[Review 4956] 2016 Kee Wah Chinese New Year treats @ 奇華餅家 Kee Wah Bakery

13/01/2016
奇華餅家 Kee Wah Bakery
將軍澳唐賢街9號PopCorn商場1樓F02號舖
Shop F02, 1/F, PopCorn, 9 Tong Yin Street, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/2016-kee-wah-chinese-new-year-treats-e2533762


For Chinese New Year, people will be busy stocking up on snacks and festive food.
At Kee Wah, they have quite a few festive treats and gift boxes.

There is a Panda Chinese New Year Gift set which make great gifts, inside the box there are Panda cookies, Ricecakes, White sesame and peanut puff pastries, Handmade black date candies with walnut and Handmade crunchy pumpkin seed candies.
For palmier lovers, there is a box of palmiers and almond crisps, which make good gifts for the elderly.
As well as the gift sets, there are also traditional snacks for the New Year.
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Palmiers and almond crisps box:
This box contains almond crisps and palmiers, which make the perfect gift for the elderly or people who do not like sweets.
The palmiers were crispy with a buttery taste.
As for the almond crisps they were crispy with a thin sweet coating of icing sugar and crunchy almonds on top.
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Panda Chinese New Year Gift Set:
Great and addictive treats.
My favourites are the buttery panda cookies and the chewy sweet black date candies.

Panda cookies:

Ricecakes:

White sesame and peanut puff pastry:

Handmade black date candy with walnut:

Handmade crunchy pumpkin seed candy

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Traditional snacks:
Ricecakes:



Crispy egg crisps:

These are savoury and flavoured with my favourite red beancurd.

White sesame and peanut puff pastry


Sesame crunchies:

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[Review 4955] Create your beefless burger @ 麥當勞 McDonald's

13/01/2016
麥當勞  McDonald's
九龍塘達之路80號又一城L2層28號舖
Shop 28, L2 , Festival Walk, 80 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/create-your-beefless-burger-e2533755
Out of all the Create Your Taste branches, this one is the most disorganized.
The restaurant is rather small and queues are chaotic.
This time I opted for a beefless burger which does not cost any cheaper.
I went bacon mad and mainly got the crispy bacon because the bacon is so crispy and delicious that it felt like eating a bacon bap burger.

[Review 4954] Delicious and healthy @ Kale

13/01/2016
Kale
上環永樂街1-3號世瑛大廈1301室
Room 1301, Cheungs Building, 1-3 Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/delicious-and-healthy-e2533754

This is an old review which I forgot to post but I should really visit Kale again because they have new wraps according to their facebook
On this visit, I had the beetroot drink which was natrual and sweet.
For food, I always have my favourite fries because they are freshly fried roots.

Along with the fries, I had creamy avohoummus.

[Review 4953] Ploughmans at Ground Public @ Ground Public

13/01/2016
Ground Public
北角英皇道625號地下
G/F, 625 King's Road, North Point
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/ploughmans-at-ground-public-e2533753

Went here and got the ploughmans.
The Ploughmans was filled with York ham, cheddar, piccalilli according to the label.
Piccalilli is basic an Indian pickle that consists of cauliflower and vegetable marrow mixed with mustard and turmeric.

The Piccalilli was really nice because I loved the acidic cauliflowers and tumeric which made it refreshing but the ploughmans was ruined after it was heated because the York ham got dehydrated and the cheese went tasteless.

[Review 4952] Steamed bun filled with sweet potato @ 唐記包點 Tong Kee Bao Dim

13/01/2016
唐記包點  Tong Kee Bao Dim
街3號荷里活廣場3樓323號舖
Shop 323, 3/F, Plaza Hollywood, 3 Lung Poon Street, Diamond Hill
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/steamed-bun-filled-with-sweet-potato-e2533412
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Hong Kongers love dimsums, so this joint is really popular for takeaways.

I rarely get anything from here but as I was still a bit hungry I decided to try the sweet potato which was really cheap and big for $6.

For that price I don’t expect top nosh dim sum quality.

The bun was fluffy but there was still a weird flour taste and it was a bit dry, but at least it was big which meant 50% of it is was good.

The filling was better than expected because it was really silky and not too sweet.

[Review 4951] A modern hotpot experience @ 酒鍋 The Drunken Pot

13/01/2016
酒鍋  The Drunken Pot
尖沙咀天文台道8號2樓1號舖
Shop 1, 2/F, 8 Observatory Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-modern-hotpot-experience-e2533337

A modern hotpot experience
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Dining here is going to be memorable because this place is chic and different to other hotpot places with brightly decorated walls with modern art contrasted by traditional decor.
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For drinks, the sake experience is memorable because they have these traditional wine cups and jugs.

As I didn't feel like alcohol, I went for the sugar cane which was served in a lightbulb glass.
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We started off with Chinese Crispy Sticks stuffed with fresh wasabi and dace fish paste, Beef cubes with mustard sauce and Char grilled pork neck.
The beef was my favourite because I liked the wasabi kick with the beef.
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After the snacks, we were ready for hotpot.
Each person gets a disposable apron to wear.

We had the The Drunken Pot which was the signature pot.
It has five broths: The middle is a whole papaya in soup with Shrimps, surrounding it are Crab and Clams Soup, Squid Ink Seafood Soup, Sichuan-style Numbingly Spicy Soup and Teochew-style Sastay Soup.


The papaya is set alight.

For a stronger broth, they have sake bombs and spicy bombs to boost the broth.


For the other pot, we had Drunken chicken in hua diao chinese wine and Fresh cream venus clam and crab.

The drunken chicken broth had a really strong medicinal taste that was so nice I drank it as soup.

Then came the soup dumplings which comes in six colours:
red : lobster, orange : crab meat and roe, black and white : black truffle, green : medicinal herbs, white : soup dumplings, black : squid ink

My favourite was the medicinal one.

These assorted fortune bags were cute surprises to put in the pot.
yellow : teriyaki beef, white : quail egg, black : crabmeat and squid ink.

The Deep-fried homemade bean curd and seaweed rolls were delicious, I loved the pairing of seaweed and tofu.

The Homemade cheese, seaweed, shrimp and crabmeat dumplings were springy with an interesting cheesy filling.

The dried scallop balls were different and fancy because it was mixed with lots of dried scallop.

Assorted squid balls.

There was beef as well but as I am not keen on beef, I only took photos.

Local hand-cut beef

Premium sliced angus beef chuck

Japanese Iberian pork belly

Next were the gelato tofus, they were a mix of tofu and dace fish so it has a soft and springy texture.

Numbingly Spicy and Taro Gelato Tofu

As well as hotpot, we tried steaming seafood.

shrimps with garlic

Oysters

We finished with a truly molten dessert because the filling was bursting to come out.


Since this visit, I have already been twice so another review is coming soon.