才哥蝦麵 (大角咀)

小店一間，座位不多，也只有一兩名店員。不要其望有貼身服務，但也有禮貌。有很多人買外賣。

叫了招牌蝦麵($56)及通菜魷魚($30)｡通菜魷魚先到｡通菜鮮嫩，魷魚是水魷，爽脆，配上少量熟油甜豉油，味道適中，份量也不少。

蝦麵份量不少，應該是星加玻式。雖說是手打麵，但太工整所以不像手打，但仍爽滑｡麵配有數隻鮮蝦，炸香了的蝦頭，魚片，豆腐卜，炸乾葱，半邊疍。炸蝦頭及乾葱使麵有多一種風味及口感。湯頭有濃郁蝦味。疍如果是流心疍會更邪惡……

齊體感覺良好，物有所值｡

うどん処 今助 (大角咀)

Want to try out the new restaurants nearby today, and eventually went into this one, as this is spacious and not crowded.

The menu only provided limited choices.  

Ordered Shrimp tempura udon set.  There is only one shrimp tempura.  The udon is good, very chewy.  The soup was Japanese soy sauce base, which was not particularly impressive and had MSG.  There were a few slices of beef and clams.  The clams had sands.  The set costed me HK$88, including 10% service charge.

The service is good.  However, the quality is not commensurate with the price.  

Golden Gate Cafe (銅鑼灣)

I do not know why this comment was not allowed to be published. All I know is that numerous published reports concern how bad was a particular place, which was so bad that the authors left without patronising the place and thus the reports containing nothing about food. Certainly, I respect authority of this forum in allowing or disallowing someone to write something.

Went there to have a drink after dinner with a friend whom I have not met for more than 20 years together with 2 other friends.

We chosed this place but it turned out to be a bad choice.

Apart from a friend who needed to drive and ordered 2 glasses of virgin colada during our 3 hours stay, all of us ordered Guinness Stout, a total of 7 bottles. As Guinness is bottled drink, they all taste the same and I have no comment. I am not interested to taste my friend's virgin colada.

Guess how much we ended up to pay? $660!!! It is more expensive than Dickens in Excelsior!!!

Patrons in the bar keep smoking cigarettes.

Will never come to this place again.

Spasso Italian Bar & Restaurant (尖沙咀)

A friend of mine invited my family for dinner at this place. It turned out that there was something more than dinner, but that is another story...

Anyway, I was busily engaging in something else, and took no part in chosing my dish, or even had a look on the menu. The She Who Must be Obeyed made all the decisions for me and ordered roast suckling pig for me.

I must confess that I don't know roast suckling pig is also part of the Italian cuisine. From the size of the pig, it must be indeed a very little suckling pig (and I feel really sorry for the little piggie....). It is very different from the Chinese style for sure. There is no seasoning at the inside of the pig. Beside, the meat is much joicy than the Chinese style. The skin is thin and crispy, and similar to the "glass skin" of the Chinese style. It tasted a lot of lighter than the Chinese style.

A waitress waited our table. She knew the menu well, and was able to switch to Putonghua channel immediately when she found out that one of us is a mainland putonghua speaking person. She showed a little impatient when the mainland friends asked for something "unusual" for a western restaurant but yet, she had nevertheless tried to accommodate the mainland friends. As other top-end western restaurant, she also came and asked for our comments after we finished our dinner. She told us that the restaurant may stop serving suckling pig as the restaurant may review its menu.

As I was not paying, I don't know how much, but I don't think it will be cheap...

自煮食材 (長洲)

My family and two other families went to this place for lunch. We have altogether 4 adults and 5 kids. We came in at tea time, but we were so hungry that we all ordered lunch sets. Most of them ranged from $40 to $50. I have ordered cold soba with deep fried fish fingers. The appearance of the soba was great. One could see that the chef was serious in preparing his food. The soba was great, chewy and not soggy, chilled on ice in a bowl, with the sauce served in another bowl with ice as well. However, the sauce was not soba source. It was rather like diluted soybean sauce. The noodle came as a great relief for the hot summer day. We ended up spending something like $360.

The service is fine.