[Review 398] Minced Pork with Thai Basil @ Ra Cha Moo Yang 超級食得開心

03/09/2009 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-e2026208

Usually the minced pork with spices and lime juice is served as a starter and wrapped in gem lettuce.

It can also be eaten with rice, as I just did for my gourmet lunch.

Good for hot summer days, when you have no appetite to eat.

The minced pork contained many finely chopped shallots and a few leaves of basil, but enough to have an empowering lingering taste. Nice and appetising with the well mixed lime juice and finely chopped chili.

[Review 397] Hot Spot Wednesday @ Subway

Subway 03/09/2009
灣仔盧押道20號其康大廈地下
G/F Dannies Hse Bldg., 20 Luard Rd.,, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/hotspot-on-wednesdays-e2026175

As Wednesday’s special is chicken, expect long long queues, but the wait is worth it.

Firstly there are four choices of bread: White, Honey Oats, Parmesan with herbs, and Wheat. I chose the white for simplicity, usually I have the Parmesan one. After the chicken and cheese was toasted. I picked olives and cucumber and had BBQ sauce.

Their BBQ sauce tastes exactly like the one at McDonalds.

I also got the White chocolate macadamia cookies, a gorgeous chewy sweet cookie with a milky taste from the white chocolate.

[Review 396] Mee Siam 土司工坊 Toast Box (銅鑼灣)

02/09/2009 土司工坊 Toast Box (銅鑼灣)
銅鑼灣勿地臣街1號時代廣場B2 B219-B220號舖
Shop B219-B220, B2, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mee-siam-e2025862

After I saw their new addition of the Mee Siam, I had to give it a try. They finally had something new on their menu since they opened.

As commented in my previous reviews, the Laksa is the most tasteless in Hong Kong, however today it was hotter than usual, also the prawns still had guts attached.

Anyway, the Mee Siam is not as strong as the one at Katong, the coconut milk is very prominent in the soup base. Slighty fruitier than the Katong one, and not spicy at all.
I would recommend it to people who haven’t tried Mee Siam before, to see if they can accept that sort of flavour, and if they can, they can try the stronger one at Katong, which is also at its true spicyness.

For Toastbox, I feel their food is a gentle representation for Singaporean food.

[Review 395] Great Tea sets @ 新金鐘食堂

01/09/2009 新金鐘食堂
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/great-tea-sets-e2025664

Came here for a late afternoon tea, ordered noodles with pork skin with radish, and black peppered chicken burger.

The noodles were OK and tasted how they should, the pork skin reminded me of unshaven stubble.
Anyway the chicken burger was the best, it was much better than I expected, the chicken was thinly cut, also nicely grilled. It was a little different to what I imagined. I was expecting a round bun, but it was a long shaped bun. Also I thought there would be black pepper sauce, however it was chicken marinated with black pepper, then dressed with salad cream.

We thought the food was so good, we ordered an extra tea set, it was already past the tea-time hours but they let us order it.

Apart from their tea, their menu is also quite extensive and very cheap too!

[Review 394] Good egg tarts @ 將軍堡 (荔枝角) Tseung Kwan Castle Cafe

將軍堡  Tseung Kwan Castle Cafe 31/08/2009
荔枝角長沙灣道808號香港紗廠工業大廈1及2期地下C2B
Shop C2B, G/F, Hong Kong Spinners Industrial Building Phase I And II, 808 Cheung Sha Wan Street, Lai Chi Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/good-egg-tarts-e2025274

This is my favourite place for egg tarts, especially when the pastry is just right and golden brown.
Very good value at $10 for 5.
The custard filling is rather nice, it tastes of custard and vanilla, and not so much of egg.
Apart from the egg tarts, its other bakery items are good too.

[Review 393] Smiths Scampi and Lemon!!! @ il Bel Paese (灣仔)

30/08/2009 il Bel Paese (灣仔)

灣仔軒尼詩道51-53號地下至2樓

G/F-2/F, 51-53 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/scampi-and-lemon-e2025220

So happy to see a massive Il Bel Paese in wanchai, a store on the ground floor and then a restaurant on the first floor.

I entered the shop expecting the usual bakery, cheeses, and Italians salad, then OMG I saw an array of crisps!! Walkers Salt n Vinegar, and Smiths Scampi and lemon and even Quavers, so I got them immediately, I haven't had them for ages!!

If they had the Smiths Cheese moments/ pockets, it would be great, but good enough already, and they have my favourite cous cous too!!!

The price is quite reasonable too!

[Review 392] Chef's selection @ Pizzahut 必勝客 (灣仔)

Pizzahut 必勝客 29/08/2009
灣仔太源街8號海源中心1樓 1/F, Yanville, 8 Tai Yuen Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chefs-selection-e2024742

I never go to Pizza Hut, firstly because its noisy, and it is slightly different to the European Pizza huts.

Anyway, I came to try their Chef's selection.

However when we ordered they told us the Roast chicken was sold out, so we had the remaining two choices, pan fried fish with pasta and 12" Meat Lovers Pizza.

The pizza tastes how it should, and the pasta was ok, the sauce was slightly too sweet and the fish was juicy with a golden coating.

The lobster and prawn soup was better than I imagined, not too strong, and had sufficient prawns in it.

The drinks was refillable.