[Review 288] Good Quality Japanese Food @ 大喬日本料理 Daikyo Japanese Cuisine

10/05/2009 大喬日本料理  Daikyo Japanese Cuisine

灣仔軒尼詩道318號 W Square 3樓

3/F, W Square, 318 Hennessy Road, , Wan Chai

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/good-quality-japanese-food-e1994991

Selected this place from the attractive pictures posted by others.

Ordered two sets, lots of sauces accompanying the dishes, and the food was good.
The only thing that let the meal down was the "large" clam soup as stated on the menu and pictured by others.

From pictures posted, the clam was nearly as big on the bowl, but it was tiny, after complaining, was given another bowl, not slightly bigger, but I believe so they can get a good review here.

Anyway the beef was good, I am not a beef eater, but the beef here is perfect, thinly sliced beef wrapped with spring onion inside.

[Review 287] Another dessert place on my list @松記糖水店 Chung Kee Dessert

松記糖水店 Chung Kee Dessert 10/05/2009
佐敦吳松街21地下
21 Woo Sung Street
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/another-dessert-place-on-my-list-e1994988



Quite good to find another dessert place that is not so traditional with the sweet soups and red beans.
Ordered the tri-coloured grass jelly, a mix of clear, white and black, the clear ones are basically agar jelly, and the white ones have a slight almond banana taste, and the black or the original ones.
I left the black ones, because there was a slight sour taste in it.

Lemon water chestnut: never tried water chestnut with bits of egg, but this time gave it a try with lemon, all because of lemon, I was surprised it wasnt nastily sweet. The water chestnuts were there, giving it a crunchy note, however it could be improved because they can be peeled better instead of leaving the brown skin on it.
The lemon was not really strong, only the bitter rind taste, I think if real lemon juice was extracted and mixed it with it would taste more lemoney.

Glutinous rice and ice-cream, just the usual taste, with the coldness and sweetness from the ice-cream.

[Review 286] The usual Chinese stuff @ 鳳城酒家 Fung Shing Restaurant

鳳城酒家 Fung Shing Restaurant
10/05/2009
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-usual-chnese-stuff-e1994983

Came here for a gathering, ordered a dinner set, with the usual soup, chicken, tofu, vegetables, stir fried vegetables.
The only thing that was a bit different and I havent tried before was the cook milked in curd/egg form.

I was hesitant to give it a try, because I assumed it would be sweet, but it was savory, with bits of crab in it. Actually I was wondering if its meant to be that Shanghai egg white dish with crabmeat.

Anyway dessert was included, heart shaped marshmallows (only 6, could have have been more for a table of 12), the sago pudding was a bit too sweet, and the tapioca pearls were over cooked and like a thick paste with the pudding.

[Review 285] Heaven on Earth? @ 天與地中華料理 Heaven on Earth

天與地中華料理  Heaven on Earth 10/05/2009
尖沙咀諾士佛臺6號地下及1樓
G/F & 1/F, 6 Knutsford Terrace, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/heaven-on-earth-e1994981

This restaurant has always been mysterious to me, firstly its name, and the picture, but when you get to Knutsford Terrace, you realise it a restaurant amongst the pubs there.

Heaven on Earth is a subsidiary of The King Parrot group, so the food tastes roughly the same as its other restaurants, that are under different names, there is a slight variation in dishes offered here.

Ordered:
Taiwanese bamboo vermicelli
stir-fried fun pay
Clams in Wine
Beef with pancake wraps
Fried egg whites

The bamboo vermicelli tasted a bit plain, same with the fun pay, the clams in wine were the best, as there were a lot of clams in the soup with wine, slight bitterness in it, but went well with the mushrooms.
Also ordered the fried egg whites desserts, tasted ok, first time to have it filled with taro ice-cream, since its usually red beans, mango or plain ice-cream.

[Review 284] Noodles with soy sauce @ 安利魚蛋粉麵 On Lee Noodles

10/05/2009 安利魚蛋粉麵  On Lee Noodles
筲箕灣筲箕灣東大街22號
22 Shau Kei Wan Main Street East, Shau Kei Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/noodles-with-soy-sauce-e1994966

Only came here to try noodles, because the dry noodles are mixed with soya sauce, and in other places, the dry noodles rely heavily on the other ingredients to give it flavour.

I ordered the dry noodles with wonton, it came neatly served in the bowl, laid with iceberg lettuce and wontons on the top.

The noodles were utterly delicious, with soy sauce, the wontons tasted how it should with a hint of sesame sauce.

[Review 283] Trek into the New Territories @ 綿綿冰甜品屋 (元朗)

10/05/2009 綿綿冰甜品屋
元朗建業街59號地下
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/trek-into-the-new-territories-e1994964


I rarely go to the New Territories, but I came all the way just to try their Taro flakey ice, after researching on openrice, this is the only place that does Taro flavour.

However, when it was served, the texture just turned out to be 100% ice-cream, the taste was purely frozen Taiwanese Taro milk tea, made with that milk powder.

I believe the suppliers do not have Taro flavour, so they must have made their own concoction of it, and processed it with the flake shaving machine. Probably the mixture was too creamy, hence it doesnt have that icy texture.

For the toppings, there were some that were not offered in other dessert houses, such as the black sugar jelly (shaped like chopped spaghetti), and the green tea jelly cubes usually found in the Taiwanese drinks. Awkwardly enough, the topping were placed beneath the shaved ice rather than on top!

Apart from dessert, also ordered fried smiley potatoes and Taiwanese fried chicken with your choice seasoning.

The smiley potatoes are not a a regular menu item in alot of places, so I ordered that, they were golden yellow, but still too over done for my liking, as I like it crunchy outside with a soft inside. But I think this is the way Hong Kong people like to fry their stuff.

For the fried chicken pieces, it is basically fried chunks of chicken thigh in a crunchy flour coating, and my choice of seasoning was seaweed. There are various other seasonings such as curry, Mexican chili, spring onion and so on.

[Review 282] Quality egg tarts and pies @ 小阮子 (油麻地)

小阮子 (油麻地) 10/05/2009
油麻地廟街9號
9 Temple Streethttps://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/quality-egg-tarts-and-pies-e1994945


I don't have many favourite places for egg tarts or pies, but this is definitely one of them.
For egg tarts, you can either have the hot ones or cold ones, the cold ones are really good, flakey crust crust with a cool egg tart filling, just the right sweetness.

Then for pies, I have also tried the peach pie and the apple pie.
Both have a lovely light and crumbling buttery crust, not too sweet either.