SuperStar Restaurant @ TST

SuperStar is a chain Cantonese restaurant specialising in live seafood, hairy crabs and the works. The one I have tried this time for dim sum is along Nathan Road, just right across the street from Chung King Mansion. Well, foodwise, the dim sum selection is not too novel, comprising of mainly traditional dim sum. For me, it falls within the average range ( well dim sum in HK is generally of a high quality), but they don't do traditional dim sum in the style of Lin Heung or Maxims at Quarry Bay, and they are not the new types of dim sum as you can find in the Square.. I think it is alright, but not exceptional. The Lau Sa Bao is pretty good though..

Roasted Duck with Rice noodles - Roast duck (average), soup (average) rice noodles ( nice and chewy)..but I personally always like dishes like that...so I still kinda like it.

Crab Meat Xiao Long Bao - there is only one serving, and the friend who ate it thinks that the skin is too thick

Steamed Rice rolls- this one have an interesting filling - mushrooms,zuchini and scallops. This is not bad too.

Stewed Tripe - this is surprisingly very good!

Deep fried beancurd sheet rolls, with pork and shrimps filling. It is alright. The very delicious Lau Sa Bao, I took really bad pictures of it, so it is not posted onto the blog.

Peanut Roll- average

Chang Won Korean Restaurant

Trying out new restaurants in TST, and yes, there are many many Korean restaurants around that area. This one isn't particularly good, and the interior looks a bit sad and musty. The only highlight is their Korean pancake, which is crispy and delicious...due to the lack of Korean customers there...I concluded that this is not really the real deal.

the name of the restaurant

Again - the appetizers 12 of them in total!

Bibimbup - looks great, but actually not so tasty

grilled mackerel -but not too good either

This is really good - only the seafood pancake is delicious

soup- I find the style a bit too chinese

Harlan's at IFC, Central

Harlan's in IFC does lunch buffets on Sundays. What do they have - delicious really fresh oysters ( the new hotness in my life), great selection of fresh sashimi, and frankly, I don't remember the rest...they are a selection of salads and pasta was a bit sad. But for 300 ++, I think its worth the oyster though...and vegetables are really fresh as well, great view to the harbour, and perfect if you are entertain the new age yuppies type of friends, with a cool civilised relaxing ambience, but not for the value-for-money eaters.

Any decent restaurant should bake their own bread

The ham is really fresh too and my new hotness - oysters a lot of Fin de Clair ones

Pate on toast , assortment of smoked fish

Main course comes with the lunch buffet- I had Australian Snapper..it is average

The roast beef filet is very good...

Pasta - so so

Tan Yu Tou ( 谭鱼头）at TST

Me and friends wanted to go to the famous hotpot place in TST ..but we waited and waited...and finally after 1 hour of waiting, we gave up and went to Tan Yu Tou.....compared to Xiao Fei Yang, I have to admit the soup is much more tastier, but our hotpot is too slow to cook and we were hungry...

It is a 2 hour eat all you can...but after an hour..it gets a bit tough..good hotpot in general..but it is not the king of hotpot like i envisage...good on a winter's night.. I really wouldn't mind going back again when HK have the chills

the sauce which you have to put a bit of soup inside

Not showing the raw food ingredients, but this is interesting, it is beancurd roll ( with meat inside) deep fried and which you cook it till it becomes hot and soft..I like

Fish Paste - this one turn out to be quite like Fish Balls Singapore Style

Fried Fish Skin - really so good to put it inside the hotpot, I think Xiao Fei Yang doesn't have that .

There is the most important picture - the white fish soup is delicious and the spicy soup is great too...and not too spicy that you won't taste anything after one sip..

XiangLi Fan Dian @ Triangular Street, Wanchai

This has been a month of non-stop Cantonese food dinners..XiangLi Fan Dian (祥利饭店）was apparently really famous, and as Triangular street is not that long, it is really easy to find. You can see newspapers clippings of the restaurant just on the shopfront.

Food - most dishes were amazing, it is one of those places, which looks super crappy, but the Cantonese cusine is a bit more hearty and complex. I think it is almost on par with my Gresson Street Restaurant ( see my other post on 群众小厨）, the dishes are quite unsual and exciting too! Definately worth it if you can take the crappiness of the surroundings.

The signboard

Kailan with minced meat in claypot - looks like a strange dish, but really it is very good

A typical Cantonese dish - deep fried Aubergines in bifengtang style...really good, and I always love this dish

Stewed pork ribs with onions - its good its good..the sauce is soo nice...

Oyster Omelette - its so so ,  I still prefer Oyster Omelette Singaporean Style...

Chicken poached in exotic sauce - I called it exotic sauce because I didn't know what it is, but it is herbal and very very very delicious

initially, we had high expectations of this dish - supposedly their signature dish...but it is a tad sad,the deep fry was crispy, but the squid inside taste rubbery...dun order this!

kikuzen at Harbour City TST

This is the trend of japanese food in Hong Kong, I called it fusion Jap food...not that some are not good...but it sometimes almost taste like a hybrid Cantonese Japanese taste....more like the popular japanese snack food...Kikuzen is this kind of set-up, but the taste is not so bad...it is pretty complex and the stock is very good as well...but again not the best...good to try and go for a relatively good meal...but a little too expensive for the type of food served

Seared Maguro Salad - its snacky kind of nice...though the maguro lacks a bit of intensity

seafood soup in tea-pot : I always loved to order this..it is surprisingly good...the stock being rich and hearty

Dragon maki - anything with soft shell crabs is kinda good...see it is really a japanese snack kind of japanese restaurant- no serious japanese food...but they do this bubblegum popular food quite well

Hand Made udon soup - comes with tempura ( see next picture) Dashi broth is quite good and rich...udon texture -so so only

Tempura is well done - but I prefer Agehan's tempura..

Grilled Eel - again a very difficult dish to make...the portion is large..but the grilled eel have no refinement or surprise...and sauce is a bit too sweet...another sympton of bubblegum japanese cusine

Tung Bo @ North Point Food Market

Tung Bo at North Point Market in Java Road, is such a famous place in Hong Kong...

When the food is served, it does look good, and I have to admit, it is better than a lot of Cantonese joints I have tried...but still I think it cannot beat the real deal in Gresson Street ( check out my other blog on 群众小厨）..so I probably won't go back there again, some dishes are definately worth trying...

Strange that a Cantonese joint will serve squid ink pasta...it is a bit salty, but the squid balls in squid ink is quite a cool idea

Crispy Chicken -This chicken is very good..but a tad too oily

eel in black bean sauce - black bean sauce is nice, but the fish cooked this way, just do not bring out the freshness of fish meat

This is quite good, it is nicely deep fried, some kind of fish with vegetables thingy

Carp patties ( traditional cantonese dish)- I like the crispy exterior, but carp meat is too raw for my taste

Pineapple fried rice - a bit so-so

deep fried kisu fish - again the deep frying is good...but the kisu fish is supposed to be firm and moist..and this kisu is a bit too soggy ( ok I know I am very hard to please)

Bamboo clams with black bean sauce - this is a winner!

Bamboo Clams in garlic and vermicelli - Somehow the bamboo clams in this place are very fresh

Lotus leaf rice with chicken - this is very good too...I suspect they are not too great with fish, but not too bad with steaming and stir-fries

House specialty - prawns in salted egg yolk , looks very good, but can't comment because my skin allergy does not allow me to munch on prawns anymore

Again strange western cheescake in Cantonese Dai Pai Dong.....this is alright...but nah..I would rather have the mascarpone cheesecake at Sift