[Review 365] Chewy ice-cream @ Mado 雪糕店 (鰂魚涌)

Mado 雪糕店 (鰂魚涌) 19/08/2009
鰂魚涌康山道1號康怡廣場吉之島百貨地下L008號
Kornhill
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chewy-ice-cream-e2021839

My second returning visit to Mado, their ice-creams are the best, I ordered the Turkish bomb, lovely and chewy, not too sweet, plain ice-cream mixed with pistachios, apricots, and coconut. A creamy full bodied ice-cream just at the right sweetness. It takes a few seconds to get used to, the gooey texture, and the difficulties in trying to spoon it out. The Turkish bomb reminded me of the nougat, chewy but cold, full of ice-cream, and lots of texture, real coconut shreds, and the delicate apricot and pistachio.

The ice-cream owes it texture to the main ingredient “Mastic” a resin cultivated from Mastic trees in Greece. ( For the real greek ice-cream, however in this case Salep)

However they do not the taro milkshake they had before, which was nice.

[Review 364] Just what you would expect @ 新利民快餐店 (已結業) San Lee Man Restaurant

18/08/2009  新利民快餐店 (已結業) San Lee Man Restaurant
灣仔蘭杜街1號 1 Landale St,, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/just-what-you-would-expect-e2021542

For Wanchai, this is a cheap place for the chinese food, the prices you would get at Industrial areas of hong kong, doing the same style food, ie fried noodles, rices etc.

Ordered the beef and tomato, and shredded satay chicken with rice.

Beef and tomato:
The tomatoes were not ripe, hence there was not much tomato taste in the dish or the beef. The beef was not that flavoured either.

Shredded satay chicken:
Frozen chicken, hence lots of garlic was used in the dish, the satay sauce also a bit bland, lots of onions, and there were a few pieces of pineapple.
The chicken was attached to the skin as well.

[Review 363] Getting better and better @ Vero Chocolates

Vero Chocolates
18/08/2009
灣仔龍景街1號分域碼頭海軍商場1樓 1/F, Fenwick Pier, 1 Lung King Street, Wan Chai

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/getting-better-and-better-e2021529


Since my last visit in February, this place has even more amazing variety.

Previous visit:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=1971982

The cake selection is very appealing which reminds me of Cha Ke Li, chocolate infused with various chinese teas.

The cake that caught my attention was the earl grey with taro, earl grey is a tea that I drink, and taro a gorgeous delicate flavour, and the two combined, absolutely delicious.

The cake was light and smooth, and full of earl grey flavour, the taro cream was hidden in between the chocolate cream.
The taro was like cream, very light and the taste of taro oozes out.

As for the chocolate raspberry smoothie, I really liked the sourness of the raspberry.
The smoothie was a watery cocoa based texture, which matched well with the raspberry, because of its natural berry sourness. There were bits of raspberry pips in it too, and the cream was topped with dried raspberry.

[Review 362] Good environment for lunch 富東粵菜 (灣仔) Fu Tung Gongdong Restaurant

18/09/2009 富東粵菜 Fu Tung Gongdong Restaurant
灣仔駱克道57-73號香港華美粵海酒店3樓
3/F, Wharney Guang Dong Hotel Hong Kong, 57-73 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/good-environment-for-lunch-e2021199

Came to this quiet setting for chinese dim-sum, although it looks expensive, it is not as expensive as it looks.

Beef Tendon:
nice and soft, however the sauce was too sweet

Braised ducks feet and mushroom
Abit dissapointing, because the ducks feets wasnt soft enough.

Gold and Silver egg congee
tastes slightly better than the usual thousand egg congee, because of the salted egg.

Fish Maw and dumpling in soup
It reeked of some weird taste, and the fish maw wasnt that soft.

Pork liver rice roll
Never tried this before, but it tasted ok, the livers was slightly undercooked.

Prawn dumplings
tasted the best, at least the dumpling skin didnt break or stick to the paper.

Dessert was complimentary, purple rice with sweetcorn, tasted ok, not too sweet.

[Review 361] another option for Japanese food @ ippai 大飽小包 (灣仔)

17/08/2009 ippai 大飽小包 (灣仔)
灣仔莊士敦道178-186 號華懋莊士敦廣場地下1號舖
Shop 1,G/F, Chinachem Johnston Plaza, 178-186 Johnston Road , Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/another-option-for-japanese-food-e2021184


Walked past and saw this new restaurant, so decided to try their food.

It looks like fried food from the outside, not quite clear what sort of food they are serving, so I just got two prawn tempuras, both had a sauce each, so I got a cheese sauce and a curry sauce.

Curry sauce: lacked curry taste, also a bit watery.

Cheese sauce: tasted more like salad cream.

I think, it would be fairer to give comments in a months time when their restaurant is fully functioning. Although for the prawns they could at least de-gut them.

[Review 360] your average chinese-thai chicken @ 泰國人海南雞 (灣仔)

16/08/2009 泰國人海南雞 Koon Thai Hai Nam Chicken

灣仔莊士敦道199-201號地下B舖

ShopB, G/F, 199-201 Johnston Road, Wan Chai

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/your-average-chinese-thai-chicken-e2021036

Ordered the two person set dinner for $96 including their signature chicken, the set includes 3 satays, plate of chicken, water spinach, soup/dessert and rice.

The rice was quite a big portion, also equivalent to 1.5 bowls of rice, the chicken was tender, however the sauce that came with it didnt taste that authentic, more chili and sugar based.

The soup was the usual wintermelon soup.

The satay, we ordered chicken, but they gave us pork.

The water spinach was boiled for too long and seemed to have gone yellow.

[Review 359] Good selection of pasta @ Bubble Green (灣仔)

14/08/2009 Bubble Green (灣仔)
灣仔謝斐道130-146號地下1號舖
Shop 1, G/F, 130-146 Jaffe Road,, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/good-selection-of-pasta-e2020417

The food range and quality is good here, however dining in or take out the food served is served in a takeaway plastic box.

Dining in is more expensive, even though the cutlery and food containers are disposable.

Due to their confined space, it is rather difficult to eat there, also their plastic cutlery doesn't help.

Apart from these complaints, the pastas are good, you can select from Angel hair, penne, rice and spaghetti.
However the angel hair resembles more like spaghetti, fat and overcooked.