[Review 848] Kudzu and fig health drink @ 原味家作 Original Taste Workshop

29/08/2010

原味家作 Original Taste Workshop
中環士丹利街21號皇后中心5號舖
Shop 5, Queen's Place, 21 Stanley Street, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/kudzu-and-fig-healthdrink-e2112504

I like figs so got this drink, its weird they have this ingredient in HK, since it is grown in middle eastern parts of the world.

Anyway, the main ingredients in this drink are Kudzu vine and fig, but according to the ingredient label it also contains: pear, sugar cane, licquorice, logan, red jujube and sugar.

When you drink it, there is a strong Kudzu grassy taste and then the sweetness of the fig, initially it wasnt that syrupy, then getting through half the bottle it got more sugary.
It was nice, but I would have preferred it sugar-free and perhaps just plainly Kudzu and fig without the other ingredients.

[Review 847] Nice but muddy vegetable drink @ 田園坊 Natural Green

29/08/2010
田園坊 Natural Green
灣仔軒尼詩道311號誌寶大廈地下A1號舖
Shop A1, G/F, Chi Po Building, 311 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/nice-but-muddy-e2112470

Ordered the beetroot juice with cucumber and celery, it was nice and healthy without the sugars, however the beetroot could have been better cleaned, cos there was bits of beetroot skin and earth residue at the bottom of the cup.

The only thing that wasnt good, was the shop was on a busy road with smokers and traffic everywhere, so while detoxifying yourself you are also consuming pollutants by smokers n traffic.

[Review 846] Fish noodles @ 新樂園魚蛋粉

29/08/2010

新樂園魚蛋粉
北角英皇道302號地舖
G/F, No. 302 King's Road, North Point
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fish-noodles-e2112469

The menu was basic, it doesnt offer much, the noodles available were only ho fun, vermicelli and fish noodles.

As there was not much to choose, I chose the noodles made of fish.
It is basically fish balls in noodle form, but more flour in the process of making it.

The noodles had flour covering it, so it was a bit slimey.
It tasted like fishballs with strong MSG, and there were not many brittle bones in it, which was good.
The soup which claims to be cooked with fish bones, didnt taste that good, it was just strong MSG.

[Review 845] Guilty pleasures @ 唐順興燒味 Tang's Roast

25/08/2010

唐順興燒味 Tang's Roast
灣仔灣仔道51號
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/guilty-pleasures-e2111542

Got two products from "Tang Shun Hing" packaged exclusively for 7-11.

Although they are designed to be heated up and eaten at 7-11, it proves to be messy and a sticky task.
The contents of the food are packed in a vacuumed sealed bag, with a plastic tray and a pair of gloves,
you need to open the inner bag, empty the contents into the dish and simply microwave it.

Hence very troublesome to carry out at your local 7-11, and also the tray is not really deep enough.

I got the Lo Shui purely because it was pre-packaged, it horrifies me to get them from restaurants just hung by the windows with oil dripping off and flies buzzing around them.

The Lo Shui mix contains duck wings, ducks feet, ducks liver, ducks gizzard, and peanuts, and the spring roasted chicken was just half of a spring chicken.
I thought it would be a whole chicken, but it was just half a bird.

After microwaving it, it was ready to eat.

The Lo Shui mix was quite nice, although for the ducks feet and wings, it only contained one piece each.
All of the items were quite soft, except for the duck’s liver, which I was quite looking forward to, it probably got dehydrated during the heating process.
The gizzards, which I do not usually eat, were the best that I have had, the texture was a bit like baby pork shanks.
They were evenly sliced, not looking like shriveled up gonads from Chinese medicine places.
The only thing that let it down was the saltiness of all the lo shui items.

As for the spring chicken, it just tasted ok.

[Review 844] Expect what you would expect from yue mic ka @ 香格格酸辣米線

25/08/2010

香格格酸辣米線將軍澳常寧路2號TKO Gateway東翼1樓E169-E170號舖
Shop 169-170, 1/F, East Wing, TKO Gateway, 2 Sheung Ning Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/expect-what-you-would-expect-from-yue-mic-ka-e2111477

Basically from the interior and menu layout it reminds me of Yue Mic Ka.

After ordering food, we discovered that this place is part of Yue Mic Ka.

However, this place specialises in noodles mainly, so there are less choices, although they do offer the noodles made of red potato.

The potato noodles look like a glass noodles, but thicker with a brown tint.
Its texture is very chewy and tasteless, a bit like the glass noodles at MisoCool.

The liver was bitter and overcooked.
 0 讚好

[Review 843] Vietnamese Wingsik chicken with a hint of charcoal @ 大叻越南牛肉粉餐廳 Dalat Vietnamese Restaurant

18/08/2010

大叻越南牛肉粉餐廳 Dalat Vietnamese Restaurant
灣仔晏頓街10號地下 G/F, 10 Anton Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/vietnamese-wingsik-chicken-with-a-hint-of-charcoal-e2109512

Situated on Anton Road, a few doors away from Wing Sik, it is a small restaurant with about 7-8 tables.

Their signature items are grilled, and alot of reviews have said the grilled chicken tastes like the chicken at Wingsik.

Ordered the grilled chicken and grilled beef.

The grilled beef was a must try for me, because Wing Sik was going to launch grilled thinly sliced beef, but it never came out.
However, I kind of felt there is connection between Dalat and Wing Sik, either Dalat is a subsidiary of Wing Sik or Wing Sik has sold them their grilling technique.
Also they are right next to each other.

On the tables they had Sriracha brand sauce, another place in HK that serves it other than Dragon Roll.

For the grilled chicken, it tasted 80% like WingSik's chicken, except the there was less MSG and the skin was less fatty and greasy.
There was a hint of smoke/grilled aroma on the chicken.
It feels like a lighter version of Wing Sik with a hint of lemon grass, bits of lemon grass could be seen on the chicken.

For the beef, it was kind of how I expected it to be, it was thinly sliced, nice and lean.
Slightly grilled marks on it.

Apart from grilled beef and chicken, they also do grilled squid, but it only comes with noodles so you cant order it separate.
The shredded duck salad sounds good too.

[Review 842] Pancake Colours @ Pancake Colours Cafe & Bar

15/08/2010

Pancake Colours Cafe & Bar
旺角西洋菜南街168號2樓
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/nice-decoration-but-food-lacks-quality-e2108616

Previous visit:
https://supersupergirl-openrice.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-46-nice-furnishings-pancake.html

This place is nicely decorated, but since the tables are very close together it is very noisy.
For food only the chicken tasted nice, the pizza stuck to the plate, and the steak was burnt.