Showing posts with label New Territories - Shatin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Territories - Shatin. Show all posts

Quartet Cookies 曲奇四重奏 - Best Palmier in HK

★★★★★ 
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I am going to kick start my 2013 blog post with a short view on my favourite cookie shop - Quartet Cookies. To be exact, it is their buttery and flaky palmier that I am crazy for.


A side story from Quartet Cookies, I want to talk about Jenny's Bakery for a bit. During the Chinese New Year, people (especially people from China) were mad crazy about getting Jenny's Bakery for gifts. Somehow Jenny's Bakery appears to them that it is the best food souvenir to get in Hong Kong. I heard there was a crazy period where there was absolutely no way for people to buy cookies from Jenny's Bakery and that they have made enough money to take a few months off. Anyway, my point was that my family got a few of Quartet palmier as gifts for my relatives.

Heavenly Chocolixir - Godiva Dark Chocolate Decadence

After playing around in the Snoopy Park under the hot sun, I was desperate to get a freezing cold drink. Remembering there is a Godiva Shop around, I couldn't wait to go and get a drink there.


Having heard of how great the drink is, I chose a safe option of Dark Chocolate Decadence out of raspberry, white chocolate and a new flavour, green tea white chocolate. I was a bit scared of trying green tea white chocolate flavour after having the new Kit Kat Chocolate a while ago, and its shocking sweetness are still making a great impact on me. Upon ordering, I requested using skimmed milk instead of full fat milk to blend my chocolate drink, and surprisingly, GODIVA doesn't provide that healthier choice at all! I understand how full fat milk can make everything taste better, but chocolate, full fat milk and whip cream? I wasn't so sure. Anyhow, I would not take away the whip cream as the chocolixir looks better with one lol.

紀文 | The Smallest Deep Fried Prawn Ever...

My friend and I decided to have our lunch in Shatin’s food court as we could discuss and plan our coming up Japan trip in the open seating area. The food court was very squished that it was pretty hard to find a spot to sit on. What's good about the food cout is that cleaning ladies were very efficient in cleaning up the tables.

I went around the food court, trying to find some less oily food. There weren’t much choice available in the food court, mostly fried food. Later I found 紀文 and judging by the food models on its display, I decided to give it a try. I ordered Deep Fried Prawn Curry Rice.


King Pizza Tuesday | Homemade Pizza Is The Best

When we were on our way to Ikea to have some lovely Swedish Meatballs, walking along the shaded pavement, a big billboard with a big red word "Pizza" caught our sight and hold our attention. A pizza place in this kind of village-like place should be pretty homey. Out of curiosity, we went over and checked what people were having, and the pizzas looked pretty appealing, and we decided to pay a visit next time.

So on an extraordinary sunny day, we went back to this little pizza shop, feeling all excited to try their pizzas! Sweating our ways along the pavement, we formally arrived the restaurant and asked for a seating. You could literally oversee the whole tiny restaurant at a glance and the indoor air conditioned room is all packed up. So we sat ourselves at a table under the big sun umbrella in the outdoor area. Well, enjoying the sun once in a while wasn't that bad I guess.

A cheerful waitress came over and handed us the menu. Tiny as the restaurant is, they do have an English menu, well done! We thought the restaurant's name was simply Pizza at first, but we later learned the real name from the Menu where it says "King Pizza Tuesday". King Pizza Tuesday provides a wide range of set combos to choose from. Although the combos are presetted, they are actually very flexible. Since most of the pastas and snacks are of the same price, you could always change or add extra money to get anything you want from the menu. The pizza either comes in 8" or 13" with a amusing price of $52 and 123 approximately. One interesting gimmick is they used different countries' flag to present their pizza as well as the ingredients they contained.