98. Hong Kong - The Spaghetti House

* This was taken in Hong Kong during 18 - 24 Jun 2007.

The Spaghetti House is almost like coffee bean or starbucks outlet. It can be seen everywhere in Hong Kong.

Caesar Salad

I like the Caesar salad. There were big chunks of chicken and also the bread crumbs were in bigger bite size. I could still remember the Caesar salad which I had at Soup Spoon. The bread crumbs tasted like oil laden biscuits.

Chicken wings in black pepper and honey sauce. This is a must-try! The chicken wings were divinely delicious. The only flaw was it was quite oily.

American meat sauce pasta.

Shrimp, Crab Meat & Mushroom Au Gratin. It was delicious. The spaghetti was very smooth and tangy.

Although The Spaghetti House is very commonly seen around in Hong Kong, the outlets were all renovated to be pretty much like a restaurant selling good food. The price of the food was also on the higher end. Like $20+ for a pasta if I didn't remember wrongly. Slightly higher than our Spaggedies. But the pasta was divinely good. I will definitely have it again if I am to visit Hong Kong again!

http://www.spaghettihouse.com/

97. Hong Kong - Golden Siam Thai Restaurant

* This was taken in Hong Kong during 18-24 Jun 2007.

The Pad Thai was good. At a corner of the plate, they put some ground peanuts instead of sprinkling them on top of the pad thai.

This is their Tom Yum Soup for 1 pax. The price wasn't listed in the receipt that I had took and I couldn't remember how much was it. They named it Tom Yum Kung. They had added coconut milk to it and the soup was more like curry. I didn't like it. Also, it was pretty oily.

The combination platter. A combination of the thai fish cakes, pandan chicken, fried shrimps and fried po piah. It was just average. The fried food was pretty oily.

Roast Chicken. Their dipping sauce was the thai sweet chilli sauce instead of the pepper and salt we usually have. The roast chicken was tasteless.
The fried rice with shrimp was a normal dish. It wasn't exceptionally good, just alright.

The figures stated next to the dishes were not the price. I could still remember that this meal totalled up to about SGD70+ which I think was pretty expensive. Other than the roast chicken which was more costly, the rest weren't very much expensive stuffs. I was a few times during dining times and it was pretty packed.

Golden Siam Thai Restaurant
Citygate Outlet, Tung Chung, Hong Kong
Tel: 2109 4418
Opens Daily: 11.30 am - 11.00 pm
4.30pm - 6.00 pm (Closed)

94. Hong Kong - Tai Woo Seafood Restaurant

My friend recommended this Tai Woo Restaurant's dim sum in Hong Kong and so I went.

"Tai Woo enjoys renowned reputation for its delectable and wide variety of gastronomic dishes. The restaurant has repeatedly won remarkable results in the "Best of the Best Culinary Awards" organized by the Hong Kong Tourism Board."

Well, I'm not too sure if this applies to their dim sum. Most of their culinary awards were seafood dishes. They have a few branches in Hong Kong. We went to the one at Causeway Bay. A lot of Hong Kong celebrities visited this restaurant.

I reached at about 10.30am and we were so lucky, after 10.30am, all of the dim sum were at half price. Wow....I think most probably those were the leftover from the morning crowd and thus the discount. Haha.

This was Tai Woo's rendition of century egg porridge. It was good. The unusual thing about it was preserved vegetables (mui choy) were added in. It was not those salty vegetables. I think as an ingredient, it sort of create the "crunch" feel and you won't think century egg porridge is just century eggs and pork.
I like their mala cake (Yellow sponge cake). Very spongy. Look at the black beans pork ribs. Usually, we don't have broccoli but Tai Woo's has.
The rice rolls was good. Must-try! The skin was thin and spring onions were added to it.
We have this in Singapore. I have no idea what is it called. In Hokkien, they called it "ji zou" (Literally: fried dates) In my previous entry, I did mention that I wasn't a big fan of this. But this was different from the one I ate at Guia Hotel. It was filled with green bean paste. So, it was the same we had in Singapore.

We didn't eat a lot because we wanted to leave our stomachs for other food. Haha. Tai Woo's dim sum is different from the dim sum we have in Singapore because their's have extra ingredients added, such as the century egg porridge and the black beans pork ribs. After the discount, the bill totalled up to be HKD113 (SGD28.30). This is considered very cheap. Haha.


Tai Woo Seafood Restaurant
27 Percival St., Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Tel: 2893 0822
Opens: 9:30am to 3:00am (Sun)
10:00am-3:00am(Mon-Sat)