[Review 1194] Subway's egg and cheese muffin @ Subway

Subway 
灣仔石水渠街64-70A號富樂樓地下
G/F, Fu Lok Building, 64-70A Stone Nullah Lane, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/subways-egg-and-cheese-muffin-e2179111


Subway is famous for subs, but this time I got the muffin, there are three fillings you can choose: egg and cheese, egg and ham or egg and bacon.

The egg was different to the egg they served a while ago for breakfast, the one I had before was scrambled egg, and this time it was crushed egg and mayonnaise.

I was asked what sauces I would like but for an egg muffin, I felt that salt and pepper was the best choice for it.
After saying no, the staff put some mayonnaise on it.

Overall, it tasted better than what I expected, perhaps there was too much mayonnaise, because the egg itself already had mayonnaise in it.

[Review 1193] Husband rolled from prawn and pork @ 蝦豬餅 Husband

30/06/2011
蝦豬餅  Husband
大澳吉慶街41號
41 Kut Hing Street, Tai O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/husband-rolled-from-prawn-and-pork-e2179110

Havent got a clue why its called Husband roll, but maybe the way its called in chinese sounds similar to husband.

Prawn pork roll in chinese is pronounced Hah jue beng, and the Chinese way of pronoucing Husband is "Hah si Ban", so maybe they thought it was similar.

Anyway, the husband roll is basically a roti with pork, lettuce and prawn paste filling.

The roti is flaky and crispy on the outside.

The prawn paste wasnt salty at all.

However, if it was chicken instead of pork, I would have liked it more, as I find pork a bit too fatty, and the roti was slightly greasy.

[Review 1192] Sweetcorn tea @ 鴻福堂 Hung Fook Tong

29/06/2011

鴻福堂 Hung Fook Tong
旺角港鐵旺角東站MKK8號
Shop MKK 8, Mong Kok East MTR Station, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sweetcorn-tea-hung-fook-tong-e2178980

Got the sweetcorn tea because it was different, the ingredients in it were water, cane sugar, baked corn, corn silk, black tea powder, vitamin C, flavour according to the label.

It was pleasant to drink, but left a slightly sour aftertaste.

The sweetness was just right, but leaves the mouth slightly viscous from th cane sugar.
It tastes a bit like chocolate tea without sugar.

[Review 1191] Big Big Chicken Drumsticks @ 大雞大超級雞排 Big Big Chick

29/06/2011
大雞大超級雞排 Big Big Chick
將軍澳坑口連理街商場112號舖
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/big-big-chicken-drumsticks-e2178975

Made the mistake of getting chicken from here again!

I got two pieces of chicken drumsticks for $20, they were quite big considering the price tag stated they were small chicken drumsticks.
The price tag didnt state 2 for $20 so I just assumed it was $20 for one.
The other chicken product on the left of it was interesting too labelled "chicken outlet de royale".

When I paid for it using a $20 dollar note, she gave me $1 change, so I assumed it was some special discount, then she realised she made a blunder and asked for it back.

They were dry and hard, and the taste was weird. It was sweet and had that Chinese spice smell.
The coating of the chicken was very floury and made the chicken taste horrible.
The real thing was darker than the display.

[Review 1190] Mint mocha frappuccino @ McCafe 麥當勞 McDonald's

28/06/2011

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/mint-mocha-frappaccino-e2178766

When I came, they must have been doing some cleaning because I could smell milk that had gone off, it was rather sickening.
Anyway ordered the mint mocha frappuccino.
I was looking forward to it, but then saw that it was made with MONIN's syrup, it took the magic away.
It seems the whole world is using this to make drinks such Burger King, Kami Teapresso and now McD's.
The taste of coffee in the drink was quite strong, the colour was dark brown, the frappuccinos I have had in the past were not so strong.
The mint taste was quite faint too.

[Review 1189] Nice place for dining but service was rude @ Assaggio Trattoria Italiana

27/06/2011

Assaggio Trattoria Italiana 
灣仔港灣道2號香港藝術中心6樓
6/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/nice-place-for-dining-but-service-has-to-improve-e2178546

Situated at the art centres, it has a nice view over looking the sea, you can choose Al-fresco dining or sit inside.

The thing I was most impressed about was their digital menu and ordering system.
It was really good because it contained pictures and information of the dishes, and an ordering list on what you have ordered.

When I sat down, I was given a normal menu, the staff briefly said something was not available which I assumed to be updated on their hi-tech ipad.
Anyway, after browsing their digital menu, I ordered four items and passed the digital menu back to the waiter and he said “I told you that item wasn’t available, how could you forget”.
I felt that was a bit rude.

I wanted to get the grilled chicken with mustard, chili and lemon juice but I got the pizza instead.
So I ordered the Buccatini Amatriciana, Tartufo pizza and Spuma di yogurt e anice con coulis di fragola e meringhe.
Buccatini Amatriciana was hollow spaghetti cooked with pork cheek, onion in light tomato sauce.

After ordering, I was served some bread, which came with vinegar and olive oil.

Next the pizza and buccatini came.

Buccatini amatriciana:
This was so different to the menu description, instead of pork cheek it was fatty bacon, and the pasta was really oily.

Tartufo pizza:
This was pizza with truffle, tomato, mozzarella and fontina cheese and raw spinach leaves.
It looked nice and the truffle slices were big, but the whole pizza was tasteless.

Tartufo pizza
After finishing the mains, the same waitor who accused me of being forgetful that an item he said was unavailable asked me if I wanted to order dessert was also forgetful himself because I had already ordered dessert, so I said I already ordered dessert and he said “oh yea”.

Anyway the dessert I ordered was anise flavoured yogurt foam with strawberry coulis and meringue.
It was quite a nice dessert however I found it too creamy and bitter lacking yoghurt taste.

[Review 1188] Dined here before the groupon mania @ PizzaExpress

06/26/2011
PizzaExpress (已結業)
灣仔船街嘉薈軒4號舖
Shop 4, J Residence, Ship Street,, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/dined-here-before-the-groupon-mania-e2178366

Even though I knew there was an offer on groupon for Pizza Express I did not get it.
Anyway, dined here before the the groupon offer started.
Pizza Express has always been good for Pizza and I always have it in the UK.

Ordered a pizza, pasta and a dessert.
For the pizza base there are two types, in the UK I usually have the thinnest one (Romana), however in Hong Kong they advised on the classic pizza base, so I had that.

Farfalle con Salsiccia
This was Italian sausage crumbled with bow-shaped pasta, cooked in white wine, rosemary, cream and chilli, finished
with grana padano cheese.
Although it looked really creamy it was not, and the cheese was really nice.

Sloppy Giuseppe pizza:
Hot spiced beef with red onions and green peppers.
Overall this pizza tasted really nice, but I really regretted not getting the romana base, the same one as I had in the UK.
Although the classic base is thin, it is not as thin as the Romana one.
The beef was finely grounded and evenly distributed on the pizza and the spicyness was just right.

Fig Tart
This was soft almond tart baked with figs served warm with a spoon of mascarpone.
There was also ice-cream instead of mascarpone but I felt that ice-cream was sweet so I stuck with mascarpone.
The mascarpone was a really good match with the tart because it was dense and creamy a bit like clotted cream.
To be honest the fig tart looked more like a buttery cake with plums in it because the fruit did not look like fig at all.
I really liked this tart.