Day 6 - Pop-up Food Festival, Ichiran, Sailor Moon Dim Sum
- Nov 24, 2018
- 6 min read
Started the day off with breakfast at Ichiran Ramen! The store at where I stayed, Causeway Bay, operates 24hrs! It was so so good! Just the broth and noodles are good enough, that’s how good it was! Next, I went to Tong Chong Street Market, an annual pop-up market that is available only every Sunday, from now till next year February. This month’s theme was COFFEE, awesome! It features various brands of coffee and various types of coffee, as well as some innovative food, merchandises and a game station. What captured my attention was Grassman’s Latte in a Cookie Cup, and Vitasoy. The cookie cup was rimmed with dark chocolate, as well as the inside, then sprinkled with hundreds and thousands. The coffee is not that good, and the chocolate started to melt with the heat from the coffee, it starts to taste more like mocha. But since it’s a street market, it’s innovation that matters, and not quality. Loveramics was there as one of merchandise sponsors, selling their pretty latte glasses at just HK$20 each! To promote environment friendly, reducing the use of paper cups.
Ichiran Ramen 一兰拉面
Shop F-I, Lockhart House Block A, 440 Jaffe Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
24 hours (daily)
MTR: Causeway Bay Station Exit C
#1: Ichiran Ramen.
#2: Traditional ramen stores are always individual seating, so as to reduce distractions and focus entirely on savouring the ramen.
#3: Individual seating.
#4: Ichiran Ramen 一兰拉面, HK$89 (comes with 2pcs chasiu and scallions. You can adjust the saltiness of the broth, hardness of noodles and the spicy level).
Additional set of toppings, HK$60 (comes with 2pcs seaweed, black fungus, 3pcs chasiu and 1 ramen egg. These pieces of chasiu are of a better cut and are much tender than the ones given with the ramen).
Tong Chong Street Market 糖厂街市
Tong Chong Street, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
1100-1700hrs (Sun), Closed on Mon-Sat
MTR: Quarry Bay Exit A
#5: Tong Chong Street Market.
#6: Tong Chong Street Market.
#7: Vitasoy is joining the coffee game too!
#8: Menu of Grassman (one of the booths).
#9: Latte in Cookie Cup, HK$55.
Next, went back to Kam Wah to try their French Toast and reordered the Satay Beef Sandwich, as it was so good! This time round I remembered to order with egg (+HK$3) and get it toasted (+HK$2). The additional fried egg and toasting really do make the sandwich even more tasty! The Hong Kong style French Toast is made in a different way - 2pcs of egg dipped bread with peanut butter filling, then fried.
Kam Wah Café & Bakery 金华冰厅
45 Bute Street, Prince Edward, Hong Kong
0630-0000hrs (daily)
MTR: Mongkok Station Exit B3
#10: French Toast 西多士, HK$20.
#11: Satay Beef and Egg Sandwich 沙爹牛肉蛋三文治, HK$25.
On my way to Ladies Market, passed by a Chinese medicine shop and got some candies and Peppa Pig snacks for my nephews. Things at Ladies Market are so expensive! I wanted to get some Hong Kong souvenirs here but all so expensive! Starting price is always 3-digit! HK$100 is already SG$17.70. Only got some toys for my nephews. After exiting Ladies Market, passed by this Hong Kong brand boba tea shop, Dakasi Tea. Their Brown Sugar Boba Milk has a star drawn on it using brown sugar syrup. But sorry, the taste and the bobas lose to all the big players. Xing Fu Tang still the best!
Ladies Market 女人街
Tung Choi Street, Mongkok, Hong Kong
1600-0000hrs (daily)
MTR: Mongkok Station Exit E2
Dakasi Tea 大卡司
Shop 3, 53-55 Dundas Street, Mongkok, Hong Kong
1200-2330hrs (daily)
MTR: Yau Ma Tei Station Exit A2
#12: Dakasi Tea.
#13: It looks kind of pretty and unique, but it taste just normal. Cannot compare with the big players!
Went to Dim Sum Icon for dinner. This place serves pretty and cute dimsum in rotating themes, and the theme during this trip is Sailor Moon! The dim sum here is a lot more expensive than standard dim sum places, but lots of effort is put into designing and making the food! Dim sum is not an easy cuisine in the first place, small and delicate. Plus, the food does not only look pretty, it taste great too! Honestly, I only knew Sailor Moon and none of the remaining characters. So learnt something new during this meal! Got the Luna and Artemis Custard Lava Buns, 5-characters Scallop and Prawn Chee Cheong Fun, 5-colour Har Gow, and the Sailor Mercury Blueberry Ice Blended. The 5-colour Har Gow represents each colour of the 5 sailors, and I didn’t expect them to be of 5 different flavours as well! So much effort!
Dim Sum Icon 点心代表
L308, L3, The ONE, 100 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
1100-2300hrs (daily)
MTR: Tsim Sha Tsui Station Exit B1 or B2
#14: Dim Sum Icon.
#15: Sailor Moon theme!
#16: [From top to bottom, left to right]
Luna and Artemis Custard Lava Buns, Luna 和 Artemis 流沙包, HK$59
Sailor Mercury Blueberry Ice Blended, Sailor Mercury 蓝莓冰沙, HK$49
Pretty Guardian Shrimp Dumplings 美少女战士五色鲜虾饺, HK$89
Pretty Guardian Steamed Rice Rolls with Shrimps and Scallops 美少女战士鲜虾带子猪肠粉, HK$69
Pink - Prawns Green - Prawns with Chives Blue - Prawns with Seaweed Red - Chilli Prawns Yellow - Prawns with Sambal Dried Shrimp (hae bee hiam)
After which, popped by Hanjuku Kobo to get some palmiers! Palmier is a kind of butterfly-shaped sweet French pastry that has also became an iconic item of Hong Kong. You almost don't see anyone selling palmiers in Singapore. I first try it when Maxim (美心)'s mooncakes and pastries were brought in during Mid-Autumn Festival many years ago. It was so good, I ate like 4 boxes of palmiers in a row! Hanjuku Kobo offers palmiers in 7 amazing flavours - original, purple sweet potato, salted egg, earl grey, chocolate, black sesame and matcha! They all taste so damn good! If you are one that is in for strong flavours, go for salted egg and matcha. The original flavour is rolled in with white sugar, so it is a little sweet. My favourite was salted egg!
Hanjuku Kobo 半熟工房
6A Cameron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
1200-2130hrs (daily)
MTR: Tsim Sha Tsui Station Exit B2
#17: Pretty Palmiers 蝴蝶酥 from Hanjuku Kobo! HK$100 for 15pcs (can't remember how much is it for per pc).
Following after, I walked down to Uji-En, another matcha themed cafe. The desserts here are so expensive, gosh! Had a hard time deciding what to get as the items are in Japanese names and do not come with any explanations. Asked the server about it and he wasn't sure about the items as well and couldn't even explain what the dessert contains. Like what?!! Finally, I decided to get the matcha soft serve with fruits and kanten. I'm like what is kanten??
So the item finally came and kanten is actually jellies. The whole bowl was filled with this tasteless jellies! The soft serve also has a very milky and mild matcha taste. I feel like I kind of wasted my money and time on this dessert, I could have gone to another matcha cafe! Plus, the servers aren't providing much help and just gathering together to chat. Why is this place even recommended? I will STRONGLY NOT recommended this place!
Uji-En 宇治园
Shop 4201-2K, 4/F, Gateway Arcade, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
1000-2200hrs (daily)
MTR: East Tsim Sha Tsui Exit L5
#18: Matcha Anmitsu, HK$78.
Rates calculated as SG$1 = HK$5.65
Expenses for Day 6
Ichiran Ramen HK$89
+HK$60 for addtional toppings - 3pcs Chasiu, 2pcs Seaweed, 1 Ramen Egg and a side of Black Fungus
Tong Chong Street Market, Latte in Cookie Cup HK$55
Loveramics Latte Glass HK$20
Kam Wah Cafe, Iced Ovaltine HK$19
Satay Beef and Egg Sandwich HK$23
+HK$2 toasted
French Toast HK$20
Peppa Pig Gummy HK$20 Peppa Pig Biscuits HK$6 x2 Lollipop with Popping Candy HK$7 x2 Ladies Market, Iron Man Nerf Gun and Mask HK$130 Spiderman Transformer Toy Car HK$79 Captain America Transformer Toy Car HK$79 Dakasi Tea, Brown Sugar Boba Milk HK$28 Dim Sum Icon, Five Colour Har Gow HK$89 Five Characters Scallop and Prawn Chee Cheong Fun HK$69 (5pcs) Luna and Artemis Custard Lava Buns HK$59 (2pcs) Sailor Mercury Blueberry Ice Blended HK$49
Hanjuku Kobo HK$100 (15pcs)
Uji-En, Matcha Anmitsu HK$78
Total Expenses for Day 6: HK$994 = SG$175.93 Previous Expenses: SG$1,530.19 Current Total Expenses: SG$1,706.12
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