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Macro shopping day, World Trade Center, Causeway Bay HK

A macro lens 100mm F2.8 was used to take the below photos.  Though it's quite difficult to handle (due to the macro distance focal length and at 100mm that it's easy to have hand shake), I find the quality so special and unique, and the nice DOF.

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Le Breeza, Tai Hang, Causeway Bay HK

 Thought about if I should write on this restaurant as I was invited to a dinner at this place.  Sometimes it's hard to control how the dinner will be either on the food or the service quality, just like I brought some of my friends to places that dropped the quality and services.  So don't feel bad for such a quality drop when we try to share something nice with the others.  The food is just only there for an hour and gone in minutes, but friendship doesn't.
Overall, this place is quite cozy and serves some lunch and dinner set (at the price range of HK$100 for lunch and 200 for dinner), including a salad or soup, main course and coffee or tea.  The food is at average but as we wanted to get some bread, we got told we had to order it.  Then during the dinner, we got smoked from their pan frying oil fume due to their ventilator's failure.  However, no apologetic gesture was given from the shop and even those waiters smoked outside of the shop for a break.  I tried not to label Tin Hau but 10 out of 10 shops have been pretty disappointing to me.  One more to be posted later.

滬江飯店, Wu Kong restaurant, Causeway Bay HK

 Every time if I had quite a no. of unhappy meals, I would immediately go back to some of my favourite restaurants for a healing.  Wu Kong is one of the healing "hospital".  This time they had something new on the menu.  Photo 1: Jasmine smoked duck - as noted, it's quite moist with a strong duck meat flavour with the right amount of smoked aroma.  See the cutting skill - very evenly thin cut.  The chilled cucumber lifted the strong meat flavour to a fresh sweet drop to the dish.  Then on photo 2, they made this renowned deep fried yellow fish in sweet and sour sauce.  Highly recommended.  Photo 3 is the  sesame dumpling in ginger sweet.  Nice dumpling wrap but the ginger was a bit too strong that I had to dilute it a bit.  *the last 2 photos were taken at close to 11pm.  That's why no one was around.

Izumi Curry, Hysan Place Causeway Bay HK

 The shop claimed on its house signature home-made hamburg steak (normal one at HK$85 and a giant one at HK$98); so I had to give it a try of course.  The steak was used with mixed pork and beef.  Supposed it's a nice combination, but somehow it lacks the texture (from not having enough stir for more sticky and firm texture).  Yet, it wasn't aromatic enough - lacking some sort of meat flavour.  The curry sauce was so so.  Fortunately the snack deep fried chicken was pretty nice.

生果檔開幕 - a fruit store, Hysan Place Causeway Bay HK

 

Pepper lunch, food court, Hysan Place Causeway Bay HK

 Passed by this stall many times but didn't get in the long line.  Finally got my order.  As noted on the paper wrapping the sizzling hot plate, gotta stir the food on the plate immediately.  The nice aroma is the essential part of this self-made "stir-fried" rice.  That told why the teenagers love this and wouldn't mind waiting in long line.  The ingredients weren't something special.  However, not only it saved the cost (cooking) but also some fun for the customers to stir-fry their own meal.

Sunday brunch at Lawry's HK

Lawry's offers a Sunday brunch from HK$200-320 including a red or white wine or fresh juice, a salad or soup, a main course and a coffee or tea.  This time we ordered a mix grill (lamb/steak/spring chicken/sausage) and a grilled seafood platter (lobster/prawn/salmon/sea bass/scallop/mussel/squid) and a prime rib of course.  Everything is awesome and unexpectedly fresh.  Had 2 baskets of bread too.  Nice wine and freshly squeezed juice to the appetite and aromatic coffee and tea to finish.  Highly recommended to bring your family for this brunch on weekend.

 

 

 

 

石山日本料理, Causeway Bay HK

On the bustling part of Lockhart Road behind Sogo Causeway Bay, I was brought to this home cooking place of Japanese food on the 2nd floor of a building.  The food is simple but delicious and very Japanese, from soaked tofu, radish, spinach in sesame sauce,  Grilled sticky rice cake, grilled salmon skin, and sticky rice roll.  Recommended if you wanna try some local Japanese food instead of overwhelming sashimi or tepanyaki.