles.

[Review 189] More than what I expected @ 越旺 (已結業) pho' 26

17/10/2008 越旺 (已結業) pho' 26
灣仔蘭杜街2號3號舖
Shop 3, 2 Landale Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/more-than-what-i-expected-e1944048

Seeing lots of people queue outside this shop during lunch and even on saturday afternoons, it must be good.

Also the comments on openrice, are positive too, so I had very high expectations.

I didnt want to wait outside and be rushed to finish my food when I was seated, so I ordered a takeaway.
I ordered cambodian noodles in tomato sauce with beef tendons as a topping, which was ready to collect when I got there.

When I got back, I opened the bag and took the contents out, quite a pleasing start I thought, a tub of chopped chilli, a wedge of lime, the soup, and the noodles.

I opened the noodle bowl first, and the noodles were laid out nicely, and there were plenty of fresh onion shreds and chopped spring onion. Then I poured the soup in, and waited for a bit, for the noodles to soak up the soup and loosen up.

Ravaging through the noodles, I started to see some black hair, which is very shocking since this place is meant to be very good. I couldnt believe it, so I borrowed my friends camera to take a pic. I rarely take food pics, but this was just unbelievable. Anyway I thought maybe this is just a one-off thing, but I was wrong I found more, at least 5 strands of short black hair were found, either eyebrow hair or eyelash hair. Since OR will not let me put the pictures here, they are available on request. I have actually submitted the exact review twice, and OR will not upload it. So there must be some so called connections.

After discussing and showing many people, they said its probably animal hair from skin, but my noodle only contained beef tendons. I checked their menu too, there are no pigs skins or anything like that, its mainly beef, tendons, seafood, and fish balls.
So either that food fell on the floor, or their supplier gave them dirty food, but in any case, it should have been washed.

As for the taste, I dont know, if you saw that, you would definitely puke.
I still have the contaminated noodles and tempted to take it to the Food and hygiene department.
But being a food enthusiast, I am willing to give it another try, but not so soon!!

[Review 180] Neat Baguette @ 山地人越南法包專門店 MR. Vietnamese Baguette House

02/10/2008
山地人越南法包專門店 MR. Vietnamese Baguette House
北角宏安道2-12號宏輝大廈地下9號舖
Shop 9, G/F, Wang Fai Mansion, 2-12 Wang On Road, North Point

Arrived at this baguette house, previously Toppings, was amazed how it had been redecorated.
It looks very green like a health shop, with pretty displays, and cute little bottles of their own branded fish sauce (not for retail).

Anyway ordered the Vietnamese sausage and prawn salad, and the baguette with abalone mushrooms to takeaway.
After a long journey home of bumps and humps, I was very surprised the baguette was still intact and the fillings had not fallen out.
For the salad, I was given three tubs of chilli vinegar, frankly two is sufficient.

Now to the food, the baguette was bursting with different tastes with every mouthful,
sometimes I could taste the black pepper, coriander, spring onion, then the meaty mushrooms, and then the sausage. However I couldnt taste the duck liver pate, the thing I was most looking forward to. Maybe I will order the liver toast next time.

As for the salad, the cabbage and carrots were sliced nice and thin, soaking up the sauce well, however the Jelly fish was cut in little squares. I would have preferred shredded jelly fish, which was be easier to fork out with the greens. Surprisingly I could taste some liver in the salad. I have the same opinion as FoodieWil that the salad tastes a little too sweet for my liking.

[Review 112] Nice Clean Restaurant @ 越南人 Le Deesse De Vietnam

Date reviewed on openrice: 20/04/2008

A newly furnished little restaurant in the busy streets of Mong Kok.
Limited seating, but overall, it was pleasant and clean.

All the staff were polite and well mannered except for the manager in black, I merely enquired if one of their dishes was hot, and the response i got, was just " well, its just Vietnamese rice noodle with chicken fillet"

I can see that from the menu, i dont need them to repeat what I said, my question was only asking whether it was spicy or not!!

Anyway the food was good, nice and lemoney, and the chicken was juicy. It was good that the chilli was separated from the main dish.

越南人 Le Deesse De Vietnam
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/nice-clean-restaurant-e1896113
弼街64號A地下

[Review 44] Smelly buttered wings @ 燕萍越南餐廳 Ying Ping Vietnamese Restaurant

Date reviewed on openrice: 16/08/2006

My friends suggested to go to this restaurant, as it is said to be famous for its Buttered wings.

So we ordered some, but I didn't think they were as nice as described.
Firstly they stunk of oil, as if it hadn't been changed. It was also too greasy. Apart from the batter it was tasteless.

We also ordered the vegetable wrapped in rice paper, that was too chewy, we couldn't bite the wrap in half!

For my main course I had beef tendon in marinade sauce, the tendons were ok soft, and the sauce was ok too.

Source:
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/smelly-buttered-wings-e120015


燕萍越南餐廳 Ying Ping Vietnamese Restaurant
銅鑼灣謝斐道482號信諾環球保險中心２樓

[Review 43] Very delicious @ 老趙越南餐廳 (大頭蝦專門店) Lo Chiu Vietnamese Restaurant

Date reviewed on openrice: 16/08/2006

This is my first time eating vietnamese food.
I must say this restaurant gave me a good impression.

I ordered the mixed starter, and basically it was presented nicely and neatly and a plate, every item on that plate was delicious.

For the main dish I ordered a the Big prawn with Har go fried rice. The prawn was as big as stated however the rice wasnt very outstanding.

Overall it was ok.

source:
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/very-delicious-e120020

老趙越南餐廳 (大頭蝦專門店) Lo Chiu Vietnamese Restaurant

[Review 36] Generous liver pate and french bread @ Cambo Cafeteria 金寶

Date reviewed on openrice: 16/04/2006

Another one of my fav eat outs. On my first visit i ordered a goose liver pate baguette, and they put a lovely big chunk inside.

Second time i tried Vietnamese sausage wiv pickled veg baguette, that was also nice too.

Third time i ate their chicken hainan style. Really nice rice and chicken, inc soup.

You can sit in this restaurant for a long time too, and they supply magazines too.

source:
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/generous-liver-pate-and-french-bread-e103734

Cambo Cafeteria 金寶
旺角洗衣街147號榮梅大樓地下
G/F, Wing Mui Buildling, 147 Washing Street, Mong Kok