Cafe&Meal MUJI, Hopewell Centre, Wan Chai

We stopped by (G/F, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road Central, Wan Chai, tel : +852 3971 3280) for something light. A tomato & bonito broth which was a perfect light meal for a break from all the recent good eating and a hibiscus & white peach mousse cake. The latter had a piece of real peach inside while the mousse was peachy, milky and lightweight.

A bowl of macaroni lunch from Wai Kee Noodle Cafe

I didn't even know how to order this so I had to use a picture from the internet to do it. The quantity of livers that they gave today was more than I had been expecting. Say, did anyone realise that the broth is noticeably less salty for the macaroni compared to the noodles?

A slice of pizza from Paisano's

I had seen Paisano's several times over the past few years and I got curious about their large sliced New York styled pizzas. We stopped by the shop at Mongkok (43 Dundas Street) for a quick snack and here's their bacon cheeseburger pizza slice. With bits of bacon, ground beef and cheddar cheese. The portions of those ground beef was pathetic.

How was it? This still had the dried oregano and canned/jarred tomato sauce flavour that I grew up eating which I don't quite like these days. And in spite of that orange cheesy look, the dominant flavour was still that tomato sauce. But otherwise it's a solid thin crusted pie that was quite edible. I wouldn't mind if I could get them for home delivery once in a while. 

The Ichiban Mega Don from Yoshinoya

Believe it or not, I had been wanting to check out Yoshinoya in Hong Kong from the last time I was at Yuen Long where noticed a particular outlet with a mountain of steaming beef in a cauldron destined for their gyudon. We managed come by one in Mongkok for a breakfast this time around even though we were kinda disappointed that the outlets here didn't feature that huge pot. But we did land ourselves a large bowl instead in the form of their Ichiban Mega Don. 

This has got to be the best Yoshinoya experience we've ever had by virtue of their beef bowl. The portions of the savoury sliced beef were generous and the meat wasn't dried out from all the cooking. I sure hope this is a permanent item on their menu.

La Cabane Wine Bistro, Hollywood Road, Central

I had read about this French hole-in-the-wall-ish bistro (62 Hollywood Road, Central, tel : +852 2776 6070) before and the name had registered because I had found them interesting. But it's been pretty much out of mind until we stumbled past their entrance while wandering around Central deciding on dinner. It was between Ho Lee Fook or this and since I'm writing this, it doesn't take Sherlock to figure out whoich place won.

While waiting for the food and people/vehicle watching, a lightweight floral French beer with a funny looking cat to pass the time. If you have had Kronenbourg Blanc, this bottle tasted pretty much like it.

We had a beef tartare with polenta fries. The tartare was deliciously spiced, nicely hand chopped and disappeared into our bellies in short order. There was just a good amount of different flavours going on from the spices and capers and sauces. While we were no experts on beef tartare, we knew this was good.

Next up was braised rabbit leg with nettle risotto. There was a pungent cheese that they had used for the rice and man it was good. I actually liked the risotto more than the rabbit leg which tasted much like chicken if you didn't already know.

And because we saw boudin noir (blood sausage) burgers on the board, we had to have it.

Savoury and unctuous with a pâté-like flavour, the blood sausages were sliced and fried before being tucked into toasted mini sesame seed buns.

Kam's Roast Goose (甘牌燒鵝), Hennessy Road, Wan Chai

There's a story to be read on Kam's Roast Goose (G/F, Po Wah Commercial Center, 226 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, tel : +852 5408 7740) as the owners are the third generation of the family that started/owns the famous (and overrated if I might add) Yung Kee. But that's a tale to be dispensed by Google. We were here because we had heard about them and wanted to try another brand of roast goose that was reputed to be good.

Even though the name of the shop says roasted goose, Kam's whips up the standard variety of Cantonese roasts. The geese are of course what they are known for. At least for tourist like myself. To avoid waxing lyrical, these were good. It definitely held up as good roast goose as far as I could tell and if there was to be a little criticism, I thought that the ones at Yat Lok had a slightly more flavoursome skin.

That's a bowl of light flavourful broth with geese blood curds and fresh garlic chives. The textures of those blood curds were pleasantly springy.

Their char siew looked good hanging so we ordered a portion. This stuff was also pretty good. In fact, if I had to make a comparison with the other one Michelin starred roast goose shop, this one was ahead by a significant mile. But to be fair, the style of the barbecued pork here was bolstered by the honey glaze and caramelization while the other one was more of they savoury type with less burnt ends.

Some creamy sliced goose livers to enrichen our already enriched cholesterol levels. I quite liked this.

After the above, we realised that we forgot about the roast pork so all the dishes above were supplemented with roast pork rice. This was also delicious. I thought that they were sliced a bit too thickly. Not complaining.