[Review 1693] Sesame Sundae @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

08/08/2012
麥當勞 McDonald's
金鐘海富中心地下1-41號舖
Shop 1-41, Admiralty Centre,, Admiralty
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sesame-sundae-mcdonalds-e2250382

I am not a fan of black sesame but tried it anyway.
The ice-cream itself was surprisingly sweeter than the sesame sauce.
I really liked the texture of the black sesame sauce, it was really thick and had lots of grounded sesame in it.
If the ice-cream was not that sweet then it would have been perfect.

[Review 1692] Mint chocolate snowy mooncake 2012 @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

06/08/2012
聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop
西貢親民街18/32號錦華大廈地下D舖及閣樓
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mint-chocolate-snowy-mooncake-2012-sh-e2249903

When I saw the poster for Saint Honore's 2012 mooncakes there were two flavours I really wanted to get.
It was the crispy apple and the mint chocolate.
The crispy apple is not sold individually at HKD26 each so you have to get the variety pack which includes it.
But for the mint chocolate it is available individually.
Again it contains bean paste which I don't like and another surprisingly ingredient I found was orange juice.

When I opened it, I was surprised the flavour of the mooncake was stamped on the surface.
After cutting it in half, the colour was the usual mint colour and there were substantial pieces of chocolate in it.

I was hoping the mint chocolate taste to be strong so I wouldn't taste much of the bean paste.
The chocolate pieces in it were really nice so I did not taste much of the bean paste.
The mint flavouring was natrual too, it tastes like Wall's mint chocolate ice-cream.

Either this is a popular pick or it is not sold everywhere because I went to three branches and could not find it, then finally I found it sold in Sai Kung where I was least expecting to find it.

[Review 1691] Farmhouse potato salad @ Marks & Spencer 食品專門店 Marks & Spencer Food Store

04/08/2012
Marks & Spencer 食品專門店 Marks & Spencer Food Store
灣仔告士打道88號其昌大廈地下B舖
Shop B, G/F, China Underwriters Centre, 88 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/farmhouse-potato-salad-marks-spencer-e2249664

Felt like eating something light so grabbed the potato salad.
This was the first product of Marks and Spencers I did not like.
I was expecting the potatoes to be soft boiled with lots of chives, but the potatoes were hard in the middle.
The bacon was really fatty and made the salad oily because it was chilled making the sauce much heavier than it was intended to.

[Review 1690] Chinese BBQ roast pork @ 大快活 Fairwood

04/08/2012
大快活 Fairwood
將軍澳坑口連理街1樓11 號舖
Shop 111, 1/F, The Lane, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O\
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/chinese-bbq-roast-pork-fairwood-e2249654

The roast pork was too dry, but I was surprised to find some charred parts on the roast pork which means it was roasted in fire.
The roast pork that was given was a really lean section hence it was really dry and fibrous.
The broccoli was not blanched long enough and it was too hard.

[Review 1689]Creamy ranch dressing @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

04/08/2012
麥當勞 McDonald's
將軍澳唐德街9號將軍澳中心G37號舖
唐德街9號將軍澳中心G37號舖, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/creamy-ranch-dressing-mcdonalds-e2249652

While on my way to McD's I was surprised to see as well as the usual posters at McDonalds they had another poster nearby.
Anyway the poster was quite nice as the theme was black matching the black hello kitty and the black sesame sauce.
The lid of the sauce was grey also matching the black theme.
The sauce was really nice, however I expected it to be thicker but it was slightly too runny compared to the real ranch sauce.
I felt that the sour cream taste could have been stronger because it was not sour enough.

[Review 1688] Steamed cake @ 潮人飯堂 T.Pot Bristol

03/08/2012
潮人飯堂 T-Pot Bistro
將軍澳坑口重華路8號東港城1樓188號舖
Shop 188, 1/F, East Point City, 8 Chong Wa Road, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/steamed-cake-%E6%BD%AE%E4%BA%BA%E9%A3%AF%E5%A0%82-t-pot-bristol-e2249610

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Deep fried vegetables coated in salted egg yolk and batter
Usually they coat prawns in salted egg yolk but here they have used aubergines and pumpkins.
In terms of cholesterol it is not as high as the prawn version because vegetables are used instead of prawns but it was very oily and greasy from the frying.
The aubergines and pumpkins had shrunk inside when it was fried, so it was mainly batter and some slight powdery egg yolk.
Overall I did not like it because it was just eating fried oily batter with some powdery egg yolk.
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Steamed cake

Surprisingly this was quite nice, it was not very Chinese which was good, it had sliced almonds on the top and strong cinnamon in the cake mixture.
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[Review 1687] Weirdest accidental molecular gastronomy prawns @ 新明發食家 Sun Ming Fat Restaurant

03/08/2012
新明發食家 Sun Ming Fat Restaurant
荃灣川龍街68號地下
G/F, 68 Chuen Lung Street, Tsuen Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/weirdest-accidental-molecular-gastronomy-prawns-e2249607

Ordered the prawn dumplings which looked like prawn dumplings however when I ate them, the skin was so mushy and floury.
Next the prawn filling inside, it had no prawn taste and it tasted like prawn filling made of flour dough and steamed flour!
I think this place must have invented some recipe for turning flour to pretend to be prawn, hence accidental molecular gastronomy!!