[Review 540] SB Christmas series part 1 - Fudge cake with cranberry @ Starbucks Coffee 星巴克咖啡

星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee 18/11/2009
灣仔皇后大道東248號萬誠保險中心地下G5-G6A號舖
Queen's Road East
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sb-christmas-series-part-1-e2044154

Christmas is a time that draws me to places that I am not usually fan of, usually because the food contains cranberries, turkey, or stuffing, even the sweet selection will be interesting.
I shall be going to Starbucks to try the following Christmas selections: mini turkey wrap, turkey sausage, Christmas log.
Today I tried the Fudge cake with cranberry, it was rather dense, and I was expecting cranberry sauce to pour out from the middle, but it turned out a splodge of cranberry on the top with Walnuts.
This is one in the selection that I felt wasn't so Christmasy.

[Review 539] Boring choices @ Pacific Coffee 太平洋咖啡

Pacific Coffee 太平洋咖啡 (灣仔)
41 Lockhart Road
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/boring-choices-e2044151
18/11/2009

Pacific Coffee has been so boring lately with their selections, its nearly Christmas, and there is nothing Chrismassy.

I took a peek because I went to Starbucks, and there were at least 5 xmas items, and a few I wanted to try.
As there was nothing new except the Kaiser bun with pork, I got that.

The pork filling was minced and mixed in salad cream, sweet than savory.

The bun tasted exactly like the meatball baguette that they do with the seeds in the bun.

[Review 538] Shanghai style dinner @ 儂京川滬菜館 Lung Chinese Fusion

儂京川滬菜館  Lung Chinese Fusion
18/11/2009
尖沙咀諾士佛臺1號3樓
3/F, 1 Knutsford Terrace, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/shanghai-dinner-e2044150

Apart from Heaven on Earth, this is another place that does Shanghai stuff.

Ordered the Shanghai dumplings, filled with soup, so had to bite it carefully so that the juice doesn't come out.

The rest of the food just tasted like ordinary Shanghai food such as the chicken with flat noodles in sesame sauce.

The dessert was pretty but a bit too sweet.

[Review 537] Yogurt ice-cream @ 阿波羅 Appolo

17/11/2009 阿波羅 Appolo
尖沙咀天星碼頭地下KP-24號舖
Shop KP-24, Star Ferry Pier, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/yogurt-ice-cream-e2043979

My favourite item here is the yoghurt with fresh fruit, but I wanted to get the free Mars bar so I ended up buying 3 cups of sundaes.
ACTUALLY I BELIEVE IT CAN BE BOUGHT SEPARATELY because on the flyer it said $11.8 if you buy it on its own, but since the woman there firmly said you cant buy it on its own, I got other stuff too.
To be honest, people in Hong Kong are just scared to make decisions on behalf of the company or even bother to phone up and ask colleagues.
Some companies are profits first so you have to purchase their house branded products.
Looking back, I was young and stupid to not have written to Appolo about the situation.
Anyway the sundae, was just three layers of ice-cream, vanilla, strawberry then chocolate, the strawberry tasted fake, and the other two layers were ok.
The Mars bar is not a product by Apollo, but imported, it tasted of sweet ice-cream with caramel.

[Review 536] Early breakfast @ Tao Heung 稻香

17/11/2009 Tao Heung 稻香
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期2樓2039-2042號舖
Shop 2039-2042, 2/F, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/early-breakfast-e2043978

Hardly go for dim-sum in the morning, especially the noisy environment and having to wait for tables.
Today ordered: spare ribs and chicken feet with rice, mini scallops cheung fun, prawn dumplings, chiu chow dumplings, fake sharks fin soup and ducks feet with fruit peel.
The rice in the pot of ribs n feet were nice and hard, went well with the soya sauce.
The cheung fun was a higher proportion of rice roll pastry than scallops and courgettes, but because the scallops were mini, it was expected.
The chiu chow dumplings were moist and sweet due to the white carrots.
The Prawn dumplings were ok.
The sharks fin soup was good, but the pork spolt it, thats why I usually prefer vegetarian ones, because if the pork isnt fresh it will taste off.
I felt that the red vinegar should only be used with real sharks fin soup rather than the fake ones, because it dosnt go well together, especially when there is shiitake mushrooms presents, the vinegar will make it taste funny.

[Review 535] Cream cheese and apple bun @ 英王麵包店 A-1 Bakery

英王麵包店  A-1 Bakery
將軍澳坑口重華路8號東港城2樓210號舖
Shop No.210, 2/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/bakery-e2043696

Cream cheese and apple bun:
Crunchy milk top like the milk buns, hollow bun with a gaping hole that had some slight apple pieces and cream cheese, not two sweet.
Rum, apricot and walnut butter slice:
Rather tasteless, oily and dense, the oil could be seen on the packet.

There were not much nuts or apricot.

[Review 534] Laksa - Singmalay Part 15 @ 沙嗲軒 Satay Inn

16/11/2009 沙嗲軒 Satay Inn
北角城市花園道9號城市花園酒店大堂
Lobby, City Garden Hotel, 9 City Garden Road, North Point
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/singmalay-part-15-e2043695

Actually this should be part 15, however I didnt label the reviews after part 5,
so all the singmalay series have been listed below.

Came here and ordered the Hainan chicken with rice, Laksa, and Okra in sambal coconut sauce.

The Hainan chicken was the most expensive, and when i mention the price in my reviews I do mean expensive!!!
$80 for a few pieces of chicken, rice, sauces and soup, the sauces were slightly different than the other places, the soy sauce was thick and carried that bitterness to it, the grounded ginger was green, and the rice was quite hard.
The flavoured rice tasted like the paste I got at the Food expo to make the Hainan rice.

The Laksa priced at $65 was the average Laksa price in HK, however it lacked cockles and the big prawns. It was rather oily and very strong in coconut milk base.

Sambal Okra:
This was rather nice, the sauce was sweet with coconut. I would of preferred the okra to have been cut in half to soak up more sauce.
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Part 14: Fishing Bay
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-508-30102009-located-in-wrong.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/located-in-the-wrong-place-with-wrong-people-e2040133
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Part 13: Eat Garden
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-319-cheap-food-sets-eat-garden.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cheap-food-sets-e2007800
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Part 12: Toast Box
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/new-394-mee-siam-toast-box.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mee-siam-e2025862
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Part 11: 狀元麵館
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-425-grubby-place-to-eat.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/grubby-place-to-eat-e2030430
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Part 10: Ma thai
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-301-laksa-ma-thai.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/laksa-e2008781
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Part 9: malaymama
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-444-afternoon-tea-malaymama.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/afternoon-tea-at-malaymama-e2032641
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Part 8: King Laksa
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-428-may-be-not-laksa-king-king.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/laksa-king-maybe-not-e2030936
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Part 7: Malaysia (Port Klang) Cuisine Limited
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-254-laksa-in-mong-kok-malaysia.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/laksa-in-mong-kok-e1975275
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Part 6: Prawn noodle shop
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-194-laksa-prawn-noodle-shop.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/laksa-e1946237
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Part 5: Pasar
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-191-laksa-vs-laksa-pasar.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/laksa-vs-laksa-e1944929
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Part 4: Katong
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-141-singmalay-part-4-katong.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/singmalay-part-4-e1911346
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Part 3: Katong
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/singmalay-part-3-katong-laksa-prawn-mee.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/singmalay-part-3-e1909120
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Part 2: YEOH'S BAH KUT TEH
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-129-singmalay-part-2-yeohs-bah.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/singmalay-part-2-e1909114
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Part 1: Sing Ma Food Restaurant
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-128-closed-for-refurbishment.html
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/closed-for-refurbishing-singmalay-part-1-e1909108
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