Sunday 28 February 2010

Agehan - tempura restaurant in Central, Exchange Square

This is a crowded business lunch place stuck in the middle of the Exchange Square. The tempura is soo good, but who can have a 3 course dinner of only tempura? and the portions are too big, otherwise it would have been a perfect restaurant.
It is definately a good place to go for lunch coz the lunch set is very reasonable, and dinner if you are craving for tempura....

agedashi tofu- one of their house specialty


tempura with eggs on a big bowl of rice

tempura on rice - very good tempura...just too big a portion!!

Saturday 27 February 2010

YeeShun Milk Co ( CWB)

I always thought the idea of steamed milk disgusting, until my friends forced me to try this...now I look upon all steamed milk to be wonderous inventions of the Cantonese mind. Yee Shun milk co should be one of the best places to go to for steamed milk, they have 2 branches in CauseWay Bay.



double-film steamed milk


Steamed milk with Gingko nuts

Thursday 25 February 2010

Kaya Restaurant ( next to Time's Square)

This is the restuarant, that all my friends' Korean friends thought  was authentic and delicious. And frankly, I am not a big meat lover, but the meat is sweet..... nice meaty sweet, and the big pot noodles at the end, just delicious. It must be one of best Korean Restaurants in Hong Kong, the kimchi is decent but not fantastic, but they have a array of nice Korean Shochu and sake.....so good for a cold winter night!

Any decent Korean restaurant will need to serve you at least 6 amuse-bouche dishes


Korean Seafood Pancake -not bad at all


This is the highlight - grilled pork, grilled beef and grilled chicken, nice meaty meat! very very good grilled meat


This is also another of my favourite Korean dish- stir fried vermicelli


Rice cakes with spicy sauce - Korean rice cakes are kind chewy


BuBimBup?


big hotpot noodles with loads of thin pork slices, sinful but so lovely..


My bowl of noodles......:)

Sunday 21 February 2010

Sift, Graham Street

Sift is one of my favourite dessert places in Hong Kong, I never used to like chocolate and cheesecake till I tasted theirs.....what more can I say, its a great dessert place and they take their sweeties seriously. its a 5-star place for me, on top of it, theres a great selection of muscats, and sweet dessert wines...Mmmmmmm...:)

Mascarpone cheesecake with maple syrup, comes with walnut biscotto with icing sugar.


Chocolate fantasie - ....dun need to describe it anymore....the name says it all

Molten Chocolate cake....

NanBantei, Central, Staunton Street

Nanbantei is one of the best places for Yakitori.They serve great sake, superb Yakitori grilled with salt, miso, or soya sauce.....and as well as a good friendly cozy ambience for a nice get-together. I would recommend it for a long lazy gathering with friends. Do make reservations, it is always packed.

Yakitori Set - grilled shitake, grilled gingko nut, grilled asparagus with pork and grilled shiso with pork


Grilled beef steak- not such a nice picture, but the beef is great!


Chicken meat balls- delicious, chicken with leek and grilled Quail's egg


Grilled Cod


Miso Paste and Salt

Wednesday 17 February 2010

Wang Sha Bao, CityPlaza

This is somewhere where I often have lunch. Food is relatively good and affordable. It offers good Xiao long Bao, good spare ribs, and nice good old stir fried shanghaiese food. But it is not the most exquitsite shanghaiese food around. Always good for a quick lunch , or casual dinner.

Beef pan fried pancake - this is the best dish today



Hot and Sour soup


dumplings in spicy sauce - so so


plum flavoured spare ribs - this is good too!


Minced meat noodle - the noodle is good and warm


Xiao Long Bao - this is good!


Dessert - Dumplings in osmanthus wine ( dun really like the osmanthus wine part though)

Friday 12 February 2010

Belgo's East @ Taikoo Shing

Belgo's is a place where I sometimes go to lunch at...The food is good, but not great nor charming.I think I like food to be charming...well, the pasta at Belgo's is nice. They have quite good wines there too....so when I have to work on a Sunday evening, it will be nice to go and reward yourself with a dinner there, especially if you worked in Taikoo Shing..



the first time I heard the name - scallop waterzooi? or something like that, but it is a cream-based soup with half cooked scallops ( great!) and vegetables!


Endive Salad


Smoke salmon and salmon pasta - its a strangely good combination. smoked salmon and cooked salmon, you get the half raw, salty and cooked texture all in one go.

Salmon steak! - I seldom find grilled salmon too delicious, its hard to beat teriyaki salmon..:P

Its a nice good old apple strudelly tart thingy with ice-cream on top, I guess anything with ice-cream on top is good.

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Canada - Vancouver Culinary Institute

During my holidays in Vancouver, I wish I could eat 5 meals a day. We passed by the Culinary Institute one day, and decide to eat there. Served and cooked completely by students to provide a 5-star standard...it makes me smile even when they fumble around...Food was pretty good and very reasonably priced lunch, nice for a quick business lunch.

roast beef on pilaf


chicken club sandwich


chicken saltibamca with gnocchi ( I like this the best)

Canada Whistler Special - Bearfoot Bistro

This is the Whistler ,BC special when I was there end October 09.Whistler is such a beautiful place, thanks to my dear sister for being a fantastic guide and bringing us to all the so good restaurants in Whistler. A world class ski resort would definately have world class restaurants as well.This is Bearfoot Bistro, michelin star-studded, and champagne sabreing.....my very first. This is absolutely wonderful, cozy ambience, and a wonderful sommelier who will nicely suggest what to have. Food is fabulously fresh, not the usual explosion of spices I know, but you can really taste nature here...


Amuse - fresh wild BC salmon


Appetizer - Oyster Assortment


Lingcod with squid fries and pea puree. Unfortunately, I didn't think my main was too fabulous.


Brother-in-law ordered the roast beef. I must say I am not a big fan of red meat, but perfectly done red meat is a different matter.


Sole with Vongole tomato sauce - strange combi but very good.

All the desserts are crazy good...i forgot the name, but they are crazy good...


crazy good dessert no 2


Yum!