Magnolia Bakery Valentines' Day goodies

Happy Valentines' Day!

Wishing you were here....

Valentines' day

I'm in love...


Go to Bake it in a cake

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

Happy Mothers' Day!

Doesn't looking at these Baked by Melissa cupcakes just make you feel goooood?!? Cupcakes for breakfast? Everyday and forever...

The World's 50 Best Restuarant Awards

A few local Hong Kong restaurants made the top 50-100 places in the list:

No. 53 L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon
(No. 55 Robuchon A Galera in Macau)
No. 59 Lung King Heen at Four Seasons Hong Kong
No. 65 Bo Innovation
No. 90 Amber at the Mandarin Oriental, Landmark
No. 96 Cepage by Les Amis

A notable new entry, at no. 45, was wd~50 in NYC.

Check out the full list here.

Corton NYC (Revisited)

Remember this restaurant where people are not allowed to take photographs? Well either this policy was not in place when these photographs were taken or they treat different people, well, differently.Here's a picture of one of their famous desserts (the brioche) found using google images:

Daikiya 大喜屋日本料理

The latest Japanese restaurant to hit Central. The Supreme Sushi Set ($178). It was accompanied by a small bowl of udon, chawanmushi, salad, miso shiru (soupu) and a choice of hot/cold coffee or ice cream.

Daikiya
中環蘭桂坊威靈頓街2-8號M886樓
3107 1117

Joe's Burger

Joe's Burger was apparently voted the best burger in Queens. Nehhhhh it was okay..."You know what they say, once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger" Lady GagaFast food is not fast food without a huge serving of cheeeeeeeese
Give me Shake' Em Buns any day. The patties at Joes' were a bit dry.

Shake 'Em Buns
Shop No. 6, 60 Johnston Road, Wan Chai (Entrance at Ship Street)
G/F, 5 Hoi Ping Road, Causeway Bay
M/G, 76 Wellington Street, Central

Tim Ho Wan Dim Sim Restaurant 添好運點心專門店

Everybody has heard of this Michelin 1-star restaurant, famed for being the cheapest Michelin starred restaurant in the world. The chef used to make dim sum at Four Seasons’ Lung King Hin (龍景軒). The Line....
The menu....The Beef Cheong Fun - waht luet luet!Wasabi flavored Tomato & Fish Springroll - the orangey filling looked and tasted weird, much like wrapping a ketchup covered fish finger in Springroll pastryThe FAMOUS BBQ pork buns lived up to expectations!This was the bambi (deer) tendon. Worth a try, tasted abit like Cheong fun...Ha gao - These were abit dry Beef ball with ancient mandarin peel - juicy and full of flavor Siu Mai - The pork inside was chopped not diced which gave it extra flavourThe $36 truffle milk pudding. The combination was just wrong. Lots of pieces of truffle which really ought to have been sprinkled onto scrambled eggs!The experience:
1. Arrive at 9:53am on a lovely Saturday morning to line up for some dim sum
2. Receive ticket no. 28 at 10:04am, was asked to return in TWO hours time and to call them frequently to check the no. they are up to.
3. 11:15am... bored in Mong kok...the ticket number called at the time was 8...
4. 12:15pm... still bored in Mong kok...
5: 12:35pm... BINGO (and hear people get told that all 130 tickets for the early session (10am-4pm) had been handed out, try again at 4pm!!)

Tim How Wan
Shop 8, 2-20 Kwong Wa Street,
Mong Kok, Kowloon
旺角廣華街2-20號翠園大樓2期地下8號舖
852 2332 2896