Tuesday's children | South China Morning Post
BURGERS, booths and a skyscraper cake march into Hong Kong under the banner of American restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday. It hasn't set the folks at Dan Ryan's quaking just yet, but early feeling is that the food at the Harbour City restaurant is as good and that the prices are lower.
Top marks to the New York Strip and to the larger-than-life salad bar. The dessert spectacle is the so-called Tall Cake, a three-layer calorie-fest of sponge, strawberry cream and vanilla ice-cream.
'It's classic Americana,' says Ruby Tuesday managing director Ian Thomson. His bilingual menu covers Tex-Mex, but local flavour has been added to attract Hong Kong customers with less adventurous tastebuds. The Tsim Sha Tsui restaurant is the first of a rash of Ruby Tuesdays springing up in the region.
Ruby Tuesday is open from 11am to 11pm. Tel: 2376-3122.
Vegetable patch A NEW vegetarian store in Central, Go So Ken, takes in everything from sparkling black cherry juice and Chinese white fungus dessert to taro noodles and long-grain brown rice. If the shop off Wellington Street is a bit loose with the health definition, co-owner Geordie Leung is perfectly up-front about which of the ranges of instant noodles contain MSG and which don't.
A chilled food section at the back stocks vegetarian hot dogs, burger patties, and faux shrimp balls. Leung imports his produce from Japan, Australia, Taiwan and the United States. Tel: 2526-2923.Love that smellCAN the aroma of pumpkin pie put you in the mood for love? Probably, according to studies conducted at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. The foundation reports that the honest-to-goodness smell of pumpkin pie and lavender are the top two turn-ons. Next down on the list of desirable aromas for men are black licorice and doughnuts.
School daze OLD school ties gather in Causeway Bay on August 10 as The Jump Restaurant & Bar goes back to the classroom to celebrate its third anniversary. Uniforms are compulsory and a traditional 'skool' dinner will be served from 8.30pm. All the alcohol forbidden to schoolboys will flow, including a free bottle of Moet for every 33rd person through the door. There's also free vodka for those who dare lie on the Dentist's Chair. As part of its 'Back-to-Skool' evening, The Jump will auction off what it claims are a genuine pair of sunglasses from Elton John's private collection. The proceeds will go to the Elton John Aids Foundation. Reservations on 2832-9007.
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