[Review 4862] McDonald’s Hokkaido salmno burger @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

09/12/2015
麥當勞 McDonald's
鑽石山龍蟠街3號荷里活廣場2樓216號舖
Shop 216, 2/F, Hollywood Plaza, 3 Lung Poon Street, Diamond Hill
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mcdonalds-hokkaido-salmno-burger-e2520580

Hong Kong’s McDonald’s has followed the steps of Taiwan and Thailand by launching the Hokkaido Salmon burger.
Taiwan launched the salmon burger in 2014 while Thailand launched it earlier last month.
The difference is that Taiwan used dill sauce and Thailand uses spicy mentaiko sauce, which is slightly spicy, and Hong Kong’s McDonalds are now serving the Thailand version.

To be honest I think dill sauce would be better as dill is normally paired with fish and this other blogger says so because he has tried both.

Anyway, I was lucky there wasn’t much sauce because I prefer Dill sauce to spicy mentaiko sauce anyday!
The salmon patty was coated in golden breadcrumbs and the texture of the salmon was flakey but not dry.
It was a nice burger but on the small side.

Although the sauce wasn’t good the onions made up for it because there was a nice raw onion spicy kick to it.

It is just as good as the salmon burger at MOS but the salmon texture is different, at MOS version is like slow cooked salmon and at McDonalds the texture is like a fried fish filet.

Salmon burger at MOS:
http://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/review/tseung-kwan-o-mos-burger/2297951

[Review 4861] Black pudding and pork sausage rolls @ Marks & Spencer

09/12/2015
Marks & Spencer 食品專門店 (已結業)
Marks & Spencer Food Store
中環港鐵中環站CEN K6舖
Shop CEN K6, MTR Central Station, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/black-pudding-and-pork-sausage-rolls-e2520579

Another branch of Marks and Spencers!!
I think this is the best sausage roll ever invented because it has my favourite black pudding in it.
The black onion seeds on top which look like black sesame were really powerful because they had a very fragrant cumin like taste that is slightly spicy.

The sausage roll has a much richer and velvety taste and texture.
Luckily, these rolls are ready to eat hot or cold so anyone who does not have an oven can eat this.

[Review 4860] Pandan delights in Central! @ Soya

09/12/2015
Soya
中環機利文新街4號地舖
G/F, 4 Gilman's Bazaar, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pandan-delights-in-central-e2520578

Recently I saw this new shop listed in Central called Soya selling Singaporean tofu desserts so I decided to go and try it.

At Soya, there is seating so you can dine there comfortably.
The choices are slightly different and they have milk teas flavoured with pandan such as Pandan Taro milk tea and Pandan matcha with red beans.
They have rum tofu pudding and Baileys tofu pudding, which is liquor poured on top of the dessert.
I had the Pandan Taro milk, which came in a sturdy big plastic cup.
It was interesting because it had a fragrant mix of pandan and taro but the tea taste was prominent as well.

For desserts I tried the almond pudding and the original.
The almond one was really nice with a really strong almond taste while the original had a very strong soy bean taste as well as creaminess.

[Review 4859] Great food again @ 四姐川菜 Sijie Sichuan Restaurant

09/12/2015
四姐川菜  Sijie Sichuan Restaurant
銅鑼灣耀華街3號百樂中心10樓
10/F, Bartlock Centre, 3 Yiu Wa Street, Causeway Bay
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/great-food-again-e2520577

Great food again
2015-12-09  1912 瀏覽
Sijie is a new restaurant in CWB but not new because they used to have a restaurant in Wan Chai.

They open at 6:30pm but customers were already there at 6pm and the tables were fully booked.

I liked the menu there because it works out to $300 per person and you get to choose two appetizers and 3-4 main dishes and when there is more people you can choose more and they adjust the portions and it still costs $300 per head.



Here was what I had:

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Sichuan cold noodles:

Came here for this and it did not disappoint, each strand was tossed in this fragrant Sichuan sauce that was not too spicy.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

The Poached Fish in Chongxing style looks spicy but the chilis are deceiving, in fact you can choose the level of spiciness,

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

The Chongxing-style steamed chicken with chili sauce had lots of flavours going on, there were spiciness from the chili and the grassiness from the Chinese celery.

It would be great if it wasn’t so bony.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

The pickled vegetable soup with glass vermicelli was too spicy for my tastebuds and Sichuan glass vermicelli is slightly different because it is thicker and chewier and barely opaque.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

The sweet and sour pork tenderloins were good but the pork was a bit too fatty and stringy with tendons attached to it.

The set menu also came with a dish of sauteed vegetables and rice.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

I would be back more often if the elevator queue wasn’t so long.

[Review 4858] Huge macarons for only MOP20 @ 大堂酒廊 Lobby Lounge

08/12/2015
大堂酒廊  Lobby Lounge
路氹城連貫公路新濠天地澳門君悅酒店大堂
Lobby, Grand Hyatt Macau, City of Dreams, Estrada do Istmo, Cotai,
https://www.openrice.com/zh/macau/review/huge-macarons-for-only-mop20-e2520389

At the entrance of the Hotel, there is a Christmas Boutique that has gift ideas and sweet treats.

They had macarons, which were huge but inexpensive for MOP20 that you can also get at the Lobby Lounge.

My favourite was the green macaron, which is tea flavoured, filled with a delicious chewy cherry in the middle that was a surprise because I thought it was just brown ganache in the middle.

The strawberry rose was also similar with a piece of strawberry in the strawberry rose filling.

The blue one was chocolate and coffee, which was dusted with poppy seeds that guys will like because it is not that sweet.

[Review 4857] Yum ChA! @ 翠園 Jade Garden

08/12/2015
翠園  Jade Garden
將軍澳唐賢街9號PopCorn商場2樓1-2號舖
Shop 1-2, 2/F, PopCorn, 9 Tong Yin Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/yum-cha-e2520386

Not keen on Cantonese dimsum because the standard around is rubbish but I was impressed with the cups here as they have handles but you still need to rinse the bowls as you assume they are dirty!

The first plate of roast pork was good, it was juicy tender roast pork on top of a bed of sweet soybeans.
Ordered a second plate because it was good but it was worse than the first plate because the cut wasn’t as good as the first and there were only 10 sweet soybeans in it.
The chicken was a surprise because I was not expecting it to come with sweet soybeans but there was a reasonable amount there.

The thing with taro wrapped around it was delicated just like all dimsums. They break when you pick them up!

[Review 4856] The birthday cake @ 美心西餅 Maxim's Cake Shop

08/12/2015
美心西餅 Maxim's Cake Shop
中環德輔道中20號德成大廈地下3號舖
Shop 3, G/F, Tak Shing House, 20 Des Voeux Road Central, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-birthday-cake-e2520384

It was someones birthday and there were 16 people at the party so we got two cakes.
One was mango and the other was chestnut.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆
Shandong chestnut, purple potato and sweet potato cake mini:
This was my favourite one in the series because it was really pretty, decorated with a ring of purple sweet potato on the outside.
There are three delicious layers in the middle, the top is chestnuts, the second layer is Okinawa purple sweet potato and the third layer is kagoshima golden sweet potato.

There was a good balance of filling to the cakes.
The fillings were really silky and the sweetness was not cloyingly sweet and the sweet potatoes just enhanced it even more.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆