21/10/2008
鑽石餐廳 D.i.F. Cafe
旺角通菜街2A-2P鴻光大廈地下F,G&H舖
Shop F, G & H, 2A-2P Tung Choi Street, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/star-studded-drink-e1944919
An expensively decorated restaurant, in the hustle bustle of ladies market, slightly too cold inside due to its air conditioning.
Anyway went in for afternoon tea and ordered the chicken Caesar salad with two drinks, vanilla milkshake, and strawberry green tea.
The salad took time for me to like it, initially I thought the sauce was salad cream, because it was sweet, then I began to like it, as the bacon bits and diced chicken went well together, the chicken tasted like cured ham giving the salad the saltiness taste.
Finally I really I liked the strawberry tea, it was frothy and foam like, then at the bottom it had star shaped jelly which gave it that extra special touch.smile
[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!!
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 188] Strong Prawn Base soup @ 蝦麵店 Prawn Noodle Shop
15/10/2008 蝦麵店 Prawn Noodle Shop
灣仔蘭杜街2號麗都大廈4號地舖
Shop 4, G/F, Rialto Building, No. 2 LanDale St, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/strong-prawn-soup-base-e1943536
After the disaster I had at Pho26 which OR rejected my review, I decided to try the Prawn noodle restaurant next door.
Before I tried this, I compared their menu against Katong, prices here a cheaper than Katong. However they are relatively cheaper because of their ingredients, ie seafood, Prawn noodle shop offers mussels, crabsticks, fish balls which are frozen goods and readily available.
Katong is more expensive as it contains big prawns, and cockles, where they need to be sourced.
The most expensive prawn mee offered by Katong is 70 dollars while Prawn noodle shop costs 43 dollars.
Anyway, walking in the shop, there is a strong prawn smell, which is reassuring, as the Prawn noodle is their speciality. I ordered the Prawn noodles, which I was told was spicy by the staff. However it was not that spicy, just like the other reviewers said, so I would recommend this place for people who can't have it that spicy.
The soup base is strong in prawn, and not so sweet as the other places, and it dosnt have black peppar taste either.
Noodle wise, they have the basics, cambodian noodles, vermicelli, and oil noodles. But I don't like the vermicelli here, as it is thicker than the ones in Katong, and sweeter.
For the main ingredients, the pork was good, not too dry and had flavour to it, prawn wise, a little less in quantity than Katong, in Katong, one prawn is sliced into two pieces, however here, the prawn is sliced into four pieces.
灣仔蘭杜街2號麗都大廈4號地舖
Shop 4, G/F, Rialto Building, No. 2 LanDale St, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/strong-prawn-soup-base-e1943536
After the disaster I had at Pho26 which OR rejected my review, I decided to try the Prawn noodle restaurant next door.
Before I tried this, I compared their menu against Katong, prices here a cheaper than Katong. However they are relatively cheaper because of their ingredients, ie seafood, Prawn noodle shop offers mussels, crabsticks, fish balls which are frozen goods and readily available.
Katong is more expensive as it contains big prawns, and cockles, where they need to be sourced.
The most expensive prawn mee offered by Katong is 70 dollars while Prawn noodle shop costs 43 dollars.
Anyway, walking in the shop, there is a strong prawn smell, which is reassuring, as the Prawn noodle is their speciality. I ordered the Prawn noodles, which I was told was spicy by the staff. However it was not that spicy, just like the other reviewers said, so I would recommend this place for people who can't have it that spicy.
The soup base is strong in prawn, and not so sweet as the other places, and it dosnt have black peppar taste either.
Noodle wise, they have the basics, cambodian noodles, vermicelli, and oil noodles. But I don't like the vermicelli here, as it is thicker than the ones in Katong, and sweeter.
For the main ingredients, the pork was good, not too dry and had flavour to it, prawn wise, a little less in quantity than Katong, in Katong, one prawn is sliced into two pieces, however here, the prawn is sliced into four pieces.
[Review 187] Disguised by the decor @ 芝露小甜 Cheenoiserie
13/10/2008 芝露小甜 Cheenoiserie
將軍澳厚德邨厚德商場西翼地下G9號舖
Shop G9, G/F, West Wing, Hau Tak Shopping Centre, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/disguised-by-the-decor-e1942852
Hidden in the outskirts of Hong Kong, I noticed it by its elegant french name and decor, upon entering the cafe, it feels almost like a French European brasserie.
The owner obviously spent time and effort decorating this cafe with the chairs and tables laid out like the european cafe and the chandeliers.
Food wise, it wasnt very European, ie teas were Hong Kong style which spoilt it.
I had chicken curry pasta and it was a bit bland, the chicken was obviously tasteless frozen chicken. The soup didnt taste like anything, I think it was supposed to be pumpkin since it was orange, but it tasted of plain pure milk with boiled bread!!!
將軍澳厚德邨厚德商場西翼地下G9號舖
Shop G9, G/F, West Wing, Hau Tak Shopping Centre, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/disguised-by-the-decor-e1942852
Hidden in the outskirts of Hong Kong, I noticed it by its elegant french name and decor, upon entering the cafe, it feels almost like a French European brasserie.
The owner obviously spent time and effort decorating this cafe with the chairs and tables laid out like the european cafe and the chandeliers.
Food wise, it wasnt very European, ie teas were Hong Kong style which spoilt it.
I had chicken curry pasta and it was a bit bland, the chicken was obviously tasteless frozen chicken. The soup didnt taste like anything, I think it was supposed to be pumpkin since it was orange, but it tasted of plain pure milk with boiled bread!!!
[Review 186] A new experience @ 茶古力 cha.ke.li by ye Shanghai
11/10/2008 茶古力 cha.ke.li by ye Shanghai
金鐘金鐘道88號太古廣場3樓332號舖
Shop 332, 3/F, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-new-experience-e1942621
I like tea, british tea, and chinese tea, so when I saw FoodieWil's post of chocolate with different tea fillings inside I had to give it a try. My first encounter of chocolate and tea was Lipton's chocolate tea, which tastes quite nice.
I picked seven flavours out of the nine. All uniquely decorated, however they were not marked indicating its flavour. I would hope that in the future they would have leaflets with the flavours and pictures for the people with less sensitive taste buds.
Also it would help people to identify the flavours if it was given as a gift.
I tried the delicate light flavours to begin with such as Jasmine, Iron Buddha and progressed with Oolong being the last. Each were distinctively different, the chocolate breaking down in the mouth and oozing with tea flavour. I liked the fact that the delicate tea flavours were paired with the gentler chocolates, and the strong teas were matched with the bitter chocolates just like FoodieWil mentioned.
I dont like Pu'er, due to its earthy/mud taste however with chocolate it takes that taste away which makes it very delectable. I did not pick NISHIOCHA as I am not a fan of white chocolate or Matcha, also I think the creaminess of the white chocolate would cover the matcha. But anyway my favourite flavours were FLOWERPASSION, DARKSPICE, and DARKEMBRANCE which I never thought I was going to like.
Packaging wise, could be improved, a box should be provided for free, as Hong Kong is a very hot place and the gourmet chocolates will have stuck together by the time you've gone home. My order was fairly big, and picking chocolates out of a bag takes the fun out of it, I like to have that indulgence factor of opening the box and being indecisive of which chocolate to pick.
金鐘金鐘道88號太古廣場3樓332號舖
Shop 332, 3/F, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-new-experience-e1942621
I like tea, british tea, and chinese tea, so when I saw FoodieWil's post of chocolate with different tea fillings inside I had to give it a try. My first encounter of chocolate and tea was Lipton's chocolate tea, which tastes quite nice.
I picked seven flavours out of the nine. All uniquely decorated, however they were not marked indicating its flavour. I would hope that in the future they would have leaflets with the flavours and pictures for the people with less sensitive taste buds.
Also it would help people to identify the flavours if it was given as a gift.
I tried the delicate light flavours to begin with such as Jasmine, Iron Buddha and progressed with Oolong being the last. Each were distinctively different, the chocolate breaking down in the mouth and oozing with tea flavour. I liked the fact that the delicate tea flavours were paired with the gentler chocolates, and the strong teas were matched with the bitter chocolates just like FoodieWil mentioned.
I dont like Pu'er, due to its earthy/mud taste however with chocolate it takes that taste away which makes it very delectable. I did not pick NISHIOCHA as I am not a fan of white chocolate or Matcha, also I think the creaminess of the white chocolate would cover the matcha. But anyway my favourite flavours were FLOWERPASSION, DARKSPICE, and DARKEMBRANCE which I never thought I was going to like.
Packaging wise, could be improved, a box should be provided for free, as Hong Kong is a very hot place and the gourmet chocolates will have stuck together by the time you've gone home. My order was fairly big, and picking chocolates out of a bag takes the fun out of it, I like to have that indulgence factor of opening the box and being indecisive of which chocolate to pick.
[Review 185] Astonished by the Turkish bomb @ Mado 雪糕咖啡店 Mado Ice Cream Cafe
07/10/2008 Mado 雪糕咖啡店 Mado Ice Cream Cafe
九龍灣宏照道38號MegaBox 1樓47號舖
Shop No.47, L1/F, Enterprise Square Five,38 Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/astonished-by-the-turkish-bomb-e1941604
Came all the way to Megabox for ice-cream, and ordered the ice-cream slices and the Turkish bomb to try.
Luckily there were vacant tables, however nobody cleared the tables, even after we ordered and sat down with the ice-cream. madSo had to clear it ourselves.
Despite that, I really liked the chairs and table, cute and elegant, cool blue in colour, and the logo was also classy in gold. My first impressions of Mado, was Italian rather than Turkish, and the style is so different to other Turkish things in town.
Back to the ice-cream, I really liked it, not sweet at all, and a strong milky taste with chewy texture. With other ice-creams, after a few spoons you would be left feeling with a numb mouth and freezing body, but I didn’t feel cold after eating it, and I could still taste each and element in the ice-cream.
The ice-cream slices were slightly sweeter than the scoops, probably because only sauces were added, so it needed to be sweeter or else it would be rather plain. I tried the original one and the almond one, both were chewy in texture, and the almond one had fine crunchy almonds in it like crunchy sugar.
Then came the Turkish bomb my favourite, plain ice-cream mixed with pistachios, apricots, and coconut. A creamy full bodied ice-cream just at the right sweetness. It takes a few seconds to get used to, the gooey texture, and the difficulties in trying to spoon it out. The Turkish bomb reminded me of the nougat, chewy but cold, full of ice-cream, and lots of texture, real coconut shreds, and the delicate apricot and pistachio.
The ice-cream owes it texture to the main ingredient “Mastic” a resin cultivated from Mastic trees in Greece.
九龍灣宏照道38號MegaBox 1樓47號舖
Shop No.47, L1/F, Enterprise Square Five,38 Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/astonished-by-the-turkish-bomb-e1941604
Came all the way to Megabox for ice-cream, and ordered the ice-cream slices and the Turkish bomb to try.
Luckily there were vacant tables, however nobody cleared the tables, even after we ordered and sat down with the ice-cream. madSo had to clear it ourselves.
Despite that, I really liked the chairs and table, cute and elegant, cool blue in colour, and the logo was also classy in gold. My first impressions of Mado, was Italian rather than Turkish, and the style is so different to other Turkish things in town.
Back to the ice-cream, I really liked it, not sweet at all, and a strong milky taste with chewy texture. With other ice-creams, after a few spoons you would be left feeling with a numb mouth and freezing body, but I didn’t feel cold after eating it, and I could still taste each and element in the ice-cream.
The ice-cream slices were slightly sweeter than the scoops, probably because only sauces were added, so it needed to be sweeter or else it would be rather plain. I tried the original one and the almond one, both were chewy in texture, and the almond one had fine crunchy almonds in it like crunchy sugar.
Then came the Turkish bomb my favourite, plain ice-cream mixed with pistachios, apricots, and coconut. A creamy full bodied ice-cream just at the right sweetness. It takes a few seconds to get used to, the gooey texture, and the difficulties in trying to spoon it out. The Turkish bomb reminded me of the nougat, chewy but cold, full of ice-cream, and lots of texture, real coconut shreds, and the delicate apricot and pistachio.
The ice-cream owes it texture to the main ingredient “Mastic” a resin cultivated from Mastic trees in Greece.
[Review 184] Deliciously confusing @ 八方雲集鍋貼水餃專門店 Bafang Dumpling
06/10/2008
八方雲集鍋貼水餃專門店 Bafang Dumpling
太子通菜街171號地舖
G/F, 171 Tung Choi Street, Prince Edward
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/deliciously-confusing-e1941386
Discovered this restaurant while passing by, reminded me of Dumpling house in Sai Kung as they have many flavours, including fried dumplings and boiled dumplings.
Anyway I ordered a set which consisted of 10 dumplings of one flavour and a soup.
The soup is nothing special, just a filler to make it a set, just like Australia Dairy Company where the scrambled egg is the best, and the macaroni is there to fill you up.
I chose the fried curry dumplings with sweet corn soup, the soup arrived first and tasted OK, with bits of ham and egg, sweetcorn etc in it.
Then came the dumplings, I took a bite and realised it was the Korean flavoured one, and realised they had served me the wrong one.
I told the waitress I was given Korean dumplings instead of curry, and she couldn’t find my order, later I found out the previous customer had taken my ticket and paid for it, and the Korean dumplings were meant to be theirs. At the same time, the guy behind me insisted those dumplings were his, as he ordered curry as well, but I told him they were Korean not Curry.
To my surprise, the waitress knowing that I had eaten one dumpling from that plate passed it to the man, even though one dumpling was missing, and the flavour was wrong.
Poor guy, eating the wrong dumplings, and eating after me, and being conned for 9 dumplings when he should have had 10!!
Apart from the blunders, the dumplings tasted quite nice, in my case I got to try two flavours thanks to their mistake. The Curry one is very good, and there is still curry sauce in the dumpling after being fried. The Korean one is also worth trying, spicy, but not very spicy, with a hint of Kimchi in the dumpling.
八方雲集鍋貼水餃專門店 Bafang Dumpling
太子通菜街171號地舖
G/F, 171 Tung Choi Street, Prince Edward
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/deliciously-confusing-e1941386
Discovered this restaurant while passing by, reminded me of Dumpling house in Sai Kung as they have many flavours, including fried dumplings and boiled dumplings.
Anyway I ordered a set which consisted of 10 dumplings of one flavour and a soup.
The soup is nothing special, just a filler to make it a set, just like Australia Dairy Company where the scrambled egg is the best, and the macaroni is there to fill you up.
I chose the fried curry dumplings with sweet corn soup, the soup arrived first and tasted OK, with bits of ham and egg, sweetcorn etc in it.
Then came the dumplings, I took a bite and realised it was the Korean flavoured one, and realised they had served me the wrong one.
I told the waitress I was given Korean dumplings instead of curry, and she couldn’t find my order, later I found out the previous customer had taken my ticket and paid for it, and the Korean dumplings were meant to be theirs. At the same time, the guy behind me insisted those dumplings were his, as he ordered curry as well, but I told him they were Korean not Curry.
To my surprise, the waitress knowing that I had eaten one dumpling from that plate passed it to the man, even though one dumpling was missing, and the flavour was wrong.
Poor guy, eating the wrong dumplings, and eating after me, and being conned for 9 dumplings when he should have had 10!!
Apart from the blunders, the dumplings tasted quite nice, in my case I got to try two flavours thanks to their mistake. The Curry one is very good, and there is still curry sauce in the dumpling after being fried. The Korean one is also worth trying, spicy, but not very spicy, with a hint of Kimchi in the dumpling.
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[Review 7821] Kaya toast @ 一粥麵 Super Super Congee & Noodle
19/12/2020 一粥麵 Super Super Congee & Noodle 樂富聯合道198號樂富廣場1樓1113-1114號舖 Shop 1113-1114, 1/F, Lok Fu Shopping Centre, 198 Junction Road, L...
