[Review 456] Spanish tapas @ UnoMas - Spanish Restaurant (灣仔)

30/09/2009 UnoMas - Spanish Restaurant (灣仔)
灣仔駱克道54-62號博匯大廈1樓
1/F, Broadway Buildling, 54-62 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/spanish-tapas-e2033287


Finally came here for lunch, this is probably my first time having real Spanish food, the ones I have had before are the fake ones.
I liked the lunch style, you can choose a 3 set Tapa from the Tapa list of 15, 14 for food and one for dessert. For two people, we chose 6 Tapa’s.

The restaurant was spacious yet cramped, there were tables spread across the room, however the table for two we had was quite small, not designed for Spanish Tapa’s, you could have at most 3 Tapa’s on the table. I had trouble getting to my cramped my seat, and I am a thin!

The service was a bit cold, could have been better. Not sure if tap water was free, but other tables were given it. Also coffee/tea was included in the set, but they didn’t remind us, and we felt they had different attitudes to Caucasians and Asians.

Food:

Ensalada de lentejas con jamon: Brown lental salad with ham, red onion, tomato, olive oil and vinegar, a nice tangy starter.
Chipirones al ajillo: baby squids with garlic and parsley: this was the best, the squids were fat and soft with generous sauce.
Croquetas de Jamon: almond crusted chicken and ham croquettes, could see or taste the almond crust, infact it was just plain crumbs with smooth silky potato inside.
Croqutas de Arroz: Saffron rice and manchego fritters, This one I could taste and see the almond pieces as the coating, inside was rice, and moist too, the sauce tasted like pumpkin sauce.
Tortilla con chorizo Potato tortilla with spicy chorizo and paprika: this was just like an omelette, very buttery.
Cordero al vinto tinto: lamb in chorizo in red wine sauce: it tasted more like beef.

Dessert: Orange and almond cake with syrup.

Overall the food was ok, the service and attitude was not!

[Review 455] Night market at Park n Shop @ 士林夜市 (將軍澳)

士林夜市 (將軍澳) 30/09/2009
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓百佳超級市場內
Parknshop, UG/F, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/night-market-at-park-n-shop-e2033198

After trying the other foods in this place, decided to try this Taiwanese joint too, I did not expect it to taste as good as the other notorious ones such as Ar To.
Ordered the beef noodles and white carrot cake.

The white carrot cake was a big slab!! It was not cut and packaged like that. There was not much ingredients such as pork or shrimp in it. It was slightly greasy and had a strong oil odour.
The noodles were ok, the soup base was ok, contained lots carrot, beef etc.

[Review 454] Blueberry slush @ 木子咖啡 Muzi Cafe

29/09/2009 木子咖啡  Muzi Cafe
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓百佳超級市場內
UG/F, Parknshop, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/blueberry-slush-e2032981


My first visit, they sold out of their signature bubble tea, so I just got other stuff from the other stalls.

On my second visit, decided to get the blueberry ice, basically it is slushy ice flavoured with blueberry, topped with syrup and crystal pearls.
Tasted artificial as expected, with chewy bits of the crystal pearls.

In the city, i probably would get drinks elsewhere, but in Po lam where it lacks variety, I would get drinks from here again!

[Review 453] Dessert time at Park n Shop @ 金滿堂甜品 (將軍澳) Golden Hall Dessert

金滿堂甜品 (將軍澳)Golden Hall Dessert
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓百佳超級市場
Parknshop, UG/F, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/dessert-time-at-park-n-shop-e2032964



Ordered the sago with ice-cream and grass jelly, reasonable portion size and only cost $10.
Then got the snowflake ice with Italian grass jelly and mini glutinous dumplings that cost $13.
So for two reasonable desserts it cost $23 altogether!! Usually for $20 you can only get a basic dessert, the only thing is you can only eat at the stand tables or take away.

Dessert wise, the sago tasted ok, the snowflake one, I chose the Italian grass jelly to go with it so I could compare it to the one at chung’s dessert (po lam one).
Although I only chose two toppings to go with the snowflake ice, they gave other items with it such as red beans for free which I was not appreciative of, I hate red beans!! That is why I don’t go to the traditional dessert houses such as moon gay or Big 8. I would also given the normal grass jelly too, which was good, so I could taste the difference between their Italian one and the cube ones.
The snowflake ice only had three flavours tofu, chocolate and mango, the chocolate was a bit bitter.

Basically I felt, some of the desserts were copied from other places such as the Italian grass jelly with ginger sauce from chung’s in po lam, and the glutinous rice balls with maltesers also copied from cousins “bew jeah dessert”

[Review 452] Chili Whelks @ 御小廚

御小廚 29/09/2009
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓百佳超級市場
Parknshop, UG/F, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan Ohttps://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chilli-whelks-e2032963



Quite cool, they had whelks in chili sauce, my favourite, the portion was reasonable big and bigger than the portion I got at Star of Canton, also cheaper too!!

The whelks were reasonable clean too, not any sand in it at all.
The only thing that could be improved was that they should supply a fork or stick to eat them with.

[Review 451] china town like restaurant @悅香飯店 (灣仔) Yuet Heung Restaurant

悅香飯店 (灣仔) Yuet Heung Restaurant
29/09/2009
灣仔譚臣道105-107號地下
G/F, 105-107 Thomson Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/china-town-like-restaurant-e2032955


Went here as it was on my restaurants to try list.

When we arrived, the interior was very 1980’s style, even the waiters.
The menu wasn’t very helpful either, just plain Chinese text, and no pictures at all.

Felt like being in the restaurants in china town!

Ordered the signature chicken and the vegetarian pot with ducks feet.

The chicken was ok, the sauce was the best, however the chicken was slightly tough.
The vegetarian pot tasted better, it had baby sweet corns, black fungus, ducks feet, black mosses, all a good mix.

The most interesting thing was the bill!! It looked very complicated, hand written, like those you see in the movies. It had weird columns, anyway to make it simple, one of those old receipts in Hong Kong years and years ago!!

[Review 450] Clean snacks @ 十三座牛雜 (將軍澳)

十三座牛雜 (將軍澳) 29/09/2009
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓百佳超級市場
Parknshop, UG/F, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/clean-snacks-e2032940


I have always wanted to try this little joint in Wanchai, the Wanchai branched is fairly clean, and the sticks of organs are laid out nicely, however I still hesitated until this indoor branch opened in a food court.

I like the presentation in that the pieces are placed in a little bowl rather on sticks, much easier to eat without sauce dripping all over the place.

It also feels cleaner in the sense they don’t place it on that communal plate where everyone uses it as a place to put all their sauces on. Others may prefer it like this, because a mix of sauces would be tastier.

I was also able to taste the sauce too with other sauces interfering, with notes of various organs and the spices.

As I haven’t tried beef organs, apart from that carpet looking thing in my noodle the other day, I had one of each, intestines, lungs, stomach, etc.
They all tasted relatively the same, as they were all marinated with that sauce, however the textures were slightly different.

One of them was grainy, the lung was smooth and the texture was like eating blood curds, and the carpet was the same as I described it last time.
The intestines I refused to eat because I feel its just the same as eating faeces!! Well it holds faeces anyway!

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