Impossible Review - Mushroom Deluxe Burger - Hong Kong - March 2012

HK Mushroom Burgers

Consumed on - Never
Price - Deluxe Combo - 32.50HKD ($4.15USD)

Regular Combo - 30.40HKD ($3.90USD)

Location - Hong Kong

Rating - Never

Chicken Scorcher & Bubblegum Squash McFlurry - Auckland, New Zealand - February 2012 (Also Hong Kong Ranger Burger)

The Aussie ad, couldn't find an NZ version.

The other available McFlurries

Consumed on 10/02/2026
Location - 260 Queen, Auckland, New Zealand
Price - Chicken Scorcher combo - $8.90NZD = $7.38USD.  McFlurry - $3.60NZD = $2.99USD
Rating - Chicken Scorcher 4/5.  Bubblegum McFlurry 3/5
Also - click to see a preview of the new Hong Kong - Mighty Ranger Burger

Pumpkin Soup - Hong Kong - February 2012

Consumed on - 09/02/2026

Location - McDonald's Cameron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

Price - 13HKD = $1.68USD 

Rating - 2/5

Mango Chicken Panini & Mango Hazelnut Cheesecake - McCafe - Hong Kong - November 2011

Hello again, from the sunny Maldives!  I visited Hong Kong last week before heading to Sri Lanka, so this is my McD's recap for the week.  Also sorry for being a day late, as I was in transit to get here all day yesterday.

Unfortunately I came to Hong Kong at a time where their promotional item was the McRib, and since I have tried the McRib before in Long Beach CA.  I didn't want to have that again, so I thought it was a perfect time to get one the McCafe Sandwiches which I hadn't ever bothered to try before.  I have always avoided the McCafe menu from HK as they were always more expensive than the standard menu, and usually when I am there, they have limited edition items for me to sample .  

Of all the sandwiches and wraps on offer, the most interesting and unique sounding one was the New 'Mango & Chicken Panini' (which, strangely, isn't on the McCafe website).  It was rather small, and had a strong mango flavour.  It almost tasted more like mango jelly on flat bread, rather than a chicken Panini, I guess the mango puree is cheaper than the chicken strips, so they put more mango than chicken.   The sandwich on its own was 26.50$, but you could add it to any drink for only 15$, so I ordered a ‘long black’ coffee for 15$ and added the sandwich to get the coffee for pretty cheap.

Thinking my mate Hugh would try half of the sandwich, I also went with the new cheesecake offering, as it was something I haven’t tried before.  Keeping with the mango theme, I tried the Mango & Hazelnut cheese cake, and also did the combo thing. I got a HK style milk-tea for 15$ and added the cheese cake for an additional 12$ (original price was 23.50$) so the milk-tea was nearly free.  Living in Korea, where the cakes look great, but are mostly air and tasteless, this cheesecake was  rich, dense, and heavy, just like a cheesecake should be.  The mango wasn’t overpowering like in the sandwich, and the nuts were evenly distributed throughout the piece.  The chocolate crust was a nice touch too, it was thick and also quite rich. 

I can’t say anything positive about the milk-tea at all.  I love HK milk-tea, but this was the worst I’ve ever had.  Usually, they give you a sugar packet on the side, to sweeten it to your liking (I don’t add any), but I watched them make it, and they added three pumps of liquid sugar without asking, which pretty much ruined it for me. I had the coffee to drink and Hugh had a coke with his McRib, so I wasn't going to bother asking them to remake it.  Two obligatory tiny sips, and straight into the trash it went.

In retrospect instead of the coffee with the sandwich I probably should have tried one of the promotional coffees on offer, Ginger Bread Latte, or a Mint Mocha, but knowing my hatred of sugary coffee drinks I'm sure their fate would have been the same as the milk-tea.

Consumed on - 11 November 2025

Price - 60.50HKD = 7.70USD (Total for the Panini, Cheesecake, Milk-tea and Long Black Coffee)

Location - McDonald's CityGate Outlets, Tung Chung, Hong Kong

Rating - Panini 3/5, Cheesecake 5/5, Milk-tea 1/5, Coffee (its coffee)

McPepper - Hong Kong - November 2009

This review is for 'mr&mrs' from FlyerTalk.  He/she originally asked if I had tried the Chicken McPepper in Singapore, but seeing as I make it to Hong Kong far more often,  I have only been able to try the McPepper in Hong Kong, and it uses a beef patty.  The McPepper is a promotional item that McDonald's HK brings back about once every two years.  I originally sampled it in November of 2009, but I do not know when it was first introduced.  They brought it back in October 2011, and it this time, they had the 'Mega McPepper' (which you can see in the photo above).  The burger itself its pretty simple, a double hamburger, but smothered in a black pepper gravy and topped with cooked onions.  But they had so much sauce on it, that I was able to scrape some off to dip my fries in it and still have enough on the burger to enjoy the taste (and it was a great topping for the fries!)  Personally, I didn't find it 'spicy' at all (but then again, people think my taste buds are damaged, as nothing is ever 'spicy'), but the black pepper taste was wonderful, I enjoyed it, and if they had it is a main menu item, I would easily order it over anything else. I wish I made it back to HKG in time to try the 'Mega' edition, but I feel that might be a sauce/sodium overload.  As is everything in Hong Kong McD's, it was a great value just 23$ for the combo.

Consumed on - 07 November 2025
Price - $23.50HKD = ~$3.00
Location - Salisbury Road/Star Ferry McDonald's, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Just out of view on the right)
Rating - 5/5

Twisty Pasta Breakfast - Hong Kong - Various Dates

Back in 2005, I made my first trip to Hong Kong.  I remember sitting in the Shun Tak Centre (Sheung Wan) waiting for a ferry to Macau with my classmate Roger. I wasn't hungry, I was tired and jet-lagged, but the Twisty Pasta Breakfast caught my eye.  I think this was the first time I had McDonald's outside Canada and the U.S, and though I didn't take a photo of the meal (I started photographing my McDonald's meals in 2006), I remember wondering how many different meals McDonald's had around the world.  I didn't become serious in hunting for McD's items for another year or two, but I will always remember this as the start.

As you can see from the official photos, the Twisty Pasta is not a limited edition meal, its a regular menu item, and its available at all HK and Macau McDonald's but only for breakfast. In HK you can get a Sausage&Egg McMuffin 24-hours a day, but you can only get this during breakfast hours.  Therefore, I have had the Twisty Pasta many times since that first taste in 2005, trying the sausage&egg, grilled chicken, and more recently, being able to add 2 HKD (25 US cents) and have cheese on top. The photo is from my trip to HK with Mini (my girlfriend) in 2010, and its the only photo I have that has both variants.

HK people love their soup noodles, and McDonald's does it rather well.  The noodles are always cooked well, and the broth, isn't overly salty at all.  The sausage & egg are the same you would have on a McMuffin, and the grilled chicken is 'GCB' patty. Strangely, the chicken comes pre-sliced, and the sausage does not. Trying to cut the floating sausage into bite sized pieces with only a plastic spoon, is harder than you would think. Also, you add cheese to the ONLY to the sausage version, but not the chicken, I asked, and they won't add it to the chicken. For the price, its a very filling meal (soup, hashbrown and medium coffee), and because its soup, you might even get a little vegetable in you. It's a much better value than a McMuffin set, which costs about the same and is much less filling.

Consumed on - 21 August 2025
Price - Sausage&Egg Combo - 24HKD (~$3 USD).  Grilled Chicken Combo - (~$3.25USD)
Location - McDonald's Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Rating - 4.5/5