[Review 776] The only patisserie on the wanchai side or Lockhart road @ 陽光麵包西餅 Sunny Boulangerie et Patisserie

11/06/2010

陽光麵包西餅 Sunny Boulangerie et Patisserie
灣仔駱克道72號熙華大廈B座地下
G/F, 72 Lockhart Road, Hay Wah Building, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-only-patisserie-in-lockhart-road-e2091066
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-only-patisserie-in-lockhart-road-e2091066

Starting from the stretch of road from Wan Chai exit to the admiralty end of Lockhart road, this appears to be the only patisserie here!

More oddly, it is situated in an unused stair space at the bottom of Foo Lam dim sum restaurant, alongside some pubs and restaurant.
It seems out of place, but oddly enough when you just focus on the glass cabinets you think you are in a real patisserie.

After checking openrice, there doesn’t seem be any other branches.

Basically there are two cabinets, one for the sweet desserts and the other cabinets is just pies and pastries.
Initially I thought it was a western patisserie, by its name and cakes presentation, then when they told me the tuna puff was labelled wrongly as sausage roll, it had to be Chinese.

However the savoury pastries are the typical Chinese ones, curry chicken, tuna and chicken pie, the desserts are trying to be japanese with hokkaido milk puddings and other cute cakes.
Overall the western selection reminded me of “stick sticks” those mini long thin slices of cakes, even Arome does them now too.

As a sampler I got: chicken and ham curry puff, tuna puff, chocolate swiss roll, hokkaido milk pudding and caramel pudding.

Ham and chicken curry puff:
This was slices of ham, chicken in mild curry sauce, the pastry was slightly hard but not overdone.

Tuna puff:
The typical chinese puff, sweet tuna filling inside with the chinese salad cream/mayonnaise.

Swiss roll:
Compared to other rolls the roll sheet is thinner, hence there are more layers and more chocolate cream.
However it was not sweet enough and chocolate enough.

Hokkaido milk:
Too creamy

Caramel pudding:
I couldn’t taste the caramel, but I could see vanilla seeds at the bottom.

Overall the price is relatively cheap and the locals will like it.

[Review 775] Mashed potato with chicken and cheese @ 肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) Kentucky Fried Chicken

11/06/2010

肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC)  Kentucky Fried Chicken
油麻地彌敦道546-548號旺角大樓地下及1樓
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mashed-potato-with-chicken-and-cheese-e2091028

Last time I had KFC, the mashed potato with chicken and cheese wasnt out yet,
so this time i got it.

Basically it is mashed potato in a foil shallow dish.

The portion is quite small, extremely piping hot.

The potato is slightly dry with baked cheese on top, as for the chicken I only found one piece.
It tasted slightly better than the mash with gravy as it is slightly drier.

Anyway wanted to try the peach tea with aloe, but that was sold out!
Overall this branch is quite nice and new, situated above burger king!

[Review 774] Conning foreigners @ 名苑酒家 Ming Garden Restaurant

11/06/2010

名苑酒家 Ming Garden Restaurant
灣仔皇后大道東34-38地下
34-38 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/conning-foreigners-e2090972

Originally I was not going to review this place, but I felt I should warn tourists or non chinese speaking people.

Food:
Ordered rice with roast meat, tasted nice and generous pieces.
It was surprising for sauces they used imported ones.

Anyway, just wanted to advise people who do not speak chinese not to ask the waiters to recommend food, because they will recommend the most expensive items such as Sharks fin etc.

There was a tourist who was eating by himself, and when he asked for the bill he was shocked the total was $120 ish!
So it just shows how greedy Chinese are, not just restaurants, even at the markets where they take advantage of anyone who doesnt look the part!

[Review 773] Too salty @ 八番拉麵 Hachiban Ramen

10/06/2010


八番拉麵 Hachiban Ramen
灣仔皇后大道東202號 QRE Plaza 2樓1號舖
Shop 1, 2/F QRE Plaza, 202 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/too-salty-e2090864

Came here for the green noodles.
Previously I have tried them at Ganpachi, so I thought they would taste the same.
Anyway ordered the green noodles with two extra Japanese drumettes,
noodles in soup and a mini bowl of rice.
The cold noodles didnt taste as good as the ones at Ganpachi, there was a strong eggy taste in it and it was too chewy as well.
The sauce was ok.
As for the noodles in soup, the broth was extremely salty, and rice was a bit too oily.
The drumettes tasted ok, but different to the juicy bigger ones featured in their product shot.

[Review 772] Yogurtime in Wan Chai @ Yogurtime

09/06/2010

Yogurtime
灣仔莊士敦道60號嘉薈軒地下3號舖
Shop 3, G/F, J Residence, 60 Johnston Road , Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/yogurtime-wan-chai-e2090690

I was fascinated by Yogurtime, because of their endless choices of yoghurt flavours.
(see yogurtimehk.com)

Currently the two with quite a lot of flavours are Berrygood and Yogo.
Berrygood has pomegranate and earl grey, whilst Yogo has lychee, banana, and the sultana toppings which are unique to them.

The Wan Chai location couldn’t have opened in a better location, it is conveniently located alongside Pizza Express and Shake em Buns.

The topping are the usual, but there was Chalwa, which seems exclusive to this place.
Its appearance is like rough strands made from sesame and pulled sugar, an Israeli delight.
I was disappointed because there were no raspberries as toppings, a big no no in marketing, when you have product pictures of products that do not exist.

The day I visited, there was Taro, chocolate, vanilla and Eurotart.

Eurotart is their signature yogurt. I was very impressed with it, as with all froyo they should have some slight tartness to it, however the taste of Eurotart is close to natural yoghurt but in froyo form.
It went well with the sweetness of the Chalwa strands.

I also had Taro froyo too, something which I havent seen for froyo flavour. It was rather interesting bringing an asian touch to it.
The taro flavour was subtle, and you could still taste slight froyo too, overall I liked the Taro as well.

Yogurtime and Berrygood both tweet, however Yogurtime tweets do not seem to be as up to date as Berrygood.

Interesting flavours and its name: Angel Food Cake, Apple cheesecake, apricot, bing cherry, Black cherry, blue raspberry, bubble gum, butter brickle, caramel custard, cherry chocolate, chocolate coconut, chocolate marshmallow, chocolate mousse, cinnamon apple pie, coconut cream pie, dragons blood, egg nog, elvis special, english toffee, georgia peach, harvest apple, irish cream, island coconut, Kahla, lemon mist, macaroon over miami, maple walnut, marshmallow, mountain ripe strawberry, orange chocolate, peaches and cream, pink lemonade, pink guava, polynesian punch, pistachio, pumpkin pie, tangerine, white chocolate, white chocolate mousse, and the whole complete list, see their website!!!

[Review 771] § The Dragon roll legend begins § @ Dragon Roll

08/06/2010

Dragon Roll
中環蘭桂坊6號地下
G/F, 6 Lan Kwai Fong, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-dragon-roll-legend-begins-e2090300
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I was surprised there was only one review for this place.

Before my visit, I saw the pictures from Smashing pumpkins review, I was expecting the food to be good.
The sauces caught my attention, I got the impression the roll would be fun with so many sauces to put on it. (Fish sauce, Ketchup, sweet chili, siracha, and teryaki)
The siracha sauce was slightly different to the ones I have seen, the colour here is creamy orange, and the ones I have seen just look like chili sauce.
The fish sauce, which I thought, would be made of fish was actually mayonnaise to go with fish and chips.

The logo design and the shop were brightly coloured, matching the pubs and the partying areas of Lan Kwai Fong.
The dragon on the logo gave it that oriental finish, yet the they were not selling pancake rolls!!

From the menu, it was clear that this shop with an oriental name wasn’t chinese cuisine, yet there was no other cuisine you could quite relate it too.
Also the roll wrap was thin, chewy and soft like the mexican tortilla I had at the Taco Truck.
It was freshly made here. However the choice of fillings here were not authentic mexican.
I wouldn’t say it was turkish or indian either, as the size of the rolls here were slightly smaller and they contained guacamole.
So overall, it seems to be American with an oriental logo to match LKF, with a slight tex-mex touch to it, as most of their rolls contain guacamole.

Anyway I ordered two rolls, the Portobello mushroom roll and the kebab roll.

All the things were freshly done, the roll was freshly pressed on the iron, and the ingredients cooked on the griddle.

Portobello:
The roll was filled with sliced earthy Portobello mushroom, and lettuce, although it didn’t satisfy my hunger it tasted great. All the sauces matched the rolls.

Kebab roll:
This was slightly different to the kebabs at Ebeeneezers, the kebab was a long patty of minced beef and lamb seasoned with a fair amount of cumin.
This was also wrapped with lettuce and onions.

Overall the food here was brilliant, the only thing that I thought was over priced was their coke, it was $17 per can.
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[Review 770] ۝World cup chicken wings۝ @ 肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) (灣仔)

08/06/2010


肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) (灣仔)
灣仔莊士敦道112號雙喜樓地下4&5舖及1樓A&B舖
Shops 4 & 5 on G/F and Shops A & B on 1/F, Sheung Hei House, 112 Johnston Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/world-cup-chicken-wings-e2090232
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Tried the superwings cup which consists of curry glazed chicken wings,
wasabi chicken drummettes, and the hot and spicy wings.

Basically, I felt all three just tasted like the hot and spicy wings,
but with different sauces and spices added on.

The curry had curry sauce on it, and it tasted slightly sweet combined with the original hot and spicy flavour.

The wasabi one basically had herbs sprinkled on the surface, other than that, I couldn’t taste any wasabi flavouring at all.
If they had dipped the drummette in wasabi powder before coating it with flour, it probably would have had flavour.

As for the hot and spicy wings, it just tastes like the usual hot and spicy wings.

The complimentary vuvu was much bigger in size than anticipated.
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