Hunt for Good Foods @ Hong Kong

Our first meal when we reached Mongkok area,Hong Kong. 

We headed to the recommended Chan Kee Restaurant which is famous with its roasted duck and pork and also the french toast. It is actually located in between shops and walking distance from mongkok station. 

The speed of serving is fast and the presentation is nice as well. Not to mention the texture of the meat is fantastic. The texture is smooth and tender. Your appetite will seems to grow much more once you have it with a bowl of white rice.

As for the french toast, i have no preferences and it's not that simple to me either. Taste wise is good and taste like usual french toast style.

Chan Kee Restaurant

G/F, 63 Sham Tseng Village, Castle Peak Road , Sham Tseng

Opening hours: Mon-Sun

 11:00-23:00pm

Next we have tea time session with Hong Kong famous polo bun. 

I guess everyone who has been to HK will surely have tried their famous tradition polo bun.We headed to this particular shop 旺角金華冰室 as it was highly recommended in the social media of its polo bun.It's also featured in newspaper.

Definitely not to miss so we left a portion of our stomach empty to fill them with these!

The polo bun is soft in the inside and once you had a bite, you will able feel the smoothness of the bun's texture and neverthless goes well with the butter slice. The ice tea is definitately is a must drink when you go to HK coffeeshop so called char chan teng.

The egg tart taste is delicious as well. The texture is different from the ones that i tried in Malaysia or Singapore. Their outer layer thickness is very slim and you can truly taste the golden ingredients of the egg tart. Simply will feel full after having 1-2 of them

旺角金華冰室

Tel: (852) 2392 6830 

(They provide take away services as well)

九龍旺角弼街47號地下

Opening hours: Mon-Sun

6.30am-12.oo am

Few walking distance away is the famous Yee Shun Milk Company-義順牛奶公司. A little of the history as this dessert restaurant is well established and well known in Macau. It was then venture into Hong Kong. They specialize in milk based dessert. We were finding the place and luckily there is an outlet at Nathan Road ( near to Yau Ma Tei MTR station).

We ordered 原味双皮奶 the original steamed milk pudding/ custard. The steam milk was smooth and sweet. The soft milk custard first layer of the skin is so thin that you won't feel sick having over and over again.

We ordered Red bean milk custard pudding 红豆双皮奶. The red bean was very rich and taste sweet as well. The combination is perfect as the sweetness of the red bean blend into the soft smooth texture of the pudding. Once you put into your mouth, you simply can't resist them.

Lastly the chocolate milk pudding -巧可力双皮奶

 . Chocolate is always my favourite and this time round i personally feel that the original one would be better than this. The chocolate is not fully blend into the pudding and don't really able to taste the chocolate.

Yee Shun provides quite a number of choices for the steamed milk custard/ pudding. The level of sweetness is most probably less than 50% and definitely to be into your places to eat when you are in HK.

Yee Shun Dairy Company 義順牛奶公司

(Branches available at Prince Edward and Jordan)

G/F,513 Nathan Road (Near Yau Ma Tei MTR)

Tel: (852) 2374 5460

Opening hours: Daily 12pm to 12 midnight

Whenever you dropped by HK, you will never fail to sign the signboards and people recommending the famous dessert shop named Hui Lau Shan- 許留山. There have many branches all over HK island.

 Click here to their official website for more details.

It is famous with their fresh fruits especially mango desserts. We ordered all kinds of mango desserts to kick off our appetite before dinner. I believe no much to share for the desserts as their popularity is all over. Just ask random person on the HK street and i believe almost 90% of them knows about this famous dessert.

The XO carrot cake taste good as well. I love the soft texture of the carrot cake.

Ardent's Cafe Bar @ 80 Neil Road

This weekend is slightly different from the usual ones as i spent my weekend in Singapore. After several of attempts to meet up for a dinner and obviously failed badly due to my inconsistency work timing. So, we ended up having our breakfast brunch together on this beautiful Sunday :) 

Ardent's Cafe Bar which located at 80 Neil Road and a walking distance from Outram Park MRT was our choice for the day. If you wish to give it a try, do exit from Exit H and it is about 300++ m away. 

The cafe is actually a shop house renovated to be a cafe on the day time and bar at night time. The design was cosy and the ambiance is quite soft and relax. The lightings played a part too as it is not glaring and the lights are dimmer so you totally can't feel the outdoor brightness. However, the design out from the cafe door is a space of green garden with the swings and white garden chairs and bench around it. The interior design and the exterior design gave me a different kind of feeling.

Below are our choice of the day:-

A pot of passionfruit tea S$6.80.

 The fragance smell of the passionfruit which smells very sweet but when i drank, it doesn't taste sweet at all. By the way, it's refillable :)

Ardent's Breakfast Free Style S$20.00

You can choose 5 items from the menu lists given. 

Snail Sausage, sauteed mushroom, smoked salmon, bacon, turkey ham. 

The snail sausage is a cheese sausage as I cut into smaller size, the cheese flows out from the sausage. The smoked salmon taste good as well.  

We ordered plain rosti S$7.80 with add-on honey baked ham S$3.50.

The plain rosti is quite disappointing though.

 I still prefer Marche rosti as this one a bit hard and taste like not well-cooked. 

Here is my breakfast brunch partner, Charlene for the day.

Overall the services are acceptable. 

The service staff has a pleasant smile and very approachable. 

Overall I would review as 3 out of 5 and it's a nice place to hang out as well.

Ardent's Cafe Bar

80 Neil Road

Website: ardents.com.sg

My Liberica Speciality Coffee @ Taman Molek

I been to Liberica cafe before after a recommendation from my ex-colleague but didn't manage to snap photos. So this time round with my secondary seniors and bought my iPhone to snap few shots.

Drinks with beautiful sculpture on top of it.

Every time has different design and i remember mine was love shape when i came last year.

View from the bar counter with their ready equipments and mixing drinks which is transparent enough to see how the staffs brew the coffee and made the drinks.

You can smell the fragrance of the coffee bean when they brew them.

The cafe has a homely feeling and the interior design was quite cosy and comfortable.

Thus, you can see full house when you drop by over the weekend.

Coco drink with vanilla ice-cream cum with chocolate syrup.

Sinful drink but i love it.

My eyebag is so obvious after the facial.

Omg..but i still like the photo.hehe!

Matcha swiss roll that costs RM4 per roll.

The swiss roll has soft texture which really suits my taste bud. Swiss roll is their one of the best dessert in house. It's a must order when you visit the cafe.

Crepe cake which is not as superb as the famous Malacca version ones.

But it is still acceptable though.

Qiang ordered salad cum puff which has nice presentation and the taste is not bad as well.

Random snaps of the gang discussing on our upcoming HK trip...

Splendid saturday with facial for 2 hours followed by tea break and chat session for the upcoming HK trip plans. However, it turned out to be very brief that basically it is just the draft only.haha! When people gets together, the topic is always out of the main ones.

Address:-

75, Jalan Molek 3/10

Taman Molek