[Review 209] Out of the blue! @ 好滋味

Discovered this shop while walking past, totally unique in its location.
I think it has great potential, as not many competitors around, surrounded by hotels, high eatery restaurants.

It caught my eye, with its new furnishings, yellow in colour, and clean sitting area.

The food menu offers good value meals with choice.

Food wise, there is so much choice.
For breakfast set, you can choose three items for $18 or two for $16
Basically 1) Plain rice rolls or Noodles + 2)Beef siumai/Fish siumai/fishballs/various buns + 3) congee or drink.

For a more filling choice, there are car noodles, the choice of Potato starch noodles impressed me the most, as not many places do it.
As well as noodles, I am amazed they have fried treasures and other fried snacks in small vicinity like that. I am going to have to try the fried treasures, chips, and fried chicken leg soon.

Apart from these snacks they also do various steamed rice for lunch and they have soup of the day too.

The only thing that could be improved would be more choice of drinks. So far I have only tried the breakfast, everything is how it should taste, the noodles were a bit bland, but their soy sauce was quite salty.

好滋味 Yummy Fast Food

灣仔分域街12號

12 Fenwick Street

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/out-of-the-blue-e1952012

[Review 208] Perfect perfect prawn burger @ 麥當勞

After seeing the Ad last nite, was already craving for it in the morning.

Already knew it was going be delicious, before eating it, I had imagined the sauce would be prawn cocktail like. I tried to find more info on it, but Mac site didn't say much about what sauces were used.

Anyway, finally ordered it, the appearance is slightly different to the advertised one.
The advertised one has two sauces, a pinkish one on top and a slightly mustard looking one at the bottom.

Despite being different from the advertised picture, it tastes REAL good, the best burger in Mac's apart from the filet o fish.
I loved the prawn cake inside, it was a mixture of whole prawns that could be seen, embedded in a smooth opaque prawn patty.
The sauce was just how I imaged it, complimenting the prawn well.

But the lettuce was a bit a bit annoying, a little chunky.


麥當勞 Mcdonalds
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pefect-perfect-prawn-burger-e1951911
灣仔軒尼詩道1號熙信樓1樓C舖
Shop C, 1/F, Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

[Review 207] Staff should be better trained @ The Taiyaki Crispy Hot Sandwich

20/11/2008
Before coming, had an idea in mind what I wanted to order, however I didn’t know the names of the ones I wanted. Basically was going to order the savory curry one, custard one and the cheese and bacon one.

Anyway got there, ordered the curry one, custard one without any problem, then finally wanted to order the cheese and bacon one, the staff didn’t know which one I wanted, as he said ALL of them contain bacon! Since there was a queue, I was rushed to make a decision the wrong one, it should have been the German potato.

Well I doubt all the flavours would contain bacon, especially the sweet custard one, how could that contain bacon. Anyway he gave me the wrong one (Italian one) with tuna, sausage, cheese etc.

Taste wise, without tasting the cheese and bacon, I really liked the curry one, sufficiently filled with curry. Same with the custard one, however I thought the apple could have been chopped up instead of one big slice.

As for the Italian one, it tasted OK too, but since it was not the one I wanted to eat, I was a little biased towards it.
One of the fishes were overly burnt too, to be exact, some of it had turned in charcoal!!

The Taiyaki Crispy Hot Sandwich
銅鑼灣勿地臣街83號
83 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/staff-should-be-better-trained-e1951907

[Review 206] Drunken chicken for lunch @ 友膳坊 Charlie's Place

20/11/2008

Amongst the vast choice and variety at Landale Street, I did’nt intend to get lunch from here, but after scanning the menu for anything interesting, I saw Drucken chicken leg with rice, so I ordered that.

Apart from this dish, I was surprised at their variety, ranging from China town dishes such as Sweet & Sour, lemon chicken, crispy duck with pancakes to Laksa.

Their menu was quite nicely laid out, and well presented with English, obviously it would be popular for the Westerners who are accustomed to China down dishes. When I came back to check this restaurant out on OpenRice, I found out that it is an international cuisine restaurant, so quite agreeable since I had this impression there without reading its information before hand.

Now to the chicken, it was a plate of rice, with a chopped chicken leg served on top of a big leaf of gem lettuce. The chicken leg was fairly tender, the skin was well marinated in wine sauce. In comparision to drunken chicken I had before, the wine there was not strong enough, just acting as a mere flavour.

But anyway nice to have something different for lunch.

友膳坊 Charlie's Place
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/drucken-chicken-for-lunch-e1951816
灣仔蘭杜街2號麗都大廈8號地舖
2 Landale Street

[Review 205] Thai Heat @ Heat

 18/11/2008 Heat
灣仔駱克道56號地下
56 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/thai-heat-e1951489

An attractive bar, which I would of thought served Western food, but it turns out to be Thai.
But anyway during lunchtimes they serve sets, with two choices of starters, and main course.
The previous comment is totally agreeable, European style Thai, but quite spicy in comparison to the authentic Thai.

[Review 204] Singa Food @ 麵包新語 & 土司工坊 BreadTalk & Toast Box

18/112008 麵包新語 & 土司工坊 BreadTalk & Toast Box
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/singa-food-e1951488
尖沙咀廣東道30號新港中心地下G18號舖
Shop G18, G/F, Silvercord, 30 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Nicely decorated café, claiming to serve Singaporean food, ordered Pandan cake and Laksa.
Sitting down, the café had nice non-Chinese accent to it, which was quite good, surrounded by western windows, and wooden décor.

Food wise, the Pandan cake tasted ok, soft in texture, a little too sweet compared with the ones from Singapore. As for the Laksa, the soup base, and the ingredients were the ok, the only thing that spoilt it were the noodles, as they were chewy white noodles that didn’t soak up the soup, hence the noodles were in a world of its own!

[Review 203] Ootoya Bomb Box @ 大戶屋 ootoya

13/11/2008 大戶屋 ootoya
太古康山道2號AEON超級巿場地下G07號舖
Shop G07, G/F, Grand Plaza, Aeon, 2 Kornhill Road, Tai Koo
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/ootoya-bomb-box-e1950522

Ootoya bomb box: Japanese pearl rice topped with chopped okra, beans, tuna sashimi, grated Japanese nagaimo (mountain yam), raw egg and Natto (Fermented soy beans). All the ingredients have one thing in common, being slimey. The fermented soybeans, were sticky too, and stuck together with spiderweb like strings. But the whole thing tasted really good, the rice was nice and soft, and could be slurped with all the slimey ingredients.

Fried chicken in black vinegar sauce: Rice with fried chicken pieces in light coating, the sauce was tangy, and refreshing, and the vegetables accompanying the dish matched well, such as the lotus roots with a crisp taste.

Fried chicken with African sauce:
I wasn’t sure what to expect of this one, because its name isn’t very Japanese, but it tasted similar to the black vinegar sauce one, not as sour, and not spicy as stated.

Anyway everything tasted good, the only thing that could be improved would be supplying spoons, as this is a popular question arising from customers. Also those irritating flies could perhaps be exterminated!!