[Review 349] Black sugar ice-cream @ 囍宴 甜‧艺 (灣仔) Xi Yan Sweets

 囍宴 甜‧艺 (灣仔) Xi Yan Sweets 31/07/2009
灣仔永豐街8號
Shop 1, G/F, 8 Wing Fung Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/black-sugar-ice-cream-e2016628

Got the black sugar ice cream, not as good as expected.

It looked different to the pictured product, black sugar syrup was no where to be seen.
The texture of the ice-cream was rather soft and thick like gelato, but not as chewy as Mado’s icecream.

A bit disappointing, because there was not a strong black sugar taste, although it is meant to be bitter, but it tasted more like coffee, so I wondered if they had just given me coffee ice-cream.

Maybe I would have been better off trying the Ferrero Roche ice-cream.

[Review 348] Breakfast panini @ Pacific Coffee 太平洋咖啡 (灣仔)

太平洋咖啡 (灣仔) Pacific Coffee Company 30/07/2009

灣仔告士打道77-79號華比富通大廈地下

G/F, Fortis Bank Tower, 77-79 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/breakfast-panini-e2016280

This was the best Panini I have ever had, it contained breakfast elements, hence called the Big breakfast.
Perfectly sliced, and pre-packaged before it reaches Pacific coffee.
The panini, had a light crust from the grill, and warm egg, ham and tarragon sauce in the middle.
Very satisfying for breakfast or light lunch.

[Review 347] Scrumptious seasonal vegetable tart @ Pacific Coffee 太平洋咖啡 (灣仔)

29/07/2009 太平洋咖啡 (灣仔)
灣仔港灣道23號鷹君中心1樓106-110號舖
Shop 106 - 110, 1/F, Great Eagle Centre, 23 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/scrumptious-seasonal-vegetable-tart-e2016006
Saw this cute vegetable tart, and had to try it, despite I already decided to try something else.

The vegetable tart looked so fun, a Mediterranean colourful medley of vegetables: Aubergine, red onions, baby sweetcorn, olives, pumpkin, red pepper, button mushroom, courgette, yellow cherry tomato, red cherry tomato.

It was very fun to eat, and tasted strong of Italian herbs. I was expecting a bland tart, but it was packed with more flavour than imagined.

But in general anything tastes good at Pacific Coffee.

[Review 346] Lime and pineapple punch @ 肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) (Kentucky Fried Chicken)

肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) (觀塘) 28/07/2009
觀塘觀塘道418號創紀之城五期(apm)2樓1號舖
Shop 1, 2/F, apm Millennium City 5, 418 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/lime-and-pineapple-punch-e2015721

A not so busy branch of KFC, but still takes a while to be served.
Ordered the lime and pineapple punch, tasted ok, basically it is 7-up with pineapple pulp mixed in and a wedge of lime.
Not much in lime taste, the 7-up is more prominent, and the taste of pineapple is there when you eat it.
Basically a drink of elements to themselves, all the elements in the same cup, but not fused together.

[Review 345] all u can eat @ 青葉日本料理 (日式放題) Aoba Japanese Restaurant (觀塘)

青葉日本料理 (日式放題) Aoba Japanese Restaurant
28/07/2009
觀塘裕民坊51-63號寶聲娛樂城M樓
Floor M, 51-63 Yu Man Square,, Kwun Tong
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/all-u-can-eat-e2015707

Same with all the all you can eat Japanese places, you just tick the colourful sheets and hand it over to the staff.

The range was the basic range, however the drinks were impressive, many choices.

The prawn tempura was the best, and the sushi was good too.

The mini bowls of noodles were cute, and small enough, so that you can try more items.

[Review 344] Super slow service @ H-Tea-O Tea Garden (銅鑼灣)

28/07/2009
H-Tea-O Tea Garden (銅鑼灣)
銅鑼灣百德新街27-47號1樓9及9A舖 Shop9A&9, 1/F, 27-47 Paterson Street, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/super-slow-service-e2015706

Had a craving for apple crumble and custard, so came here for it.

I came during tea time hours, and ordered the apple crumble and custard.

I waited at least 15 minutes for it, luckily I didnt order anything else, the apple crumble is ready made, and the custard is ready made, all that had to be done was to re-heat it.

The apple crumble and custard tasted ok, the crumble wasnt proper crumble.
The custard wasn't that hot either, although it tasted good overall, the service could have been quicker, same with waiting for my change, it took ages.

[Review 343] 3.6 Milk mystery solved @ 米芝甜 (已結業) McSweety

米芝甜 McSweety 28/07/2009
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/3-6-mystery-solved-e2015705
上環孖沙街1-3號地下
G/F, 1-3 Mercer Street, Sheung Wan


With so many places serving snowflake ice, this place has tofu flavour which is yet another flavour I havent tried.
So I ordered a plain tofu one, tofu pudding and 3.6 Hokkaido milk pudding.

Tofu snowflake ice:
Basically the same texture as the other ones, however the taste was not that sweet, and tasted exactly of soy milk (vitasoy, but not sweet)

Tofu pudding:
This was my favourite, light and fluffy, a bit like mousse. It was textured with coconut like particles in it, without that, it would have been dead flat, just like cream. The tofu flavour was better than the snowflake one, much sweeter and delicate.

3.6 Hokkaido milk pudding:
Before I came here, I was rather intrigued why it was named 3.6, it turns out the milk they used for this pudding is 3.6 hokkaido milk, as shown on the photos.
The texture of the pudding was rather wobbly like jelly, but not as firm as jelly.
For me, I found it slightly too creamy and lacking that hokkaido butterness aroma.