[Review 1142] Pandan Cheesecake @ 泰昌餅家 Tai Cheong Bakery Express

26/05/2011


泰昌餅家 Tai Cheong Bakery Express
灣仔莊士敦道74-80號地下2號舖
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pandan-cheesecake-tai-cheong-bakery-e2171801
Walked past and saw they had a new pandan flavoured cheesecake, so decided to get one.

When I found it, it was huge, enough for 4 people.
I suppose it was cheap for $38 for a huge cheesecake if you compared it with high end cakes for one that cost $25+

There were other potential customers that ended up not buying it because it was too big, especially with refrigerated cheesecakes.
After buying the cake, they offered to cut it for me, so I asked them to cut it into six slices.

There were two flavours Pandan Cheesecake and the Original Cheesecake.
These were Asian cheesecakes, the typical lemon coloured cheesecake with a browned surface.
The texture is light and spongy, not dense like the Western ones.

The taste of the cheese was light, same with the Pandan, although there was a slight hint of it in taste and smell.
The sweetness level was just right.
The colour of the Pandan cheesecake was lemon with a slight twinge of green in it.

Overall, the Pandan Cheesecake was nice, but the pandan flavouring could have been stronger.
It would be good if they could make smaller portions.

[Review 1141] Cute labelling! Read the finest Ultra FINE print! @ Phoebe's Treats

25/05/2011
Phoebe's Treats
灣仔皇后大道東182號地下
G/F, 182 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cute-labelling-read-the-ultra-fine-print-e2171700

Walked past this cute shop on Queen's Road East, it was small but had lots of tins and boxes of cookies.

I found it colourful, and the various cookies had interesting names such as "Lemon Snowball".

I should have taken pictures there, but I was too busy trying out the cookies, I also forgot to take a picture of the cookie out of its packaging.

Anyway, there were lots of flavours, even tea cookies such as earl grey and iron buddha.

I tried most of them, and found they were strong in butter, which overpowered the rest of the flavours.
The Lemon snowball was also made of cookie, I was expecting meringue, probably because snowball gave me the impression it was white.

I got the Cranberry and pistachio cookies, which was also strong in butter, but at least I could taste the chewy cranberries and pistachio.

I liked their cookies and flavours but if the butter was not so strong, then the flavours would taste more prominent.

Finally the packaging was soooooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was a clear plastic box with wrapped cookies inside, at the bottom of the box was the labelling!
It was so cute, the print is even smaller than millimeters.
You need a magnifying glass to see it, also I had to set my camera in macro mode to take the picture!
Anyway, the printer that printed that is also good too, not many printers are able to print stuff as fine as that.

[Review 1140] Soups @ 薩莉亞意式餐廳 Saizeriya Italian Restaurant

24/05/2011

薩莉亞意式餐廳 Saizeriya Italian Restaurant
軍澳坑口培成路8號南豐廣場1樓R1B號舖
Shop R1B, 1/F, Nan Fung Plaza, 8 Pui Shing Road, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/soups-at-saizeriya-e2171289

This time ordered the pasta in ink, prawn salad, garlic bread, minestrone and chowder soup.

Pasta in ink:
Always my favourite here, because the pasta is not too soft and al-dente.
There was a bit too much finely chopped garlic than usual, and there were more squid tentacles than the body in the pasta.

Garlic bread:
There was a choice of garlic bread with cheese, but I found it was just the same as the cheese one by adding Parmesan cheese powder to it.

Minestrone soup:
The menu showed thick tomato soup with lots of pasta in it, hence this was why I ordered it.
However when it arrived, it was watery and it was just vegetable soup and no pasta in it.
Not real minestrone if you’ve had real minestrone soup!

Chowder soup:This also didn’t taste nice, it was too sweet especially with too many diced onions.
Asian style chowder soup.

Overall the soups were cheap, the portion was so small, and the amount of soup in the bowl was so shallow, that the spoon hits the bowl when you use your spoon.
Although I didn’t like the soups there, I appreciated the other sweetcorn soup stated how it tasted on the menu.

[Review 1139] Chinese Butter Cake @美心西餅 Maxim's Cake Shop

23/05/2011

美心西餅  Maxim's Cake Shop
尖沙咀港鐵尖沙咀站TST 1號舖
Shop TST 1, Tsim Sha Tsiu MTR Station, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chinese-butter-cake-e2171157

This is a sliced cake from Maxim's it is also sold in other Chinese bakeries.

I found that the Maxim's one was much more firm, it had a strong butter smell too.

It was very sugary, just like the usual Chinese bakery, the usual sweet and buttery smell.

It must be the typical Chinese butter that they use.

[Review 1138] Farmhouse dishes part @ 美心MX Maxim's

22/05/2011

美心MX Maxim's
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/farmhouse-dishes-part-2-e2170992

Finally went on a day when the daily soup was fish maw and sweetcorn and not the beef one.

This time tried the stir-fried prawns and cucumber, overall, this dish was very light, well suited for the eldery apart from the prawns.

Anyway, the cucumber could have been cut to smaller pieces, it was too big and kept slipping when using chopsticks to pick them up.

The prawns were ok.

The soup which I was long awaiting for didnt taste as good as the beef one.
It tasted strong of sesame oil.

Previous review:
Fish and green bean patty cake
Beef soup
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[Review 1137] Healthy choice turned out to be bad choice @ 椰林閣餐廳 Yeh Lam Kok Restaurant

21/05/2011
椰林閣餐廳 Yeh Lam Kok Restaurant
將軍澳厚德邨厚德商場西翼1樓
1/F, West Wing, Hau Tak Shopping Centre,, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/healthy-choice-turned-out-to-be-bad-choice-e2170602

This time I decided to get their macaroni in broth to be on the light side, but the broth and the macaroni was so salty it hurts your throat when you swallow it.
Apart from that, the ingredients in the macaroni seemed healthy, a mix of yellow courgettes, peas and tomato.
The macaroni was al-dente, but just the soup was too salty.

[Review 1136] Sandwiches that fake the contents @ 特式三文治專門店 (灣仔) Deluxe Sandwiches Express

21/05/2011

特式三文治專門店  Deluxe Sandwiches Express
灣仔盧押道9號地下
G/F, 9 Luard Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sandwiches-that-fake-the-contents-e2170601

Previously tried their pastas, it's Ok, but not as good as Bubble Green.

This time tried their cheese and ham sandwich, however the contents were stingy.

The amount of ham and cheese was so meagre, only the centre had filling.

The quality of the ham wasn’t that good, there was lots of chewy bits in it.