[Review 1152] Dim Sim dinner at the heart of Ladies Market @ 點心棧

06/06/2011

點心棧
旺角通菜街23號地下
G/F, 23 Tung Choi Street, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/dim-sum-for-dinner-at-the-heart-of-ladies-market-e2174208

Always lost in MK as to what to eat, so came here for a dim sum dinner.
It is situated in the middle of ladies market, where all the tourists are, but surprisingly there is no English on the menu.

Not sure if the food here was considered cheap or expensive, but usually I find the quality of expensive dimsum the normal quality you get in UK so for super quality I would need to go to a super expensive restaurant .

I am not the only expat that has this problem with finding good local food in a local place, quite a shame actually that a place cant serve good local food!
There were about seven items crossed off on the list because they were not available!

Ordered the following:

Crispy savoury wasabi meat croquette
This was different to how I expected it to be. I visualised a croquette with creamy light green sauce inside.
The first one I tried had no wasabi taste, the second one I tried, I found a big lump, but no wasabi taste at all.

chicken feet in vinegar
The vinegar is too sweet and not that savoury.
It was garnished with lots of coriander.
The vinegar sauce for this dish was very generous!
If it hadnt taste so sweet, I would have used the remaining vinegar to dip other stuff.
rice with spare ribs and chicken feet
There was nothing spectacular about it, the rice and meat was just ok.
chicken feet in XO sauce
usually this is served in black bean sauce or abalone, but this place uses XO.
The XO sauce was faint, however the garlic was strong.
It was slightly spicy, but if you didnt know it was XO sauce, it just tastes like the normal ones.
prawn rice rolls
Nothing special, the prawns were not evenly distributed.
Luckily the waitor was generous with the soy sauce because it was bland.

soup dumpling with abalone
The pork in this wasnt that fresh, but did find a whole mini abalone as stated.
beancurd rolls in soup
Again the pork in this was not that fresh, and it was oily.

[Review 1151] Fish Burger @ MOS Burger

05/06/2011

MOS Burger
將軍澳坑口重華路8號東港城1樓161-162號舖
Shop 161-162, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fish-burger-mos-e2174107

The fish burger at MOS is slightly sweeter than the other fish burgers elsewhere.
The mayonnaise used in the fish burger at freshness is more refreshing.
All the buns for the fish burgers do not have sesame on top except for the one at Burger King.
Anyway the cheese is generous at MOS you get a full slice, however the fish is slightly bland.

~~~~~~~~~OTHER BURGER REVIEWS BY ME(supersupergirl):~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Fish burger series:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

KFC
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2141552
Triple O’s
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2006725
Freshness burger:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=1910624
Si Sun:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=1910624
McDonalds:

McD’s Sakana Supreme:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2118454
McD’s Filet O Fish:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2038393
McD’s Wasabi fish burger:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=1946999
McD’s Golden fish deluxe burger:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2143390
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[Review 1150] Meat mountain that resembles the one at Tai hang @ 大快活 Fairwood

05/06/2011

大快活 Fairwood
灣仔駱克道138號中國海外大廈1字樓D1舖
Shop D1, 1/F China Overseas Bldg., No 138 Lockhart Road,, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/meat-mountain-that-resembles-the-dish-at-tai-hang-e2174106

The steamed meat patty here resembles the famous meat patty at Tai Hang.

Although I havent tried the one at Tai Hang, I do not have any expectations for it.
I just tried it for fun because the appearance looks like the meat patty at Tai Hang.

The Chinese dishes here are in response to the Farmhouse dishes at Maxim's.

Same as Maxim's, the set comes with soup, drink and rice.

The meat patty was a mass lump shaped like a mini hill with a salted egg yolk placed on top.

For those who do not know or havent seen the meat patty at Tai Hang will be wowed by it!

The meat patty was on a bed of sliced courgettes, I really liked how it was steamed, because the patty didnt stick to the plate, and the meat juice from the patty was at the bottom of the dish and soaked by the courgettes.
The texture of the meat patty was quite firm, not as soft as the good quality ones.

[Review 1149] Pub lunch canteen @ 大亨廊 Big Shot Lounge

05/06/2011
大亨廊 Big Shot Lounge
灣仔謝斐道138號地下
G/F, 138 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pub-lunch-canteen-e2174105

It's another case of been there, tried that.
This place is a pub, but serves lunch at lunchtime!
There are about ten choices for chinese dishes with rice and soup, when I ordered I didnt know you could pick two choices.
So I picked bittermelon and porkchop.
The bittermelon was ok, the porkchop was very soggy, almost if it was cooked in soup/water.

[Review 1148] Ribs @ 15+J Roaster

03/06/2011

15+J Roaster
天后英皇道25號景星中心地下1號舖
Shop 1, G/F., King's Commercial Centre, 25 King's Road, Tin Hau
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/ribs-at-the-15-j-roaster-e2173824

Last time I had the chicken, it was amazing, so this time I came back for the ribs.

Same as last time I got the set, which includes a drink and a side order

For the side order this time I had the fruit salad.
The fruit salad turned out to be really good because the product shot on the menu illustrates it as fruit with salad cream when it was just pieces of fruit.
If I knew that last time, I would have got the fruit, it had fresh blueberries and strawberries as well.

The chicken tasted as good as last time, with lots of herbs on it (the photo doesn’t show it that well).

The ribs were nicely done, it was covered in rich sauce which you can see from the photo.

I think next time I will leave some space for dessert.

[Review 1147] Sweet Treats Part 2 @ Quezon Pinoy Food Express

03/06/2011

Quezon Pinoy Food Express
灣仔石水渠街1號其發大廈地下11號舖
Shop 11, G/F, Luckifast Building, 1 Stone Nullah Lane, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sweet-delicious-snacks-part-2-e2173821

As I ventured for more Filipino food, I discovered some items were very similar to Chinese food, and many other items were Spanish and Malaysian.

In the cabinet I saw these white buns looking like the Chinese steamed buns, it turns out they are the same called Siopao.
There are several fillings, Asado (Meatball), bola-bola (Pork), chicken, beef, shrimp or salted duck eggs.


I prefer the presentation of the Filipino buns because they were hygienically wrapped in wrapping.

Anyway, the two items I had were taro Swiss roll and the chocolate Swiss roll.


Taro Swiss roll:

Chocolate Swiss roll:
I do not think anyone could possibly not like it, the chocolate taste was so rich. The roll was soft and not moist.
The roll had chocolate sauce in it NOT chocolate cream! The sauce was just heaven, it was like liquid chocolate. The texture of the sauce in the roll and on top of the roll was gooey and viscous, a bit like liquid yolk.

[Review 1146] Delicious but stingy on the second order @ 和花亭壽司 Nagoyaka Tei

03/06/2011
和花亭壽司 Nagoyaka Tei
將軍澳重華路8號東港城1樓113號舖
Shop 113, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/delicious-but-stingy-on-the-second-order-e2173747

Been here many times before because the food was good.

This time ordered the sliced conch and wasabi warship and a grilled salmon head.

The sliced conch warship was so nice that I decided to have a second order, but on the second order the amount of conch meat was barely visible.
I wish they had said to me it was sold out instead of giving me one that dosnt really contain any Conch meat in it at all.

The conch warship was rice wrapped in seaweed paper and topped with conch and algae.
The first one was really nice, there were at least two slices of Conch meat on the sushi.
There was snow fungus in it as well mixed in sweet wasabi sauce that is not spicy.

The second one was so disappointing, I could only find one tiny piece of conch meat
Anyway the conch meat and algae basically has a slippery texture.

The salmon head was burnt, you could see the black and broiled skin!!
I had the fun of bursting one of the broils!

fish with skin broils!! its burnt LOL

The salmon head was not on the a la carte menu, but featured outside, it was a bit stupid that they had all these promotions outside, but when you order you can't find it anywhere inside the restaurant!
I had to take a photo of the promotion otherwise I wouldnt know what promotions they had.

I wonder if anyone else has walked in without realising the deals featured outside!??