San Ka La (山旮旯), Vela boutique hotel, Wanchai, HK

In the recent years there seemed to be a "renaissance" of Cantonese due to the strong opposition of the Cantonese provincial government against the central Government for discouraging the use of Cantonese dialect of 10 years ago.  Later on, the revival of nostalgic Cantonese culture came.  Lots of local tea rooms and old brands being re-branded.  Furthermore, some colloquial Cantonese words and idioms have been in another era of renaissance.  

Was introduced to this place on Morrison Road facing the junction of Happy Valley and Causeway Bay.   The place was just on the ground floor of Vela hotel.  Noticed it also has a live stage for some local indie music groups to play live.  Even though you may not be into live performance, this place is good if you look for some easy and open environment for food and drinks.  

breakfast at Adelphi Grande, Bangkok, Thailand

In chatting with the sales manager of Adelphi Grande, I commented that their breakfast is beyond my expectation and in fact better than the original Adelphi and some other hotels. I don't take much for the breakfast. Just some toast, boiled egg and fruits are good enough. Apparently, their sausage and bacon are not bad. So she told me they hired a chef from Centara Grande.

EXP (noodle/pizza), a M.A.X. Concept restaurant, Taikooshing, Hong Kong

M.A.X. Concept has been expanding its outlets in a gradually diverse way. Overall M.A.X. Concept outlets are doing quite well in terms of price, environment, services and quality. The first one I tried might be the Noodle Plus above the Hong Kong Airport Express terminal in 1998. It might be also the time Fusion food got bred up. So tonight I went with my sister and her kid - 2 adults and 1 kid tried 2 pizzas, one cold soba, one salad, one pasta, one dessert and 2 drinks. It's supposed for 4 adults and 1 kid but we could finish them all. I really enjoyed the meal especially after our 3 hour play at the Fun Land winning the Super Jackpot.

1. Prawn on Pomelo Salad (HK$38) - Apparently it's a Thai salad. The dressing is very nice and a bit spicy but not much. The prawn is very fresh and I like the green. 2. Prawn with mango/grapefruit over wheat cold soba (HK$56). My nephew Jason took 1/2 of it. So you know how good it is. Yes, the soba sauce is awesome!

3. Go Mango (Hk$25) - Mango, apple juice blended together. Quite a nice quenching juice. 4. Berries merry - 3 berries, strawberry, blue berry and cranberry with apple juice. I found it a bit too sweet and I believe it might have been put with some syrup. 4. Seafood on spinach linguine(Hk$70) - Very nice match and taste too. The seafood (sea bass, cuttle fish, prawn and mussel) is very fresh.
5. Pepperoni Pizza/6. Parma Ham Pizza - both pizzas are really nice. The cheese is not too much and makes it less rich and not upsetting your stomach much. Highly recommended. It's about HK$70 for one and I think it's even better than Pizza Hut or Spaghetti House.

7. Jason's favourites - the 3 mini sweet pudding with coconut ice cream (HK$26). From the left, it's citrus pudding, taro pudding and coffee pudding. The 3 of them are really nice! 8. This MAX Concept outlet is called EXP, and it's just by the ice skating arena in City Plaza phase II, Tai Koo Shing.