[Review 5233] Unbeatable value at $50 per dish @ 地窖門 Cellar Door Wine & Tapas Bar

02/05/2016
地窖門 Cellar Door Wine & Tapas Bar
西環和合街16號地舖
G/F, 16 Woo Hop Street, Western District
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/unbeatable-value-at-50-per-dish-e2578470


Unbeatable value at $50 per dish
2016-05-02  244 瀏覽
Cellar Door is opened by CASA, a lovely tapas bar in Sai Kung which I went to a few years ago.

The vibes at Shek Tong Tsui are better than Sai Kung because they have live bands and great seating.
 0 讚好


All the tapas cost $50 and the portions are BIG and there is no service charge.
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Cheese platter:

A nice selection of parmesan, stilton and brie.
The brie and parmesan were pretty good because they were strong.



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Potato salad:

A big dish of potatoes in creamy mayonnaise but they were not soft enough.
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seared tuna salad:

A nice plate of tuna for sharing dressed in refreshing yuzu sauce.
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Tiger prawn pasta:

Although the plate looks small, there is so much pasta that the portion is good enough for ones dinner.

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Homemade lemonade:

This was made with real lemons so it was really thirst quenching.
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Lime soda:

My friend's drink.
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[Review 5232] Herbal soup @ 潘芳堂 Poon Fong Tong

02/05/2016
潘芳堂  Poon Fong Tong
旺角上海街433號地下1號舖
Shop 1, G/F, 433 Shanghai Street, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/herbal-soup-e2578468


Stopped by because the restaurant I wanted to go was not open yet.
The herbal shop was new and clean.
Ordered a bowl of herbal soup which tasted ok but it was too sweet for my liking because it had grosvenor momordica in it.
Adding salt made it taste slightly better.

[Review 5231] Superb SUPPER buffet @ The Lounge (香港JW萬豪酒店)

01/05/2016
The Lounge (香港JW萬豪酒店)  休息中
The Lounge (JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong )
金鐘金鐘道88號太古廣場香港JW萬豪酒店大堂
Lobby Level, JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/superb-supper-buffet-e2577608

The food at JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong is flawless every time I go and all those awards they got are well deserved.
I have been to the brunch three times, dinner buffet once and twice to the supper buffet.

Currently, it costs $368 per person from 8-11pm Thursday - Saturday.
During the 9th-22nd of May, it will cost around $4xx because they will have some extra seafood dishes like:
typhoon shelter crab, sauteed clams in black bean sauce, spicy whelk in wine, oyster fritters with white pepper and cilantro, cuttlefish cake with salt and spices, scallops and broccoli topped with crab roe sauce, congee in lobster superior broth.

It was definitely worth going twice because all my favourite luxuries were there such as abalone, cheese, sashimi, Peking duck, Hainan chicken with rice, soba noodles.
Here was the food that I had:

The african chicken was nicely done and spicy like how it should be.
Fresh sashimi and my favourite chilled soba.
Delicious congee from the live cooking station where you can choose your ingredients and put as much as you want.

Peking duck pancake:
 0 讚好

Springy prawn dumplings:
 1 讚好

At the carvery counter, the vegetable selection was quite impressive because they had baked potato and purple potato.
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cheese glorious cheese
They had edam, brie, cheddar but the cheese selection is different everyday.

Last but not least, the abalone was amazing, it has taste and texture unlike other places where they are rubbery and tasteless as the sauce is made from roast meats and Chinese wine.
To finish the dessert was also good but unfortunately I was too full but still ate two pieces of apple crumble because it was just divine.
The apple crumble has just the right level of sweetness, a good balance of apples to pastry and crumble.
First piece:
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Second piece with lots of creamy vanilla sauce~!~
 1 讚好


 I WILL BE BACK SOON~

[Review 5230] Fruit loaf @ 糧友パン工房 Ryoyu Bakery Studio

26/04/2016
糧友パン工房 Ryoyu Bakery Studio
旺角太子道西193號新世紀廣場3樓一田超市
YATA Department Store, Level 3, Moko, 193 Prince Edward West, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/fruit-loaf-e2577410

I love this bakery but all their branches are remote.
This branch is only ok if you get the KCR however you have to get here early as most of the breads are sold out by 6pm.
I got the fruit loaf which was delicious and crammed with so much fruit but saying that on the second visit, there was not much fruit as the first time.