ABC Food Corner, Havelock Road

A relatively new Indian Muslim food place (743 Havelock Road) has opened up just beside Pullman Bakery.

That's curried egg. It was okay.

Curried mutton was also okay.

We grabbed a Maggi prata, the lighter counterpart to the Maggi murtabak. Little reason not to pick a comfort carbo bomb of MSG ladened fried instant noodles wrapped with prata. It was textually pleasing but the flavours that were in the noodles were pretty much lost after the curry.

This Milo prata wasn't bad, just not as memorable as the Milo butter one at The Roti Prata House. For some reasons, the flavouring of food here felt a little muted. I wonder about the curry that they included for this.

A nasi padang from Changi Airport T4's Food Emporium

We were looking food late in the evening at Changi Airport's Food Emporium at Terminal 4. A number of stalls looked like they were either closed or vacant and we ended up with a plate of nasi padang from the stall that sold those. Comfort food.

This was actually much tastier than I had imagined. The sayur lodeh gravy was creamy and rich. Very decent sambal goreng and sambal kang kong which was a little fibrous. I thought the sambal on the side would have been nicer if it packed more heat but while it wasn't kickass, it wasn't a deal breaker either. It was already quite a steal at $4.

This must have been my first meatless nasi padang.

Zheng Dou (正斗粥麵專家) at HKIA

I guess it's obvious that eating at the airport means the end. Of this trip that is. Before we boarded our flight back, we decided to fuel up with some real food from Zheng Dou (7/F, Departures East Hall, Terminal 1, Hong Kong International Airport) which we've eaten before some years back. That's char siew and roasted goose rice. We requested for breast meat for the goose. Very satisfying. Both the barbecued pork and roasted goose were tender and well flavoured.

On the side, a serving of tasty siu yuk. Or is that siu yoke.

And a bowl of sui gao soup which wasn't too bad as well.

It seemed that this shop is related to Ho Hung Kee.

The luncheon meat bun from A-1 Bakery

Came across these at the MTR outlet of the bakery.

Was drawn to them by the thick chunky slice of luncheon meat wedged in the bun.

There's suppose to be black pepper mayo but that mayo was so dry and curdled looking that it might have been black pepper cream cheese. The answer to the unasked question was yes, bun was delicious.

Pork chop rice from Tai Hing

Hmmmm....this pork chop rice from Tai Hing was pretty good. The chop was crusted with the flavour of caramelized soy sauce and the meat was tender. Not to mention the splashes of soy sauce with the molten yolk-ed fried eggs which definitely upped the ante. I had the impression that I liked the one at For Kee better but it's been a while and at this point, I cannot be sure.

Shake Shack, IFC, HK Central

So we succumbed to the siren call of Shake Shack (Shop 4018, Podium Level 4, ifc mall, 8 Finance Street, Central) and their beefy bacon-y aroma. This wasn't planned by the way. For some reasons I still couldn't quite fathom, I wanted to try their hamburgers. Maybe it's to taste the beef without all the creamy salty cheese.

I like it better with cheese.

I thought the patties were a little too lightly salted. More salt would definitely have made them tastier. On the other hand - the pickles, onions and tomato came through without the cheese. But this would likely be a one off and only the ShackBurger for me in the future.

That Monkey King ale from Moonzen - it was described to be "boasting a beautiful heart of caramel and hoppy aroma of Queen Mother's peaches stolen by the Monkey King himself". Didn't taste anything like Queen Mother's peaches (not that I would know) or peaches of any sort. It was hoppy, a little heavier than light and left a metallic aftertaste though. Prefer the ShackMeister.