My Last Stop for Bakery in Hong Kong, Egg Tart at Orchid Padaria

Egg Tart has always been one of my favourite pastry. It has been my wish that I'm so wanting to try an egg tart in Hong Kong. No other reasons, anyone that has visited Hong Kong is proud to promote the egg tarts there. No takeaway and no fancy shops, the egg tarts taste just great even they're sold at any roadside stalls. Finally, I've visited Orchid Padaria Bakery君蘭餅店 during my last stop at Lo Wu羅湖 border between Hong Kong香港 and Shenzen深圳.

A lot of customers are queuing to takeaway some breads or especially the pastries, to be eaten on the way from the border to Shenzen town. The journey will take about 45minutes to 1hour. It's kind of disappointed that the traditional Egg Tart蛋撻 is not available here yet I'm still very happy to find the Portuguese Egg Tart葡撻. Egg Tart is a pastry crust with egg custard and being baked that the egg ingredient is not only smelling nice but as well tasting good. The only difference is that Portuguese Egg Tart is having a crispier crust than the traditional type. Look at the thin crust with the thick layer of egg custard! Oppositely in M'sia, thick crust and thin egg custard. I've been so satisfied as the egg custard here is very delicious.
I hope that I'll have a chance to visit Hong Kong again and I've to really try out the traditional Egg Tart here.

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An Afternoon Tea at Spasso

Visiting one of the busiet area in Hong Kong at Tsim Sha Tsui尖沙咀, we've been waiting to take a short break at Spasso Italian Bar. Restaurant. Terrace that is located at Level-4 inside Ocean Centre. On this sun shining day, we've decided to have our 'sun-bathing' at the open-air area outside of the restaurant. Indeed many customers are here to gather and to chit-chat with friends or to have a meal with family members.

To have a snack during afternoon time, we've taken the Pizza Piccante and Pizza Prosciutto e Funghi for sharing. Piccante is made from their wood stone oven whereby this Pizza consists of tomato sauce, spicy Italian Salami and Mozzarella cheese while Prosciutto e Funghi is topped with tomato sauce, mushroom and cooked ham with Mozzarella cheese. The pizza dough is tasty even it's eaten plain without any sauce. I myself prefer the Salami than the Ham as it's saltier and more delicious. Besides, I don't like the Ham as it's too soft.

I feel a little regret as I don't try out the English Afternoon Tea set here. The weather and ambient are both suitable for an elegant afternoon, in leisurely pace.

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Das Gute inside the Western Market

Western Market has been existed since year 1906 and it's located at Sheung Wan上環 of Hong Kong island. The four important elements are divided between the levels here whereby ground floor is for shop鋪, Level-1 is for cloth布, Level-2 is for food食 and the last level is for Art藝. I like the traditional element of this place especially the solid bricks that have built up the building.

We've decided to make a short stop for a quick lunch at Das Gute Bäckerei Café. Don't ask me for a reason, the restaurant is located at a small corner at the ground floor. Attila has ordered the Das Gute特色三文治 or Sandwiches that are layered with Egg, Ham, Tomato and Lettuce and being served together with French Fries. This is the ordinary sandwich with the toasted bread that you can make it at home. Anyway, the meal does energize us to continue our walking journey. As this is a set meal, it comes together with a homemade bread, a soup and a choice of drink either coffee, tea or orange juice. The soup of the day is a Spinach Creamy Soup that is quite tasteless that it needs more salt.
I guess we all have enjoyed the sightseeing in the Western Market and having a short break with some chit-chat session instead to feedback about the meal. Indeed I'm quite pissed with the unfriendly waiter and waitress.

Morning Dim Sum at Tack Hsin Restaurant

We've decided to go for Dim Sum點心 for our first morning breakfast in Hong Kong. Without proper and further clarification, the hotel receptionist has recommended Tack Hsin Restaurant德興酒家 that is located just beside the Wan Chai MTR station. Whether it's delicious or not, we've wanted to give it a try.

Browsing through the Dim Sum checklist and with a tick, your choices of menu will be served accordingly. Our first dish is the 皮蛋瘦肉粥 or Porridge with Century Egg and Pork. The rice is boiled to the extent that I like this tasty plain porridge. Additionally, we've ordered the 菲王鮮蝦腸 or Chee Cheong Fun with Prawn and Leek. Chee Cheong Fun is a type of flat rice noodle that is rolled into the circular shape. The mixture of prawn and leek is wrapped inside the rice noodle and being steamed before being served with the salty soya sauce and chili paste. It's weird that this dish is served without any sauce here and we've to ask for the soya sauce to add on some taste to the tasteless rice noodle. On the frying menu, we've ordered the 鮮蝦腐皮卷 and 芝士鮮蝦春卷 or Prawn in Bean curd Roll and Cheesy Prawn Spring Roll. Nothing is really special about these menu yet we do quite enjoy the dishes.

Talking about the steaming part, we've ordered the 德興鮮蝦餃, 鮮蝦菜苗餃, 灌湯小籠包 and 蜜汁叉燒包. The Tack Hsin Prawn Dumpling is fully packed with the medium-sized prawns inside the dumpling skin but I dislike the prawn meat that is smelly as it's not really fresh. The second dish of the Prawn and Leek Dumpling is quite similar with the original prawn dumpling except that it's added with the leek and the shape is long and oval. Nothing is really special about this dumpling neither. Followed by is the Shanghai Meat Dumplings that is wrapped with the minced pork. Be careful with the splashed soup while you're biting the meat dumpling! Lastly, we've tried the Char Siew Bun here. Bernd dislike the bun as the skin is too thick while I dislike the ingredient that is tasteless except being too sweet.

Additionally, we've taken then Fried Carrot Cake or 香煎蘿蔔糕. The carrot cake is too soft that it gets too sticky and as well too oily that I'll prefer the crispier type. I do as well feel surprised with the sauce whereby I need to take it with the salty sauce?!!

We feel kind of disappointed with the Dim Sum in Hong Kong. Whether we've been putting up too high expectation, the Dim Sum at Tack Hsin is not really as delicious as the Dim Sum in Penang.

Hunting at Thomson Road潭臣道

Arriving at our hotel that is located at Wan Chai灣仔 in Hong Kong香港, each of us are starving for food and thinking only to fill our extreme hunger. Hunting around our hotel, we've decided to step into 溢駿餐廰 that is located at Thomson Road潭臣道 or the place that is nearby the Wan Chai Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station. This is not really the most comfortable and cozy ambient that we're wishing for, but our hunger has won over our feet to walk further.

The menu is only available in Chinese and we've decided to go for sharing. As Phoebe and I can read and speak proper Mandarin and Cantonese, thus we're assigned to do the ordering. We've ordered 叉燒炒滑蛋, 瑤柱北菇扒時蔬, XO醬爆豬頸肉 and 嘟嘟排骨煲 while the white rice is given as FOC (Free-Of-Charge). If being simplified in English, the dishes are Fried Egg with Char Siew, Seasonal Vegetable with Dried Scallops and Mushroom, Fried Pork Neck Meat with XO Sauce and Claypot Pork Ribs. Our favourite is the XO醬爆豬頸肉 as the meat is tender and juicy while the sauce does match the pork neck meat completely. Oppositely, we don't like the 嘟嘟排骨煲 as the sauce tastes weird, I guess it's because the chef is using the fermented Tofu. We've been too hungry to taste the food in slowly pace whereby all the dishes taste just nice. Well, there's only a concern that we've ordered too many dishes that consist of pork meat.
Bernd, Attila and I dislike to eat rice that we've ordered the 干燒叉燒伊面. The noodle is fried with sort of XO sauce. It doesn't taste very delicious and indeed too dry.

We're not fancy about the dishes here. This is just the first restaurant that we're driven to, due to our hunger.