[Review 1611] Caesar Parmesan Chicken Tendergrill @ Burger King

21/06/2012
漢堡王 Burger King
尖沙咀金馬倫道5號太興廣場1樓
1/F, Tem Plaza, 5 Cameron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

I like Caesar salad so tried the Caesar Parmesan chicken tendergrill burger which is part of the King's Collection.
Caesar salad is usually romaine lettuce and croutons dressed with parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, egg, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, and black pepper. Others may contain bacon bits such as the caesar salads served at Fat Angelos.
The burger could have been more Caesarized! It was just a panini herb bun, grilled chicken, tomato slices, shaved parmesan, rocket lettuce, caesar sauce and crispy bacon strips.
The whole combination was more like a BLT burger!
I felt that it should have romaine lettuce since it is mimicking Caesar and instead of crispy bacon strips they should have sprinkled bacons bits in the burger.
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Caesar Parmesan chicken tendergrill
The Caesar dressing was too light and tasteless. The most I could taste from it was some sweetness.
As for the parmesan cheese, there were about three pieces which was also barely tasteable!
Overall in the picture it shows the tomato and being the most dominant.
If I have it again I hope there will be more

[Review 1610] Curry hamburger steak vs Product shot @ 自家烏冬 Jika Udon

20/06/2012

自家烏冬 Jika Udon
將軍澳調景嶺彩明街1號彩明商場2樓253號舖
Shop 253, 2/F, Choi Ming Shopping Centre, 1 Choi Ming Street, Tiu Keng Leng, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/curry-hamburger-steak-vs-product-shot-jika-e2241026

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Curry Hamburger steak with rice and curry sauce:
Although the product shot was only for reference, it was interesting that the hamburger was much smaller and there were no carrots in the sauce.
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Udon with sesame sauce with shredded chicken:
This is basically the same as the chinese noodles in sesame sauce with chicken and julienne cucumbers.
The sesame sauce is stronger than the Chinese one to give the udon full flavour, however the sesame taste was not as sickly as the Chinese one because it was slightly sweet and sour.
There were also tempura pieces as a side on the noodles which made it Japanese. The tempura pieces were quite nice because the frying oil was fresh and they were fried just right that they were light and crispy.
As well as chicken there was also a Japanese style hot spring egg Onsen Tamago which is similar to a poached egg however the surface of the egg is smooth!
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[Review 1609] Black sesame & Hokkaido milk panna cotta @ 東海堂 Arome Bakery

19/06/2012
東海堂 Arome Bakery
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心2期UG樓004號舖
Shop 004, UG/F, MCP Central, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/black-sesame-hokkaido-milk-panna-cotta-e2240851

Tried the Black sesame & Hokkaido milk panna cotta because it looked interesting.

However when you get a close look at it, the dark grey cream looks fake and inedible like toy plasticine and clay!

One thing that I learn was never to trust the English on the menu even though this one looked perfectly normal.
Here it is labelled as Black sesame & Hokkaido milk panna cotta which looks perfecly correct judging by the appearance of the dessert.
The black layer and grey cream must be black sesame and the white layer should be panna cotta, but if you ask someone who can read Chinese it turns out it contains bamboo charcoal as well.

I found out when I showed the fridge picture to someone.

Bamboo charcoal may be not every ones cup of tea whilst black sesame is commonly known.
When I first tried food with bamboo charcoal I was quite hesitant about it as well.
Anyway now that I know it had bamboo charcoal, the weird texture that I thought was the black sesame must have been the bamboo charcoal.
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Charcoal cream:
Initially I thought it was cream made with sesame because of the colour. However the texture was like cream mixed with super fine sand and makes a noise in your mouth.
It was not sesame because grounded sesame is similar to finely ground wheat shells so it was the charcoal.
I did not finish all the cream because it was the typical fake hydrogenated cream.
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Panna cotta:
This was lovely and milky, the sweetness was just right. The texture was like a light jelly.
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Sesame pudding:
The pudding had an extremely strong black sesame taste, similar to the black sesame filling found in sweet dumplings but much thicker and sweeter.
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[Review 1608] Fish shao mai @ 吉番串小食

18/06/2012
吉番串 
將軍澳寶寧路富寧花園商場3號舖
Shop 3, Fu Ning Garden Commercial Complex, Po Ning Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fish-shao-mai-%E5%90%89%E7%95%AA%E4%B8%B2%E5%B0%8F%E9%A3%9F-e2240632

Saw this neat looking joint owned by a couple and their son so decided to go in for some snacks.
I chose the fish shao mai and they came in a cute plastic dish.
The soy sauce matched the shao mai.
Although it is a small joint there are lots of snacks inside.

[Review 1607] Instant noodles with bay leaves @ 香格格酸辣米線

15/06/2012

香格格酸辣米線
將軍澳常寧路2號TKO Gateway東翼1樓E169-E170號舖
Shop 169-170, 1/F, East Wing, TKO Gateway, 2 Sheung Ning Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/instant-noodles-with-bay-leaves-%E9%A6%99%E6%A0%BC%E6%A0%BC%E9%85%B8%E8%BE%A3%E7%B1%B3%E7%B7%9A-e2240187

Went here again for instant noodles and pork knuckles.
The noodles tasted better this time and there were no beanshoots.
The soup also had bay leaves and aniseed so it tasted strong of that.
The pork knuckles still had some hair on them and some of the bones were good because there was some marrow inside.

[Review 1606] Spicy Herbs Scone & Muesli Lemon Aloe Jelly YogCup @ 星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee

15/06/2012

星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee
西貢親民街18-32號A2舖
Shop A2, G/F, 18-32 Chan Man Street, Sai Kung
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/spicy-herbs-scone-muesli-lemon-aloe-jelly-yogcup-e2240057

After trying the new drinks I saw some other snacks I wanted to get. So I went to Starbucks again to get the Petites Cup and the Muesli with Lemon Aloe Jelly Yogurt Cup.

The Petites Cup is a cup of bitesize snacks, $22 for five pieces. There are five flavours which can be mixed and matched.


The five flavours are (NEW) Spicy Herbs Scone, (NEW) Almond Finger, Double Chocolate Cookie, Chocolate Chips Cookie and Cheese Puff.

On my first visit at the WanChai branch I asked for three pieces of the new spicy herb scone and two pieces of the Cheese Puff, however they gave the Almond Finger instead .
So I went to the Sai Kung branch and just got the cheese puffs and the Lemon Aloe Jelly Yogurt Cup.
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Petits Cup

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Spicy Herbs Scone:


It does not look spicy but the taste was really strong, there is an aftertaste as well.
Bascially I could taste heavy grounded black pepper and pesto.
The scone itself was really dry and hard.
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Almond Finger:

I didn't intend to try this because they gave me this instead of the cheese puffs I ordered.
Initially I thought it was weird there was almond on top but after I checked online it appears they've given me the almond finger.
The Almond finger was really sweet and too buttery for my liking. It was quite greasy as well.
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Cheese puffs:

These are savory cheese flavoured profiteroles but I found them tasteless. The cheese could not be tasted at all.
It was just buttery. However inside the puff you can see some slight cheese.
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Muesli with Lemon Aloe Jelly Yogurt Cup
Tried mixing the elements together which tasted nice and also tried the elements individually.
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Muesli
This is the ordinary breakfast muesli with raisins, oats and cornflakes which was quite sweet on its own because of the raisins.
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Yogurt
After trying the muesli I tried the yogurt which was natural yogurt and it was quite sweet because the muesli was sweet so the yogurt is normally meant to taste sour after you've had sweet things but it wasn't, so the yogurt was obviously quite sweet.
However it was quite refreshing because there was pieces of aloe in it.
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Lemon Jelly


This was really refreshing and I wish there was slightly more jelly in the cup.
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[Review 1605] Boston lobster set @ 意粉屋 The Spaghetti House

14/06/2012

意粉屋 The Spaghetti House
灣仔軒尼詩道314號W Square1樓
1/F, W Square, 314 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/boston-lobster-set-spaghetti-house-e2240007

Decided to get the lobster set for two which costs $348 with 10% service charge.
The set includes: Loster bisque, Linguine with whole Boston lobster in Sicilian pomodoro sauce, Porcini and seafood risotto with Coffee or Tea.

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Loster bisque

The soup was too salty and it just tasted like their usual seafood soups with lobster meat added into it.
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Linguine with whole Boston lobster in sicilian pomodoro sauce

There was not much lobster meat in the lobster and the lobster did not taste fresh.
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Porcini and seafood risotto

The risotto was too sickly and it contained too much milk. The fish they used for the risotto was the frozen type and the porcini mushrooms were tasteless.
The risotto rice was too soft and mushy.
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Coffee

Hong Kong style coffee!
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