California Pizza Kitchen (銅鑼灣)

Went to CPK again as Michelle told me that the hawaiian chciken pizza she had last week was one of the best pizza she had ever had in her life. As a big fan of pizza, i obviously have to come out for a try.

It was Wednesday night but the place was surprisingly crowded. We had waited for nearly 10 minutes in order to get a table.

We ordered the same pizza Michelle had ordered last week to see if it was as great as she described. Also, we ordered a sprite and lemon tea as we were lured by the unlimited refill.

The pizza came 20 minutes after we have made our order. The pizza definitely looked good and I have really high expectation on it as Michelle claimed it was the best pizza she had ever had. My first bite of it was quite nice. But after the 2nd and 3rd bite, I found the pizza quite dry perhaps the chef put too little tomato paste on top of the pizza crust or the pizza baked too long?? The old saying of "the higher the expectation, the bigger the disappointment" applies again!

My second disappointment was that although the waiter refill my lemon tea quite frequently, they never refill the lemon for me! It reminds me the old days in 'Shooters 52' which they only refill you the tea but never with the lemon. I found this quite a rip off as my iced lemon tea turned to be iced tea at the end of the night.

廣州點心皇 (佐敦)

行經佐敦，見到這間開張不久的廣州点心皇，於是衝入去一試。

由於一支弓關係，所以只叫了一碟牛柏葉和一砵南瓜滑雞飯。

南瓜雞飯不過不失，只是略嚴份量較小。牛柏葉則稍清，啱晒不喜好葱味過濃的朋友。点心鋪曾經開過成行成市，但大都敵不過香港昂貴的租金已結業，希望這店能打破宿命，繼續將點心工藝這傳統中國美食發揚光大。

喜運 (油麻地)

一係唔食，一食開就連續兩日都食點心。不同的是今次去了喜運。

又係食盅頭飯，今次是北姑滑雞飯。$18的盅頭飯，料出奇的足。雞肉啖啖肉，啱晒我呢類懶吐骨的人食。雞肉軟綿綿又夠juicy,比起好多大酒樓好味得多。蠔油生菜10蚊大大碟，抵過買返屋企自己煮。生菜爽口無比，證明店主選料嚴謹，不新鮮的食材絕不選用。最後上的蝦餃,一樣份量十足，絕不欺場。但當然，十多元食到的蝦餃，手工當然難跟正宗的比美。根據正宗的蝦餃定義，蝦餃是以一層澄麵皮包着一至兩隻蝦為主餡，份量大小多以一口為限。傳統的蝦餃是半月形、蜘蛛肚共有十二褶的，餡料有蝦，有肉，有筍。優質美味的蝦餃一定要皮薄而軟，如果餃皮是半透明則更佳；蝦要爽口彈牙，餃內有少量汁液，全隻餃則要夠熱為最佳。這裏的蝦餃當然不乎合上述的要求，尤其是餃皮完全不通透和晶瑩。但對我而言，十多元食到啖啖爽口蝦肉，夫復何求？

niji bistro, Noritake - Gifts (尖沙咀)

老友陳提議到尖沙咀晚膳，在open rice見此店有不少好評，一於試試。

我們一行三人order了三個main course: 1)long pizza 2)著名蛋包飯店 3）curry beef rice

最先到來的strawberry smoothie, 味道過得去，略嚴yogurt味偏重，遮蓋了士多啤利的鮮甜。

不得不稱讚這裡的蛋包飯賣相十分出色。望落去很juicy,食落去也一樣很juicy。 曰本珍珠米寧捨不同。

一向不太喜歡日式茄厘，但這裡的茄厘牛肉飯實好味。如其說是牛肉，不如說做牛扒粒較為貼切。跟我上次去wild fire叫的牛柳有異曲同工的味道。

long pizza賣相很nice,但因味道跟方間的pizza味道差不多，所以不再細評。

Beard Papa's (觀塘)

今日路經觀塘，見到了久違了的beard papa。回想自他們搬離崇光後，這趟還是首次再次幫襯他們。

見到display board 上strawberry chocolate puff賣相不錯，於是就点了一個來吃。$18的puff不會有太大的expectation，但豈知原來他跟海馬一樣打破平嘢冇好嘢的定律。第一口咬下去時我已深深的被那脆朱古力漿和puff皮俘虜了我的心靈。士多啤利的確跟朱古力十分匹配，士多啤利custard的酸甜方香剛好中和了朱古力的苦澀。

人說偷得浮生半日閒。若果每日下午我也能吃到如此優質的puff,我也不枉此生了。