Picture of the Day: Fish Ball Noodles at New Town Bakery

The fish ball with rice noodles in soup looked promising -- not

Went back to Chinatown again a few days ago and had a bite to eat at New Town Bakery and Restaurant.

I had just eaten a pork and vegetable bun and some radish cake at Wai Kee Dim Sum, but was only half full and needed a bit more sustenance.

So at New Town Bakery -- which was completely full -- I sat by the counter and ordered fish balls with rice noodles in soup.

When it arrived, it looked promising, a few slices of fish cakes with some round fish balls, preserved vegetables and the rice noodles.

However, it was disappointing -- the fish cakes and especially the fishballs had no bounciness in the texture -- they were quite dense and flat in flavour. 

It immediately made me pine for the packaged fish balls I used to buy in the supermarket in Hong Kong.

So I quickly ate them up and saved the rice noodles for last which were the bowl's saving grace. 

Impressive to see the place full for lunch, but also the line for the bakery was out the door on a weekday! Some came by to try their luck, others had pre-ordered and came to pick up, including a Filipino who seemed to be a regular.

One Caucasian man asked the owner if any of the buns had gluten in them... she had to tell him it was impossible for them to make non-gluten items...

So far the pickled vegetables with sliced pork and vermicelli in soup is a winner, the fish ball noodles is sadly a definite miss...