[Review 2665] Minami Aoyama, you've got my vote @ 南青山 Minami Aoyama

20/07/2013
南青山 Minami Aoyama
九龍灣宏照道38號MegaBox 9樓 Ramen Champion23號舖
Shop 23, 9/F., Ramen Champion, MegaBox, 38 Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/minami-aoyama-youve-got-my-vote-e2308939

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Shop: Minami Aoyama


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Menu:

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Tonkotsu special ramen:



Personally this was my favourite bowl of Ramen because they were my favourite thin white noodles, and the broth was light and delicious with a creamy pork and chicken taste.
I liked everything that was topped on top of the noodles from the pickled red ginger to the pickled vegetables.
The sliced pork was great too, it was lean, tender and fresh.
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Gyoza:


The gyozas were quite soft and there was a good proportion of cabbage in it compared to the pork, but the ginger taste was quite strong.
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This was a complimentary tasting thanks to MegaBox promotions, we tried all six joints that day. As well as the tasting, it was so generous of them to give us coupons for IKEA, GigaSports and a cute Winnie the Pooh notebook.

[Review 2664] Preserved eggs specialist shop in Central @ 李煥糖心皮蛋

19/07/2013
李煥糖心皮蛋
上環永樂街118號昌生商業大廈地下B舖
Shop B, G/F, Cheong Sun Tower, 118 Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/preserved-eggs-specialist-shop-in-central-e2308913

Thanks to Connie for getting me these preserved eggs from Central.
I like preserved eggs and I wanted to get my fellow foodies some Preserved quail eggs but that shop is too far away!

I had my preserved eggs plain.
After removing the shell, this was what it looked like.

The egg white part was like coffee coloured jelly and it tasted quite interesting, it was similar to hard jelly with an alkaline taste.

Next I tried the egg yolk and the centre was slightly runny as claimed.
These preserved eggs were delicious, and they tasted great when I put them in congee that I bought from a congee shop.

[Review 2663] Delighted with dim sum at Kung Fu @ 功夫點心 Kung Fu Dim Sum

功夫點心  Kung Fu Dim Sum
尖沙咀廣東道33號中港城2座平台4號舖
Shop 4, Promenade Level of Tower 2, China Hong Kong City, 33 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/delighted-with-dim-sum-at-kung-fu-e2308900

To be honest I did not have a good impression of Kung Fu dim sum because the food at the North Point branch was not that good, but this visit changed my opinion and there are more choices at the TST branch.

Heres what we tried:

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Scallop and shrimp dumpling

In these dumplings I liked the crunch in it, because it contained Chinese celery which has a strong grassy taste to balance the scallop and shrimp.
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Prawn dumpling

The good thing about these prawn dumplings is that you order by the number of dumplings you want and they do not come in the standard portion of fours.
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Stewed conch with yam and chicken leg:
Before the pots of soup came, they gave out cups which I thought were tea cups.

The soup comes in a pot that looks like a tea pot.

Inside the pot, it was loaded with ingredients used for the soup.

We tried two soups, this was my favourite because the ginseng one did not taste strong enough.
The stewed conch soup was definately delicious, it was oil free and clear that you could taste the conch and chicken strongly.

There were so much ingredients in the pot.

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Crispy sticky rice with chicken:


The crispy sticky rice was creative, it reminded me of riceburgers.
Here they use fresh chicken in the middle so it was nice.
It tastes like pan fried wrapped glutinous rice with chicken and the crispy rice give its more depth.
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Chicken and sliced abalone with red rice in lotus leaf:

This was my favourite! I will be back for this!!
It contains red rice which is healthy and the texture of the rice is not too coarse or dry.
Each grain of rice was deliciously flavoured with abalone.
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Chicken feet in abalone sauce

This was another favourite of mine, I will be back for this again.
They were soft gelatinous chicken feet in delicious abalone sauce.
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Rice rolls:
There were two rice rolls we tried, beef and enoki mushrooms and BBQ.

Both of them were wrapped in delicately thin rice roll sheets which were silky and smooth.
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Sweet egg twist with honey

The great thing about these egg twists was that the honey was served separately and the egg twists did not have any oily odour.
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Prawn spring rolls:
They were like thin long straws which were crispy with delicious prawn inside.
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Malay sponge cake:
Usually I avoid this but here it was soft, fluffy and the sweetness was just right.
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I will be back soon for the rice wrapped in lotus leaves, soup and the abalone sauce chicken feet!

[Review 2662] Another option for Thai noodles @ 泰皇泰式車仔麵 Sawadika Thai Cart Noodles

17/07/2013
泰皇泰式車仔麵 Sawadika Thai Cart Noodles
此店已改名為紫蘭花
灣仔謝斐道151號F1舖
Shop F1, 151 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/another-option-for-thai-noodles-e2308464

I only noticed this new shop because I was going to Marks and Spencers for something.
It reminded me of this Thai Joint on Anton Road, that shop has been rebranded but owned by the same owner as this place.
Basically they serve the same noodles as that branch.
On this visit I was a bit confused because the broth in Chinese saids "Duck blood soup" and the English is "Duck Soup" which are quite different.
The soup is in a separate bag so the noodles do not go soft.

Anyway, when I got my noodles, it was basically Duck soup and not Duck Blood soup, so if you were expecting Duck blood soup it would have been disappointing.

The noodles tasted nice, and there were lots of vegetables in the noodles (not shown in this picture) but the Chinese radish was a little salty.

[Review 2661] Get off the Ding Ding and get your Bing @ 老金煎餅 Mr. Bing

17/07/2013
老金煎餅 Mr. Bing
灣仔莊士敦道113號修頓中心6C舖
Shop 6C, Southorn Centre, 113 Johnston Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/get-off-the-ding-ding-and-get-your-bing-e2308401

Mr. Bing serves delicious Beijing style crepes.
The first time I tried them was at Central.

Now they have opened a second branch in Wan Chai right next to the Sugar cane beverage shop.

Since my last visit, there are three new flavours: Shanghai Bing, Green Bing and Kimchi Bing.
Shanghai Bing is bascially the Original with dough stick, pork floss and pickled radish.
Green Bing is basically the Original with lettuce and cucumber.
Kimchi Bing is basically the Original with Kimchi.


It is newly opened hence the operations are not that smooth.

At the Central branch you just pay and wait for the Bings, but at this branch, after you have paid, you have to pass the receipt to one of the crepe makers hence causing some chaos because there are also some people milling about in that area.

The Bing sets were slightly confusing because when I ordered, they asked me what size I wanted for the Bing, but one of the guys promoting said it was the standard size for sets.

The next day, things have improved, there is a line for people to queue.
Tried the Green Bing and I loved it because it was green obviously because of the lettuce.
I loved the taste of the beancurd sauce and cilantro with the lettuce and crepe.

Mr Brian Golderg founder of Mr Bing:

[Review 2660] A juicy summer quencher @ 鴻福堂 Hung Fook Tong

17/07/2013
鴻福堂  Hung Fook Tong
沙咀港鐵九龍站71號舖
Shop 71, Kowloon MTR Station, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-juicy-summer-quencher-e2308367

I don't often buy drinks from Hung Fook Tong because they taste syrupy and sweet but when I found out there was a new drink with guava and grapefruit, I decided to try it.
As well as guava and grapefruit, they had other nice flavours such as passionfruit and grapefruit, pineapple and white bittermelon all at HKD25 per bottle.
The range this year was much better.
They only had strawberry and hawthorn last year which was too sweet.
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Citrus drink with passionfruit:

This drink was a mix of Passion fruit juice, orange juice, pomelo and interestingly it also had water chestnut flour.
The combination of passion fruit and orange was really refreshing but the orange juice was not strong.
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Citrus with guava:


The colour of this was a pretty pink.
It was a mix of grapefruit and pink guava.
It could have tasted better because the tastes did not blend, it seemed like guava juice with pieces of grapefruit meat put in it and not guava juice blended with grapefruit.
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Pineapple with white bittermelon:


The idea of this was good but the tastes of the pineapple and white bitter melon were not blended together.
They were like two separate identities, you could only taste the white bitter melon when you happened to chew on the bitter melon pieces and the drink itself just tasted of pineapple and did not have any bitter melon taste.
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[Review 2659] Pomegranite & Red Berries iced tea @ 漢堡王 Burger King

17/07/2013
漢堡王 Burger King
將軍澳唐俊街9號君薈坊1樓F02號舖
Shop F02, Level 1, The Edge, 9 Tong Chun Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pomegranite-red-berries-iced-tea-e2308337

Went to Burger King to try out their new Fruity iced tea series.
In the range, there are Passion fruit and Mango, and Pomegranate & Red Berries.
I was here to try the pomegranate one.

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Pomegranate & Red Berries iced tea hKD12:


I was tempted to ask them for less syrup when they made the drink but then I decided not to bother because sometimes the drinks are pre-mixed.

Luckily when it came, they gave me the syrup separately.
I did not have to use the syrup because it was slighty sweet as they made the drink with concentrated berry cordial.
There were also strawberry seeds at the bottom.
The taste was quite nice, it had a nice berry tart taste, but it also tasted like Roselle tea.
The only disappointment was that the pomegranate and berry over powered the tea taste.
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