Hongkong famous roasted goose restaurant - Yung Kee

Hong Kong island - Hongkong is famous for their tim sum and also their roasted goose.  The most famous roasted goose restaurant is Yung Kee.   We order a small portion since it is only Lesley and myself.

Specialty dishes

The nearer dish is pomeleo skin of which I throw away and only eat the pomeleo fruit. Yung Kee showed their Chef skilled by preparing a succulent pomeleo skin dish.  It tasted different from what I have tasted before.

The further dish is the famous roasted goose.   Once you finish your first bite of the roasted goose, you want to pick up another piece and put it into your mouth.  It is so succulent and well roasted.

glass noodle with crab

Similiar to the Thai dish - nothing special about this dish.

Roasted Pork - char siew

The waitress pour a sauce over the roasted pork and the taste was not pleasant to me.  I just did not like the taste of the sauce and could not finish the dish.  I like how char siew is being prepared in Singapore with sweet caramel sauce.

Hong Kong island small hotel room

Hong Kong island -   I can't even stretch my hands between the walls of the corridor;  from the lift entrance to the room door.   The narrowest corridor in all my hotel stay.  Hotel fully maximize their dollar as space is so expensive.

notice the narrow corridor

 My Best Western Hotel @ Causeway Bay room is no bigger.

My tiny room

That small silver thing in the corner is the mini-refrigerator....

Shower curtain

What's that?  That is the foldable table to put my notebook and you sit on the bed.

This Hotel cannot even get a simple issue to be resolved - it has been 2 days and I cannot get a working iron - the first one is spoilt, and 2nd day still the same.  This has been a big let down for this hotel - disappointed in choosing this hotel which I think it is a tourist class 3-star Hotel and does not deserve the 4-star.

The only saving graces for this hotel are walking distance to Time Square Mall; and fastest in-room Internet access.

Omakase Burger @ the Grandstand

Singapore -  I brought Donny, Edward and Lesley to Singapore's notoriously expensive Burger joint - Omakase Burger.  It is a long distance away @ The Grandstand.   A remodelled dinning experience from the formerly Turf city.

I read numerous reviews on this restaurant and had to come and taste it's burgers.  All meals had to be paid first and an electronic beeper was given to us.   We waited for a while drinking our fresh orange juice.

We were all feeling the bad haze but Donny was completely under the weather.   The beeper buzz and we collected our food.

Omakase Burger

The burger is incredibly tasty and juicy along with the yellow buns makes a completely unique experience.    An expensive and small burger and would not satisfy any hefty meal eaters. 

Onion Rings

Fries in classy glassware

An experience that is worth $75.00

Prima Revolving Restaurant

Singapore - Prima is one of Singapore's famous restaurant with quality ingredients and creative dishes on their menu.   I brought Lesley since he hasn't eaten at this restaurant.

We tried one of their signature dish...

Shredded scallop with fish and egg white

This dish was very delicious and perfectly done - it is was skillfully prepared by the Master chef.

Wolfberry leaves with 3 types of eggs soup

I liked this dish alot and ordered everytime I am here.  It is Kau Kee cai (Wolfberry leaves) and cooked with chicken egg, salted egg and century egg.  Some families cooked it with spinach.  With 2 more dishes of drunken prawns and Toffee Banana it rounded up our dinner.

Seeweed meal

Seoul - It was a lunch meal with my customers before leaving for home. 

3 different seaweeds

The dish in the center is actually fermented fish and it stinks but I am comfortable with the smell as we have belacan - which is fermented ground shrimp mixed with salt.  I like the taste, it goes perfectly with steamed rice.

Sashimi Flounder

Spicy soup with Flounder bones

The meat was sparse as it's the bones that is being cooked into this spicy soup.  The soup is nice but I had to deftly maneuver the fish bones in my mouth.  

Eel and Abalone

Seoul - I was thinking about eating Eel when I arrive and I was utterly surprise when my customer asked me do you want to eat Jang-eo; of course.   The way it is done in Korea is best; the fresh is shown in front of you rather than it being cooked in the kitchen.

Side dishes with Lettuce

Grilling meals always comes with a generous serving of lettuce and lots of side dishes.   For the frilling of Eel, you add ginger and the black sauce to bring out the taste of the eel.

4 Abalones for each of us

Fresh uncooked Eel

Under the hot coals, the Eel is still moving.

Cooked eel

The price of 3 slabs of Eel is about W42,000 about USD 42.  We had 2 rounds of it with Soju and Beer.  It was a very delicious meal...

Bulgogi a must have....

Seoul - I hanker for a meal of Bulgogi and so my wish was granted during dinner time.  I had a delicious meal of BBQ beef with lots of vegetables to wrap with.

Spicy Chives

Seasoned Onions

Chives are herbs that belongs to the family of Onions, Leaks and Garlic.  It is very good for your health.

Bulgogi over an open charcoal

Unlike in Singapore, Koreans love their charcoal in the restaurant as it brings out the flavour of the meat.  Grilling meat over charcoal taste much delicious than over gas fire.   The coals were brought it from the kitchen and laid into a burner to fuel the charcoals during dinner.

The weather is a cool 17C perfect for a BBQ.

cooked beef

Mint leaves and lettuce

Wrap the beef with mint leaves and/or lettuce; either add kimchi or garlice and put it in your mouth.  The flavour is perfect and top if off with Soju.  In Korean BBQ, it is not only the meat but also lots and lots vegetables and kim chi that goes along with the dishes.  It gives a good and healthy meal. 

Kimchi soup

This Kimchi had a longer fermentation period which is ideal for the soup.   Scientist and reseachers now realised that fermentation is a must for good metabolism in your whole well being.   Besides Kimchi, there are also other fermentation food that is good like yougart, miso, etc...