Café Hillywood

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Before my belated birthday celebration with Jason at night, we spent the first part of our afternoon in Café Hillywood, a newly opened café and event location in Jordan. I knew about it a long time ago, as with all the other places I find, but as usual, I didn't have time to visit until 2-3 weeks into its soft opening. Still quick, but not quick enough. I want to be the first five people on social media to visit a café!

Café Hillywood is opened by the same staff behind Hillywood, its restaurant and bar counterpart in the neighbouring Tsim Sha Tsui. The new café is super spacious as it also holds regular music events and is super chic, with marble tables for the Instagram whores. Can't comment on the food though. Jason and I couldn't eat much since we were going to a buffet later on, so I just had a peppermint tea and he had a tuna sandwich.

Oh, and the last picture was when we passed by another café, Let's Jam, after we left. That photogenic spot was calling for a photo.

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My 23rd Birthday: Verde MAR

I tried Verde MAR a month ago for lunch when I met up with vegan extraordinaire Angie, but we only had the salad, so this time I decided to have my birthday dinner there. I especially wanted to try their chargrilled cactus, and I had the crazy idea to stick my birthday candle on it since I didn't really feel like cake. When I called to make a reservation though, the male manager dismissed me right away, saying that the cactus was "too thin". Well, I wasn't about to give up. I brought my own candles.

The service was terrible. No, it was a mixture. The only female waitress was super, well-mannered and even advised me to stick my candle into the tomato instead of the cactus. Then she lit my candle for me without me having to ask and even offered to help me and my family take a photo. The male manager and the male senior manager (I'm assuming that's who they are)? They were rude as hell, all sour-faced and purposely ignoring me. Probably annoyed I still brought my own candle despite them saying no-can-do. It's not like I'm shitting on your tables or swinging my dick at your other customers, dude.

The food was alright. We ordered the salad, the cactus (which tasted like okra, if you were curious), tacos and a beef stew. It was nothing special, I've never tried Little Burro or Calimex but I'm pretty sure the takeaway options from there just taste the same.

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Just Helen's

Somehow, my personal blog became a food blog *insert laughcry emoticon* This is unintentional, by the way. It's just that since 2016 began I've become slightly obsessed with cafés. I guess I'm just caught up in the whole social media thing, trying to take pictures of nice places with food.

On my birthday, I was free after class so my Mum asked if I wanted to have lunch somewhere near home. I jumped at the chance because I'm friendless and no one wanted to eat with me. So I went on Openrice, and randomly found a little family-owned bistro in Quarry Bay called Just Helen's serving salads, sandwiches and pastas.

The bistro turned out really cute! The chef is called Helen and I think her Dad or something took our orders. Their set menus are really cheap, each main comes with a drink and soup, and they also do free delivery in the area if you spend above $100.

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When Two Kale Lovers Meet...

It's officially springtime in Hong Kong! The weather is so warm now I'd gladly take the humidity, despite my exploding frizzy hair. I can finally rock tshirts and shorts! Clar and I decided to meet up again since I owed her money from my iHerb haul so we went to Café Deadend - mainly because I saw in the photos everyone had been sharing on social media that there were pink blooming flowers, haha.

The last time I was at Café Deadend was... okay it was a month back for a cup of tea, but before that, when I actually went for food, was two years ago! The prices have gone up but otherwise, everything still tastes really good and the environment is priceless as always. The only shitty thing was the mosquito bites.

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Le Pain Quotidien Hong Kong

You've probably heard of Le Pain Quotidien. It's everywhere in Europe and is basically a staple brunch place for Londoners. Well finally, the Belgium café has made its way to Hong Kong! I think it's only been in operation for less than a month, but since its doors opened, I'd been dying to go there. I actually went once, but the line was quite long and my Dad didn't want to wait. And I did have my reservations about it, because just about every single review I read (and I've read a lot - trust me, Hong Kong people are huge foodies) complained about the bad service.

Clar had a day off on Tuesday though so I jumped at the chance to make a lunch date with her. To my relief, there were plenty of seats and we could even choose. Well, we did go on a weekday at 3PM, haha. The food was bomb (though quite expensive, but I do think it's worth a try), and the service was anything but bad. The waiters were super nice too (and good looking, may I add) and kept chatting to us! ...though that was probably because Clar is so pretty, haha.

I also tagged onto Clar's order from iHerb and finally got my first Huy Fong Sriracha! I'm so excited to try it.

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Waffling Beans

Finally tried out Waffling Beans for brunch in Kennedy Town with Jason! It's known for its waffles... savoury waffles, sweet waffles, you know the sort. The plate came out surprisingly small though. Compared to the salad we also ordered, you can see that it's tiny in comparison - though the salad was huge, lol. After eating, it was already late afternoon and I had a class at school at 5PM, so Jason and I went back to HKU where I did a bit of work and attended a two hour lesson. Afterwards, we had dinner in Sai Ying Pun - yes Jason actually waited for me... best boyfriend award?

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Random: January, February & March 2016

The beginning of this year I transitioned from being a full time intern to a part time contributor at HK Magazine, obviously because the school semester had begun. My final semester of university - most probably ever, because this is my masters degree! I've been very busy these three months, which is why you've been seeing a lack of posts. I just haven't been out much because if I'm not at school, I'm at work. And if I'm neither, I'm trapped at home doing school work or work-work.

Photos include: Literally eating poop (they're tamarinds), trying out the unicorn slippers the N Girls got me for my 22nd birthday, a hardcore binge (I had more besides the wrappers pictured), my first expensive skin product, a perfectly heart-shaped cherry, Popin Cookin (Google it - it's not play dough, it's edible), meeting Angie Li for lunch, winning Liv Magazine and Coconut Matter's giveaway, using my Foodpanda $200 voucher (yes I do enter a lot of Facebook competitions as you guys know) and Easter!

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