At Watami: Japanese Casual Restaurant in Kowloon Bay. Delicious.
Friday, 30 October 2009
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Day 276 - Fried Noodle with Beef and Preserved Vegetable
A surprisingly good dish. The Preserved Vegetable was just sour enough to add a little bite but not over-power anything and the Fried Noodles were deliciously crispy around the edges.
On a secondary note, the apparent "posterization" in the background is an artifact caused by the conversion to GIF format. I kinda like it anyway.
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Day 275 - Assorted Lo Shui
Lo Shui is a traditional Chinese cooking technique where various meats and other foods are cooked in a soy sauce and stock marinade. This marinade often has other spices in it and is normally reused multiple times. For some restaurants a years old Lo Shui is their claim to fame!
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Day 274 - Wonton
A different folding style than the previous ones posted, but once they're cooked, they're all very similar... Delicious!
Day 273 - Family Dinner
This is a fairly typical spread for us with a mix of home-cooked / store-bought items and traditional Chinese / Western dishes. Can you guess which would be my favourite here?
Monday, 26 October 2009
Triple Espresso Stimulates Clicks
My breakfast at a desk (Day 262 - Cocktail Bun, Sweetcorn Bun and Triple Espresso) ran away with the voting last week. Granted, only four people voted, but it seems that 75% of people love the idea of a triple espresso first thing in the morning. I do! Next week's voting is up (and late - I blame the long weekend... feels like Sunday to me!) and ready for your clicks.
Vote away!
Day 272 - Fish and Chips
...at The Chippy in Central.
Whenever I can, I always opt to try a beer I haven't tried before. For dinner, I decided to go with a Fuller's Extra Special Bitter (ESB) (in the background) to wash down the fish and chips. Always trying new beers, often results in drinking a fairly bad beer (turns out there's a lot more crap beers than there are great beers), but on those occasions when you do find a great beer, you feel well rewarded. The Fuller's Extra Special Bitter is such a beer and, if you get the chance, I recommend you give it a go. A perfect accompaniment for a slightly greasy and delicious dinner.
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Day 271 - Ho Beng (Fried Oyster Cake)
Always one of my favourites, when done well, this traditional Chinese dish is a wonderful mixture of flavours and (in what is a barrier for many) soft and crispy textures.
Friday, 23 October 2009
Day 270 - Cookies and Cream Icecream
Once again I made Wonton (dumplings) for dinner last night; and once again, I couldn't wait and started to eat before letting them cool. But this time, I didn't just mildly suffer, this time a blister instantly formed on the roof of my mouth, burst and a left a huge flap of skin. Ouch. So...
Joe's list of Yay and Nay's after burning your mouth.
Beer - Good (Especially the great Löwen Weisse I was drinking)
More Hot Wonton - Bad
Icecream - Fantastic
Abrasive Breakfast Cereal - Not Good
Mouthwash - Aaargggh!
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Day 269 - Cannelloni
Dinner last night was at PizzaExpress in Festival Walk. Both the Cannelloni and Margherita Leggera we had were great and thoroughly recommended.
As I was very happily munching away on the Margherita Leggera I realised that I was wrong my previous post on Hong Kong pizza. Sure, most of the pizza here is uninspired and dull. But, there are places to get fantastic pizza as well. I think out of all the pizza I've eaten in Hong Kong, my favourite place is PizzaExpress. Anybody have any other suggestions?
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Day 268 - Udon Noodles with Mini-franks and Broccoli
Perhaps a second image in the What's in your bowl series.
Dinner was Shanghaiese-style Udon Noodles with an assortment of other dishes; Mini-franks, Steamed Broccoli and Fish with Creamed Corn (in the background) just to name a few.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Day 267 - Thai Red Chicken Curry with Bread
It's also great with rice, but I prefer to start with slices of a crunchy French baguette and move onto the rice later.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Day 266 - Homemade Baked Blueberry Cheesecake
Certainly not perfect, but this very basic, baked cheesecake tasted great!
Trypophilics Unite!
The winner of last week's poll was Day 258: Shu Mai and Dumplings, a trypophobics nightmare (or perhaps enough to make them uncomfortable). Personally I think it looks kinda cool. Sorry about running late with the weekend posts again! The poll has once again been extended to Midnight Saturday (Hong Kong time) to make up for my tardiness. The new poll is awaiting your clicks!
Day 265 - Soy Chicken
Soy Chicken is as prevalent as, and almost always sold in the same shops as, Chinese Barbecue Pork. Although I do like it, I'd always choose the Char Siu instead!
This dish was part of dinner at an outdoor food market in Sha Tin.
Day 264 - Yum Cha
Birthday lunches at work generally mean eating at the only "proper" restaurant on campus, locally known as Ground Floor Chinese. Although you can get traditional Chinese dishes there, for lunch, most people opt for Dim Sum. I can't complain, we have all my favourites!
Friday, 16 October 2009
Day 263 - Indian Beef Curry with Rice
Upstairs at The Cafe the Indian Curry is normally quite okay. Very mild and incomparable to the fantastic curries at Chungking Mansion in TST, it's still passable.
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Day 262 - Cocktail Bun, Sweetcorn Bun and Triple Espresso
Breakfast at my desk after heading out for a pre-work run. Normally, after running in the mornings I'm not ready for breakfast when I get home, so instead, I just have a shower and head to work, picking up breakfast and coffee on the way.
The Cocktail Bun is always a favourite of mine, but I decided to try something new in the Sweetcorn and Egg Bun. It wasn't very corn-y but good anyway.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Day 261 - Baked Spaghetti with Beef Sauce and Spicy Sausage
Lunch at the Maxim's ran campus Cha Chaan Teng. Not particularly good really. The Spaghetti was very over-cooked and falling apart, reminiscent of tinned spaghetti. The sauce itself wasn't bad though, and would have been a lot better on top of rice. At least it was something new!
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Day 260 - Fried Pork with Cashews, Chilli and Garlic
Take away dinner from a Chinese restaurant in Sham Shiu Po. Clams with Chilli in XO sauce to the bottom right, Fried Salted Whitebait to the top right, Soy Chicken above, and Choi with Garlic to the left.
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