[Review 279] Strong sauce with impact @ 好旺角麵家 (旺角) Good Hope Noodle

15/04/2009 好旺角麵家 Good Hope Noodle
旺角西洋菜街146號
146 Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/strong-sauce-with-impact-e1988752

Finally made an effort to try this place, only because the sauce is served separate instead of on top of the noodles.

Anyway I ordered the Jah-Jeung noodles, the sauce came separately as expected.
I tried the Jah-Jeung sauce, a very dark, thick, burgundy coloured mixture of chili and meat. The meat was more like the edges of char-siu, rather than grounded meat or sliced meat.
The sauce tastes of a very strong mix of that thick yellow bean sauce and hoi-sin sauce from the English takeaways, not sure if the hoi-sin sauce and yellow bean sauce is the same as the ones in Hong Kong.

Anyway basically the sauce tastes like the ones for the peking duck wraps.
Overall tasted good.

[Review 278] Fried sushi roll @ 肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) (Kentucky Fried Chicken)

13/04/2009 肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
將軍澳重華路8號東港城1樓185號舖
Shop No.185, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fried-sushi-roll-e1988312

I had a really high expectation of the sushi roll, as sushi can never go wrong.
So ordered two.

The outer side of sushi is covered in crunchy breadcrumbs, and the inside is piping hot.
The center is composed of crabmeat, prawn, thousand island sauce, wrapped in rice, then a layer of seaweed.

Overall it tasted good, so two was not enough!

[Review 277] Thanks to Openrice @ Freshness Burger

13/04/2009 Freshness Burger
銅鑼灣告士打道311號皇室堡1樓110號舖
Shop 110, Windsor Plaza, 311, Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/thanks-to-openrice-e1988310

With thanks to OpenRice, I hereby used the $50 coupons, also as a food enthusiast, I chose the new snacks at Freshness burger, namely the Buffalo wings, Grilled chicken, Caramel pudding and green tea pudding with Raspberry.

The buffalo wings were crunchy and strong in tomato salsa sauce, the grilled chicken was very nice and tender, slightly sweet due to the teriyaki sauce.
Although the desserts were made by epoch, I liked them the best, creamy pudding with sauce.

[Review 276] Snowflake ice @ 甜品老媽 (筲箕灣) Dessert Loma

11/04/2009 甜品老媽 (筲箕灣) Dessert Loma
筲箕灣筲箕灣東大街14-22號東旺樓地下B舖
Shop B, 14-22 Shaukeiwan Main Street East, Shau Kei Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/snowflake-ice-e1987648

So happy, finally had a chance to try the snowflake ice, I actually gave up twice at the other place, but after discovering that the snowflake ice is exactly the same as the MK one, I was totally confident to try it here.

Basically, production wise, it would be the same, as the same machine is used to make it, and taste wise, they both order from the same manufacturer, and the add on ingredients were the same too by comparison, ie the pearls, liquid filled pearls, stars etc.

The snowflake ice base has 11 flavours to choose from, hence I chose the milk one to start off with, to get a feel for its textures and taste the toppings.

I chose hazelnut sauce, however I wasn't sure if it was on it or not, cos the whole dessert was plain white, not a sign of any sauce on it, I was expecting hazelnut to be brown? Anyway the other toppings I added were mango stars, white pearls, and chocolate filled pearls.

The snowflake ice tasted how I expected it to be, a icy texture slowly melting into cold milky liquid, then adding the toppings to it, added some chewy texture oozing with melted snowflake, due to the pearls.
Then eating the snowflake with the chocolate pearls, it was like bursts of chocolate sauce. As for the mango stars, they were rather soft and sweet.
But overall I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[Review 275] Tofu heaven @ Tofuism 豆腐主義 (荃灣)

11/04/2009 Tofuism 豆腐主義
荃灣川龍街113號地舖
G/F, 113 Chuen Lung Street, Tsuen Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/tofu-heaven-in-tofuism-e1987646

I love tofu, but usually the places that do the pan-fried tofu with fish paste on top are usually road-side restaurant. As Hong Kong is a hot environment, I am more concerned about hygiene, so I can only eat this during the winter.

Anyway this place totally appealed to me, especially it has a hip English name, the fonts have had thought put into it too.

The menu is also amazing, endless choice, which I have to go back again next time.

This time I tried the fried black tofu with fish paste, tofu sharkfins soup and PeiPa tofu.
All tasted good, and the hygiene was good, the plates were clean, not the sticky plates you would find in the road-side restaurants.

Black Tofu - a generous portion of 5 pieces for $1x, the tofu tasted a bit firmer, not as soft as other places, but tasted ok.

Tofu sharkfin soup - tasted perfect, not too salty and no MSG.
The ingredients in this soup were a perfect match: glass vermicelli, tofu, black fungus, very very very fine shreds of duck meat. In fact the soup was a very big portion, and the duck meat enriched the flavour of the soup, overall I was very impressed with the soup because of geniune meat rather than grounded meat.
The temperature was also just right for a super hot day, a torture of heating oneself up in a hot day drinking piping hot soup.

PeiPa tofu: I never tried it before, so this is my first time, but I got a real good impression from it. The outside was golden yellow, and the texture of the crunch was like authentic tempura.
Inside it was filled with fish, herbs and tofu, also not too salty.
The whole thing was 100% edible, first class fish paste, because there were no grounded fish bones to spoil it.

Overall A class tofu for a very cheap price. Awaiting for a branch to open in Kowloon or Hong Kong would be great.
The deep fried PeiPa was excellent, as the oil used to fry it was fresh too.
Hope it keeps this standard in the future.

[Review 274] Cantonese thai food @ Chili Club 辣椒會 (灣仔)

11/04/2009 Chili Club 辣椒會
灣仔駱克道88號1樓
1/F, 88 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cantonese-thai-food-e1987634

I booked a table through the phone, and the guy replied " a table for fee at wun o cock" , so based on his accent, I was expecting some cantonese styled food.

When we got there, the atmosphere was OK, a mix of western ppl and cantonese ppl having lunch there. Waiters anxiously trying to serve people and looking busy.
Luckily there was a chi-eng menu, anyway I ordered the PAD THAI, which came at a reasonable time, however they did'nt give me lemon/lime, which I had to request for, shown in the pic, served in a sauce dish.

I wasnt very pleased when I got the noodles, it was wet, Phad thai is not meant to be wet, also there was chili in it. Anyone would know there is no chili in that, also it tasted a bit sweet.
Most Pad Thais have prawn in it too, none in my dish either.

I think next time I would be safer ordering fried rice instead.

[Review 273] Good food for a reasonable price @ 楊記麵家 Yeung's Noodle

11/04/2009 楊記麵家 Yeung's Noodle
灣仔軒尼詩道219號地下G/F, 219 Hennessy Road, Wan Chaihttps://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/good-food-for-a-reasonable-price-e1987629


I came here especially to try the dried prawn roe and fish floss with noodles. I was assuming the fish floss would taste sweet, just like pork floss.

Anyway I ordered the dried prawn roe fish floss noodles, the noodles were covered in an abundance of dried prawn roe and fish floss. When I tried the fish floss, it was crunchy with an oven roasted saltiness. The dried prawn roe, had that salty taste to it.

The noodles were soft, and slightly moist to adhere the roe, and fish floss, all tasted to perfection, however I felt the other noodles would be a bit bland, as the fish gives it the strongest flavour.

After getting halfway through the noodles, I could taste the pork fat used to mixed the noodles together, I suppose without it, the whole combination wouldn't work.

Finally the soup was a good thing to finish the noodles off with, sweet in taste, and no MSG whatsoever. However I could not taste the slight bitterness described by others, nor the dried fruit peel.

Anyway will definitely come here again.