[Review 482] 16/10/2009 Yummy Pancakes @ Spaghetti House 意粉屋

Spaghetti House 意粉屋
灣仔軒尼詩道68-76號新禧大樓1樓
1/F, Sun Hey Mansion, 68-76 Hennessy Road,, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/yummy-pancakes-e2037001

Spaghetti house is not my usual pick for pasta and pizza, because their branches and locations is a bit off radar.

Anyway, went to this one which is located right in front of a bus stop with long queues of people waiting for the bus, so you need to get past the people to enter the door.

I ordered the afternoon tea set, but couldn’t find the apple pie advertised prominently on their tea set menu cover, only available a la carte. I supposed it would be cheaper to just order the a la carte since I didn’t like the drinks.

Ordered the Squid ink rice with pork chops and apple, and the pancakes with peach and syrup.

The squid ink rice was very good, each grain of rice was distinct, and similar to the Japanese pearl rice, there was bits of fruit on top too, and melted processed cheese.

The pancakes were perfect too, haven’t had a decent pancake for along time, especially the Jif lemon ones, everything was the right sweetness too.

[Review 481] 14/10/2009 King Parrot does the Job @ 香辣屋 Chilli N Spice

香辣屋 Chilli N Spice
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期1樓1035-1038號舖
Shop 1035-1038, 1/F, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/king-parrot-does-the-job-e2036588

Chilli n Spice is a subsidiary of the King Parrot group, the restaurants I have tried from King Parrot group are ok, so this one was ok too.

Ordered the set, which includes soup, starters, rice and a choice of two mains and dessert.

Crabmeat and sweetcorn soup:
Slightly different to what I expected, the soup had lots of onions, and it tasted like watery A La King sauce, I think ingredients were a bit weird together, onions and sweetcorn.
The crabmeat was not cooked together with the soup, but topped on the surface of the soup as a final touch, so don’t expect a lot of crab meat.

Starters:
Chicken satay was skewered with thigh meat, so it was tender, the peanut sauce was slightly sweet.
Crunchy garlic butter chicken wings, were crunchy as stated, however the garlic wasn’t that strong, the butter was just right, not sickly and oily as the famous Vietnamese one in Causeway bay.

Katong beef: Strong in coconut and lemongrass flavour, but not spicy at all.

Steamed fish with sauce: the fish was rather big, so the fish was slightly coarse. It was scaled properly, so you only need to watch out for the bones.

Red bean dessert and coffee dessert, both these were agar based, and I am not a keen fan for these, I just found it too sweet.

If the dishes arrived in order such as starters then the mains, then it would be better, as the fish arrived first.

[Review 480] 13/10/2009 Limited choice for drinks @ Coffee Square 咖啡世紀

Coffee Square 咖啡世紀
中環威靈頓街85-89號群英商業大廈地下A2舖
Shop A2, G/F, Khuan Ying Commercial Building, 85-89 Wellington Street, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/limited-choice-for-drinks-e2036345

Not surprised it is not listed in OR, as it dosnt offer much.
I think the crowd would have directly gone to Sxxxxxx de France or the new Japanese bread one.
The drink selection is mainly coffee, the tea is only Lemon tea, for those who are do not drink coffee, will find it hard to accompany coffee lovers unless the other drinks are ok for them.
I found only one cake that attracted me to this shop, the strawberry chocolate cake with the appearance of a black forest cake, however its size is rather small.
Hopefully there will be more choice in the future.

[Review 479] 13/10/2009 Vegetarian Roast Pork Roll @ 東方小祇園 Tung Fong Siu Kee Yuen

東方小祇園 Tung Fong Siu Kee Yuen
灣仔灣仔道111號 111 Wan Chai Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/vegetarian-roast-pork-roll-e2036341

When I go for vegetarian food in Wanchai, people will assume it is this restaurant, however I finally found out this was the one they were mentioning about.

It seems popular in Wanchai for the local Chinese, but it didn’t really appeal to me to try, but today I was slightly hungry, so just grabbed a quick snack to try.

I got the char siu roll, looking a bit like a sausage roll.

I thought the pastry was slightly too thick in proportion to what was inside, the intimation pork was slight hard and a bit like dry chewy hard plastic.

The taste was acceptable but not delicious.

[Review 478] 13/10/2009 White herbal jelly @ 濼生堂

濼生堂
灣仔駱克道150A舖
150A Lockhart Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/whtie-herbal-jelly-e2036307

Noticed on their menu the white grass jelly, so finally tried it, apparently it is meant to good for your respiratory, the owner said it was made of fruit, and a high source of fibre.

I got a bowl to take away, it was nice the syrup was a separate tub, I tried it without the sweetener and the jelly itself had a faint taste of sweetness, the appearance of the jelly was not white, it was crystal clear. The texture of the jelly was like grass jelly, although slightly chewier than grass jelly.

[Review 477] 12/10/2009 A taste of Macau in Central @ 筷子記 Chopsticks Kee

筷子記  Chopsticks Kee
中環威靈頓街85-89號群英商業大廈地下A1號舖
Shop A1, G/F, Khuan Ying Commercial Building, 85-89 Wellington Street, \
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-taste-of-macau-in-central-e2036142

Chopsticks Kee serve noodles a bit like the car noodle style, pick the items you want with the noodles, and the noodles have thick gravy sauce rather than soup.

The sauces they serve are tomato, onion, oyster and sa cha, so tried the sa cha an the tomato, both sauces were too sweet, the items that came with it were the standard fishball, although some were slightly different, such as the abalone fish rolls and the fried bean curd rolls.

The metal plate they used was also interesting, old hong kong style.

[Review 476] 10/10/2009 Fake Western Breakfast @ 新軒尼詩茶餐廳 New Hennessy Restaurant

新軒尼詩茶餐廳 New Hennessy Restaurant
灣仔柯布連道6A&6B號地下
G/F, 6A & 6B O'Brien Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/western-breakfast-e2035563

Saw the good pictures posted of the breakfasts served there, so decided to try it.

Ordered the western breakfast including a drink, had chicken steak from a choice of beef, chicken or pork, it came with baked beans, and I chose 2 eggs instead of other stuff like ham or sausage, which is quite lame, the sausage is just frankfurters, and sliced ham is fried! No one fries ham in UK!!

Overall, the eggs and baked beans tasted how it should, the grilled chicken steak was a bit dry, but the skin was crunchy. Eating it was difficult with the useless weak knives and forks.