[Review 293] Microwave ready meals @(將軍澳) Eat East 波仔

15/05/2009 Eat East 波仔
將軍澳厚德邨厚德商場47號舖
Shop 47, Hau Tak Shopping Centre, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/microwave-food-e1996205

Was impressed with the choice and got the XO sauce fried rice with chicken satay.

The dish requires slightly more time to cook in the microwave than other products, the portion was sufficient for $16 dollars.

However a bit bland, even for XO sauce, and the rice wasn't my cup of tea, as it is Japanese pearl rice.
The chicken satay was very good, chunks of chicken thigh with chicken skin still attached, probably kept there to keep it moist in the process of microwaving.

[Review 292] Best of the British @ Trafalgar

Trafalgar 15/09/2009
灣仔駱克道54-62 號博匯大廈5樓
5/F, The Broadway, 54-62 Lockhart road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/best-of-the-british-e1996198


Was given a leaflet to promote it's new opening, looked at the name and saw Trafalgar.
I was immediately drawn to it, with usual flyers, they end up straight in the bin, I looked at it closer and saw the British flag on the logo, hence I really had to try it.

The business card given also had other restaurants listed at the back, namely The Barn, The Barn II, so it must be a subsidiary of them.

Anyway finally gave it a visit on a Friday lunch with Chan Jan.

Both ordered the lobster soup as a starter, very strong lobster smell when it came, dark brown in colour, very salty, the taste was a bit like crab shell broth! Actually you can taste bits of fine shell in it.

For the main dish, ordered the butterfly boneless chicken breast with gravy and mash, and the tuna baguette.
The mash was very rich and fine with lots of butter.
The tuna baguette was surprisingly big, and there was lots of tuna in it, more than I expected, even after I finished the baguette, there was still tuna left. The fries were the flat thick cut ones.
The waiter thought I couldn't finish it off, but a big sufficient for a big eater like me.

I was very impressed with the waiter, because he knew his stuff about food.
The complimentary tea was good, proper English Tea.
Next time I will come again for the more British stuff such as the chicken kievs.

[Review 291] Consistently good food @ 超級食得開心 Ra Cha Moo Yang

11/05/2009 超級食得開心 Ra Cha Moo Yang
灣仔軒尼詩道87號AB舖
Shop AB, 87 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/consistently-good-food-e1995226


Walked past this little joint many times, but it never appealed to me, firstly because there is no leaflet/menu for me to take away and study, and it looks a bit busy for me stop by and really study the place.
Anyway, my friend got a take out from there, and showed me the picture as shown, the chicken looked quite tender and the rice looked ok, so I ordered one a few days later, and the chicken was as good as it looked. The sauce was sufficiently enough for me to finish the rice and chicken. The rice could have been hotter temperature wise.

Apart from the chicken with rice, I have also tried the Pad Thai, not sweet like the other Thai places which is good, but I needed to add some Soya sauce to liven it up.
There were 4 pieces of prawn in it too.

With all rices and noodles there is a drink included too, the lime one is not too sweet either.

[Review 290] International curry @ 專業咖喱皇 Curry Expert King

10/05/2009 專業咖喱皇
佐敦吳松街157號地下
G/F, 157 Woo Sung Street, Jordan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/international-curry-e1995034



I am a curry lover, especially the Indian type, the variety here is quite good, but geared towards the Indian taste of the strong herbs.
There are lot of curries, ie English, Malay, Argentina, Sweet and Sour, Mango, Italian etc.

I ordered English thinking it would be the pub type with raisins and apricots, which is was not, I was told it contains milk, but anyway it tasted good.
Also ordered the Sweet and Sour one with tomatoes, could not taste the tomatoes or the sourness, but still strong on the Indian side.
Same with the Italian one, couldn't taste the cheese and potato.

The good thing with the curries, you can select the level on how hot you want it, the Indian Naan is better than the other places because it is the dry non oily type.

[Review 289] Iced peanut butter @ 甜品大少

10/05/2009 Mr Sweetheart 甜品大少 

大坑銅鑼灣道144號新發大廈地下

G/F, Sun Fat Mansion, No.144 Tung Lo Wan Road, Tin Hau, Tai Hang

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/iced-peanut-butter-e1995005

After trying their signature items previously, was not expecting myself to come back again so soon.

This time I came here to try its grated ice dessert, tried most of the flavours in various dessert place, this time tried the peanut one.
I wasnt quite sure how it would taste, ie if it would have crushed peanuts in it, but probably not, as it might break down the ice grater!!

The taste of the grated peanut flavoured ice was better than imagined, buttery and creamy just like peanut butter in frozen form, less salty than real peanut butter and velvety texture.
Had coco pops as a topping, which went quite well.

The other vanilla one was rather boring, but coming here, it made me try the chiuchow jelly as a topping, chewy cubes of flour.

I was quite impressed with the menu too, and the translation was correct too, such as coco pops, and chiu chow jelly.

[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.