18/01/2011
丹麥餅店 Danish Bakery
銅鑼灣禮頓道106號禮信大廈地舖
G/F, Leishun Court, 106 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/denmark-hk-hotdog-vs-famous-hk-hot-dog-e2144287
Came here to try their famous hot dogs which was very cheap at $13 with two sausages.
I wanted compare the hot dog here with the hot dog at Wing Lok, however I was expecting the one at Denmark to taste better but it didn't.
Both these hotdogs are Hong Kong style hotdogs with salad cream.
Overall breakdown of the hotdog:
Bun:
The top of the bun was crispy, and the bun tasted sweet.
Sauce:
This was the most disappointing aspect, there was virtually no sauce, it was so dry and there was no cheese.
Sausage:
This tastes like the typical hot dogs sold in the supermarket, chinese style, with a very gritty texture.
Wing Lok HD vs Denmark HD
Bun: the bun was too crispy for my liking, so WL is the winner.
Sauce: the sauce at WL was a winner, there was no sauce here.
Sausage: WL was definitely the winner, because the one here was salty and chalky like it had grounded shell in it.
Although, Chinese hot dogs are not really my cup of tea, WL is definitely a winner for the two.
[Review 967] Balanced buffet with superb range @ Farm Kitchen Vegi
16/01/2011
Farm Kitchen Vegi
尖沙咀金馬倫道33號The Cameron 2樓
2/F, The Cameron, 33 Cameron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/balanced-buffet-with-superb-range-e2143819
When I first saw the restaurant name, I assumed it was Vegetarian until I saw pictures from the review.
However, they serve very fine dishes under the all you can eat menu.
There was so much choice, ranging from carpaccio's, fried items, western dishes to cheese fondue.
There is also a salad bar.
Farm Kitchen Vegi
尖沙咀金馬倫道33號The Cameron 2樓
2/F, The Cameron, 33 Cameron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/balanced-buffet-with-superb-range-e2143819
When I first saw the restaurant name, I assumed it was Vegetarian until I saw pictures from the review.
However, they serve very fine dishes under the all you can eat menu.
There was so much choice, ranging from carpaccio's, fried items, western dishes to cheese fondue.
There is also a salad bar.
[Review 966] V8 vs Red Moment Coffee Express hotdog @ V8美食軒
16/01/2011
V8美食軒
灣仔柯布連道4號地下B舖
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/v8-vs-red-moment-coffee-express-hotdog-e2143818
Both hotdogs served at V8 and Red moment are HK style hotdogs, however at V8, you can see how overloaded with salad cream it contains, similarly the HK cafes for some weird reason like to add tomato and cucumber slices to it.
Anyway, the winner is Red moment because it contains tomato ketchup and mustard which dosnt taste so weird, also the hotdog is hot rather than cold.
V8美食軒
灣仔柯布連道4號地下B舖
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/v8-vs-red-moment-coffee-express-hotdog-e2143818
Both hotdogs served at V8 and Red moment are HK style hotdogs, however at V8, you can see how overloaded with salad cream it contains, similarly the HK cafes for some weird reason like to add tomato and cucumber slices to it.
Anyway, the winner is Red moment because it contains tomato ketchup and mustard which dosnt taste so weird, also the hotdog is hot rather than cold.
[Review 965] Apple ring @ Beard Papa's
15/01/2011
Beard Papa's
將軍澳重華路8號東港城1樓Food Point K5號舖
Shop K5, Food Point, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/apple-ring-e2143687
Since Saveur de France closed down, I never got to try the upscale Paris Brest in the end, saw a similar looking one here so ordered it.
The cream inside was custard, very thick and cold. The pastry itself was very crunchy and slightly hard, not choux like at all.
I thought there was nothing special about the Paris Brest, it just tasted like their usual cream puffs but in a bigger form of the cruller ring.
The star of the show was actually the apple ring, it was like an apple danish but in ring form, with evenly distributed pieces apples in the middle, so every bite was an even amount of pastry and apple.
It was evenly glazed and smelt very buttery when heated up. It tasted like Starbucks apple caramel drink.
There is a Beard papa' branch in the UK too, but in central London.
[Review 964] McD's golden fish deluxe burger @ 麥當勞 McDonald's
14/01/2011
麥當勞 McDonald's
將軍澳尚德商場2樓216號舖
Shop 216, 2/F, Sheung Tak Shopping Centre, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mcds-golden-fish-deluxe-burger-e2143390
Was attracted to the new golden fish deluxe burger by McDs primarily because the cheese was embedded with pieces of chili in it.
It reminds me of the cordon bleu that I had at the McDs in UK, the cheese was marbled with blue bits, garlic and herbs.
The Fish Deluxe by McD’s is a long shaped fish burger on top of cheese, covered with tomato slices, lettuce and the honey and mustard sauce.
It was certainly an improvement compared to the Sakana.
However the portion of cheese could have been more generous, it was one piece of cheese cut into two smaller rectangular pieces.
As well as the burger, I was looking forward to the phone straps, however they were much bigger in size than anticipated, hence it wasn’t cute, but the box for the set was about 2.5 times bigger than the normal burger box.
Overall, I liked the golden fish deluxe in comparison to the Sakana, however it would taste better if there was more cheese.
This burger is bigger than the filet of fish, yet the amount of cheese was still the same.
The sauce was nice, the special edition of honey and mustard that is for the chicken nuggets.
However it failed to bring out that fishiness taste that the filet o fish does.
It looked 70% like the product shot, except the chilli pieces in the cheese were not that visible.
麥當勞 McDonald's
將軍澳尚德商場2樓216號舖
Shop 216, 2/F, Sheung Tak Shopping Centre, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mcds-golden-fish-deluxe-burger-e2143390
Was attracted to the new golden fish deluxe burger by McDs primarily because the cheese was embedded with pieces of chili in it.
It reminds me of the cordon bleu that I had at the McDs in UK, the cheese was marbled with blue bits, garlic and herbs.
The Fish Deluxe by McD’s is a long shaped fish burger on top of cheese, covered with tomato slices, lettuce and the honey and mustard sauce.
It was certainly an improvement compared to the Sakana.
However the portion of cheese could have been more generous, it was one piece of cheese cut into two smaller rectangular pieces.
As well as the burger, I was looking forward to the phone straps, however they were much bigger in size than anticipated, hence it wasn’t cute, but the box for the set was about 2.5 times bigger than the normal burger box.
Overall, I liked the golden fish deluxe in comparison to the Sakana, however it would taste better if there was more cheese.
This burger is bigger than the filet of fish, yet the amount of cheese was still the same.
The sauce was nice, the special edition of honey and mustard that is for the chicken nuggets.
However it failed to bring out that fishiness taste that the filet o fish does.
It looked 70% like the product shot, except the chilli pieces in the cheese were not that visible.
[Review 963] Fish filet soft roll @ 肯德基家鄉雞 Kentucky Fried Chicken
07/01/2011
肯德基家鄉雞 Kentucky Fried Chicken
將軍澳唐德街9號將軍澳中心G36舖
Shop No.G36, Park Central, 9 Tong Tak Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fish-filet-soft-roll-e2141552
When I saw the TV ad for this burger it instantly reminded me of the fish burger at Triple O's because it has a wedge of lemon on top.
Triple O's
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2006725
However the one at Triple O's has a batter coating, and the KFC version is flour coated, similar to the fried chicken but lighter.
Price is evidently cheaper from KFC.
As for the taste, the fish was very nice on its own, the spices was quite subtle, however the fish was too soft.
The sauce in the burger ruined it for me, it was the typical Chinese salad cream/mayonnaise that was just sweet and made everything tasteless.
All I could taste was the sauce, and the bun and fish went tasteless because of it, I could taste some lemon from the lemon wedge that I used.
The fish could have been firmer, but it was falling to pieces, also the whole burger itself was rather cold.
For the rice set with fried fish, it is quite a good deal, because it included the maple tart.
肯德基家鄉雞 Kentucky Fried Chicken
將軍澳唐德街9號將軍澳中心G36舖
Shop No.G36, Park Central, 9 Tong Tak Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fish-filet-soft-roll-e2141552
When I saw the TV ad for this burger it instantly reminded me of the fish burger at Triple O's because it has a wedge of lemon on top.
Triple O's
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2006725
However the one at Triple O's has a batter coating, and the KFC version is flour coated, similar to the fried chicken but lighter.
Price is evidently cheaper from KFC.
As for the taste, the fish was very nice on its own, the spices was quite subtle, however the fish was too soft.
The sauce in the burger ruined it for me, it was the typical Chinese salad cream/mayonnaise that was just sweet and made everything tasteless.
All I could taste was the sauce, and the bun and fish went tasteless because of it, I could taste some lemon from the lemon wedge that I used.
The fish could have been firmer, but it was falling to pieces, also the whole burger itself was rather cold.
For the rice set with fried fish, it is quite a good deal, because it included the maple tart.
[Review 962] Wagashi Wagashi Wagashi Wagashi @ 瀰月屋 Mitsukiya
07/01/2011
瀰月屋 Mitsukiya
天后清風街15號
15 Tsing Fung Street Street, Tin Hau
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/wagashi-wagashi-wagashi-wagashi-e2141493
Saw pictures of this place, and was very fascinated by it, especially a place just for Japanese desserts.
The usual dessert places offer Chinese dessert, Taiwanese snowflake ice and now Froyo, but solely Japanese Dessert is just the beginning.
The interior of the place is decorated with various Japanese pictures, ornaments and an old styled TV.
When you sit down, you are provided with some plum drink.
The menu is printed on thin sheets of paper, the ones used for those traditional daily tear off chinese calendars.
On the menu there are six sections, four with different Japanese dessert categories, and the lower two boxes for set meals.
For locals, even though the menu is in chinese, it is quite hard to read, because the fonts are rather weird and the terminology is authentic Japanese, so unless you know your Japanese desserts, you will need an introduction from the staff, and for non-Chinese like me, I have to reply on the reviews and Openrice pictures.
So I shall attempt in explaining as much as possible although some of the information about the Japanese desserts could be wrong because I got the information from the web.
On the menu there are basically 4 different categories:
sweet soup:a choice of hot or cold except for the burdock.
Purple sweet potato soup
Red beans sweet soup
Green beans sweet soup
Burdock in hokkaido milk
Pumpkin sweet soup paste
Black sesame sweet soup paste
Chestnut sweet soup paste
Lotus seeds sweet soup
Japanese sweets (Japanese sweets)
Daifuku
Dango
Wagashi
Tofu
Kuzumochi
Grilled chestnuts/sweet potato
Cloth twisted sweet potato
Drinks:
Fruit drinks
Kids beer
Green tea with milk
Green tea with milk and wheat
Plum drink
Grapefruit tea
Teas: various including floral and earl grey
Western Japanese desserts:
Mousse
Jelly cup
Milk pudding
Egg pudding
Apple pie
Popcorn
You can order the above items a la carte or order the sets for one, I prefer the sets because they cost around $4x dollars where as the single items cost around $3x and you can sample different items.
As well as the one-person sets, they also do sets for 2-4 people.
For the one-person set, there are three sets, I liked the sets 912 and 913 (the sets have a chinese name, but to make things simple, I have just mentioned the set number).
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Set 911
A choice of Kuzumochi or Daifuki
Sweet soup
Wagashi, cloth wrapped sweet potato or grilled purple potato
tea cloth twistd sweet potato and kuzumochi
Anyway the 911 is a bit Chinesey, because it contains a sweet soup, the reason I tried it was because of the Satsumaimo Chakin shibori (sweet potato twisted in a cloth).
The other two items that I ordered were the burdock in hokkaido milk and kuzumochi.
The burdock in hokkaido milk just tasted like warmed milk with burdock, and the kuzumochi tasted like sweet tough kanten jelly with soy bean powder, they gave a mix of brown sugar flavoured kuzumochi and original kuzumochi to let me compare the taste.
I felt that the brown sugar one tasted better and went well with the soy bean powder.
Kuzumochi are chewy cakes made of kuzuko. Kuzuko is the starch powder made from kuzu or kudzu plant root. It's used for thickening sauce or making cool desserts in Japanese cooking. Kuzumochi are semi transparent and often served with kuromitsu (brown sugar syrup/powder) and kinako (soy bean flour).
Satsumaimo Chakin shibori - Chakin shibori is a cooking method for forming mashed ingredients in chakin (tea cloth). As shibori means wringing in Japanese, a small amount of mashed satsumaimo (sweet potato) is wrapped in thin cloth or plastic wrap and is formed by twisting the cloth or plastic wrap, leaving a patterned surface.
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Set 912
Dango (a choice sesame, almond or pumpkin sauce)
Tofu (a choice sesame, almond or pumpkin sauce)
Daifuku ( choice of strawberry or chestnut)
This set was fuss free, because the first two items were fixed, all you had to do was choose a sauce, all these three items were my favourites.
For the dango and tofu, the choice of sauces were sesame, almond and pumpkin.
Since the tofu flavour is not that strong I chose almond, and for the dango, I chose pumpkin, and then for the daifuku I chose strawberry.
Dango is a Japanese dumpling made from mochiko (rice flour). It is sticky and filling either served on skewers glazed with a sweet coating and grilled or served in sweet soups.
The dango here was so nice, the sugar coating on it was caramelised and crunchy, best of all it wasnt too sweet. The caramelised sugar formed a shell around it. The dango was nice and chewy, the pumpkin sauce was good too, not sweet and it had the pumpkins natural savory taste.
The tofu here was smooth and firm, however its texture was slightly like pudding, I felt that it may have contained gelatin.
Anyway the almond sauce wasnt that strong, so both the tofu and almond could be tasted.
Daifuku is a Japanese confectionery consisting of a small round mochi (glutinous rice cake) stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans. Daifuku comes in many varieties. The most common is white-, pale green-, or pale pink-colored mochi filled with anko. These come in two sizes, one approximately the diameter of a half-dollar coin, the other palm-sized. Some versions contain whole pieces of fruit, mixtures of fruit and anko, or crushed melon paste. Nearly all daifuku are covered in a fine layer of corn or taro starch to keep them from sticking to each other, or to the fingers. Some are covered with confectioner's sugar or cocoa powder.
However the filling in this one was green bean, and the centre was a fresh strawberry.
I was expecting myself to hate it, but I loved it, the reason purely because the sweetness was just right, and the strawberry was fresh.
I have had really disgusting ones at Ichiban and Sogo which were as sweet as syrup and the texture is not as fresh as the ones here.
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Set 913
Pudding (choice of egg or milk)
Fruit cup
Drinks (choice of drinks from the drinks selection)
I did not get to try this one, but I will definitely come back for it next time!!
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I also ordered the tokoroten noodles, because I wanted to have fun extruding them using a tokoroten-tsuki (extruder for tokoroten).
The extruder for tokoroten consists of a oblong box shape with openings at both ends. One end has a wire grid, a large block of tokoroten is placed in the other opening and a piston is used to push it through the grid. The tokoroten-tsuki is also known as the ten-tsuki.
The tokoroten texture was like the chinese agar, but slightly firmer. It was slightly sour in taste, but the sweetness of the green tea evened it out, and the coldness of the green tea made the noodles even more icier. The green tea was kept cold with ice-cubes in the bowl.
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I have been there twice, the first visit I got free popcorn, the second visit a magazine was doing a feature there.
I will be back for the apple pie, and steamed milk pudding, and the kid's beer which is apple juice in a cute beer bottle.
Mystery mag shoot, which u will c wen published
瀰月屋 Mitsukiya
天后清風街15號
15 Tsing Fung Street Street, Tin Hau
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/wagashi-wagashi-wagashi-wagashi-e2141493
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Satsumaimo Chakin shibori (sweet potato twisted in a cloth). |
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| burdock in hokkaido milk and kuzumochi |
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| Almond Tofu |
Saw pictures of this place, and was very fascinated by it, especially a place just for Japanese desserts.
The usual dessert places offer Chinese dessert, Taiwanese snowflake ice and now Froyo, but solely Japanese Dessert is just the beginning.
The interior of the place is decorated with various Japanese pictures, ornaments and an old styled TV.
When you sit down, you are provided with some plum drink.
The menu is printed on thin sheets of paper, the ones used for those traditional daily tear off chinese calendars.
On the menu there are six sections, four with different Japanese dessert categories, and the lower two boxes for set meals.
For locals, even though the menu is in chinese, it is quite hard to read, because the fonts are rather weird and the terminology is authentic Japanese, so unless you know your Japanese desserts, you will need an introduction from the staff, and for non-Chinese like me, I have to reply on the reviews and Openrice pictures.
So I shall attempt in explaining as much as possible although some of the information about the Japanese desserts could be wrong because I got the information from the web.
On the menu there are basically 4 different categories:
sweet soup:a choice of hot or cold except for the burdock.
Purple sweet potato soup
Red beans sweet soup
Green beans sweet soup
Burdock in hokkaido milk
Pumpkin sweet soup paste
Black sesame sweet soup paste
Chestnut sweet soup paste
Lotus seeds sweet soup
Japanese sweets (Japanese sweets)
Daifuku
Dango
Wagashi
Tofu
Kuzumochi
Grilled chestnuts/sweet potato
Cloth twisted sweet potato
Drinks:
Fruit drinks
Kids beer
Green tea with milk
Green tea with milk and wheat
Plum drink
Grapefruit tea
Teas: various including floral and earl grey
Western Japanese desserts:
Mousse
Jelly cup
Milk pudding
Egg pudding
Apple pie
Popcorn
You can order the above items a la carte or order the sets for one, I prefer the sets because they cost around $4x dollars where as the single items cost around $3x and you can sample different items.
As well as the one-person sets, they also do sets for 2-4 people.
For the one-person set, there are three sets, I liked the sets 912 and 913 (the sets have a chinese name, but to make things simple, I have just mentioned the set number).
______________________________
Set 911
A choice of Kuzumochi or Daifuki
Sweet soup
Wagashi, cloth wrapped sweet potato or grilled purple potato
tea cloth twistd sweet potato and kuzumochi
Anyway the 911 is a bit Chinesey, because it contains a sweet soup, the reason I tried it was because of the Satsumaimo Chakin shibori (sweet potato twisted in a cloth).
The other two items that I ordered were the burdock in hokkaido milk and kuzumochi.
The burdock in hokkaido milk just tasted like warmed milk with burdock, and the kuzumochi tasted like sweet tough kanten jelly with soy bean powder, they gave a mix of brown sugar flavoured kuzumochi and original kuzumochi to let me compare the taste.
I felt that the brown sugar one tasted better and went well with the soy bean powder.
Kuzumochi are chewy cakes made of kuzuko. Kuzuko is the starch powder made from kuzu or kudzu plant root. It's used for thickening sauce or making cool desserts in Japanese cooking. Kuzumochi are semi transparent and often served with kuromitsu (brown sugar syrup/powder) and kinako (soy bean flour).
Satsumaimo Chakin shibori - Chakin shibori is a cooking method for forming mashed ingredients in chakin (tea cloth). As shibori means wringing in Japanese, a small amount of mashed satsumaimo (sweet potato) is wrapped in thin cloth or plastic wrap and is formed by twisting the cloth or plastic wrap, leaving a patterned surface.
______________________________
Set 912
Dango (a choice sesame, almond or pumpkin sauce)
Tofu (a choice sesame, almond or pumpkin sauce)
Daifuku ( choice of strawberry or chestnut)
This set was fuss free, because the first two items were fixed, all you had to do was choose a sauce, all these three items were my favourites.
For the dango and tofu, the choice of sauces were sesame, almond and pumpkin.
Since the tofu flavour is not that strong I chose almond, and for the dango, I chose pumpkin, and then for the daifuku I chose strawberry.
Dango is a Japanese dumpling made from mochiko (rice flour). It is sticky and filling either served on skewers glazed with a sweet coating and grilled or served in sweet soups.
The dango here was so nice, the sugar coating on it was caramelised and crunchy, best of all it wasnt too sweet. The caramelised sugar formed a shell around it. The dango was nice and chewy, the pumpkin sauce was good too, not sweet and it had the pumpkins natural savory taste.
The tofu here was smooth and firm, however its texture was slightly like pudding, I felt that it may have contained gelatin.
Anyway the almond sauce wasnt that strong, so both the tofu and almond could be tasted.
Daifuku is a Japanese confectionery consisting of a small round mochi (glutinous rice cake) stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans. Daifuku comes in many varieties. The most common is white-, pale green-, or pale pink-colored mochi filled with anko. These come in two sizes, one approximately the diameter of a half-dollar coin, the other palm-sized. Some versions contain whole pieces of fruit, mixtures of fruit and anko, or crushed melon paste. Nearly all daifuku are covered in a fine layer of corn or taro starch to keep them from sticking to each other, or to the fingers. Some are covered with confectioner's sugar or cocoa powder.
However the filling in this one was green bean, and the centre was a fresh strawberry.
I was expecting myself to hate it, but I loved it, the reason purely because the sweetness was just right, and the strawberry was fresh.
I have had really disgusting ones at Ichiban and Sogo which were as sweet as syrup and the texture is not as fresh as the ones here.
______________________________
Set 913
Pudding (choice of egg or milk)
Fruit cup
Drinks (choice of drinks from the drinks selection)
I did not get to try this one, but I will definitely come back for it next time!!
______________________________
I also ordered the tokoroten noodles, because I wanted to have fun extruding them using a tokoroten-tsuki (extruder for tokoroten).
The extruder for tokoroten consists of a oblong box shape with openings at both ends. One end has a wire grid, a large block of tokoroten is placed in the other opening and a piston is used to push it through the grid. The tokoroten-tsuki is also known as the ten-tsuki.
The tokoroten texture was like the chinese agar, but slightly firmer. It was slightly sour in taste, but the sweetness of the green tea evened it out, and the coldness of the green tea made the noodles even more icier. The green tea was kept cold with ice-cubes in the bowl.
______________________________
I have been there twice, the first visit I got free popcorn, the second visit a magazine was doing a feature there.
I will be back for the apple pie, and steamed milk pudding, and the kid's beer which is apple juice in a cute beer bottle.
Mystery mag shoot, which u will c wen published
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