龙润茶 LongRun Tea @ Marina Square

Spend my friday night at LongRun Tea @ Marina Square. It was recommended by sis's bf. Totally unaware that there is a tea restaurant in city area. Not being offensive but not everyone knows how to appreciate chinese tea. So do I.hehe!

My colleague is a tea lover and told her about this place. She decided not to OT and joined me to meet my sister after work. We reached around 9plus and it was last order before 9.30pm. We ordered some foods for dinner and of course the tea.

Random snaps of the interior design of it and each table provides a tea sets. It was a quiet and peaceful place where you can laze around and enjoy your readings with tea. The whole night was very quiet and seems like it was booked by us (basically 4 of us only). But sis's bf said it was fully booked when he came during noon time. Definitely will drop by again if i have the time. It's a perfect place to laze around enjoying the tea.

All kinds of tea leaves with labeling on it.

My colleague, Yunita and I shared a main course.

We ordered chicken roulade baked rice S$9.00 per serving. It's basically chicken stuffed with mushroom and bacon in baked rice with mozzarella cheese. Served in good condition and the taste is nice as well. It's basically has the similar taste when you go for Hong Kong cafe. No much of expectation from it.

The highlight is the tea itself.

I ordered Osmanthus Pu-erh Tea S$5.00 and it's refillable.

The menu describe in details of each tea's function. Osmanthus can help to improve skin complexion due to lack of concentration. It also helps to cleanse the body of excess nitric oxide. There are more information stated in the menu. I just named some of it only.

Yunita has the Honey lemon Pu-erh Tea S$5.00 and it's refillable as well. Honey contains a variety of vitamins and minerals. Commonly honey contains vitamin C, calcium and iron. Honey also serves as anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. The honey was served separately as it's based on customer's sweetness level to go with the tea.

The staff was friendly and polite. She taught us how to drink tea in a correct way and served us well. She always brings her smile well. Each set of tea that we ordered served 3 different type of snacks to go with. It was quite thoughtful and perfect way to snack while appreciating the tea of art.

They also served western desserts which i think not ideal for a tea house. The culture is totally mix up in my point of view though.

 Nevertheless the desserts are awfully sinful. I love sweets stuffs especially chocolate because it can cheer me up a bit.

Mango Mirror

Chocolate Mousse

The tea house is located at the first level of Marina Square is quite a corner shop and quite hard for people to notice it. But if you are a tea lover, you should drop by and enjoy the peaceful moments while slowly sip the tea and taste the fragrance of it. The shop also sell tea leaves as you can see from the photo above that there are all kinds of tea pots display on the showcase and also tea leaves along the display showcase.

Headed back home for a rest and headed off to Siloso Beach for event. 

Stay tune for the next post!

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.