Month: October 2010

  • Oct 2010…..

     Fall eating in Hong Kong and Vancouver….

    Fat Angelo’s American-Italian, what a disappointment,  after so many years revisit this chain restaurant’s Casueway Bay branch, I found the quality of food is really….sad…

    complimentary green salad and bread basket, a Creamed Spinach, which actually looks like spinach  soaking in a light creme soup and taseles…….

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    Wild Mushroom and Truffle Risotto, oh the aroma of the truffle is very weak…..

    Rosemary Roasted Chicken, a bit dry in texture….

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    Negative Space at Richmond Canada, A taiwanese chef  cooking dishes influenced by his cantonese wife…

    Stir-fried beef with zuchini, Deep fried Tofu

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    Chilli Mutton,  Deep friend prawns

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    Fried rice with Clams and Salmon Roe, steamed Winter Melon in Dark Soy Sauce…

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    Grilled ox-tongue

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    Dessert at Berry Good Richmond Canada which is a samll cake cafe run by a Japanese lady.

    Strawberries Cake, Noir(Chocolate/Creme) cake, and the most delecious of the night, Green Tea Chiffon Cake

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    Tea at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel  Central Hong Kong  – Cafe Causette , (my late fater  used to work as a Pianist at the Mandarin Grill of cos it looks totally different after 25 years)

    The food is marginally accetable however I was a bit shock with the service I have received on this afternoon, lack of staff, and they also have the usual working attitude of restaurant servers all over Hong Kong, they rather gather and gossip among themselves( though they are well trained the serving etiquette ) rather than looking after thier guests, it’s just so difficult to get their attention to refill my tea pot……. I  find this award winning team is nothing better than those one who serve me at Tsui Wah…How Sad!

    Quite a decent Tea…..

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    The Scone is still good…

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    what a scary decor…..it’s edible, but I didn’t cos I didn’t want to dream abou them at night…..

     

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    Lunch at this World Peace Cafe at Wan Chai,  basically a vegeterian cafe….

    Set lunch at about HKD200 dollars with a soup, entree and drink…

    Flat bread with  grilled vegetable and veggie processed meat, Brown rice with vegetable in pumpkin sauce( or again….soup?)

    quite tasty however I eventualy felt hungry again after around 2 hrs……..

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    A friend’s Birthday Brunch at  Fleuri  – Sutton Place Hotel Vancouver a brunch buffet at about CAD40(including tax). Food is quite ordinary as you can find it anywhere in North America

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    oh they do have Dim Sum selection, , Har Qaw, Shui Mai, and the third one, with the tail of the prawn but don’t know the name….

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  • HKG meet up

    On the last day of my layover in HKG this week, I wett out to have a tea and dessert meet up with Chirs…at the Isola in IFC Central

    Dessert was a bit ordinary, withno big surprises…..however browsingtheir lunch menu, a soup and an anti-pasti buffet, a choice of an entree, dessert buffet with coffee/tea cost HKD248 + service charge I might come back again for that……

    warm hazlenut choco cake

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    chestnut creme brulee

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    with Chris

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  • Tokyo 2010 part 2

    Shopping continue…….back to Shinjuku area….wow it’s a rainy day!, and the Uniqlo Flag ship store  Shinjuku clink to see their F/W collection spoke person…

    Ramen and Curry Rice set!…..cheap and yummy!!!

    the Millie Crepe cake from the Excelsior Caffee……..back to Odaiba area and saw this game centre with all the vintage characters

    It’s such a good experience playing all the games regarding the audio and vision!

    An indoor Hong Kong street scence…..and the night view of the Odaibe

    Dinner…Stir friend ginger pork set…… and the electronic payment card Suica and  Pasmo…for all the train/undergrounds transports and can be used at home convenient stores too..

    Beef Don lunch before heading to the airport!

    Last but not lest…visiting the home port Sakura Lounge of JAL……

    self service snack and drink area..

    Going up to the dining area also self service

    Chix soup, curry rice, and cold udon, warm pasties……

    Finally boarded the flight and aircraft started to leave…Sayonara Tokyo!

    this was not my meal but the pax sitting next to me….

    I had the 2nd western choice which  was a Beef steak…..

     quite a pretty presentation of the butter, but the bread rools were cold.  The  sesame sauce gave the life to this ordinary dessert

    some individual mouth wash was placed inside the wash room  by the crew this time, and on this shorter flight, they had sandwiches as weel as their famous coup noodles and dried snack…

    Morning time…started out with……Tetra pack OJ well at least from Japan…. 

    Light breakfast waffle, scramble egg. bacon, and yogurt…this is the only choice if you want to have fruit  and finally home…….