I love supermarkets... - Yata in Shatin

Friends know I love hanging out in supermarkets. Whenever I go on vacation, the first place I visit is a nearby local supermarket/grocery store, it's also the place where I spend most of my time while I'm on holiday! (Apart from coffee shops ^_^) I just enjoy roaming supermarket aisles to check out the latest novelties and packaging designs of grocery items such as confectionery, snacks and dairy products. Japanese are very innovative and creative in designing attractive eye-catching food packaging. Besides grocery stores, I can spend hours in depachika in Tokyo (basement food hall's of department stores) that are devoted to the latest food trends.

Today I went to Yata in Shatin with my mum to get some frozen pandan buns and flower rolls for tomorrow's breakfast. I was strolling around the dairy section and bought 2 cute pots of puddings from the brand Morinaga:

The white pot is milk pudding and the yellow pot is custard pudding.

Both are amazingly good! If you love milk, you've gotta try this milk pudding, the texture is silky smooth, delicate and the taste of milk is enormously strong. Yummy~~

The custard pudding is a bit sweeter but has the same silky smooth and delicate texture. Heavenly desserts!

Golden Siam Thai Cuisine, Ma On Shan

I found their garlic bread too greasy, my brother loved it though.

Fresh mussels with Thai herbs

The roasted pork neck was not bad.

Delicious grilled marinated chicken satay served with a creamy tasty peanut dip sauce!

Deep-fried Thai spring rolls served with sweet and sour sauce

The ingredients of this popular Thai hot and sour soup "tom yum goong" are shrimps, mushrooms, fresh lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, fish sauce, tamarind and hot chili. Too hot for my taste.

Pineapple fried rice

Sauteed mixed veggies

Refreshing iced longan drink...

Golden Siam Thai Cuisine offer a wide selection of Thai desserts. Since we were already full we bought some to go as late evening snack (bad eating habit!)

Sweet sticky rice with pork floss wrapped in banana leaf

Agar & pandan jelly is very similar to 大菜糕 (Chinese agar pudding) since its main ingredient is agar powder too but has a very strong fragrant pandan flavour.

Ta-ko is rice flour custard with coconut cream as topping and this variety has tapioca pearl and corn kernel as filling. The texture is smooth and moist while the filling is chewy.

Friend's Cake Creations

Simplylife Bakery Cafe, Taikoo City Plaza

Sun-dried tomato croissant served on a wooden cutting board

Very rich, creamy, smooth and luscious lemon cheesecake

Cova, Central

High tea with friends at Cova Patisserie in Central. Our starter was an assortment of mini pastries and tarts...

Toasted triple deck Club Sandwich with parma ham, salami, roasted beef, grilled chicken breast, mozzarella, lettuce, tomatoes and pickles in homemade mustard-mayonnaise sauce. Ho mei!

Freshly brewed Cappuccino