Pho Sure!

 Chômchôm has been around for quite a while, we've been dying to try for too long. Firstly because we love Vietnamese food, I mean who doesn't? Secondly it was one of the most highly anticipated restaurants on our to-go list because everyone's been telling us how good it is and how it is better than Bêp (One of our fave Vietnamese restaurants), which turned out to be false, Bêp FTW! I seriously don't understand why people like it that much, maybe the chef just wasn't in the right mood that day, maybe?

It's located on Peel Street; right down Brunch Club, opposite 7-11. We've walked pass it too many times and not realising its existence prob because it doesn't look very Vietnamese? And those stairs outside, BE CAREFUL!! Just a friendly reminder.

They open at half 4 everyday and to get the perfect daylight for blogging, we went there as soon as they opened aka the most awkward time for lunch/ tea/ early dinner? Btw, those handwriting on the mirror, love that!

First thing's first, they do not have pho which is velly velly disappointing! We can't help but order pho every time we visit a Vietnamese restaurant. We actually spent really long time deciding what to order despite the fact that they didn't have a large variety pfft!

VFC $88; Shrimp & Roasted Pork Rice Paper Roll $78; Bun Cha Pork Skewer $128

VFC
Vietnamese fried chicken wings, couldn't/shouldn't be bad but they were bad... They were just overpowered and really salty, they were like your-lips-and-gum-get-swollen-after-the-first-bite salty, you get the idea lol. We're the biggest fans of chicken wings but it was too salty that we couldn't finish JUST EIGHT chicken wings. But to be honest, even if they are less salty, they are just ordinary chicken wings which you could easily find them somewhere else or make them yourselves, just saying!


Shrimp & Roasted Pork Rice Paper Roll
This was the only good dish we had sadly. I mean if the other dishes taste as good as this one, we might actually come again. We were actually so glad that they were not overly salty, or we were gonna leave with empty belly. You usually get either pork, chicken or soft shell crab in rice paper rolls, but this one they had both pork and shrimp #greediness. All the other usual ingredients were fresh and the rice paper was soft and chewy. We just hate dried out rice paper.

Bun Cha Pork Skewer 

Have absolute no idea what the name means ha but basically there were pork belly, pork shoulder and vermicelli which I convinced myself it shall taste kinda like that bun vermicelli at Bêp. But again, this was too salty that it hurter our gum, maybe it'd be better if the bae didn't pour all the sauce in it, just maybe?

I know some people like Chômchôm a lot but we found it completely overrated. I wouldn't have expected that much if the Brit girl from work didn't keep telling they are way better than Bêp
(from her opinion which is nonsense!). No expectations = no disappointments duh!
But hey there was one thing that we like them better than Bêp, Chômchôm is more airy and it has the daylight peeking in which allows us to take pics and blog ha!

Chômchôm ; G/F Block A, No. 58-60 Peel Street, Central

Korean All Day Errday

Hope you all have had a wonderful start to the new year. For this very first post in 2015 we have decided to introduce you guys one of our favourite restaurants in HK. This Korean restaurant is a hidden gem located at the L Place on Queen's Road in Central (it's actually closer to Sheung Wan MTR station). It's not the most authentic Korean cuisine but they've got an interesting and modern twist to the traditional korean dishes.

Jang's never overly crowded. We have been here many times and we never had to wait for tables, not even on a Friday night, probably because they've so many seats and perhaps, it's not the most popular choice for dinner? Anyhow, we went there for lunch on a Saturday(perfect time for blogging), the staff was so nice that she arranged us the window seats after knowing we were gonna take some photos for you guys!

Like every other Korean restaurants, you start off with Banchan, those small dishes of starter, which of course can be refilled *wink*. To be honest, we rarely enjoy Banchan but we LOVED the Banchan here. We're not much of a spicy/kimchi person but surprisingly these 're okay for moi. If it's okay for us, it's gonna be fine for everyone else haha. Also they had some really really good Banchan that we have never tried else where like the glazed potato, pea sprouts, and broccoli with those tiny lil fish.

Believe us when we tell you we try really hard not to order the same dish every time because we're just that boring ha! They've actually got quite a wide variety of choices but it was only lunch so we've only ordered three dishes. Their seafood pancake was wicked good as well!

Prawn & Jellyfish Salad with Korean Mustard Dressing $108; Napa Wraps with Pork Belly, Radish Kimchi and Lettuce $198; Mushroom Fried Rice with BBQ Pork $168

Prawn & Jellyfish Salad with Korean Mustard Dressing

What can I say? This has to be our favourite dish! We've never had anything like this before, it's a really exciting and refreshing salad. This is like a customised salad for us because it has all our favourite ingredients like jellyfish, prawns, sliced seafood sticks and cucumber, but what we loved the most about this salad was the Wasabi! It's quite strong but we were just so addicted. Make sure you order this if you have a stuffed nose ha!

Napa Wraps with Pork Belly, Radish Kimchi and Lettuce

Now this gotta be our favourite dish! Yes another favourite dish! Please don't ever compare this with the other similar dish you have had elsewhere. This one is beyond uhhmazing. Okay let's start with those beautiful slices of pork belly. Thank god they did not have that stinky smell of pork. They were thick but soft. The sauce that came with it was very tasty. I am not sure what sauce it was but it wasn't too spicy and it has some lil dried shrimps inside. It just tasted super nice. Lettuce, cucumber and carrot were all fresh and crunchy and you can always ask for more. Make sure you don't forget to try those salad on top of those pork belly, they are the best part of this dish. They are perfectly seasoned with spice and sesame oil. Shame they couldn't refill that for us (we actually asked for more every time haha).   

Mushroom Fried Rice with BBQ Pork 
This is a very usual Korean dish you could get elsewhere but you could easily tell this one is much better. We tried this for two times. The first time we had it the pork was slightly overcooked which made them a bit rough, but this time the tenderness of the barbecue pork brought the whole thing to a whole new level! The pork was beautifully marinated, it has a sweet and fruity flavour.

Wishing y'all a bright and fruitful year! Here's to another awesome year ahead, happy 2k15 you beautiful lot x

JANG ; The L. Place, 137-141 Queen's Road Central