[Review 559] Standards maintained @ 通達食店

通達食店 08/12/2009
油麻地碧街48號地舖
G/F, 48 Pitt Street, Yau Ma Tei
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/standards-maintained-e2048308

My favourite joint for quick noodles, and fried treasures, the noodles here are always good.

This time tried the fake sharks fin soup, the soup colour was dark caramel containing glass noodles, sliced mushrooms and meat.

My friend got this bowl of pork in soup, basically fat pork belly, which stunk like hell!
Don't know what is the specialty for this dish!!

[Review 558] New Chocolate Pie @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

麥當勞 McDonald's
06/12/2009
灣仔莊士敦道178-186號華懋莊士敦廣場地下2號舖
Shop 2, G/F, Chinachem Johnston Plaza, 178-186 Johnston, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/new-chocolate-pie-e2047956

McDonalds have introduced a chocolate pie which is similar to the marshmallow chocolate pie by KFC last year.
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=1953900

Basically it tastes the same without the gooey marshmallow.

The pastry does not have any chocolate taste at all, it is slightly salty and chocolate coloured.

Same as the KFC one, there is not much chocolate filling inside, you have to eat 60% of the pie before you get any filling.
I was told by Babedolphin that there is a chocolate apple pie in Mcdonalds in China, and a ham and egg pie too that would be interesting to try.

[Review 557] pizza take out @ Cul-De-Sac

Cul-De-Sac
灣仔駱克道89號灣仔中匯大廈地下
Lockhart Road
02/12/2009
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pizza-take-out-e2047162

Apart from the delicious chips, hotdogs, and subs, today I tried the Pizza.
It came in a nice pizza pocket designed especially for their pizzas.
There were quite a few slices of pepperoni's on it, but the cheese was tasteless.
The pizza base was quite thin, chewy and slightly crispy.
If it tasted slightly stronger, I would of liked it.

[Review 556] Maxims Singmalay series part 3 @ 美心西餅 Maxim's Cake Shop

美心西餅 Maxim's Cake Shop
02/12/2009
金鐘港鐵金鐘站ADM 18號舖
Shop ADM 18, Admiralty MTR Station, Admiralty
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/maxims-singmalay-series-part-3-e2047161

Yellow coloured Kaya filling in the dusted bun, rich in coconut taste, much better than the Starbuck's Kaya bun.
The one at Starbucks just tasted merely of egg custard.

As with all Maxims buns, the bun is so unbalanced, dough on one side and hollow the other side with filling.

Out of all the Singmalay range, I like the Pandan cake the most.

[Review 555] Too Salty @ Hot.com

Hot.com (已結業)
30/11/2009
旺角登打士街43P-S號鴻輝大廈地下
G/F, Hung Fai Building. 430 Dundas Street, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/overly-salty-e2046716

Decided to try some snacks at this little joint, ordered the beef devil, two skewers of snacks.
The beef bun, was basically satay beef with onions in a Chinese sesame sweet bun, the beef was quite generous. The usual Chinese taste, nothing special about it.
The skewers were fish tofu, spinach fishballs, and some artificial rubber cake with seaweed on the edges.
As they were pre-fried, they were fried again when ordered, basically tasting like hard chewy rubber, and very salty too.
Each skewer cost $10 which was totally not worth it, you can buy these at any market in HK.
The only good point about them, was that they labelled their takeaway bags, as seen on the brown paper bag.

[Review 554] Slight improvements @ Mang Ambos

Mang Ambos (已結業)
29/11/2009
灣仔謝斐道120號
120 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/slight-improvements-e2046538

After the first visit, Mang Ambos has improved, they now have a menu for non Filipinos.
It lists out what dishes there are and what ingredients they are cooked with.
The only thing I did not like was the Japanese pearl rice, a bit too filling and hard, also the food is a bit too oily.
This time I got the pork in peanut sauce, almost like the Thai satay sauce, also the pork with tomato, sausages and liver was a nice dish. The liver has a crumbly texture.

[Review 553] Recycled food @ Fishing Bay 漁灣村 (將軍澳)

漁灣村 Fishing Bay 29/11/2009
將軍澳寶林村寶勤樓地下123-124號舖
Shop 123-124, G/F, Po Kan House, Po Lam Estate, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/recycled-food-e2046537

Not impressed on the second visit, ordered pork in vinegar sauce, but the waitress took down Salt and pepper pork, so we ended up with the wrong dish.
Told the waitress, and she took away the dish,
We were returned with the right dish, however the chef just recycled the wrong dish, removed the spring onions and garlic that were on the pork chop and cooked it in vinegar sauce.
You could taste the pork chop had hints of vinegar and salt and pepper, overall it tasted very bad!