[Review 239] Hectic environment @ 毓民私房牛肉麵

毓民私房牛肉麵
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/hectic-environment-e1963742
旺角花園街3-5號地下9號舖
04/01/2009

Only ordered four items for two people, due to small allocated table, anymore dishes and there wouldn't be any space!
The service was OK, but if you want your tea refilled, you must request for it.
Signature beef noodles:
Tasted OK, lots of carrots and white carrots, but not as good as expected, it was good the spring onions were placed on the spoon, so that it is still crunchy when you start eating your noodles.
Pork and garlic sauce:
Thinly sliced pork, and plain boiled in hot water for dipping in the dark garlic sauce, full garlic flavour but slightly salty.
Chicken in egg rolls:
moist chicken wrapped in egg skin, this was the best dish.
Fried chicken in salt pepper:
crunchy chicken pieces full of salt and pepper flavour.

[Review 238] Juicy Grilled Chicken @ 榮式燒雞扒 Wing's Catering

榮式燒雞扒 Wing's Catering 04/01/2009
地址
灣仔晏頓街8號地下
G/F,8 Anton Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/juicy-grilled-chicken-e1963685

Ordered the signiture grilled chicken steak with rice.

The chicken was juicy and tender, freshly skilletted chicken thigh off its bone, and marinated with various of sauces, vegetables were also included to make it look healthy, but not significant enough to be a portion. The courgettes and cabbages were drenched in oil.

There were bits of picked white carrot with chili that spiced it up, but I wish there was more, as there was more spring onions instead.

The food was great, but it took me ages to finish it off, I was battling with the weak chopsticks and floppy spoon, in the end I had to use another pair of those disposable chopsticks as knives and forks to tear up the chicken.
It is also much more peaceful to have a takeout with out those waiters sounding like loud speakers across your head!

[Review 237] Pricey but consistent @ Pret A Manger

04/01/2009 Pret A Manger
灣仔軒尼詩道22號地下
22 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pricey-but-consistent-e1963661

Every time I get food from here, I have my favourites, the strawberry fool, a thick and light yoghurt with chunks of strawberry and rhubarb in it. Then the sandwiches are also good, but this time I had a wrap.

I had the California crayfish wrap, filled wasabi mayonnaise, lemon juice, rocket lettuces and crayfish, and in between the wrap, there was a piece of laver too, so it made it a bit like sushi.

Lastly I had chili con carne soup, not very spicy, but tasted how it should be.

[Review 236] Saint Honore hot foods @ 聖安娜餅屋 (西貢)

聖安娜餅屋 (西貢) Saint Honore Cake Shop
04/01/2009
西貢親民街18/32號錦華大廈地下D舖及閣樓
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/saint-honore-hot-foods-e1963658

Apart from bakery items, Saint Honore also produces hot items such as Chinese buns, Wrapped glutinous rice etc.

When I walked it, the rice in abalone sauce wrapped in Lotus leaves had just been made and put in the steam baskets.
So I ordered one of these freshly made parcels, the parcel was neatly wrapped and tied with those organic twigs.

The rice was moist and lots of egg, dried scallops inside, anyway I think it tasted good, and I want to eat another one soon!

[Review 235] New hot chili nuggets @ 麥當勞 McDonalds

04/01/2009 麥當勞 McDonalds
銅鑼灣羅素街8號地下及1樓
G/F-1/F, 8 Russel Street, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/new-hot-chilli-nuggets-e1963655


Saw the advert so had to give it a try, just to see how chili hot and numbing they are.
From the advert, it has bits of chili in the nuggets, and on the actual nuggets the chicken patty inside is slightly pinkish.

With all Mcdonalds ads, I usually expect a visual difference between the actual product and the advertised product.

Anyway the chili nugget tastes like grilled chicken burger that McDonalds also do, which is also has chili powder in it too, but with a crunchy coating. The intensity of the chili is acceptable.

[Review 234] Clams and Cockles @ 泰式燒王 Chai Rung Thai Food

02/01/2009 泰式燒王 Chai Rung Thai Food
九龍城南角道33號A地下
G/F, 33A Nam Kwok Road, Kowloon City
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/clams-e1963133

As I know of, this is one of the shops that do fresh cockles, I mean REAL fresh,
while I was eating them, I thought I was seeing them twitch, then after eating half I confirmed they were partly alive when I poked them with chopsticks, it really twitched!!

Despite them being alive, it tasted so good with the chili sauce, and full of cockle juice. (Not every ones cup of tea)

The other two dishes I ordered were also delicious, fried basil leaves and frog meat, and curried clams with roti.

The basil leaves and frog meat reminded me of Chiuchow dishes, where the leaves are fried to a transparent green. The basil leaves were nice and fragrant, and the frog meat had a crunchy outer layer with strong garlic soy sauce.

Finally the curried clams, when it came, the dish was filled with curry sauce, which looked like golden crab yolk, it wasnt very spicy and had a slight tinge of tomato in it.
It it slightly thick in consistency just like starch gravies with strings of egg in it.

The sauce was so good for dipping the freshly made roti, flakey and crispy, and there was so much sauce left over, we ordered an extra roti to finish the sauce.

The only thing I wanted that wasnt available was their native Thai dish (taion), its supposed to be an undeveloped chicken egg without the shell
(泰式雞仔蛋). I just like to try anything, but shame it wasnt available.

[Review 233] Sparkling Clean Cutlery @ 筷子記 Chopsticks Kee

02/10/2009
筷子記  Chopsticks Kee
中環威靈頓街85-89號群英商業大廈地下A1號舖
Shop A1, G/F, Khuan Ying Commercial Building, 85-89 Wellington Street, Central https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sparkling-clean-cutlery-e1963124

This was one of my priorities to try out, noodles in sauce.

Went here on a Sunday afternoon to avoid the crowd, and ordered instant noodles with satay sauce, and two other snacks to go with it: fried tofu skin and fish rolls with abalone filling. Also ordered two more snacks to go with it, spicy egg and bean curd fish roll.

The spicy egg turned out to be fried egg with curry powder, and the crunchy beancurd skin with fish meat was crispy and tasty.
The noodle was my favourite too, with lots of satay sauce, but next time I think thin noodles would taste better, as the instant noodles have a slight sweet taste to it.

When I was served by drink, I was amazed at the plastic glass cup, it was so clean it looked like brand new, the sides of the glass was shiny, and it was so clean, that droplets could form on the side of the glass shown on the picture.

Even their chopsticks were clean, there was no stickiness on the chopsticks like the other cafes, they were so clean, I took the other chopsticks out to examine, and all of them were just as clean as each other and shiny too!

On leaving the restaurant, I obtained their take-away menu, and even the menu was printed on good quality laminated card, unlike the other single sided menus.