Campers - Homey Japanese Food

Price: $

Cravingness: ★★☆☆☆

I saw an Instagram feed earlier this week on a drooling looking curry dish, with title "Slow Cook Short rib Beef Curry". Hmmm sounds yum, asked where it is and turned out to be Campers, a homestyle Japanese restaurant at Quarry Bay.

Harlan Goldstein's Comfort - New Casual Dinning Experience!

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆1/2

I have a rather complex feelings on Harlan Goldstein's latest opening Comfort at where Strip House was once located. I mourn for the temporary closure of Strip House, but I am also elated to try a new casual dining experience created by Harlan! At Comfort, you do not need to care about the "smart casual" dress code or worry about the extravagance environment that urges you to behave. In Comfort, as it's name suggested, it is a restaurant aims to provide a causal environment to bring comfort ambiance and food to all diners.

Sun King Yuen Curry Restaurant - Wanna drink some cooking oil?

Price: $

Cravingness: ★★★☆☆

Lunch at Sun King Yuen Curry, Wanchai today after my doctor appointment. Sun King Yuen is famous for their signature Curry Pork Chop Rice and Stir Fried Beef Flat Noodles.

Lunch hours are mad crazy here at Sun King Yuen Curry. Since there is no system for dine in waiting or for take away orders, everyone just stands and blocks the front door in case the reception lady forgets them. To be totally honest, I truly admire the lady's strong memory although I hate how the system works in here. In the end, she did remember me and I got sit pretty soon.

Coco Ichibanya - Sudden Curry Crave

Price: $

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

Recently opened in Megabox, Coco Ichibanya finally brought some good news to the hungry working group in Kowloon Bay. As usual, I went after the lunch hour to skip the crazy queue, I ordered the Roasted Duck Curry and topped my favourite Cream Croquette as a side.

Fatty Crab - Finger Licking Good!

Price: $$$

Cravingness: ★★★★☆

Fatty Crab, originated from United Stated is the new restaurant and bar offering South East Asian cuisine on Old Bailey Street, Central. Bringing over many spectacular dishes like Chili Crab, Fatty Duck and Pickled Tomato and Pork Belly from NYC,  along with the amazing bar offering unique and interesting cocktails list, Fatty Crab is going to be the next big hit in Hong Kong.

Inspired by Malaysian, Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese cuisine, be prepare to have your palette spiced by the Fatty Crab's dishes. Flavourful, robust, sweet and spicy are what you will find in here. Even cocktails that I had tonight infused with ingredients such as ginger syrup, lime juice, thai basil etc. Fatty Crab is indeed an exotic dinning experience.

Izumi Curry - Look Does Not Necessarily Equate Taste

★★☆☆☆

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Izumi Curry was on my to try list since it was opened in TST Sogo. The hype was huge back then, but I still do not have the urge to go all the way to Tsim Sha Tsui just for a plate of curry. It was until today I that I went and was excited about it.

I was seated on the side brunch even though there are tables available, but it was quite nice since i can face the street view from the window. The menu choice was vast, but it wasn't hard to figure out what I want.

Panda | Hip Curry Resto But Would Not Try Twice

Panda Japanese Homestyle Curry
G/F,94 Tung Lo Wan Road, Tai Han
☏ 2503-5888
Date of Dinning: 25 JUN 2011 (Sat)
Price: $100 - $150

Saturday 3pm we were planning to late lunch at Daruma Ramen House at Tai Hang, but found it was closed (idle hours). Under the hot sun, we decided to go anywhere that would take us instantly, and here we go at Panda Curry. There weren't any lunch/ tea sets available so we had to order a la carte at menu price.

The interior decor was pretty cool and modern. There was a huge panda figure hanging on the ceiling which didn't seem very safe and seemingly would fall any minute. The sofa booster was extremely uncomfortable, overly soft and u felt sinking the minute you seat down. We changed to another table with wooden chair.

Wing's Catering | Just a BBQ-alike Chicken

I had been longing to dine in Wing's Catering for long, and finally I had my chance tonight. Wing's Catering was just right next to Mackie Kitchen on Caroline Hill Road, which I was excited to find out upon my last visit to Mackie Kitchen.

There wasn't much people dinning on a Monday evening, lots of tables were vacant. The waiters were having their dinner at the customer's table (isn't most staffs usually eat in the kitchen?) and the waiter gave me a weird look when I entered the restaurant. The elder waitress was very friendly and eagerly introduced their dinner sets to us, so we took that without much thoughts.

Sabah | Lunch Wasn't As Good

One of my new colleagues wrote a list of restaurants that she wanted to try in Wanchai and showed me during lunch, Sabah was at the top of the list. Coincidentally I read that Sabah's Buk Kuy Teh (Meat Bone Tea) was quite nice but I still had not tried it once, so I suggested going there.

Lunch hours was so much packer than weekday's Dinner time. There was several tables waiting, but the wait wasn't that long, I guess we waited for 5-10 minutes max.

Sala Thai | Bad Food Nice Decor

It was almost 2 months since I last posted anything, sorry about that. My sister is getting married too soon that I have to keep up my shape, so I have been slimming my ass off lately. Anyway I do occasionally eat out, I was just a bit lazy to update my post. (Oops, busted!)

I went to Element today as I got rather sick hanging around in Causeway Bay. I need some walking space and less Chinese travelers. (Sadly there are lots of them in Element too.) Finally we went to Sala Thai.

Curry Bee - Deteriorating Food Quality at

Missing the Japanese curry this Sunday afternoon and feeling the laziness, we decided to stick in Causeway for lunch. Curry Bee came straight to our mind and there we went our lunch.

We didn't expect a line at this late lunch hour but there was a line in front of the main Bee at Jaffe Road. I remembered there was another store at the basement of Sogo, so we went there instead. Yet we saw a longer line waiting. Oh ya, there was this frequent on sale in Sogo that brought this crowds. We have no choice but to wait in line then.

I was elated that we had a corner seat after the wait! I always love corner seat, only in that arrangement you could feel the intimacy and privacy with the love one you are dinning with.

Sun King Yuen | Curry Time!

Time for some curry! My friend who worked nearby mentioned this store ever since she knew I started working in Wanchai area. As I was around the area today, I went to check it out.

The restaurant was quite easy to find. If you went out from the exit for the Southorn Playground, make a left turn, cross the street and went straight into the street adjacent the parallel road and there you will see Sun King Yuen Curry Restaurant on your left. The restaurant was smaller than I thought and was quite packed. Luckily there were two seats available, so no waiting was needed.

Coco Ichibanya in Hong Kong!

A week or so after my Japan trip, I suddenly found Coco Ichibanya's name appeared on Openrice.com! I immediately clicked into the link and read a few reviews before ensuring it was the same Coco Ichibanya that I had in Japan. Since I had this sudden mood in trying my mum's new car out, I suggested driving there for lunch.

We parked our car in APM, and went a long way through the MTR to find out we could literally walked to the Crocodile Center through APM. By the time we arrived, there wasn't a lot of people in Coco Ichibanya, (which was already 4pm.) so there was no queue outside the restaurant. The setting was a bit different from the ones in Japan. I guess it was because the restaurants in Kwun Tong was more spaceous, so bar seating which could be found in most Coco Ichibanya Japan, was unnecessary . The colour theme was still the same vivid yellow and black. The menu was also exactly the same as the one in Japan, except every word is now in a more familar language, Chinese and English.

Chilli Thai | Attack the Thai Puff Pastry Chicken

Green Curry with Chicken with Puff Pastry on Chicken Pot

I wanted Thai. I was thinking about a safe choice like Simply Thai, but I figured maybe I should try something new and hence I chose Chilli Thai Restaurant. We arrived the restaurant at 9pm but there were still people queuing in front of the restaurant. While we were waiting, the waitress approached us, told us that our seat would be ready in a minute and whether we would like to order first. As we had checked the food on the menu earlier while we waited, we ordered straight away. The total waiting time was about 15 minutes, but it was fine as there were a cooling fan outside the restaurant to provide a cool breeze.

The food had started to serve to us before we sat warm our seat. Everything came so promptly, the dishes were all packed together in a small 2-people table. The waiter, seemingly the manager or some sort of higher level staff noticed the scene, pulled and combined the table next to us immediately to give us more space. Very thoughtful of him, I was very impressed.