[Review 671] chili con carne pizza @ Pepperonis Pizza & Cafe

Pepperonis Pizza & Cafe  05/03/2010
西貢普通道1592號地下 G/F, 1592 Po Tung Road, Sai Kung
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chili-con-carne-pizza-e2067227

If you've had the Chili beef pizza from Marks and Spencers frozen food section, the Acalpulo pizza from here tastes the same, except with extra sour cream on top.
Crispy pizza base with kidney beans, sour cream, guacamole sauce and beef.
Apart from the pizza, their pasta with clams is also another good choice, spicy chili and pasta tossed in olive oil with crushed garlic.

[Review 670] Delicious Egyptian dinner @ Habibi Restaurant

Habibi Restaurant 05/03/2010
中環威靈頓街112號至114號地下A號舖
Shop A, G/F, 112-114 Wellington Street, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/delicious-egyptian-dinner-e2067074

Had this dinner along time ago, but just found the photos.

Ordered the following:

Firahk Bil Roman: Baby chicken stuffed with apricot, figs, and raisins cooked in pomegranate flavoured sauce.
Very fruity with tender chicken.
Babaganough: Roasted eggplant with tahina and lemon juice
This was nice and tangy, and the texture is unlike eggplant at all, it was so nice I finished it before remembering to take a picture.
Mussaka: Layered slices of eggplant, seasoned minced lamb and vegetables topped with mashed potatoes
This was like a not spicy version of “ma poor kear ji”, the chinese minced meat thing with aubergines.

[Review 669] Nice starters @ 沙嗲王 Satay King

沙嗲王 Satay King
05/03/2010
銅鑼灣軒尼詩道489號銅鑼灣廣場一期9樓
9/F, Causeway Bay Plaza 1, 489 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/nice-starters-e2067069

Got the dinner set with white curry that includes a drink and choice of starters.

The white curry is consistently good as always, so no point describing about it again, although this time the pork chop was slightly over fried and dry.

For starters, got the prawn spring rolls, octopus sweets.

Prawn spring rolls, nothing interesting, just tasted how it should.
Octopus sweets:
Probably called sweets because of the way they are wrapped.
However I thought it tasted better than the prawn spring roll, the tiny rolls contained chopped up octopus, all chewy inside.

As for the drink, they were the usual Taiwanese teas, not too sweet or neither did it have that artificial syrup taste, also there was jelly at the bottom of the drink.

[Review 668] Set dinner @ 肉骨皇 Bak Kut King

肉骨皇  Bak Kut King 05/03/2010
大坑浣紗街45號浣紗花園地下1號舖 Shop 1, G/F, Wan Sha Tower, 45 Wun Sha Street, Tai Hang
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/bkk-set-dinner-e2067067

Last time, I didn’t get the set because there were various ala carte items I wanted to try and the Salmon Carpaccio in the set meal was sold out.

This time most of the dishes from the set were available.

Starters: Salmon Carpaccio, Stir-fried string beans, Vietnamese spring rolls
Salmon Carpaccio: it was strong in lime sauce.
Stir-fried beans: nice and spicy with bits of dried shrimp and XO sauce.
Spring rolls: just basically Vietnamese spring rolls.

The laksa and curry tasted consistently good as before.

The dessert was quite nice and creamy.

[Review 667] Fresh pig offal @ 信得過 Trusty Gourmet

信得過  Trusty Gourmet
01/03/2010
灣仔謝斐道307-311號快添大廈地下A號舖
Shop A, G/F, Fasteem Mansion, 307-311 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fresh-pork-bi-products-e2066197


Another place that was on my try list, but one of those Wan Chai back streets that is in between Causeway Bay and Wan Chai, and numerous little roads you need to cross.

Came on a quiet afternoon, and the waiter asked if we ate there before, and we said no, so he started to introduce the popular dishes there.
I rarely eat pork unless it is fresh, especially pork offal, I came here especially for the boiled pork liver, an item that I consider not really palatable because the texture is hard, bitter and dry.

Ordered the following: liver with new bamboo vermicelli, butterfly pork belly with rice spaghetti, stir-fried pork intestines with salted vegetables, fish maw and pork dumplings.

Liver with new bamboo vermicelli
The vermicelli was a bit different to the new bamboo vermicelli I have had before, the ones here are thick like bean thread noodles.
The liver was excellent, it wasn’t dry or bitter, but when you bit into it, it was like rubbery foam, which melts into thick viscosity.

Butterfly pork and rice spaghetti:
not as tender as beef hang larm.

Pork and fish maw dumplings:
better than expected, the pork was fresh and fully flavoured so it didn’t have that smelly over night pork taste.
Usually I don’t agree cooking seafood with red meats, but this one was ok, the pork was well flavoured and the fish maw melted in the dumpling making it gelatinous.
As with all dumplings, I felt there was too much skin, so I ate the edges dumpling with their homemade sauce.

The sauce they provided was quite nice, fully flavoured with chopped chill’s with soy sauce.
The soup base was the same for all dishes, but I felt it tasted like cooked rubber.

As for the stir-fried intestines, it was another HOT dish, the texture of the intestines was like fish maw, but chewier and fatty. Although I considered them to be relatively clean compared with other places, there was still a slight intestine odour.

[Review 666] New beef series @ 吉野家 Yoshinoya

吉野家 Yoshinoya
01/03/2010
灣仔軒尼詩道8-12號中港大廈地下B舖
G/F, Shop B, China Hong Kong Tower, 8-12 Hennessy Rd,, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/new-beef-series-e2066193

Yoshinoya has just created more variety by adding different ingredients to the existing beef.

This time they added fish roe with beef, and sprinkled it with the same toppings from the salmon and fish roe dish.

The fish roe adds some crunch to it, and the wasabi bits from the topping gives the beef mustard flavouring.

The other dishes will be beef and kimchi, beef and mushrooms, beef and egg, so I think out of the new series, beef and mushroom should taste good, and if you like spicy food then Kimchi would do the job.

[Review 665] Fat grease free liver sausages @ 蛇王二 She Wong Yee

蛇王二  She Wong Yee
27/02/2010
銅鑼灣波斯富街24號地舖
G/F, 24 Percival Street, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fat-grease-free-liver-sausages-e2065785

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My last official encounter with snake meat was at the tiny snake joint in Wan Chai.

This time was my second time at a snake joint, however I came for something else! Wax liver sausages!
From the moment I saw pictures of these liver sausages, I just knew they were going to be delicious, I rarely eat wax sausages, as usually they are made with lots of grease and fat, but on the pictures they looked decent with no other extra rubbish added in it.

This joint has been established for years, however I never had the curiosity of dining there, especially in the old days when people could smoke in there. It also looked dodgy inside with old grubby men eating there.

Luckily, I managed to get a better impression of this place, we were allocated a separate table and didn’t need to sit with others.

Ordered liver sausage, roast pork with rice and liver sausage, chicken with rice.

The sausage tasted exactly how it looked from the photos, ie non-greasy with crumbly liver inside. It was quite good compared to other sausages, although I did find the odd bone fragments in it.
The chicken however was a waste of money, although it did taste good, I was given 90% inedible chicken skin and bones! If I was a dog I would be happy!

After finishing the food, the waiters hurriedly came to clean the table for the next customers, they swiped the stuff from the table to the floor, thanks to them, and I got some rice on my laps.
Next time, I will try the snake sauce, and have liver sausages again, the chicken is a waste of money, and also depends on luck whether you are given skin, bones or meat!!!
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