[Review 4925] All day breakfast on New Year's Day @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

03/01/2016
麥當勞  McDonald's
將軍澳常寧路2號TKO Gateway西翼1樓W102號舖
Shop W102, 1/F, West Wing, TKO Gateway, 2 Sheung Ning Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/all-day-breakfast-on-new-years-day-e2530298

All day breakfast on New Year's Day
2016-01-03  131 瀏覽
It was nice that Mcdonald's served all day breakfast on the 1st of January because some people like me will always skip breakfast because it is too early.
I tried the Chef's Special which is slightly different to their usual breakfast.
The Chef's special has toast, bacon, hash brown, baked beans, and scrambled egg.

The new items in the Chef's breakfast are toast and baked beans.
Although the bacon appears to be new, it is found in the bacon and cheese croissant served at McCafe and to me it is actually ham but their croissant is called Bacon and Cheese croissant according to their menu.
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Here was my breakfast:
Everything tasted good especially the scrambled egg which was fluffy with some runny yolk.
The toast was interesting, it was toasted on one side only.
Portions were tiny compared to others seen on social media especially the baked bean!
For drinks I tried the new purple rice soymilk and to be honest I think it tastes like purple potato soymilk.
I wonder if anyone agrees with me here.

[Review 4924] Purple potato buns at Eat East @ 波仔 Eat East

03/01/2016
波仔 Eat East
樂富聯合道198號樂富廣場UG2樓215號舖
Shop L215, UG2/F, Lok Fu Shopping Centre, 198 Junction Road, Lok Fu
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/purple-potato-buns-at-eat-east-e2529684
Walked past and saw these purple buns so decided to get them.
They microwaved them for me.

The bun was very wet on the top and bottom but the texture of the bun was very chewy.

The purple potato filling was quite dry but not too sweet so I liked it.
They had double chocolate cake which was confusing because there are two pictures on the box.

I believe it is meant to look like the cake on the left so perhaps they should have used two chocolate bars or two pieces of chocolate on the right to illustrate double chocolate instead of using another chocolate cake!

[Review 4923] Dark chocolate and Cherry Jaffa cakes @ Marks & Spencer - Food Department

03/01/2016
Marks & Spencer - 食品部  休息中
Marks & Spencer - Food Department
尖沙咀彌敦道63號iSQUARE國際廣場G3A-G3C及UG3-UG4舖
Shops G3A-G3C & UG3-UG4, iSQUARE, 63 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/dark-chocolate-and-cherry-jaffa-cakes-e2529678

I was feeling peckish after dinner in TST so went to Marks and Sparks.
The Jaffa cake is basically a layer of Genoise sponge base, a layer of orange jelly coated in chocolate.
Discovered the Dark chocolate and Cherry Jaffa cakes so I had to get it because the cherry is a new invention.
The pack was a strange because it was twin packs which didn't really say on the packaging.
All of the packs on the shelf were twinpacks.
Anyway, I couldn't wait to eat the Jaffa cake and it was delicious.
It tastes a bit like a blackforest cake but the cherry jelly was not tart enough.


On the receipt, there is a 10% discount if you share your shopping experience at Marks and Sparks on tellmands which I did because I love shopping at Marks and Sparks but the incentive is rather useless because you have to spend $500-1000 to use that 10% discount.

[Review 4922] Fair deal and cute miniature wontons @ 張媽餛飩

03/01/2016
張媽餛飩
尖沙咀新文華中心地下17-19號舖
Shop 17-19, G/F, New Mandarin Plaza Podium, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fair-deal-and-cute-miniature-wontons-e2529571

My friends and I were in the area so we had dinner here after looking around.
There were two chicken dishes which made it hard to choose: chicken in wine or shredded chicken.
I chose the shredded chicken because the other choice had bones.
The chicken was really good because it was flavoured by the spring onions, sesame and black coriander seeds that were not too salty and it was not spiked with MSG.
We also had the mini wontons which are just smaller than a Chinese spoon.
As well as wontons, there was seaweed, lettuce and pickled vegetables in the soup.

[Review 4921] Un petit cafe @ Hello Kitty le petit cafe

03/01/2016
Hello Kitty le petit cafe
尖沙咀赫德道2A號地下1號舖
Shop 1, G/F, 2A Hart Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/un-petit-cafe-e2529570

Indeed this is a petit cafe (petit means small in French).
The sofa by the wall is merely a ledge for you to lean on.
Anyway, stopped by on Christmas eve because it was empty and had the apple tea and purple sweet potato macaron.
The tea was quite good because the apple was not too artificial or too sweet.
The macaron was crisp with a nice filling in the middle.

[Review 4920] 100% chocolate @ 文華餅店 The Mandarin Cake Shop

02/01/2016
文華餅店  The Mandarin Cake Shop
中環干諾道中5號香港文華東方酒店閣樓
M/F, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, 5 Connaught Road, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/00-chocolate-e2529554

Got this box of chocolates as a Christmas gift.
There is a cocoa dusted gnome and two pieces of chocolate on a tray which is also edible.
The chocolate tray was rich and bitter and the other two pieces of chocolate were silky and smooth.

[Review 4919] The last piece of the puzzle @ 聰嫂私房甜品 Chung So Dessert

02/01/2016
聰嫂私房甜品 Chung So Dessert
灣仔大王東街21-23號地舖
G/F, 21-23 Tai Wong Street East, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/the-last-piece-of-the-puzzle-e2529543

Wanchai has everything except a proper dessert place.
Now people can go to Cong Sao Star Dessert which has branched out from Tseung Kwan O.
The English name is rather strange because the Chinese is pronounced "Chung So" so it is funny how it ended up as Cong Sao.
Anyway, perhaps it is another Chinese dialect that I am not familiar with.
Had the Happy paradise which had a bit of everything, the mango was a bit slushy this time but I liked the almond and tea jelly cubes.