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Great eats

When I feel like cooking up a storm at home, which I rarely do, I would head to Great supermarket at Pacific Place to buy some fresh ingredients for my pasta dish. I usually pass by the food hall but seldom pause to check out the menu.

One evening, after a night of walking, my friend Faridah decided we should grab some food there. So here we are, it’s got such a ‘fancy’ name for each dish, I couldn’t stop myself from taking notes.

Veggie potage

Veggie potage

We started off with an appetiser called the vegetable potage mint goat cheese crostini. I like that mushy potato when it melts in my mouth, which is topped off with soft yet rich cheese.

Next up, we ordered the poached egg topped Fontina and Spinach tart.

poached egg topped fontina & spinach tart

poached egg topped fontina & spinach tart

This is a novelty to me and I’m a big fan of filo pastry. Apparently, the egg is organic from New Zealand and the flaky filo pastry is filled with sauteed creamed spinach and fontina. I love poached eggs especially when the yolk oozes out covering the crispy pastry, yum!

veggie white pizza

veggie white pizza

The main dish of the night was the vegetarian white pizza. It’s topped with ricotta cheese, broccoli, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, grilled egg plant and tomato.

I personally prefer if the pizza crust is thin, this was relatively thick, so it filled me up pretty quickly and I had to pack the remainder home.

Overall, I like the environment despite it being located just beside the supermarket. It was 9ish, guess there weren’t many shoppers, so we could enjoy our dinner in peace and catch up with gossip. So much for the exercise earlier, rewarded myself pretty quickly indeed.

Get Caged @ Cage

My friend is once again in Hong Kong on business trip and I’m coming up with nice restaurants to bring her to have a decent dinner after a mad day at work.

As she lives near Hollywood Rd, I recommended we walk down some of the little lanes and found a quaint little restaurant called Cage.

Siewhui posing outside Cage

Siewhui posing outside Cage

A walk round this Viet wine bar and restaurant, we fell in love with the decor and coziness of this place – a perfect hangout to catch up over a quiet dinner.

We started with an appetizer – the crispy spring rolls.

crispy spring rolls

crispy spring rolls

You’ll be surprised how many variations spring rolls can come in, this one is definitely a little distinctive with its deep fried batter covering it.

I’m a big fan of sauce, especially sweet and sour chilli sauce. I just think you can not go wrong dunking your spring roll into it, personal preference of course.

Shrooms and pumpkin risotto

Shrooms and pumpkin risotto

The main dish was the mushroom and pumpkin risotto. Risottos are quite creamy and you can usually smell the aroma of mushrooms when it arrives. This one is sprinkled with shreds of parmesan cheese and decorated with rocket leaves. The ingredients were fresh and portion was just right for the two of us.

Cage scores points for its cosy atmosphere and friendly staff, a place where you can have good fun with your meatasaurus friends but not when you’re famished as the number of veggie dishes is relatively limited.

Branto Indian Veggie

Branto is one of my favourite Indian restaurants in Hong Kong because it serves only vegetarian food and it plays Bollywood videos on its LCD screens.

I forgot the name of this dish but I love the yoghurt sauce and the yellow crispy dough, it makes the deep fried batter tastes so yummy!

Instead of ordering full-sized meals for lunch, we opted for little snacks and got this tomato pappadum sans onion (below).

tomato pappadum

tomato pappadum

I personally like the crunchy thin crisp of pappadums but when sprinkled with tomato pieces, it makes it tastes even more delicious!

cheese bites

cheese bites

The cheese bites (above) are yummy, especially since it came out piping hot, the cheese flows out from the dough but it’s not too rich that you have to stop after two of it. I dipped it with ketchup, which is sweet and savoury.

masala dosa

masala dosa

Fellow veggie friend, Emily can’t resist munching on her pappadums even while on the phone. She says she likes potato dishes and so we ordered the paper masala dosa, you can peep into the fillings on the right. We shared half and I was dipping into the different gravies, one is diluted curry and the other’s coconut.

kulfi dessert

kulfi dessert

We rounded off with Kulfi dessert, which tasted a little bit like ice cream, kinda melts in your mouth but better! Love the nut toppings!

Don’t forget to get yourself a lassi to go with the meal! Namaste.

Tofu burger @ Freshness

Freshness burgers tofu burger

Freshness' tofu burger

With so many burger joints around in Hong Kong, I’m always on the quest for the best veggie burger in town.

I used to give Freshness Burger a miss because the burger chain wasn’t veggie-friendly before but for a limited period, it’s been promoting its Tofu Burger.

When I said tofu, you really do get a chunky piece, which has a relatively chewy texture compared to the ones that disintegrates easily commonly used in soup.

I was attracted to the avocado cubes that featured in its promotional ad but was a little disappointed when it didn’t arrive like the ad would promise but  a stingy mushy portion on top of the tofu.

Although I have no idea what sauce was being used, they were a bit more generous with the serving and the burger did taste good overall.

criss cross fries

criss cross fries

I opted for its criss cross fries for sides instead of the usual chips and because I’m a potato lover, I enjoyed every bite of it!

Top off the meal with a Yucha soda too.