bombay dreams, central

I've always wondered if the Indian buffet was actually an Indian concept or if it was invented by imperialistic gluttons who proliferated them throughout the world like army bases. I've been to a good number in my day, most recently one in Wan Chai that was cheap (68HKD) but mediocre, but that's not why we're here...

Bombay Dreams has a fantastic buffet--the best I've seen in HK. The back room is so full with food that when you walk in to get a new plate it feels like a masala steam room (these don't exist yet, but they surely should one day). They have all the standard buffet dishes as well as some less common ones like fish curries to go with many small foods that I didn't even recognize. There was also a huge fruit plate and several kinds of Indian sweets. Granted, I'm not eating Indian food as frequently as Thai or Chinese here, the masala was the best of recent memory. For reference, it's better than at the Dickens curry buffet at Excelsior. Drink choices also included mango lassi, where most buffets only offer soda or juice. At one point, a guy made what looked like (pardon my ignorance) crepes and the servers passed them out to everyone--nice touch. And although they wouldn't let us sit at the window, it's a nice setting that doesn't feel tacky the way most buffets do.

We ate so much here that we took a taxi three blocks to my friend's apartment to pass out. We probably all looked like we'd taken a bullet in the spleen trying to save someone's life. It was worth it, but I did it for the glory.

4.5 of 5 for lunch buffets

bombay (wet) dreams

1/f 75-77 wyndham st central

2971 0001

100HKD lunch buffet

totally off topic itunes tip

I apologize in advance for digressing from food, but it took me so long to find this that I wanted to share it and save others from re-inventing the wheel again.

I'd been trying to make album playlists on my iPod for ages. Whenever I get new albums on my iPod, I like to see them grouped by album title rather than listed alphabetically by title. This way I'm reminded which albums I need to pay more attention to. A Mac forum suggested clearing the genre fields on all tracks and then putting all new albums into a new genre. This way there's only have one genre in the list, and when selected it shows all of the albums within this new genre... but then you can't use genre searching anymore.

The better way is to go into track info and make all new songs part of a compilation. Then when you go to compilations under the music directory of your iPod, it will show a playlist of albums (assuming you don't already have any compilations). Hope this is as useful to you as it has been to me. Let me know what you think.

mi ga korean (cwb)

I never usually go by myself to restaurants that aren't on street level. I'm ashamed of this, but it's so easy to get roped in by the bright lights and pushy hostesses on the street. I've never been crazy for Korean food, but when my aunt said that her Korean clients always go to this place across the street from Sogo I was happy to check it out. I actually liked it so much after the first time that I came back by myself the next day; the meal at Jin Luo Bao was still fresh in my mind, so at least I could make some sort of comparison.

I really liked the way that Mi Ga looked, the seats looked new and less like the diner that was Jin Luo Bao. All the Korean small dishes were essentially the same, there were a couple new ones as well. I had the mixed stone pot rice which was very good, I thought a little better than JLB. Unfortunately they don't give black sesame ice cream for dessert here, instead you just get a syrup drink--probably the only spot where JLB is better. Lunch prices are about half of dinner prices, so it was only 50HKD for my stone pot and all the smalls.

4 of 5, good value, pretty restaurant and a great lunch.

mi ga korean restaurant

9/f goldmark

no. 502 hennessy road

causeway bay

2576 2078