[Review 953] DCFC - Daniel's Chinese fried chicken @ 金裝燉奶佬餐廳 Daniel's Restaurant

31/12/2010

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/dcfc-daniels-chinese-fried-chicken-e2140030

The food here in general is good, I saw the fried chicken set with rice.

The name was weird, crunchy jade (tsui - tsui), the jade usually means courgettes.

Anyway, the set comes with iced ribena with jelly.

From the product shot there is no soy sauce on the rice, however there was soy sauce on my plate of rice, other than that, it was 80% like the product picture.

There was crunchy garlic sprinkled on top, which I thought could be missed out, as it tasted nice without them.

The pieces of chicken was juicy and tender, and coating of the chicken is so similar to the fried chicken at "cheese pizza".

Interestingly, this is the first chinese fried chicken I thought was nice, usually it is uncoated chicken directly put in oil and fried.

For improvements, it should be served with chips and ketchup.

[Review 952] High expectations with slight disappointment @ Frey & Ford

31/12/2010
Frey & Ford
中環港鐵香港站地下1層HOK69號舖
Shop 69, LG1/F, Hong Kong MTR Station, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/high-expectations-with-slight-disappointment-e2140028

When it first opened, the pictures of the food were amazing, they reminded me of the savory sandwiches at La Salon De Robuchon.

I arrived there at 11.40 thinking of a late breakfast, however I was surprised there were no sandwiches in the display counter, so I walked elsewhere and came back at noon, and the Chef was just putting the sandwiches on display, the Salmon sandwiche was the last to come and still in the making.

I am surprised that it is located in Central, and they start late. I would of thought there would be alot of people ordering gourmet breakfasts from there.

Presentation, they were as pretty as expected, and instead of the fillings sandwiched in between, they were on top of the bread like fine patisserie.

Also at the scene was a food and hygiene inspector issuing their new license, hence they are now fully licensed.

For the sandwich range, I was told only the top 8 were available and the rest were Chef's daily specials.

The range available were:
Salmon dill creme,
Peking chicken,
Poached egg and sausage,
Roast beef,
Grilled pepper caponata,
Giallo salad,
Branston double decker,
Salade nicoise

I was going to get the poached egg and sausage, which is similar to English breakfast, however the poached egg wasnt the usual poached style, but a hard boiled one.
So in the end I ordered the Salmon dill creme, and the ones I was most looking forward to were not available.
I think its annoying when its printed on the menu, and it is not available to order, perhaps because they are more expensive, so there would be no profit under the opening promotion.

The ones I was hoping to order were:
Rock shrimp milanese (rock shrimp, saffron aoili and chives)
Moti mahal classic (diced tandoori chicken housed in a bread bowl)
Hummus pita wheel (hummus, ham, olives wrapped in a pita bread roll)

Luckily, they had a promotion because 3 out of the 4 items I wanted were not available.
The salmon sandwich was nice as expected.

For drinks I got Inko's Melon Iced Tea, it is packaged similarly to Snapple, but not as sugary as stated.
The taste was light and refreshing, the taste of tea was stronger than the melon.

[Review 951] Maxim's Chinese roast @ 美心MX Maxim's MX

31/12/2010
美心MX Maxim's MX
金鐘夏愨道10號和記大廈103-105號舖
Shop 103-105, Hutchison House,10 Harcourt Road, Admiralty
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/maxims-chinese-roast-e2140022

I am not fond of Chinese food but just tried these dishes.

The wax duck is basically like a Chinese version of Parma ham, except that it was duck.

The wax sausages were the usual taste, but they were inferior compared to the ones in CWB, as the ones there contain duck blood and liver.

http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2065785
If you compare the liver sausages, the one at CWB are much darker, richer and less in fat content.

The chicken with rice was the worst, it was fat, skin and bones, and hardly any meat to eat at all.

[Review 950] German Lunch Buffet @ King Ludwig Beerhall

31/12/2010
King Ludwig Beerhall
灣仔皇后大道東183號合和中心地下1-2號舖
Shop1-2, G/F, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/german-lunch-buffet-e2140013

Food here was excellent, the choice of food was acceptable.
The best item was the crunchy pork knuckle, it has truly crunchy skin, and the pork was still tender and not dry.
For the desserts, there were many items ranging from fruit to bread pudding.
There was raclette cheese too!
Service was excellent, they start your buffet off with a plate of fine pork knuckle cuts, sausage and sauerkraut.

[Review 949] Fusion dim sum at kowloon city @ 譚點 Tam Dim

31/12/2010
譚點 Tam Dim
九龍城南角道29號地下
G/F, 29 Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fusion-dim-sum-kowloon-city-e2140011

Reminds me of V cuisine which I am itching to go, but V Cuisine locations in Tsuen Wan and Kwun Tong are a bit of a trek.

My initial impressions of the place was the noise, it was so noisy with people talking and the nasty clinking of the cups and bowls.

Anyway, sat down, it was freezing, and the air conditioning was so strong it was giving me the chills, the worst thing was, the temperature outside was warmer.

Ordered the toasted tea, which was rather bland.
All the teas they used were teabags, although the teabags are prepared by themselves, for a big teapot like that, there should be at least two bags inside or more tealeaves per bag.

The menu had chinese and english, but the english was slightly wrong,

MENU description: "beancurd sheet rolls with tomato and egg soup"
from the description I was expecting beancurd sheet rolls in tomato and egg soup literally, not thick tomato and egg sauce, and there was no indication in the english it was fried.

MENU description: "pomegranite juice pudding"
it wasnt pomegranite flavouring, but guava.

Ordred the following items:

MENU description: Baked rice with preserved sausage and chicken + preserved pork
There was nothing interesting about this dish.

MENU description:Steam pork dumpling with caviar
Just tasted how it should.

MENU description:Steamed rice rolls with slice beef and thousand year egg
This was the best dish, beef with cut pieces of preserved egg wrapped in rice roll.

MENU description:beancurd sheet rolls with tomato and egg soup
This wasnt what I was expecting, the tomato and egg soup was actually thick sauce, which went well with the deep fried meat.
This was the dish I expected it to look like, with the soup being tomato and egg as stated on the menu.
http://static1.openrice.com.hk/UserPhoto/photo/2/1U9/00D38FF1510597FA92C779m.jpg

MENU description: deep fried sticky meat dumpling
These were carrot shaped whey they arrived.

MENU description: deep fried pork dumpling and prawn dumpling
This was basically a porking dumpling and a prawn dumpling deep fried, however the prawn dumpling didnt taste as good as dragons descent.
http://static4.openrice.com.hk/UserPhoto/photo/1/138/007R1V4A6B500A42B2EBFEm.jpg

MENU description: Garlic cheese bun
Tasted like garlic bread.

MENU description: Mini wasabi mustard burger
There was no "wasabi" taste.

MENU description: pomegranite juice pudding
Just tasted like fake cream with a hint of guava not pomegranite

MENU description: Steamed brown sugar cake
This was bitter and the self raising flour didnt serve its purpose, because the texture was clumped together.

[Review 948] Sweet potato milkshake @ 意粉屋 The Spaghetti House

31/12/2010
意粉屋 The Spaghetti House
灣仔軒尼詩道68-76號新禧大樓1樓
1/F, Sun Hey Mansion, 68-76 Hennessy Road,, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sweet-potato-milkshake-e2140001

Ordered the sweet potato milkshake which is slightly different to the product picture.
However I do not have the product picture.
The product picture was basically purple milkshake with jelly in the drink.
When it came, it had wheatgerm on the top, and the milkshake was watery like rather than thick.
The taste was rather milky too.

[Review 947] Could have tasted better @ 桃源島 Tao Yuan Dao

13/12/2010
桃源島 Tao Yuan Dao
柴灣小西灣道28號藍灣廣場G11A舖
G11A, Island Resort Plaza, 28 Siu Sai Wan Road, Chai Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/could-have-tasted-better-e2139999

Came all the way to try the vermicelli with chicken in fa diu wine, however when the noodles came, I could hardly smell the wine.

I then tried the soup, which didn't have the taste of wine, and it just tasted like plain chicken broth.

The chicken just tasted like plain chicken as well.

The drinks were OK, and the place was OK, over looking the sea.