[Review 1187] Saku Saku chicken burger with lemon sauce @ MOS Burger

26/06/2011
MOS Burger
將軍澳唐俊街9號君薈坊地下33-34號舖
Shop 33-34, G/F, The Edge, 9 Tong Chun Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sakusaku-chicken-burger-with-lemon-sauce-mos-e2178360



Tried the new Saku Saku chicken burger with lemon sauce.

The chicken filet in the burger was crisp and juicy drizzled with lemon sauce.

The coating of the chicken had some black pepper which could be seen.

It tasted really similar to Cantonese lemon chicken.
It was basically the same as the grilled chicken burger with orange and black pepper sauce.

Grilled chicken burger with orange sauce at MOS
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2139974

As well as that I got the lemon and honey konjac drink, however from labelling it said it came from Taiwan which was unexpected, I assumed all MOS products to came from Japan.

[Review 1186] Un autre choix pour les crêpes françaises @ Kramp House

26/06/2011
Kramp House (已結業)
灣仔莊士敦道60號嘉薈軒地下6號舖
Shop 6, G/F, J Sense, 60 Johnston Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/un-autre-choix-pour-les-crepes-francaises-e2178353












I was browsing newly listed restaurants on OpenRice and found this one.

Kramp House caught my attention.

Kramp House sounded interesting. I didnt know what to expect, but KRAMP sounded like Cramp, so I was wondering if the restaurant was small and cramped but actually they probably chose the name because Krampouz is a famous manufacturer for crepe and waffle making machinery in France.


I wondered if their machinery was also from Krampouz.

Anyway, it was listed as a French restaurant on OpenRice, but after searching it on the internet, found out they served French Crepes.

There are now two Creperie restaurants in Wan Chai, and this one is closer in distance to Alliance Francais.

Apart from this restaurant, there is another newly opened restaurant called Madam Sixty Ate (headed by an Aussie and an English chef) at J senses which was also tempting to go, but I opted to go to this one.

It is located on Ship Street where Shakembuns used to be, I was actually quite surprised it had closed down, there is only one branch remaining in Central.

Anyway, the decor of that restaurant matched that street and it was very modern, however the name and design of the logo made me feel like I was in Belgium.

The restaurant had a simplistic modern colour theme, red, black, white and silver, the tables were red, and chairs were silver.

The menu was red with black and white fonts and the menu cover had their logo on it.

The chairs were actually solid metal!

Anyway be prepared for the icy coldness of the metal chairs, If you are wearing thin material, short skirt/shorts you will feel the icy coldness of the metal chair on your skin!
It takes a few seconds to get accustomed to it!
It reminded me of jumping in icy cold water and the coldness passing from the lower limbs to the upper body!

Foodwise, this place serves savoury crepes, sweet crepes and waffles.

On weekdays they have set lunches like La Creperie and on weekends it is A la Carte, but there are more choice for A la Carte.
The pricing is slightly cheaper than La Creperie.

At La Creperie it felt like a local town in France, and the restaurant was more masculine, however Kramp house had more French femininity to it but it felt more like Belgium.

I ordered four crepes two savoury and two sweet ones.
Le complete, Le Poulet, Le Tatin and Le Tartine

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Le complete:

This was simply cheese, ham, egg.
It was simple and delicious, however I cant compare it to La Creperie because I havent had their version of le complete.
The crepe was crisp and slightly soft in the centre, the egg yolk was good for dipping the crisp parts of the crepe.
The crepe was topped with fresh chives and the cheese inside this crepe was just melted and I loved that texture.
The ham was wafer thin, it was pale think but it was delicious, not too salty.
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Le Poulet:

This crepe contained chicken, mushrooms, parsley. creme fraiche, garlic and cheese.
This was also nice, it was creamy, the chicken that was used was white meat, and the mushrooms were button mushrooms.
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Le Tatin:

This was a sweet crepe filled with stewed apple, creme fraiche and sprinkled with cinnamon.
The sweetness of the apple was just right, the apple was apple puree.

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Le Tartine:

Tartine with fig jam
This was also a sweet crepe with a choice of jam, so I chose Fig, it was quite sweet.
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All crepes were folded into a square and served on a rectangular plate.
The crepes arrived quite fast and they did not arrive one by one.
I cant wait to come again for more crepes!

Je voudrais délicieux crêpe à bientôt!

[Review 1185] Chinese fusion style ramen @ 八哥拉麵

25/06/2011
八哥拉麵 (已結業)
太子西洋菜南街234號地下
G/F, 234 Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Prince Edward
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chinese-fusion-style-ramen-e2178187





The name of this restaurant is definitely Chinese and the menu does state that it is fusion, so don't expect Japanese style ramen.
It is quite interesting how they have used ramen in a baked dish, the signature item of a chinese cafe.
Although I didnt try it, I wonder how it would taste.
Anyway I just got the ramen in soup, the soup was made from stock powder and the noodles were the usual Ajisen type.

[Review 1184] A straw that brought excitement & dissappointment @ 星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee

24/06/2011
星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee
旺角登打士街56號家樂坊地下G01-02號舖
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-straw-that-brought-excitement-dissappointment-e2177796



I would not have noticed the soy strawberry cheesecake if it had not had a green straw stuck in it.

I was excited thinking the cake could be liquid filled or drinkable at the bottom, otherwise what is the purpose of the straw? decoration purposes only?

To my dissappointing the cake was just solid.
The top of the cake which looked like whipped cream was meringue!
So basically it was sponge covered with soy cheese.

As for the taste, it just tasted like a normal cheesecake, the taste of soy couldnt be tasted at all.
The cake was not sweet at all which was good, but the sweetness was compensated by the merigue topping.

[Review 1183] Butao wud be King on OR if everyone wrote a review @ 豚王 Butao Ramen (中環)

23/06/2011
豚王 (已搬遷)   Butao Ramen
中環蘭桂坊和安里8-13號和安樓地下
G/F, Wo On Building, 8-13 On Lane Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/butao-wud-be-king-on-or-if-everyone-wrote-a-review-e2177749









Before I tried Butao, ramen used to mean noodles from Ajisen or the squiggly al-dente ones that I never liked.

After I tried Butao, I realised how delicious Ramen could be.
It has changed my view on Ramen. These days I only eat Ramen if it is the thin type of ramen or because of the broth.

Butao has been so popular, that there has been never ending queues there since it opened.

If ALL those people that queued for Butao wrote a review for it, Butao would rank first on OpenRice for a long long time!

I attempted to go quite a few times before, but the queue was just so long!

Although I have only been there twice, the taste is so distinct you can remember it for life.

My second time there was actually written first because it was a charity event, however this review was actually my first visit.

While I was eating there, it was interesting to see people queuing there with luggage, Butao is probably the last delicious bowl of noodles before they jet on a holiday or go on a business trip.
Or it could even be their first bowl of noodles and first impressions of Hong Kong.

Hence it can be seen how special Butao is!!

I didn’t know when my next visit would be, so I had two bowls.

There are basically four flavours, spicy (red king – chek wong), green king (tsui wong) which is basil and parmesan based soup, black king which is ramen in ink soup, and Butao king.

They used to have curry, which I wanted to try as well.
Hopefully the curry will be back one day.

I picked the green king and the black king.

For all their noodles, you can choose the softness of the noodles, the amount of spring onions they put in, how strong you want the soup flavour to be etc.
The noodles came with Japanese roast pork, it was thinly sliced, and similar to the roast pork found in English meals.
I never really eat Japanese roast pork, but the roast pork here was amazing, it was soft and moist, and it tasted fresh.

I chose the ramen to be hard because it gets softer just like instant noodles.

Extra noodles can be ordered because there is bound to be broth left if you didn’t drink it.

Green king tasted nicer than the Black King, the cheese and basil was really nice.


Japanese Angel hair ramen! :P

[Review 1182] Gagging from Tsuen Wan to CWB!!!! @ Stand Up Eating 棟篤食 (銅鑼灣)

23/06/2011

棟篤食 Stand Up Eating
銅鑼灣禮頓道128-138號希雲大廈G/F 6-10號舖
Shop 6-10, Haven Court, 128-138 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/gagging-from-tsuen-wan-to-cwb-e2177748












This place first opened a small joint in Tsuen Wan but it was too far way so I didn’t go, then they opened a slightly bigger branch in To Kwa Wan, but the MTR doesn’t go there.

Finally, they have now opened a branch in the city!!!!

This place is conveniently located round the corner from Slices.

Anyway, sat down and looked at the menu, the menu was printed on Foamboards, which reminded me of projects and sourcing those shops to print them out.

From a small joint in Tsuen Wan, they have now partnered with a Printing company and a noodle factory.
It proves a good location is a good start because when they were in Tsuen Wan, there was not much media interest on this restaurant, and now that it is at an accessible location there are more magazines reviewing it.

The food that is served here is basically noodles and dumplings.
I ordered the noodles with double roe with the same assumption as HKE, thinking it would be prawn roe and some other roe, but it was prawn roe and crab roe! The crab roe was weird though with these noodles.
Overall the noodles and taste reminded me of the noodles at Yeung’s noodle. There was not much pork oil in it, which was good.

Yeung’s noodle review:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=1987629

They are also famous for dumplings so I got the dumplings in soup and the pan fried ones.
There are so many flavours, so I got the watercress ones because not many places have watercress in dumplings.

They had so many choices for dumplings and you can choose to have them served in soup, pan fried or with chili sauce, similar to The dumpling house.

Review for dumpling house:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=139596

Watercress and pork dumplings:
The soup for the dumpling was quite strong, I could tasted fermented tofu in the soup (foo yue).
The dumplings were wrapped nicely, the wrap was very tight.

Chicken with lotus root dumplings (Panfried)
These were also wrapped nicely, crunchy on the outside, the lotus root was diced finely.
I also tried the fried tofu balls which came with sweet chili sauce, I felt that the sauce didn’t match the tofu, anyway I dunked the tofu balls in the dumplings soup and it tasted much better.
The chicken wings were tastetess and dry, there was too much coating and oil.
The only thing I liked about it was the fact the bigger of two wing bones was removed and the meat turned inside out, making it easy to eat.

[Review 1181] Black mystery at the Hide Chan hide-out @ 秀拉麵 Hide-Chan Ramen

23/06/2011

秀拉麵 Hide-Chan Ramen
中環威靈頓街33號The Loop地下上層
UG/F, The Loop, 33 Wellington Street, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/black-mystery-at-the-hide-chan-hide-out-e2177744






Hide Chan is known for noodles as good as Butao with chains across the globe, so it gave me the impression that it is a commercialized version of Butao.
Apart from noodles they serve other snacks as well.

The interior and design were black and very mysterious. The bottle of water provided was the same type they use at Butao, however on my last visit to Butao they have changed to using plastic jugs for water.

Same as Butao you can choose how hard you want your noodles.
I ordered them not so soft because the noodles get softer when you are halfway through the bowl of noodles.

The broth here is famous for the pork bone collagen and there is a black version containing their famous black oil.

I ordered the black hide and dumplings.
When the noodles came, the soup was burgundy brown but not as viscous as I imagined.
The collagen quantity was less than I hoped for but the taste of the broth was interesting, it had a hint of red fermented beancurd in it (namyue).

The noodles were thin straight and white, just like Butao, but the good thing about the noodles here is that they do not go soft quickly, because the particles in the broth are quite big that these noodles do not readily absorb it.
Towards finishing, the noodles did not make the broth go starchy.
There were lots of spring onions in the noodles but these were bigger than the usual spring onions with a sweeter taste.

Lastly I had the dumplings.
I really liked the dumplings, the dumpling wrap was extremely thin and near translucent.
There was a tiny spec of green paste for the dumplings, I wish it was bigger because I loved the paste.
The paste was refreshing, and slightly salted, it tasted of unsweetened lime and citrus with a dash of grounded ginger.
There was no need for dumpling sauce after I put the paste with the dumplings.

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