Low calorie and low sugar doughnuts to brighten up your day

From sunshine coast of Brighton, Urban Legend branches to East Croydon with their low calorie and low sugar doughnuts.
You will find them in a shipping container that is barbie pink inside just outside the station at Boxpark.

Their colourful doughnuts and fun flavours are for everyone.

All their doughnuts are steamed to cut the fat and they use ingredients found in roots, pears and melons which work as sugars.

To make them colourful, they use safflower and beetroot which are 100% natural.

Currently there are nine flavours: Glazy Days, Berry unbelievable, Bubblegum Burst, Forbidden Forest, Sunny Jim, Belgian Biccie, Monkey's Uncle, Fool's Gold and Choc Party.

All these doughnuts are under 153 calories or less and taste fantastic.

My favourites are Fool's gold which is basically caramel and Choc Party.

They have a lovely texture just like traditional doughnuts which have a nice chew like a gentle bagel and you won't find them oily as they are steamed.

Overall, I would definitely recommend these doughnut and would love to see the pop up in Central London as well.

Urban Legend Brighton:

15 Brighton Place, Brighton BN1 1HJ

Urban Legend Croydon:

Unit 69-70, BoxPark, 99 George St, Croydon CR0 1LD

[Review] Jerk Pork by The Old Fashioned Chef, Croydon Surrey Street Market

If you eat a lot of Caribbean food, it is often Jerk Chicken but not pork.
As well as Jerk pork, you can now find Jerk with an English twist like Jerk sausage which I tried in Walthamstow.

Anyway, The Old Fashioned Chef is a stall that serves Jerk every Saturday and Sunday at Surrey Street Market.

You can not miss them because you can smell the BBQ a mile away from the smoke plume which is coming off from oil drums and the sounds of meat being chopped by chef Ken Winston.

There are always long queues for the food so you just have to be patient.

Some people will travel all the way for the Jerk pork and so did I.

When you see Ken chop the meats, it is similar to how they chop and serve the roast meats in Hong Kong.

After a long wait, I finally got my jerk pork with rice and peas.

The taste was amazing and just how I expected it to be.

It was basically pork belly marinated in Jerk, it was delicious with a good degree of heat from the chillies while the pork belly was meaty with a crisp surface.

Some customers like the pork belly fat while I like it balanced.

Anyway, the Jerk Pork here is a must try and definitely a million times better than Hong Kong roast meats.

 

[Restaurant Review] Sam's Chicken and Katsu curry sauce

A while ago I was captivated by Sam's drumsticks bucket which seemed a good deal but as I have never tried Sam's I wasn't sure if their chicken was good.

Finally went to Sam's for their #friedchicken but I think I went the wrong time as the chicken was a bit cold and dry.

I am glad I only got one piece on my first visit and didn't get the bucket.
Although I wasn't impressed with the chicken I still want to try the katsu curry rice.
@samschickenuk

A few months later, I tried the katsu sauce because I was having fish and chips.

The taste of the sauce was rather acidic but I think it is because of the fruity elements that make up the katsu sauce.

A few months later I was back because for wings as I have not tried them before from this branch as I usually get them from a different shop.

Ended up getting the spicy wings and bbq wings.

The spicy wings were how they but the BBQ wings totally blew me away, the wings were crispy in this sweet but not cloyingly sweet sauce so it was just delicious like eating buffalo wings.

Next time will definitely get a proper picture of the bbq wings to do them justice.

Normally with bbq wings, they just used grilled wings and toss them in bbq sauce but the fact that sam's uses fried wings makes it even more delectable!

The BBQ wings were so good that I went back just for them and also tried the spicy rice.

It was heaven having the bbq wings and spicy rice together because the rice was basmati rice which was soft and fluffy although some of the rice was a bit dry but it was acceptable.

[Food News] Sam's Chicken, Croydon

Definitely captivated by their new Katsu curry and the drumsticks offer.

Sams chicken
49 high Street
croydon

Donburi & Co opens in Croydon

Donburi & Co has just opened in Croydon.

It is their fourth branch following Brixton, Earlsfield and Spitalfield.

They were giving out Hirata buns so I went and grabbed one.

You could choose from chicken, beef, spicy pork or fried kimchi so I had the chicken.
The giveaway was impressive because you could choose which bun you wanted and the staff were organized so the queue moved fast.
My chicken was ready in a flash.
The bun was soft and delicious filled with chicken in a creamy sauce which had a nice sweetness.
The only improvement would be bun wrappers because it stuck to the bun and perhap a different colour would contrast the buns better.
Overall a lovely treat for the afternoon.

On the regular menu, they serve hirata buns, gyozas, Korean Fried chicken, bibimbaps and donburis.
They offer dine ins where you can charge your phone as well as sockets.
To summarize, a great joint to check out if you fancy some Korean food.

Donburi & Co Croydon:

296 High Street

https://www.donburiuk.co.uk

Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/h7HGX7x9PVzw7AeZ6

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJnDYBaBEs

Other new restaurants that opened recently in Croydon.

Aug 2020.
Chicken Valley, High Street.