Hot, Crispy & Incredibly Juicy Islam Beef Cake

It is hot. It is crispy. It is chewy. It is incredibly juicy. What I am talking about is the beef cake from the Islam Food Restaurant in Kowloon City. With my friend's continuous recommendation, I decided to try the famous Islam beef cake yesterday night.

My friend and I ordered three dishes. The Beef Cake, the Lamb Curry and the Sour and Spicy Soup.

The Islam Beef Cake ($24 for two pieces)

The Beef Cakes were freshly pan fried so when it arrived, the surface was still crispy. And they were sooo nice and warm especially in such a cold weather. I am not exaggerating. The first bite was insane. The beef juice comes out out of control! I hold the bowl under the beef cake when I ate the cake. When I finished the cake, the beef juice filled out the whole bowl!! I especially ordered one more set to take away for my family. It was just too good.

Lamb Curry (Sorry I forgot the price. I guess $40-50)

The Lamb Curry was very tasty as well. A good curry should not be just spicy but rich with different tastes of spices. The curry had strong flavor (The lamb as well!) and was just at the perfect level of spiciness. We finished the whole dish and almost the entire sauce with the steamed rice.

Sour and Spicy Soup (around $30)

The Sour and Spicy Soup was not bad. Sure if it is compared to the two other dishes, this was not the signature dish in the restaurant. It was, though, above average. This dish is very common but most of the available ones are not dense enough or do not have enough ingredients. The soup was not too liquid and not too dense. Just right. The ingredients include mushroom, tofu, carrot with green onion garnish. Not bad not bad.A nice dinner doesn't necessarily to be expensive. And Hong Kong is such a nice place we can find nearly all kinds of food. Some may not be exactly traditional but the dishes were dedicated with the chefs' own perfect version of tastiness. Isn't that the precious part of food? You find a recipe; you make it; you modify it; and you pass it on.
Where: Islam FoodAddress: 1 Lung Kong Road, Kowloon City, Hong KongTel: 2382 2822Opening hour: Mon - Sun 11am - 1145pm

I obviously don't have an Egyptian stomach

I am open minded in food; I believe if a person is open minded in food, he/she would be probably more open minded in other things else. Yesterday, I felt like eating something different, well exotic. So, Steven and I went to Habibi Cafe for Egyptian food. If you feel exotic, I will recommend you to go to Habibi (1/F, Grand Progress Building, 15-16 LKF, Central) instead of Habibi Cafe (112-114 Wellington Street, Central) as the dishes in Habibi are far more decent. 

We ordered Spinach Pie, Lamb Pie, Kofta Al Gabal (which is minced lamb sausages, braised in tomato sauce) and Mashwiaat (which is mixed grilled of chicken, lamb and beef kebab) . 

I will conclude like this: Although my head is open-minded to any kind of food, my stomach says the opposite. And I feel reluctant to write about it. Therefore, instead of writing in details, a picture is worth a thousand words - and on top of these thousand words, I could write captions.

Spinach Pie ($40) that is way too heavy and oily for me. After having two pieces, I felt reluctant to eat more.

Kofta Al Gabal which is minced lamb sausages, braised in tomato sauce. ($30) It sounds terrible but I must confess I think it looks like dogshit covered in tomato sauce.

Lamb Pie ($40). Similar to the Spinach Pie, it is heavy. Although it doesn't have cheese as in the Spinach Pie, the minced lamb was salty and strong-flavored to make you feel very heavy. I could only handle one piece.

Mashwiaat which is mixed grilled of chicken, lamb and beef kebab with cous cous that my friend, Eric hated most ($150). It was okay. The kebab was satisfactory but not exactly OMG-impressive. And the spice is too strong for me, leading to stomachache at midnight.

I've never been to Egypt. I never dated an Egyptian guy. I had Egyptian food.  Okay, there's actually no correlation here. But I don't think I can handle the second given I cannot handle the food.

Well, like many other things, it's an experience.

Where: Habibi Cafe

Address: 112-114 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong

Opening hour: Mon - Sun 11am - 11pm

Tel: 2544 3886