[Review 884] Sweet potato pie @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

19/10/2010
麥當勞 McDonald's
灣仔駱克道151號2樓
2/F, 151 Lockhart Road, Wan Chaihttps://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sweet-potato-pie-e2124893


I am not a fan of sweet potato, so I didnt intend to try it, but in the end I gave it a try.
The taste is not as impactful as the apple pie, the sweetness of the sweet potato wasn't as sweet as I expected.
I was expecting that nasty sweet taste like those Chinese soups, but it tasted like pumpkin, so maybe they should have pumpkin pie next time for Halloween!!
Anyway, the sweet potato wasn't that mushy, and there was custard coloured sauce.
For the sake of trying new things, it is worth trying!!

[Review 883] CBD C-an B-e D-elicious!!! @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

14/10/2010
麥當勞 McDonald's
銅鑼灣駱克道463-483號銅鑼灣廣場二期地下G04舖
Shop G04, G/F, Causeway Bay Plaza 2, 463-483 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cbd-c-an-b-e-d-elicious-e2123655




From their promotions, I just knew I was going to like it, especially the wheat bun, and herb coating on the chicken.

This CBC is a popular burger served in Europe and the US (chicken & bacon).
Anyway, the coating was surprisingly crunchy and still juicy inside, with nice herbs on the coating to spice it up.
The sauce matched the chicken very well especially the barbecue sauce and the mayonnaise.
I would have liked it if there were more barbecue sauce.
It reminds me of that delicious Southern style chicken especially with the herbs and barbecue sauces.
I don't usually like bacon, but it didnt taste that prominent so it was ok, and the product shot and real thing looked 95% similar.

I liked the wheat bun the most, without those annoying sesame seeds, and this sandwich was so much better than the Sakana.

I am looking forward to the next burger they will launch.

[Review 882] Another vegetarian hangout in Wan Chai @ 樂農 Happy Veggies

12/10/2010
樂農 Happy Veggies
灣仔軒尼詩道99號彰顯大廈1樓
1/F, Bayfield Building, 99 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/another-vegetarian-hangout-in-wan-chai-e2123237




Apart from "Loving Hut", there is another vegetarian hangout, located near Wing Wah noodles in a building sandwiched in between 7-11 and Circle K.

The restaurant is on the first floor of Bayfield Building, and you need to take the elevator up one floor, the elevator is somewhat festive, because it makes a weird halloween sound effect when the door opens and closes, also the doors are on both sides.

When I walked in, I did'nt realized they changed the style like Loving hut, where you order, pay and collect.

I thought it was going to be sit down, order, and they will serve you.

At the counter there was a sheet, where you tick three choices out of the six, a choice of plain rice or wholemeal rice with soup for $40 and $30 for takeout.

I think I should point out in my review that the staff there have hearing impairments as stated in their equal opportunities statement.
It was mentioned in the Chinese review, but I just came here by the pictures without reading the reviews so I didn't know.

Anyway, it took a while for them to get the meal ready, because the red beancurd dish had run out.
For my six choices, I chose red beancurd vegetables, tomato and potato curry, and tomato and egg.

One of the good choices, the fried taro paste patty was crossed off from the list and replaced with the egg and tomato.



Rice:
too mushed and clumped together.

Curry tomato and potato:
Tasted quite tomatoey, and I managed to find a piece of Okra!!
Texture: watery.

Red beancurd vegetables:
Tasted a bit bland, and very Starchy/gritty due to the lotus seeds.

Egg and tomato:
Too sweet

Soup:
Typical vegetarian soup taste that is sweet and has a strong taste of beans.


Overall, it is a good place for healthy food, but maybe slightly too noisy.
I think next time I will check out the food side before the sheet to see what it actually looks like before making up my mind.

[Review 881] Nice restaurant but average food @ 紅果樹 Red Fruit Tree

10/08/2010
紅果樹 Red Fruit Tree
天后琉璃街7號柏景中心地舖
G/F Parkview Centre, 7 Lau Li Street, Tin Hau
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/nice-restaurant-but-average-food-e2122236




If there are no pictures of this place except food, it would be judged as one of those ordinary chinese cafes that serve noodles and rice.

The food could be better, especially with a classy interior and prices.

The vietnamese beef noodles tasted like any other vietnamese noodles.

The concept of the udon however was slightly better, it was stir fried udon with aubergines, anchovies, onions and beanshoots.
I felt that it was lacking the taste from the anchovies, and it was too sweet and oily.

You can actually see the oil left in the pot, and a picture of oil being poured out from the bowl which sufficient to cook something else with it.

[Review 880] Japanese curry pocket @ 肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) Kentucky Fried Chicken

07/10/2010

肯德基家鄉雞 (KFC) Kentucky Fried Chicken
尖沙咀廣東道3-27號海港城海運大廈地下OTG19號舖
Shop OTG19, G/F, Ocean Terminal, Harbour City, 3-27 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/japanese-curry-pocket-e2121978



With McDonald's promoting the Japanese Sakana burger, KFC have fought back with the Japanese curry pocket which is basically a wrap strangely named as a pocket.

However I do hope that one day, McD's in HK would come up with a curry burger.

I got the set that comprised of rice with mushrooms, one chicken drumstick, one soft drink and the curry pocket for $34.8.
It was quite a big portion for one.

The curry pocket was served in a cute box that you peel off the top to eat, with the bottom area to hold the pocket.
The piece of fried chicken in the curry pocket is a piece fried chicken thigh that is very juicy and not hard at all.
The texture of the coating on the chicken is same as the coating they use for the signature flaky Hot and Spicy chicken, except that it is not hot.
The coating was slightly flaky and chewy, due to the juice from the chicken.

On one side of the pocket it was layered with shredded salad, mayonnaise and sweetcorn, and on the top side it was curry sauce and onion rings.

The mayonnaise side was like eating Japanese salads with lettuce and sweetcorn, and the curry side wasn’t prominent, there wasn’t much curry sauce.
The curry sauce was not the sort of curry I was expecting, it tasted sweet with a strong taste of raisins just like those English curries, I was looking forward to the usual Japanese curry taste.

Anyway, as a whole, the mayonnaise salad and curry was a weird combination, only the chicken was good, at least it was not tough and dry.
But the curry pocket was very messy to eat.

The rest of the items tasted how it should, the drumstick was slightly dry, but it was good that the set contains a drumstick, it rules out the fuss in HK, since most people here will request for the drumstick or thigh.

[Review 879] Dim Sum all day long @ 點好食 Dim Sum The Best

03/10/2010

點好食 Dim Sum The Best
將軍澳南豐廣場地下A56號舖
Shop A56, G/F, Nan Fung Plaza, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/dim-sum-all-day-long-e2120974












Before this unattractive mall was revamped, the area on the ground floor was a food court, it wasn’t thriving, but not as quiet as now.

There were a few places to eat, but I chose this dimsum place for dinner, the decoration was shabby outside, yet quite nice inside, it had nice fixtures put in a shabby place, the walls and seats were rather old.
There were nice compartment seats and crystal lighting.

This restaurant has only two branches, one here and one in Sai Wan Ho.

After looking at the food list, there was not much choice, it provides the basic dim sum that can be ordered anywhere, eg prawn dumplings, buns, the usual, all listed on one piece of paper.

Ordered the dim sum set, which includes 2 soups, 1 rice roll, assorted dim sum and a pot of rice.
The soup was tasteless, but appreciated that it seemed luxurious, there were two soups, one was chicken with tea tree mushrooms and wolfberries, and the other was snow fungus and ribs.
The snow fungus one was tasteless and the chicken was sour.

I ordered the dim sum platter without knowing what was in it, the contents surprised me, I assumed it would be the cheaper assortment of items such as siu mai, chicken feet and stuff like that but it actually came with two prawn items, one prawn dumpling, one prawn and vegetable dumpling, a runny egg yolk custard bun, a roast pork bun and a layered custard cake.

All of the items in the platter tasted better than I thought, I liked the layered custard cake the best, it was soft and full of custard flavour.

For the beef rice roll, it tasted how it should but I felt the rice pastry was slightly too soft and soggy.

The last item of the set was the bowl of rice with meat patty on top, it was piping hot.
The rice was extremely delicious after they added the extra soy sauce, which needs to be requested, this was the first time I have had soy sauce that is kept warm whilst not in use.

In addition I also ordered the silk dragon roll, which is prawn wrapped in salty egg yolk and covered in crunchy shreds.
Although it was slightly greasy, but it was delicious.

The good thing about this place is that they serve dim sum all day long and nothing else.

[Review 878] Unusual octopus soda!! @ 樂家蒸籠料理 Tanoshiya

01/10/2010

樂家蒸籠料理 Tanoshiya
觀塘觀塘道418號創紀之城五期(apm)3樓13號舖
Shop 13, 3/F, apm Millennium City 5, 418 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/unusal-octopus-soda-e2120647


Shame this drink doesnt have a website, but the Japanese have come up with these weird fizzy drinks that have a marble at the bottleneck, and you need to push the marble down into the bottle in order to drink it, the bottle neck is obviously smaller than the marble so the marble stays safely in the bottle when you drink it.

Anyway the cool thing about the drink is its unusual flavour, "grilled octopus"
There are nine flavours in total:
1)Original
2)Strawberry
3)Grapefruit
4)Apple
5)Melon
6)Kimchi
7)Chestnut
8)Grilled Octopus
9)Peach

I wish I got the Chestnut one too, maybe next time!!

After trying the grilled octopus flavour, I felt it tasted weird, there was a slight sweetness to it, and it somehow tasted like beer.

The aftertaste was horrible, it was a mix of wine and old oil.
I am open to unusual items, but if they are unusual, I don't think they should add the normal ingredients to normalise it.
Grilled octopus is meant to be savory, so why bother adding sugar to it.

Anyway I am looking forward to that savory ice-cream at the Ice cream gallery.

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