On a lovely Sunday afternoon, I went to Island Plaza with my mom. I was pretty hungry at that time and we didn’t know where go for lunch, there’s only Forum Chinese Restaurant, KFC, Starbucks, Coffee Bean and Dome at Island Plaza. I didn’t want to eat Chinese food or fried chicken, so in the end went to Dome for lunch.

To be honest, this was my first time eating out at Dome, never been into any Dome cafe before.

Well, the cafe was pretty nice, but somehow I like the feel of Starbucks Coffee more. It’s quiet on that day, there’s only like 4 tables include mine were occupied. Flipped through the menu and it’s all western food. I ordered a glass of Vienna coffee. The serving was nice, I like the cream on top flowing out and the glass, very cool. It’s now something different from Starbuck’s. I like this.

As for my lunch, I ordered a Lasagne. I was excited when I saw the cheese melting on top of the beef. Western food’s serving is always small but the smallnest did fill my stomach much. Although the cheese seems a lot, somehow the tomato taste are stronger than the cheese. So far, in my life, I didn’t tried Lasagne of many place before, and this was not bad, though the price was a little bit high at around RM20.

Do you like lasagne?

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I have visited Chili’s Grill Bar and Restaurant last Thursday at Gurney Plaza to celebrate a birthday for my friend and it’s also a little farewell gathering. It was my 2nd time visiting to Chili’s, the first time was one year ago and now I am there again.

It’s a restaurant from United State and offering Mexican-American food. We spent half an hour looking at the menu and did not know what to eat and in the end, we asked for the recommendation from the chef.

As for starter, we got a Triple Dipper. It has chicken wings, eggrolls and another one taste like prawn or tempura. From what the menu, it says Chicken Crispers, Boneless Buffalo Wings and Southwestern Eggrolls. I like the chicken wing and I like the egg roll, it’s nice when dipping it in the honey-mustard sauce and blue cheese.

This is not a dish or ice cream or salad. It’s actually the sour cream, guacamole, cheddar cheese, pico de gallo. I don’t what’s that all except the greens taste like Chinese’ salted vegetable. All these are to eat with the fajitas.

From the menu, there’s a recommeded logo on the Mushroom Jack Fajitas but I did not order that because I’ve tried it before last time. This time, I ordered something different and it’s the combo sizzling fajitas. It has beef and chicken and also vegetable. It’s a little bit like tepanyakki but this is quite nice. Though, I prefer Mushroom Jack Fajitas because it has mushroom. I love mushrooms. =)

Lastly, the 2nd main course is the Fajita Quesadillas which is chicken and steak with grilled onions and some chesse in the toasted tortillas. It’s different from the combo fajita because that one is you wrap yourself and this is already in it. The tortilla is a bit like the Malay’s chapati but this is nicer. =)

Tips by email2me :

When you go chilis, you should order the tortilla chips with the cold salsa sauce dip. UNLIMITED REFILL !!! EAT ALL YOU CAN!!! at a flat price RM9.90 Sauce and Chip both unlimited

Then order one unlimited sodas or juice …… one big bags of straw …. whole party can share ….. this is the lamest I can think of. But who cares …. nowadays economy are bad you know …. lol

When you are going to Hong Kong, there’s a dessert shop that you must visit and it is Hui Lao Shan 许留山 (mandarin:xu3 liu2 shan1; cantonese:hoi2 lao3 shan4). It’s a very famous desert chain store in Hong Kong and you can find it at a lot of places in Hong Kong.

What they are famous for is their mango smoothy. A lot of mango cutlet, has a mango flavoured ice cream and taste very sweet.

Here’s a bird nest with coconut milk. It’s hot and not that bad. However, it taste more coconut then bird nest. I prefer ordering the fruit based dessert.

This is the carrot cake in XO sauce and I got to tell you that I like this so much. Delicious but then it’s small in portion. I have ate it twice when I was in Hong Kong few months back.

Lastly, we did try another light dish and it is the curry beef offal 牛杂 (cantonese:ngao3zhap2). It taste too much of curry powder and I still like the XO carrot cake more than this.

Price of dessert and food is like 15HKD-50HKD, and yet there’s still a lot of people visit the shop. This means that they are real good. Remembered there’s a Hui Lao Shan in Singapore few years ago but then it has closed down now.

Must visit, must go when you go to Hong Kong.

It will be great if someone franchise it in Malaysia.

After a trip to Hong Kong, only now I realized that the people there loves to eat instant noodle. Almost every char chan then (their coffeeshop) serves instant noodle. The most famous and favourite of all is the instant noodle with beef and eggs or sometimes sausages. We call it Maggi/Cintan Mee here where they call theirs Gong Zai Mee (公仔面）.

A bowl of above noodles cost about HK$15. We were too hungry that time and we got no time to look for restaurants at Central already, and so we just went to the little food stall at the roof top of Queensway Plaza. Surprisingly, the place is filled with working people during tea time. It’s either noodle or buns, and I ordered a beef noodle. Never knew that it’s those instant noodle until it have been served. If it’s just plain noodle, it will not be good, but with beef and eggs, not bad.

Maybe it is the hectic life in Hong Kong, so that everything must be fast and so instant noodle it is. Taking too much of instant noodle is not good by the way.