[Review 3407] Bombard your dad with this cake bomb!~! @ 美心西餅 Maxim's Cake Shop

03/04/2014
美心西餅  Maxim's Cake Shop
中環港鐵香港站HOK 29號舖
Shop HOK 29, Hong Kong MTR Station, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/bombard-your-dad-with-this-cake-bomb-e2367431

Maxim's have come up with this really fun cake for Father's day!!
A cake shaped like a BOMB!!!!!
The gimmick sounds cheesy but he's your BEST POP.
It's no ordinary cake because you have to diffuse it as instructed on the flyer.
The cake has several layers, chocolate mousse, French almond popping candy paste, chocolate cake, strawberries covered in thick chocolate cream.

How to diffuse the bomb!!
1) Slice it through the centre horizontally.
2) Slice the upper half of the cake into required portions and feel the blast when you remove the fuse!
3) Use a spoon to indulge the bottom half of the rich chocolate cake.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Upper half of the cake:
Feel the fizz when you eat the cake with popping candy.
I found it rather rich but the popping candy helped to balance that.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Bottom half of the cake:

I liked the bottom half of the cake because there was quite a fair bit of chocolate cake and lots of strawberries.
However the chocolate mousse was a bit too heavy especially when there was a solid chocolate bottom casing.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

[Review 3406] Spicy beef burger : McDonald 2014 @

31/05/2014
麥當勞  McDonald's
上環干諾道中168-200號信德中心2樓267號舖
Shop 267, 2/F, Shun Tak Centre, 168-200 Connaught Road Central, Sheung Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/spicy-beef-burger-mcdonald-2014-e2366970

McDonald's have launched the Spicy beef burger for the FIFA world cup season.
It has four slices of thin square beef patties in the middle with Malagueta chili sauce.
The burger box is really interestingly contradictory because it is printed with the words "Fancy some Spanish" but the funny thing is that Malagueta is a Brazilian chili so shouldn't it be Fancy some Brazilian?
The taste was a bit too spicy but it was delicious because it tastes like chili con carne and the beef patty itself is spicy too.
The thin square patties that you get in the burger.

[Review 3405] CrappyExtremelyOverpriced Neway @ CEO Neway

31/05/2014
CEO Neway
灣仔軒尼詩道288號英皇集團中心3-4樓
3/F-4/F, Emperor Group Centre, 288 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/crappyextremelyoverpriced-neway-e2366966

Saw an ad for this branch so decided to go there instead of CEO on Sugar Street.
It was really expensive for its location and the food was rubbish.
The food at the Sugar Street branch is much better because the food here was exactly what you get at the normal Neway branches in Kowloon.
You get compulsory prawn crackers and fruit.
They did have macarons at the buffet but they were a bit soft.
The only thing I liked were the icecream lollies because I have not tried them before.
The Dairy milk chocolate lolly was similar to UK's mini milk and it tasted surprisingly nice just like frozen chocolate.

As for the foot shaped lolly, it had a strong vanilla taste with chocolate icecream in the middle.
I was glad this was in the dessert section because I would not buy it if there were other ice lollies to choose from.
The chocolate and nut side was quite cute because it reminds you of flip flop soles.

The bill was about $3xx per person which was a bit pricey when the food was not as good at the Sugar branch.
The song selection could be better, but it could be issues with music companies or people don't listen to music these days.
Some songs which came out ages ago have just been added to their new karaoke song section!!

The rate of new songs released by singers are slow and singers holding concerts have become scarce that concerts are beginning to hold joint concerts with several singers so that people will go and see it.

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HONG KONG'S CANTOPOP INDUSTRY!!!???!!

[Review 3404] Foie gras cooking lesson @ Oceanthree Development Limited

30/05/2014
Oceanthree Development Limited
鰂魚涌華蘭路20號華蘭中心9樓905室
Shop 905, 9/F., Westlands Centre, 20 Westlands Road, Quarry Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/foie-gras-cooking-lesson-e2366903

Oceanthree Development Limited specializes in frozen luxuries such as Foie Gras, Crabs, Seafood and other gourmet foods.

They also sell a wide range of prized salts and other items.
Attended a cooking class by Cedric Touchard.
He demonstrated three different ways of serving foie gras.

1. Panfried foie gras with shiitake mushrooms and fresh spinach.
2. Pomelo salad with foie gras.
3. sliced foie gras, fried mango, lime, coconuts and piment d'espelette.
After watching the demonstration, I realilzed Foie gras was really simple to pan fry.
It tastes good on its own so if your lazy you can simply not bother with the recipe and have it with a dash of salt or a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.

Out of the three recipes, I liked recipe number 3 because it was refreshing served with balsamic vinegar or even jam.

Thanks to Oceanthree for the goodies especially my favourite Maldon salt which has an amazing pyramid structure.

[Review 3403] Cool down with pure pistachio gelato @ 2/3 Dolci

30/05/2014
2/3 Dolci
銅鑼灣恩平道28號利園二期1樓124號舖
Shop 124, 1/F, Lee Garden Two, 28 Yun Ping Road, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cool-down-with-pure-pistachio-gelato-e2366822

On my last visit to Causeway Bay I was choosing between two places to have icecream and I made the wrong decision not to have Dolci because the other one was disappointing.
Anyway, came back on a scorching day for my favourite Pistachio gelato and got two delicious toppings with it.
I chose my favourite mini macarons again and cake bits.

The gelato itself is really nice and does not need these toppings but the mini macarons are just irresistible!!!!!
The gelato was smooth and thick with a gorgeous sticky texture to it just like Turkish icecream with no weird aftertaste.
The pistachio taste was natrual and the sweetness was just right.
I will be back for more gelato at the Central branch because there are 14 flavours there including the new pear flavour!!!
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Price: $4X
Service: OK
Yummy factor: great
Sweetness levels: just right
MSG levels: None
Napkins provided: