[Review 759] Bread Tree Express @ Bread Tree Express

29/05/2010
Bread Tree Express
灣仔謝斐道130-146號地下
G/F, 130-146 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/bread-tree-express-e2087776

I have always wanted to try Bread Tree Express for lunch, but their staff attitude are rude and when I tried to make orders by phone no one picks up.
Bread Tree Express (http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=10883)

Anyway, a while ago, this new cafe was being decorated and recruiting people, and all enquiries were diverted to Bread Tree Express, so I assumed it was a subsidiary of Bread Tree Express.

Finally when it opened, the menu is exactly the same as Bread Tree Express, so I decided to try it.

I tried phoning first, but no one answered.

So I went there directly and ordered a baby honey pork shanks in curry sauce.
There was a choice of pasta, rice or mash to go with it. I picked mash with mine.
It also came with Tea/Coffee or soup.

The chicken and sweetcorn soup was very thick, with pieces of chicken and generous crunchy sweetcorn in it. The soup was so thick, it could have been sauce.
The pork and mash was nicely presented in a plastic dish, it was layered with mash and topped with three pork shanks.

The MAJOR complaint was the cutlery, I was only given ONE PLASTIC FORK and a chinese plastic spoon!!!!!!

It was majorly difficult trying to eat a pork shank on bone with a plastic fork!!!
Anyway, despite that, the food was ok, the curry sauce was the typical chinese cafe type and the mash was slightly better than anticipated, it had pieces of potato as well as pure mash.

[Review 758] Chicken Mushroom Swiss @ Burger King

28/05/2010

Burger King 漢堡王 (灣仔)
灣仔軒尼斯道314-324號地庫
Basement, W Square, 314-324 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chicken-mushroom-swiss-e2087575

Tried the mushroom swiss, which is a nice adaptation of the beef version.
It was a really good match of juicy grilled chicken with melted cheese and thinly sliced mushrooms.
The fries and onion rings tasted how it should be.

[Review 757] Lan Fong Yuen TST underground grotto @ 蘭芳園 Lan Fong Yuen

24/05/2010

蘭芳園 Lan Fong Yuen
尖沙咀彌敦道36-44號重慶大廈地庫WK廣場26號舖
Shop 26, WK Square, Basement, Chungking Mansions, 36-44 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/lan-fong-yuen-tst-underground-grotto-e2086622

There has been much hype with the LFY in central, but it has never motivated me to go.
Frankly I am not really a fan of Chinese food from these HK style cafes.
Discovered this old looking cafe in the newly renovated underground mall that used to be Cybermall, so decided to give it a try.
Tried the instant noodles in sauce: one with chicken steak and the other with pork neck meat in BBQ sauce.
Both those dishes had ginger and onion sauce.
The noodles were a bit disappointing, it was rough and foamy.
If they had used Nissin instant noodles instead it would have been much better.
The lemon tea that came with it was so foul, it was so bitter I thought I was drinking coffee.

[Review 756] A heavy lunch @ 百伏棧台灣小吃 Greenland Taiwanese Cuisine

23/05/2010

百伏棧台灣小吃  Greenland Taiwanese Cuisine
灣仔莊士敦道181號大有廣場2樓201號舖
Shop 201, 2/F, Tai Yau Plaza, 181 Johnston Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-heavy-lunch-e2086442

Went there for lunch, and it was loaded with people.
The lunch was a bit heavy, the selection was more like dinner.
The waitress could speak English surprisingly, but not that well!
Ordered chicken in wine and mushrooms in oyster sauce.
The mushroom in oyster sauce was so watery and tasteless.
The chicken was bit boring, and even my Australian friends didnt like it much!

[Review 755] Dessert platters with choice @ So Sweet心飴

23/05/2010

心飴  So Sweet
尖沙咀加連威老道100號港晶中心地下44B舖
Shop 44B, G/F, Harbour Crystal Centre, 100 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/so-sweet-standards-still-silently-same-e2086438


 This is my second visit since it opened, the Oriental orange is no longer served.
However there are a few new items such as bread and butter pudding and apple jelly.

There is a pick and mix section where you can pick any 3 desserts from their pick and mix range.
There are two prices either $11 or $13 each.

Picked six items:

Apple jelly, melon sago, bread and butter pudding.
Egg white in vanilla sauce, tofu cheese pudding, apple tart.

Apple jelly:
This is a new item that wasnt there last time, so picked it.
Although it was jelly it lacked the refreshingness of apple.
The jelly that was used was firmer and resembled konjac rather than gelatin.
It was slightly too sweet and the apple bits were too sweet as well.

Melon Sago:
This was also disappointing apart from the melon pieces!!
The sauce was basically purified mango with pieces of grapefruit in it, a blander version of "yeung ji gum lo".
In the sauce there was also bits of plastic too, and the waitor said it was odds and ends of sago?? hmm!!
Anyway, was offered another free dessert to replace it.

Bread and butter pudding:
It was piping hot drenched in alot of vanilla sauce with a few pieces of raisins on top,
Out of the above three, and for the $11 price range, this would be recommended.

Egg white in vanilla sauce:
This has kept its standards, and still tastes as good as it was before.
Fluffly eggwhite in warm vanilla sauce with slivered crunchy almonds.

tofu cheese pudding:
This was firm and not too heavy, although the tofu could not be tasted, it was quite refreshing and decorated with a piece of strawberry.

apple tart
This has also kept its standards since my last visit, flakey and delicate, not too sweet.

[Review 754] Berry juice drinks @ Panash

20/05/2010



Panash (灣仔)
灣仔軒尼詩道253-261號依時商業大廈地下D號店
Shop D, G/F Easey Comm. Bldg, 253-261 Hennessy Rd., Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/berry-juice-drinks-panash-e2085768

Got these drinks from Panash because they are not native drinks.

There were three flavours: Sour cherry, Clear blueberry nectar, and Strawberry and apple.

These drinks are from serbia, and they all taste sour with a strong apple juice base.

[Review 753] From Jump stick to Drum stick @ 金裝燉奶佬餐廳 Daniel's Restaurant

19/05/2010

金裝燉奶佬餐廳 Daniel's Restaurant
灣仔太和街10-20號地下B舖
Shop B, G/F, 10-20 Tai Wo Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/from-jump-stick-to-drum-stick-e2085489

I was quite impressed with the food served here, Tsui wah used to be my favourite, but not anymore thanks to this place.

Tsui Wah tends to be more on the local side even though it has an English menu, same here, but they have a website too!

However most of their locations are in the New territories, city ones are located here and Causeway bay.

The range of food is very extensive, covering from Pakistani curries, Vietnamese noodles, Laksa and traditional local stuffs.

The Laksa was quite nice even though its not the authentic one.

The chicken and chips was accidently stumbled upon, at the Causeway Bay branch, the dish was spelt "Jump Stick steak" which intrigued me, then at this branch it was "Drumstick steak", so I suspect it was a case of mispelling of "Drum" sounding like JUMP!!

Anyway Drumstick steak still intrigued me, how can a drumstick be a steak? or was it simply chicken thigh?

As it was a recommended item, I decided to try it. When it came, I could understand why it was called a drumstick steak.
The chicken leg was flatterned, the thigh part de-boned, and there was half a piece of bone remaining in the drum part, so it was part steak and part drumstick attached.

The chicken was grilled nicely with crispy skin, on top of it was a grilled cheese slice and a scallop on top.
The chips were the crinkle cut type, slightly overdone no my preference.

Crispy bun with salted beef (corned beef) [NO PICTURE]
This was also another one of my favourites, crispy bread like the french buns, not too crispy. The filling was salted beef and melted cheese, basically the salted beef is the chinese version of corned beef, but a more moist and softer version.
Although the bun was crunchy, it still had some chewiness to it, and the smell of yeast.

Veal cordon bleu
I felt that this was a chinese version of cordon blue/escaloupe.
It was trimmed pork chop that was sliced in the middle with cheese in between it and coated with breadcrumbs and fried.
The dish is served with pasta, rice or vegetables and chips.
There is a choice of curry sauce or tomato sauce.
I had chips and curry sauce for my pork chop.
The porkchop was nicely none, very crispy with cheese oozing out from the middle.
The vegetable was wintermelon which tasted surprisly good as a boiled side, usually it is mushy and found in soups.
The curry sauce was not what I expected, it was watery and contained onions, and very hot. The portion of curry sauce was generous, it was served in a soup bowl.

Having the sauce with rice and pasta would be good too.
I had so much sauce left, I ordered another pork chop bun to dip it in.

Pork Chop bun:
The pork chop was trimmed and the fat taken off, every bit of the pork chop was edible.