The Cup Restaurant & Tea Room

The Cup Restaurant & Tea Room

3/F, Lake Rajada Office Complex

Ratchadaphisek Rd. (opposite Asoke Sukumvit)

Tel : 02-264-0247, 02-264-0249-50
Fax: 02-264-0248

Open Mon-Sat (11am-6pm)

I heard about this place many times but i don't know why i haven't had a chance to come here.

The Cup is known as British restaurant and tearoom. They opened their shop many years ago at Oriental Plaza (near Oriental Hotel) and then moved to the current location.

At the board, you can see the menu in hand-writing. They have special menu everyday, which means they have to write some part of menu on this board everyday. (You can notice the Christmas Tree near the board. I went there around Christmas.)

Let's look around first. The atmosphere here is so warm and cozy...

Cake cabinet...it took me a while to decide on dessert. will show you below.

They also have salad bar.

First order! Pita Garlic (Baht 65)

I know that it looks pricy. But believe me, it worth!!! So crispy and full-aroma than you can imagine!

Next, Grilled Italian Sausage with mashed garlic potato and mashed spinach potato (Baht 360). It served with wholegrain mustard and dijon mustard. (They use Mille, the french brand.)

The sausage is good...but what i love on this dish is the mashed potato! both garlic one and spinach one, so tender. And even i am not the mustard person, i have to admit that mustard goes so well with this sausage...must try

Next, Fillet of pork wrapped in bacon with brandied mushroom cream sauce (Baht 410).

It is served with string beans, slices of apple, and whole carrot! (I personally love the way they served this carrot. Look cute and carrot is unbelievable soft!)

Look at the pork and sauce...They are sooooo good. Don't forget to also have piece of apple with the pork, sauce, and mushroom. Apple is always the good combination with pork and it's good that they provide slices of apple here!

I love the way they put potato chips underneath the pork fillet. The chips observe sauce and when you chewed on crispy chips full with sauce...which words i can use to explain my feeling...since the sauce is full of flavor, and the chips is fully dipped in that sauce...yum..yum!

Ready for dessert!

Before dessert, go for coffee first. House Blend (Baht 80)

We ordered Praline with peach crepe (Baht 150).

Zoom in! Praline......

Peach.........

The sauce is so buttery and full of caramel-like smell. They also provide so many pieces of peach (as you can see above). My favorite of the meal!

Another one is Cherry crumble with warm custard sauce (Baht 125)

With the sauce!

I just know when i compose this blog that i described many dishes here as full flavor and full aroma. They cooked their food like cooking-at-home dishes, put as much ingredient, spices, and seasoning you want, and create one of the best meal ever!

I still have lots and lots of dishes i wanna try, especially the roast pork and roast beef. Must come here again for sure :)

Hui Lau Shan, Hong Kong

Hui Lau Shan

Various branches in Hong Kong.

http://www.hkhls.com/

For me, when i think of Hong Kong, one thing in my mind is Mango juice/dessert. Normally, i love the shop on the corner of Lock Road, Kowloon but now i have another favorite shop :)

Hui Lau Shan opened its first shop more than 60 years ago as the herbal tea shop. Nowadays, they developed themselves and end up having 40 branches of 'popular Hong Kong style dessert brand' around Hong Kong.

I went to the branch near Harbour City, Kowloon, opposite to the pier.

Look at the menu! I spent several minutes to decide what to order as everything looked sooooo good!

End up ordering Mango Platter (HKD 35).

Mango Platter consisted of 3 small portions of mango desserts; Crystal jelly with extra mango, Glutinous rice balls in mango juice with extra mango, and Fresh mango mochi.

First one, Crystal jelly with extra mango, they served the crystal jelly with mango pieces and mango icecream. The crystal jelly (which i cannot recall of what it made of) gave you clean and cool feeling while mango cube and mango icecream gave you the clean sweetness and freshness of fruit!

Glutinous rice balls in mango juice with extra mango. The chewy sticky rice ball with mango juice and mango pieces. Another version of the mango dish with the chewy ball!

Fresh mango mochi. They served the mochi with mango flesh.

Not only the mango flesh as the side, they also put big chunk of mango inside mochi with the coconut flakes outside. Good combination of chewy dough outside and the fresh sweet mango inside!

They also provided the take-away (they charge a bit more for eat-in). You will see lots of people waiting in front of the shop with the queue number in their hands. The mango drinks are great, with the full texture and full flavour of mango (the price is around HKD20 per serve). If you have time and love mango, this is another 'a must' to try!