McDonalds - Hong Kong - Red Peri Scorcher

Found out about this new burger called the RED PERI SCORCHER from the paper.

Only noticed it because of the colourful stars which is quite similar to my openrice logo.





The red peri scorcher burger is NEW in HONG KONG but has already been launched in Singapore and Australia last year.

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RED PERI SCORCHER:

Made with Carolina Reaper chilis, habanero chilis, Naga Jolokia chilis and Peri Peri chilis.

The world's hottest chilis guarenteed to be a scorching sensation.





I really liked it because it was crispy marinated chicken thigh meat with cracker wheat and the sauce was spicy with a strong hint of lemon.

It had a really nice cajun smell just like the coating you find in Southern fried chicken.

The chili was fiery but it does not linger which is why I like African chilis.

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Korean and Japanese delights from 7-eleven Hong Kong

Thanks to 7-eleven for sending me these goodies featuring popular Korean pot noodles and Japanese sweet treats.

For Korean goodies we have: Vilac Cup Rice and Noodle, Ottogi Japchae noodles, Hanil Jajeng Myeon

Japanese goodies there are: Ribon Okinawan donuts, Shoeido Swiss rolls and Koubo croissant buns

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Korean Hanil Jajeng Myeon HKD$17.9:

These were quick and convenient to eat, simply empty the noodles in the box and pour the sauce on top and heat in the microwave as advised.

The noodles were soft and chewy in delicious sweet sauce. 

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Korean Ottogi Japchae – HOT

Springy glass noodles in sweet and spicy sauce with pieces of beef in it.

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Korean Vilac Cup Rice and Noodle – Spicy Seafood $12.9

This is the most interesting cup I have tried, because there was Rice and noodles!!!

It would be great if there was a non spicy version to cater for people who can't eat spicy foods!

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Japanese Koubo croissant buns $12.5

There is a choice of chocolate or strawberry and they were best eaten slightly warmed by heating in a microwave because the paste inside becomes soft.

Personally I liked the chocolate.

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Japanese Shoeido Swiss rolls $13.9

These rolls were surprisingly big and filling!

There is caramel and chocolate and both were soft and moist.

It is hard to say which flavour is better because both were good.

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Japanese Okinawan RIBON donuts $10.9

There are two flavours: original and black sugar.
Black sugar had more depth in flavour so I preferred the black sugar.

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Pear Cider by Somersby!

I was kindly sent some cider by SOMBERSBY.

A nice way to chill out for Christmas with pear cider which is not acidic as apple cider.
Available at 7-11, Circle K, Vango at HKD$18 per bottle!
The pear cider has a lighter colour and the apple cider has darker colour.
To be honest I prefer the pear because it has a strong sweet pear taste and tastes less of alcohol where as the cider one tastes like Appletize but with a strong alcoholic taste.

Somersby全新Pear Cider 讓「梨」清新迎聖誕

TimTam giveaway

Walked past and saw a TimTam giveaway so stopped by to have some fun.

The queue was short that day.

I managed to get a big bag of TimTam biscuits and a TimTam wafer.

TimTam is an Australian brand by Arnotts and they do delicious Wagon wheels too!
Wagon wheels
http://supersupergirl-food.blogspot.hk/2013/02/arnotts-wagon-wheels-original.html

Metropop x Sony 星級音樂人C.Y.Kong 試聽分享會

Thanks to Metropop and Sony for inviting me to this event.

At the event, I got a deeper understanding of Sony's High Resolution audio products.
Products with this logo have been designed to maximise the sound performance of High-Resolution Audio.

Renowned composer CY Kong shared his views on music and the recording industry.
 著名音樂人C.Y. Kong 分享音樂創作心得及對音響的產品追求
It was really entertaining knowing more about the music industry and Eason Chan.
I could really relate to CY Kong because he went to UNI in London with friends from I.C and King's and he also watched the V-Show (according to his website), but it was way before my time obviously!
My appreciation for Chinese music and culture started then and I miss the V-Show!
[V-show is a variety show each year by the University's Chinese society]
We then took a break to try out the new audio products and it was good to see that almost everyone was a Sony user from their phones to cameras!

Sony Hi-Res Audio Products showcase (Sony 高解析度音訊產品試聽):

-New Linear PCM Recorder to Record True Sound with Extreme High-Resolution Audio that is closer to the original sound
-Portable Headphone Amplifier PHA-2 for High-Resolution Audio Quality

-XBA-H and MDR-10 High-Resolution Audio Headphones for the Ultimate in Music Enjoyment

It was really nice testing out the headphones and listening to quality music because modern life and the music industry have changed, people no longer go out with disc-mans or have the time to really enjoy music.

Fun with got milk? magic straws collection!!

Thanks to Hong Kong's Octopus Inc for sending me the latest collection of got milk? straws.

There were six flavours: banana, strawberry, cookies and cream, chocolate, wild berry and orange cream.

I only managed to take one photo of the magic straws in action because it was hard taking a photo whilst drinking it.
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Banana:
The banana was quite sweet with a strong vanilla taste and a hint of banana which tasted natrual.

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Strawberry:
I was expecting the strawberry taste to be strong but it was not.

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Cookies & Cream:
The taste of this was similar to the chocolate but it was not so chocolatety.
Visually it was really pretty with the contrast of white and brown in the straws.

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Wild berry:
The taste of this was interesting and reminded me of something which I can't remember!
It may have been Hubba Bubba chewing gum, but it was definitely a Western candy.

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Chocolate:
This was my favourite flavour and probably the most popular flavour because it is just fuss free simple tasting chocolate.

Here is a photo of the chocolate in action

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I also had fun trying two different flavours together.

Here are the combinations I tried:

Strawberry and Wild berry

The combination of strawberry and wild berry resulted in a wonderful fruit of the forest flavour.
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Cookies & Cream with banana:
The flavour was quite cute and tasted like banoffee pie.
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Orange cream with chocolate:
Orange and chocolate always pair well resulting in delicious chocolate with tones of orange!
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As a summary, chocolate was the best, next was the banana which was surprisingly good because it was not artificial and then orange cream.
Each magic straw is sufficient to flavour one glass of milk.
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Crispi I Fruits

Got these vacuum dried fruits from Octopus Inc or you can get them here:

http://shop.ilovemama.com/deals/20140225d_driedfruit/

There was freeze dried pineapples, longans and bananas which I have not tried before.

It feels really interesting holding a bag of these vacuum dried fruits because I love the clinking noise it makes when you rattle the bag just like pieces of ceramics clinking together and it feels so weightless too because all the water has been drawn out in the vacuuming process.

I love vacuum dried items because it keeps the nutrients while the flavour gets concentrated and intense.

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Banana:
Usually banana chips are fried so it was good to try the vacuum dried version which are non oily and crispy. The fried version is really hard and not so nice.

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Longan:
The vacuum dried Longans were quite sweet but then the fresh ones are real sweet anyway and the colour was interestingly brown.

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Pineapple:
The vacuum dried pineapples taste better than fresh ones because I've never liked them fresh as they were too juicy and the fibres were woody.

But as a vacuum dried snack, the fibres are brittle and the pineapple pieces are crispy with natrual tartness of the pineapple.

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