[Review 1847] Piping hot egg tart with silky smooth filling @ 惠籮餅店 Violet Cake Shop

08/10/2012
惠籮餅店 Violet Cake Shop
天后電氣道94A號
94A Electric Road, Tin Hau
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/piping-hot-egg-tart-with-silky-smooth-filling-e2262397
Located on the corner of Electric Road, it is hard to miss.
The difference from this bakery is that you see the cakes from outside and order from the counter.
The egg tarts looked quite nice from the outside so I decided to get one.
However I could not see the prices.
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Shop photos:

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Egg tart:
When they remove the egg tart from the metal casing they will use a piece of bread to act as a surface to knock it out.
Then they will put the egg tart in a cake casing and put it in a small carrier bag and pass it to you after you have paid, however if you are still fumbling with the coins they will hang the bag on the window.
When I got the egg tart it was really hot, the pastry base was shortcrust and luckily it was not that buttery.
As for the sweetness of the overall egg tart it was just right. The custard filling was quite runny just like the Chinese smooth steamed egg.

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[Review 1846] Pickled salted vegetables and pork stomach soup! @ 鹵八鵝店 Lo Pak Restaurant

07/10/2012
鹵八鵝店  Lo Pak Restaurant
灣仔春園街20號富國大廈地下C舖
Shop C, 20 Spring Garden Lane, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pickled-salted-vegetables-and-pork-stomach-soup-e2262050

Pickled salted vegetables and pork stomach soup!
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Goose:

The goose this time was OK, the given pieces were not too bony.
The meat was moist and their secret sauce enhanced the goose and rice.
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Pickled salted vegetables and pork stomach soup:

I have not tried pork stomach soup with pickled vegetable so tried it, it was not as salty as I thought it would be, but pickled vegetables taste better than white pepper.
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[Review 1845] Cornmeal crusted catfish @ Blue Smoke Bar-B-Que

07/10/2012
Blue Smoke Bar-B-Que (已結業)
中環蘭桂坊15-16號協興大廈3樓
3/F, Grand Progress Building, 15-16 Lan Kwai Fong, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cornmeal-crusted-catfish-blue-smoke-bar-b-que-e2262041

Previously dined here before and their semi-buffet lunch was good, so this time went again.

Although the buffet was not as good as before, the mains were still OK.
The buffet choice was quite limited and there was no soup or fried chicken which was available before.

Even the dessert buffet selection was limited.

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Catfish sandwich:
I have always wanted to try the catfish so I ordered that.
The catfish was coated in cornmeal and came with freshly made crisps.
The coating was really interesting, the cornmeal was extremely fine, and it had an extra crispy texture.
The coating was light because the cornmeal was ultrafine like semolina.


The fish was nice and succulent and tender but the coating was slightly too salty.
As for the crisps, they were slightly hard but since they were freshly done they were quite nice.

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Chili beef:
As always the chili beef is packed with so many spices and my favourite kidney beans.

It also came with coloured nachos which all tasted the same and it was available in the buffet selection as well.

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[Review 1844]Thick cut fries served from now on!!!! @ 漢堡王 Burger King

06/10/2012
漢堡王 Burger King
將軍澳南豐廣場1樓R1A號舖
Shop R1A, 1/F, Nan Fung Plaza , Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/thick-cut-fries-served-from-now-on-bk-e2261941



Walked past and noticed that they were serving thick cut fries.
When I went in I realised these thick cut fries have replaced the thin cut fries served before.

It is quite interesting for a well established fast food chain to change their fries, I wonder if it is a global change as well.

Anyway I decided to try them.

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Thick cut fries:
Although they are marketed as thick cut, they were not that thick, they were about 7-9 mm in diameter.
The thin fries before were probably around 6-7 mm in diameter.
Since they were slightly thicker than the fries before, it made the fries more substantial, the inside was soft with a slight crispy exterior.

As they were thicker, not much salt remained on the surface of the fries so they were not that salty and I felt that more ketchup was needed to makeup for the taste.
The fries before were tastier but these are also good too because they have a lovely soft center.

Perhap they need an extra pinch of salt.
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DUNK IT IN, DROP IT IN:

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Restaurant pictures:

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[Review 1843] Macaroni sets and Chinese roast @ 風味園 Fung Mei Yuen

風味園
旺角通菜街113-115號地舖
G/F, 113-115 Tung Choi Street, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/macaroni-sets-and-chinese-roast-%E9%A2%A8%E5%91%B3%E5%9C%92-e2261930

The price of the food here is reasonable so came here and ordered the macaroni set and roast.

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Crispy roast pork belly and chicken:


The roast was quite nice and not too salty so I could dip lots of the ginger and spring onion oil.
The roast pork belly was nice and crisp and the chicken was quite good because it was tender.
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Satay beef with macaroni:

I really liked this because the broth was really strong and the beef slices they gave was quite generous.
The macaroni was slightly mushy.
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Toast with margarine:



Usually I like toasts with butter but they gave margarine and not butter.
The fried egg was slightly tasteless.
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[Review 1842]Pork and vegetable dumplings @ 上海真美豆漿大王

06/10/2012
上海真美豆漿大王 (將軍澳)
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心3期地下G22號舖
Shop G22, G/F, MCP Discovery, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pork-and-vegetable-dumplings-%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E7%9C%9F%E7%BE%8E%E8%B1%86%E6%BC%BF%E5%A4%A7%E7%8E%8B-e2261929

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Pork and vegetable dumplings:

Tried the pork and vegetable dumplings which were slightly dissappointing.
The dumpling had been boiled for too long that the dumpling skin was too soft and tore easily.
I did not like the filling because the pork had bits of bone in it.
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[Review 1841] Glistening golden birds nest for desserts @ 天毅金燕窩莊

06/10/2012
天毅金燕窩莊
天后電氣道35號地舖
G/F, 35 Electric Road, Tin Hau
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/glistening-golden-birds-nest-for-desserts-e2261928

Apart from desserts with the delicacy Birds Nest, this place also sells jars of Birds Nest.

I ordered the clear jelly with melon and birds nest, however she said there was no melon so I had to choose another fruit/item.

The other choices were watermelon, lychee, rambutan, papaya, purple rice, and mango.
As I didnt like the other choices I chose Rambutan.
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Clear jelly, rambutan with golden birds nest:

When it came, the birds nest was golden and glistening, there was coconut milk poured on the jelly and rambutan.
Comparing it to other reviews, the birds nest seem to have been served separately before but when I went it was put on the top.
Overall, I liked the jelly with the coconut milk and the birds nest, but I did not like the rambutan because it came from the canned and it was really sweet.
It was good that they did not use grass jelly because it would not look as good visually as the clear jelly and the taste of the grass jelly is much stronger.
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