[Review 1309] Pan fried Pot stickers with Crab roe powder @ 南城北市 (已結業)

12/10/2011
南城北市 (已結業)
將軍澳重華路8號東港城1樓Food Point K4號舖
Shop K4, Food Point, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pan-fried-pot-stickers-with-crab-roe-powder-e2200123

Saw these Crab roe powder filled pot stickers on their seasonal promotional poster.
They cost $25 for 4.
I got them because I havent tried pot stickers with crab roe powder.
The shape of these pot stickers are not crescent form like the Shanghai ones, but rectangular like the ones served at Four Seas Dragon.
Anyway, the pot sticker skin was so dehydrated, hard and dry.
My jaws were so tired after eating two of these pot stickers.
The filling was bland and there was no crab roe powder in it at all or any hint of crab taste.
I felt that it was slightly too expensive and the pot sticker skin was not fresh at all.

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Price: $25
Service: OK
Yummy factor: Nope
MSG levels: None
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[Review 1308] Seriously too cute and sweet for health @ Juicy Bear

11/10/2011
Juicy Bear
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓百佳超級市場
Parknshop, UG/F, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/seriously-too-cute-and-sweet-for-health-e2200107

This juice bar used to be some Taiwanese beverage joint.
Now it is brightly decorated with a display of fresh fruits surrounding the counter and staff cutting the fruit.
The juice bar has a cute bear paw logo with a polar bear inside the paw.
The logo and font stands out as it has used blue and orange which are complementary colours on the colour wheel.
On the menu it offers mostly juice, however they also have fruit vinegars and sorbets too.
I felt like a detox so ordered juice.
I thought the fruits were going to be freshly cut and juiced but they already had pre-cut ones in the fridge to save time.
One of the fruits in this juice mixture was HAMI-MELON and while they were preparing to put other fruits in the blender I saw them pour syrup in the blender!!!
Its meant to be a juice bar for the health conscious and they put syrup in the fruit juice!
This is the first juice bar that I have come accross that adds syrup.
HAMI-MELON is super sweet itself that it dosnt need any more syrup.
The staff at the juice bar claimed that all girls liked to have syrup added.
As well as syrup, water and ice were also added.
I just felt that this juice bar defeated its purpose of being healthy by adding syrup!
Just like a restaurant claiming to be MSG free and adding twice as much salt.


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Price: $15
Service: OK
Sweetness levels: This rating should not be here, but since they added syrup the sweetness level was too sweet.
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[Review 1307] ~Quezon~Quezon~Quezon~Quezon~ @ Quezon Pinoy Food Express (灣仔)

09/10/2011
Quezon Pinoy Food Express
灣仔駱克道146-148號裕安大樓地下C2號舖
Shop C2, G/F, Yue On Building, 146-148 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/quezon-quezon-quezon-quezon-e2199480

Got the meal with a choice of vegetables and a meat dish.
To be honest I do not know what the meat dish was.
It was red in colour with small diced potato cubes, peas, carrots and shredded meat.
The annoying thing was that I couldnt tell what meat it was.
I thought it was duck intially but then it seemed like Lamb.

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Price: $2X
Service: Brilliant
Yummy factor: Excellent
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[Review 1306] Outskirts version of the Landmark cafe for Lemon Tart @ 太平洋咖啡 Pacific Coffee

09/10/2011

太平洋咖啡 Pacific Coffee
將軍澳坑口重華路8號東港城1樓C區
Area C, Level 1, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/outskirts-version-of-the-landmark-cafe-e2199479

Located on the corner of some escalator, the cafe extends into part of the centre of the mall.
It reminds me of the cafe at Landmark but not so upscale.
After all it is just Pacific Coffee!
Anyway, after I tried Starbucks version of the Lemon tart I decided to try PC's version to compare.
It was totally too sweet.
The tart base was chocolate flavoured, and the lemon filling was too cloyingly sweet that it stings the throat.
I prefer the staff at the other branches of PC.
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Price: $2x
Service: OK
Yummy factor:
Sweetness levels: Too sweet
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[Review 1305] Dreamy Lemon Tart @ 星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee

09/10/2011

星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee
中環遮打道16-20號歷山大廈2樓201號
Shop 201, 2/F, Alexandra House, 16-20 Chater Road, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/dreamy-lemon-tart-starbucks-e2199478

Lemon tarts shouldn’t be dreamy, but this one was!
Lemon tarts are usually refreshing however this one was sweet.
It is different to the usual lemon tarts that have the lemon curd filling, but the amazing taste and texture of this one really made up for it.
The lemon tart has a thin layer of glistening gelatin on top.
The filling was light and creamy.
On the crust there was some white chocolate coating which was really innovative because it stopped the filling from moistening the crumbly tart base.
The tart base was extremely crumbly and light that it melts in your mouth.
Although this is not the usual lemon tart but the combination of the extreme crumbliness of the base, creaminess of the filling and the thin layer of white chocolate on the base made it bliss.
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Price: $1X
Yummy factor: Very
Sweetness levels: just right
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[Review 1304] Salt & Pepper Crab seasoning on shake shake fries @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

09/10/2011

麥當勞 McDonald's
銅鑼灣羅素街8號地下及1樓
G/F-1/F, 8 Russel Street, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/salt-n-pepper-crab-seasoning-on-shake-shake-fries-e2199458

So glad that McD's Shake Shake seasoning are back, by that I mean the condiment for the fries and not the four Seasons’.
Anyway, this year there are three flavours: Seaweed, Salt and pepper crab, Honey BBQ.
Usually each flavour is introduced a period after each other where you can choose any one of the flavours subject to it being launched and being available.
This year, each flavour is available for a certain time only and launched separately too.
The first flavour launched was the Seaweed, which seems the same as last year except the name is slightly different in Chinese.
The Chinese for it is called Jan Mei Ji Choi and last year it was just plain Ji Choi.

This year I only wanted to try the Salt and pepper crab seasoning, the other two I have tried and the same as last years.

The only advantage of having one flavour available at a time saves time for people who get to the ordering stage and cant decide which flavour to get and holding up the queue!!

McD’s could foresee their Shake Shake seasoning was a must have that they have been slightly crafty this year.
The seasoning used to be free with any extra value meal, but this year you have to order a Large sized extra value meal to get free seasoning or pay $2 for the seasoning.
I paid $2 for the seasoning because for the Large sized meal, there are more fries and the proportion of seasoning to the fries would be less. In the past it used to be one sachet of seasoning with a regular portion of fries.


There was a strong smell of Thai basil when I opened the sachet. The taste was strong of basil too.
The crab taste and salt and pepper were faint, but overall I liked it.
The taste of the fries was really similar to Burger King’s thai basil chicken wing.
Again I forgot to take pictures of the fries with the seasoning >< so in that sense the fries were so nice I couldn’t stop eating them.

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Price: $1X
Yummy factor: Very
MSG levels: just right
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[Review 1303] The chefs are back! Hope it stays in Wan Chai @ Oh Food 清真阿拉伯料理 Oh Food Arabic Halal Cuisine

09/10/2011
Oh Food 清真阿拉伯料理 Oh Food Arabic Halal Cuisine
灣仔盧押道11-13號修頓商業大廈11樓A,B室
Flat A & B, 11/F, Southern Commercial Building, 11-13 Luard Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-chefs-are-back-hope-it-stays-in-wan-chai-e2199432

I have always loved Arabic food ever since I tried Sham Fast Food.
They used to be inconveniently located between Fortress Hill and North Point.
Now they are located in Wan Chai and close to the MTR.

Every time I attempted to submit this review, there is something new at the restaurant.
They now do breakfast but it is Chinese style.
I hope to try it one day, but to get breakfast it is a bit of a challenge and too early for me.
I was going to write about their set meals but now they only offer sets during lunch time.

The mains cost around $50.
From starters to the mains, it tastes really delicious.
However there are four chefs so sometimes it tastes different.
I have now had to change this review radically because I wrote that they should have apricot juice and smaller portions but now the apricot juice is back and the portions are just right.

There are lots of new items on the menu such as the chocolate eclair but there is no space for it here~!

Hopefully one day I will be surprised with this arabic omelette thing, I tried it from some Arabic students, it was plain omelette that is dipped with spices and oil and eaten with pita bread!

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Arabic tea:
I found the tea quite interesting, it is made from lots of herbs and the prominent herb I could taste was Lemon grass.
Sometimes it is strong you can't see through the glass and sometimes it is lighter.

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Minestrone soup:
See above picture with the drink.
It tastes better than the Chinese soups pretending to be minestrone soups, it actually has real pieces of noodles and it has spices in it as well.
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Arabic salad:
This is just plain tomatoes, cucumber and lettuce, but they have spiced it up with secret spices and vinegar.

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Fava Brown bean salad:

This is one of my favourite appetizers, the beans are really nice and the tomato balances out the dryness.
Again it is spiced up by the spices and cumin is one of the spices.
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Mushroom soup:
This tastes like chicken soup with some mushrooms.
The mushrooms are the chinese type.
I found really cute small pieces of mushroom in the soup!

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Green pea salad:
This is a new item on the menu which tastes even better than the Fava bean.
There are fresh mint leaves in it.

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Egg and sweetcorn soup:
I was expecting this soup to be similar to the chinese one, but this was really good.
although it was watery, it had spices, sweetcorn, spring onions [ the green part and the root part] and onions.

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Hummous sandwich:
It was lovely bread with generous hummous and diced mushrooms

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Sliced mutton with cheese and beyani rice:
This was really nice with green peppers, I would have loved more cheese though.

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Beef steak with brown sauce:
This is no longer on the menu however it has been replaced with beef and potatoes which is much nicer.

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Beef Kebab with arabic rice:
This is another good item, it is rolled beef patty mixed with lots of coriander.

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Fried chicken with fries:
This was a thin chicken escalope with yummy fries topped with spices.
Similar to McD's shake shake fries in England with Curry powder.

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Chicken sheesh taook with arabic rice:
Another favourite dish of mine, the chicken is really juicy and tender.

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Pasta in white sauce with cheese:
The prawns were extremely fresh.

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There is a choice of arabic rice or Beryani rice to go with the main dishes.
The Arabic rice is lighter of the two. It is similar to the rice served in asian chicken rice, it is slightly greased with oil, sometimes the chef puts vegetables in it.
The beryani rice is more aromatic but different to the spicy Indian version, however they are both soft and fluffy.
The Arabic version of the beryani rice is not spicy
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Price: $5X
English menu: yes, and they have pictures!
Service: briliant
Yummy factor: Very
MSG levels: none
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