[Review 1312] Tako balls @ Japan Boat 日船章魚小丸子

12/10/2011
日船章魚小丸子
將軍澳坑口重華路8號東港城1樓Food Point K9號舖
Shop K9, Food Point, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/tako-balls-at-japan-boat-e2200140

Haven’t been to this shop since I got since food poisoning from their grilled seafood at the MK branch.Back then, there was not much choice around Dundas Street, I used to eat from there quite often.
Then after Gindaco opened I never went back.

Anyway, I just felt like getting them again.
As I hadn’t been for a while I forgot request not to have the sweet Teriyaki sauce because it is so sweet, but the rest of the sauces were nice such as the egg mayonnaise and Wasabi.

The Jasmine tea that came with it was Ok but too sweet, it was the usual syrup tea concoction.
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Price: $20
Service: OK
Yummy factor: OK
MSG levels: MSG was OK, but they were too sweet
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[Review 1311] XO sauce stir fried noodles @ 原味家作 Original Taste Workshop

12/10/2011
原味家作 Original Taste Workshop
將軍澳重華路8號東港城1樓Food Point K1號舖
Shop K1, Food Point, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/xo-sauce-stir-fried-noodles-e2200132


Felt like trying their stir fried noodles which costs $17 per bowl.
The bowl of noodles looked quite small, but luckily it was small because it didn’t taste that nice.
The colour of it was dark chocolate, there were pieces of julienne black fungus and the noodle was topped with dried scallop.
The smell of dried scallop was strong too, but the XO sauce was not that spicy.
The noodle was hard and dry, the flavouring was too strong and salty.

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Price: $17
Service: OK
Yummy factor: Not that yummy
MSG levels: Not the MSG, but too salty
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[Review 1310] The Best tom yum kung @ 超級食得開心 RA CHA MOO YANG

12/10/2011

超級食得開心 RA CHA MOO YANG
灣仔軒尼詩道87號AB舖
Shop AB, 87 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-best-tom-yum-kung-e2200131

I have never liked Tom Yum Kung or perhaps I have never had an authentic one.
The only impression I got from it was the strong taste of lemon grass.

The Tom Yum Kung here really surprised me again.
In general most of their food is good so I decided to try their Tom Yum Kung as well.
I never knew they had this dish until I read OpenRice.

I had the TKY with vermicelli. They said I had to pick something to go with the noodles so I picked the chicken.
I tried the TKY there twice, once eating there and once to takeaway, it is cheaper for Takeaways but the soup is not concentrated.
The best thing was, the chicken was the freshly sliced chicken that is used in their chicken rice dish.
The vermicelli is the super thin type that absorbs the soup.
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Take away soup version
Takeaway version:The takeaway version of the soup is so light that it is like Miso soup where the particles separate after standing for a while.
The soup was not as creamy as the dine in version, it was more watery. The spicyness was toned down but the sourness was still strong. The tomato taste wasn’t that strong either.

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Eat in Version:The soup was very spicy, but it only stings the throat. It was nice and creamy with a strong tomato taste.
If I had not tried the dine in version, I think I would have just got an average impression from their takeaway version.

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Price: Takeaway $2X Dine In: $3X
Service: OK
Yummy factor: Very
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[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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