Let Them Eat Cake, Siam Center, Bangkok

Glad to see this branch opened in Siam Center.  Saved quite much time from going to its headquarters in soi 20 Suk.  The rose and passionfruit cakes are the recommended.  

Magnum the Chocolatier, Siam Center, Bangkok

Friends and I guess this shop has been changed to a locally run restaurant.  Name changed to Magnum the Chocolatier.  Services changed and the menu changed too.  To me it is no difference as I just would like to get a chocolate ice cream bar (photo 5).

Som Tam soi 5, Siam Center branch, BKK

Visited here when it was first opened.  Didn't review it back then because I couldn't wait but take the food immediately when it was served.  At this second visit, the food quality remains the same.  The deep fried chicken wing and som tam are almost every tables' "must-order".

Super crowded breakfast at Blue Spice, the only restaurant of Centre Point Terminal 21, BKK

This is the second time for me to wait in a long line for breakfast (the first time was with Peninsula BKK).  The lift lobby is so small to hold a long line.  Besides, the corridor in entering the restaurant is too narrow for 2 persons passing by.  A very wrong design for catering for a total number of 500 rooms of this hotel.  Another disappointing fact is that we (a group of 5) were given a table for four and a side chair being put on blocking the other table's guests.  The waitresses didn't care but then leave on our standing aside the table and wandering where we shall separate our tables.  The food quality is at average but if and when we were being treated in such a way, any good food would turn into something not pleasant.  Reminder: if not necessary, don't book a room with breakfast.

Grand Suite, Grande Centre Point, Terminal 21, Asoke Bangkok

Thought about this hotel several times but didn't try it somehow.  Centre Point was once my regular choice, way back to its first few branches in Petchburi, Langsuan and Wireless Road.  When travelling in a larger group, I'd consider a hotel in a convenient location with sky train connection.  So this time I took this one.  Originally booked a grand deluxe and got upgraded to this grand suite (with 20 sq. m. extra space, in total 67 sq. m.).  The view is superb to the side of Sukhumvit Asoke area.  The bath room is also quite Japanese with the electronic cleaning system.  Perhaps it needs to match the toilet theme of the Terminal 21.  Another good thing is the washing/drying machine and the large fridge.  Actually it'd still be a serviced apartment rather than a hotel.  *Centre Point has re-branded itself to hotel, leaving the Thong Lor branch as the only serviced apartment. 

雲桂香小鍋米線, Causeway Bay, HK

When we go eat something cheap, we shouldn't complain much if the food is organic or of some high grade quality.  Instead, I would change my mode to consider how good they make use of the cooking skill and seasoning.  Just like this shop, they used frozen pork chop but at least they cooked it right away.  The spicy sour noodle is the highlight of this shop and it's even better than the famous chain soup Nam Kee 南記.  I like the chilled duck kidney (the last photo) with spicy sauce.

彩雲南, Yunnan Rainbow restaurant, Tin Hau, HK

This restaurant has been here for so many years.  I believe even the menu's cover (yes, only the cover, but not the prices) has been kept the same.  As I walked in, a strong wet smell of carpet was in the room.  Quite many English speaking and Mandarin speaking clients.  Found myself visiting a Chinese restaurant in China Town.  Perhaps this place is here for those foreign people who miss Chinese restaurants of their China Town during their stay in HK.

Check the photo 2.  Some interesting drinks.  The food in general is below average.  The San Tze 三七 (the classic term of Tien Tze 田七) chicken soup is indeed overpriced.  No chicken flavour, not enough chicken chunk (yet frozen chicken used), only 1 tiny bite of San Tze (about 0.1mm), but it's charged at HK$170.  The string bean is very salty.  The mushroom is super oily and kind of a waste (at HK$138).  Worst of all, the dumpling was cooked but then pan fried.  A wrong step for making dumpling this way.  The original flour flavour got lost.  The sweet and sour pork and the tossed noodle are the only 2 average dishes.