TWENTY FIVE: Tasting Journey #133 - HK Trip - 泰昌餅家, 小甜谷, Lab Made 分子雪糕專門店, 東薈城金滬庭

泰昌餅家
香港中環擺花街35號地下
852.2544.3475
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=5522

Busy pastry shop. We tried their egg tart and preserved-egg pastry:
Egg tart isn't anything special.
Preservedegg pastry is interesting in the sense that it's a very unique taste - a whole egg wrapped in crispy puff. You have to really like the taste of preserved egg to enjoy this. I had one bite and had to give it away.

小甜谷
香港大坑書館街10-11B地下
852.2882.6133
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=26948

Dessert parolour offering asian desserts similar to Hui Lau Shan as well as western ice-cream and slushes.
We abruptly stopped by this place because we were tired, sweaty, and in urgent need of AC.
The dessert's not bad, but slightly pricey.

Lab Made 分子雪糕專門店
香港大坑布朗街6號地下
852.2670.0071
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=106775

Ice-cream reinvented. The new hype in the dessert world where they create different ice-cream flavours by freezing the ingredient with liquid nitrogen while blending.

I think it is just a temporary hype, as it is nothing extra-ordinary other than a show, and a nice presentation.

Offering only 4 flavours, the cafe (or reallly, a small shop) is tiny with no 5 seating spaces. People ate while standing as the portion is small, and you can finish it in 5min.

東薈城金滬庭
東涌達東路20號東薈城1樓211號舖
852.2625.9008
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=15561

Amazing, amazing Shanghainese food in City Gate Mall.
All the dishes we tried were so rich and flavourful with depth and pleasant surprises.
The garlic green beans are marinated so well that the garlic essentially has been infused into the bean.
The spicey chicken (口水雞) has always been my sister's most favourite, spicey to the taste, but not the buds.
The salted egg tofu (黃金豆腐) was jaw-dropping, saliva dripping good. Soft tofu deep fried in salted egg yolk. Such a perfect dish to chow down bowls after bowls of rice.
I don't recommend ordering the jelly fish as it's slightly over cooked.