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2013-10-02
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Since it's a public holiday, I totally went spontaneous and ferried over to Lamma Island with my best friend to catch some sun and beach. Of course, after a long beautiful morning swim in the ocean, we were both famished and wanted to find a place to chill with nice cold beer, ciggies, and hearty food. I'm a super beach girl who likes to hit every beach I can find in HK, hence searching for local and down-to-earth places to dine near the beaches has become my ultimate goal. While exploring and w
I'm a super beach girl who likes to hit every beach I can find in HK, hence searching for local and down-to-earth places to dine near the beaches has become my ultimate goal. While exploring and walking barefoot in the crowds of tourist in Lamma Island, my friend and I couldn't stand it any longer (it was the Golden Weekend & there were sooooo many people) and we stopped in front of this quaint little stone house that had pictures of their menu posted all over the front (I love that because pictures always say more than a thousand words--especially with food).
However, what really caught my attention was their POUTINE! Seeing that I'm from Canada, whenever I see the word poutine, I absolutely go berserk and must try. Hence, this is how we ended up in this chill little store that only had 2-3 patrons all standing around chatting and having a good time.
Surprise#2 followed really quickly after I had a nice chat with the store owner--she told me they had A&W rootbeer! A&W is a Canadian burger joint franchise and they promote themselves for their original flavour in rootbeer and GOD I haven't had one in ages.
To add the strawberry on top of a perfect sundae, the SUPER DUPER nice owner said she can put soft vanilla ice cream into the rootbeer to make the ultimate ROOTBEER FLOAT I was so ecstatic I sceamed, "YES! DO IT!".
Gosh! The soft velvety ice cream melted into the rootbeer made this the perfect day of my life. It was sweet and creamy and the whole thing just comes together like it was meant to be. I devoured the whole thing
After we ordered, we sat at the bar table (basically a small strip right next to the sidewalk) and chilled and chat for a bit. There were a lot of tourists walking back and forth but it didn't bother my friend and I because we were very much absorbed by the comfortable and semi-private atmosphere of the restaurant. Of course, the ice cold beer also helped with the whole zen and relaxed feeling--SUPER BROWNIE POINTS FOR THAT
The first dish that arrived was the chicken breast green salad with balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing. Very down-to-earth salad because it had that stereotypical western soft, moist chicken breast (came from the freezer) with cheese on the top that matches the salad perfectly. Basically my friend and I are considered very primitive, hence we ate with our hands which made the whole dining experience even more fun. Perfect amount of dressing and lots of chicken to fill you up
The chicken breast salad came with it's own coleslaw which was surprising because both are considered salads, but I'm definitely not complaining. Coleslaw to me is a very difficult appetizer to create because if overdressed, the whole thing becomes a mess of mayo and soggy strands of cabbage and carrots. In this coleslaw, even though it was slightly overdressed, I'm glad they didn't use pure mayo and had a mixture of other dressing as well so it didnt taste to pasty.
The POUTINE finally arrived and I was insanely happy! Every poutine in the world is created differently and this particular one used cheddar cheese instead of mozzarella and had dark beef gravy with thick cut fries. It tasted great! Personally, I still prefer mozzarella because it gives it that fun chewy texture, but cheddar works just as nice giving the flavor a bit of zest instead.
The star of this meal finally arrived! I had been craving the poutine all this time but didn't realize the gem was saved for last. These crunchy and steamy hot mozzarella sticks comes in 5pcs or 10pcs vintage paper bags (we chose 10pcs of course). We had so much fun with them! We basically just sat there pulling at the mozzarella sticks while the cheese stretched to arm's length and my friend and I had a competition to see who could stretch the longest piece of cheese. In the end, I think we were having too much fun and attracted a lot of people to come in, the restaurant was filled up with tourists after watching us play with our food so we had to end our dining experience short (not a super fan of crowded places). We didn't finish all of the poutine because their portions were HUGE, but we did manage to finish everything else and the total bill came to approximate $240 which was very decent for the amount of fun and fullness we left with. I will definitely come back here EVERYTIME when I visit Lamma Island again because it's just so peaceful and nice here.
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