[Review 575] Good food with tacky chopsticks @ 藏戶概念館 Kulako Japan Concept Food

藏戶概念館 Kulako Japan Concept Food
13/12/2009
旺角西洋菜街1號兆萬中心9樓
9/F, CTMA Centre, 1 Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/good-with-but-tacky-chopsticks-e2049394

Food here is good, but service and chopsticks are not that acceptable.
Firstly had to eat with disposable wooden chopsticks, ready to snap in half at any time.
One of the waiters stunk of BO!
Anyway back to the food.
Whelks in sauce:
a bowl of four whelks in sauce, I thought they would be chewy, but they turned out to be sweet and tender.
Mussels in miso and sake sauce:
was impressed the mussels were fresh, not the frozen ones.
Sakura shrimp and veg tempura:
was not the item I wanted to order, but it tasted ok,
Sakura shrimp and peach roll:
This one tasted the best, ground raw shrimp inside with sweet peach slices inside.
The roll was coated in sakura shrimps, but the thing that let it down was that it didn't stay in one piece when you picked it up with chopsticks.
Overall the food was good, but had difficulty eating mussels and whelks with only a pair of wooden chopsticks and mini fork.

[Review 574] Good breakfast @ 漢堡王 Burger King

漢堡王 Burger King
13/12/2009
將軍澳南豐廣場1樓R1A號舖
Shop R1A, 1/F, Nan Fung Plaza , Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/good-breakfast-e2049392

Found a burger place that does croissants instead of muffins for breakfast.
Got three items:egg, mushroom and cheese croissant and the sausage, egg, bacon burger with mini hash brown bites.
Drinks were included so got coffee and normal tea.
Drinks were ok, I thought the croissant was the best, the egg was tasteless and was tasty with the melted cheese and mushrooms.
As for the sausage and bacon burger, it was ok too, a sausage patty sliced in half and placed in the long bun. The bacon was a bit chewy.
The mini hash browns were quite good too, bite size much better than McD's.

[Review 573] Hotpot @ 正東火煱 (太子)

正東火煱 (太子) 13/12/2009
103 Prince Edward Road West
太子道西103-107號
(NO LINK)
Not really my cup of tea, but my friends went there, so I went.
Ordered a lot of stuff as shown, the best was the mini abalone at $38 each.
The prawn paste was also quite good.
The location of the restaurant is quite far fetched, so a bit hard to locate.

[Review 572] Lamb hot pot @ 太興 Tai Hing

太興 Tai Hing 13/12/2009
銅鑼灣謝斐道470-484號信諾環球保險中心1號地舖
Shop 1, G/F, Cigna Tower, 470-484 Jaffe Rd.,, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/lamb-hot-pot-e2049389

As usual, their lamb hotpots are good, rich beancurd sauce with pieces of water chestnuts, mushrooms, dried beancurd and lamb.
There was also a separate plate of lettuce to put in too.

The lamb was quite tender, but a knife and fork was needed, as chopsticks were useless.

The beancurd sauce that was provided was good also, but slightly too sweet.

[Review 571] 55% Belgian chocolate cherry cake @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

聖安娜餅屋  Saint Honore Cake Shop
13/12/2009
西貢親民街18/32號錦華大廈地下D舖及閣樓
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/55-belgian-chocolate-cherry-cake-e2049387

Had one of those coupons for half a dozen of complimentary cakes, so decided to get a whole cake instead and pay extra.

Got the 55% belgian chocolate cherry cake.

Basically the cake was quite rich, same with the sauce.
Compared to Maxim's Valhrona, the maxims one has the chiffon texture, and the St Honore is richer.

I only liked it because of the cherries.

[Review 570] cheese crunchies @ 美心西餅 Maxim's Cake Shop

美心西餅 Maxim's Cake Shop
11/12/2009
荃灣眾安街68號荃灣城市中心地下G14及G69號舖
Shop G14 & G69, City Landmark, 68 Chung On Street, Tsuen Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cheese-crunchies-e2048996

Needed something to go with my Pate, so I got the Maxim's cheese crunchies, sticks of savory biscuits, with crispy baked cheese bits on it.
I selected this one, as the cheese flavour isnt that strong, and light enough to eat with the pate.
On it's own, the crunchies taste ok, the crispy cheese gives it flavour.

[Review 569] McD's prawn burger is back @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

麥當勞 McDonald's 11/12/2009
灣仔軒尼詩道1號熙信樓1樓C舖
Shop C, 1/F, Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mcds-prawn-burger-is-back-e2048994

The prawn burger was my favourite last year when it was launched, so had to get it again as they are serving it this year.
Same as before, but better with the option of the double patty one.
I just felt the sauce should be proportionate, ie more sauce for the double patty.
The patty is moist, slightly gelatinous with bits of prawn in it.
It would be good if it was permanently on the menu.