今晚試了2015年美食大獎的鳳躍天仙(乾坤無花果鹹檸雞煲) ，食材和味道也十分豐富，炆得又軟又入味的厚冬菇，鮮嫩的雞配上微甜的新鮮無花果和鹹鹹酸酸的檸檬，還有有咬口的鹵水蛋，真的很美味，送飯佳作，連一向不吃飯的Baby和媽媽也要添飯。$288半隻，價錢合理。

The lunch set in Chesa is always the best choice for enjoying lunch with a reasonable price.

Lunch set 1
Appetizer: Shrimp cocktail with melon
Four large and fresh shrimp are put beautifully in a glass with a bed of marinated melon. A very refreshing appetizer in hot summer!

Main: Grilled lamb chops
Three pieces of lamb chops are grilled to just well-done as requested. Juicy and tender!

Dessert: Bread and butter pudding
A excellent choice for sweet lover. Large portion. Very creamy. The crispy almond, sweet raisin and sour berry sorbert made a mixture of hot and cold, sweet and sour, soft and crispy. Just wonderful!

Lunch set 2
Appetizer: White fish consumme
I think it tastes like chicken soup in can. haha.....

Main: Roasted veal loin
This one is not bad. But I think its signature dish: veal and mushroom in light cream sauce, is much better. May be that is the only good way to cook veal

Dessert: Dark chocolate pot-de-cream with vanilla ice-cream
Very rich dark chocolate. Best for chocolate lover.

The lunch ended with latte/mocha and petit four. We are too full to finish them all

My friend saw the adv on the newspaper that the Aspasia will close on 24 October. So we went there for lunch.
The waitress introduced two menus to us. One is the normal Executive Set Lunch menu and another is the FINDS menu. She said that FINDS will take over Aspasia and opens in Nov.
FINDS means Finland, Iceland, Normay, Denmark and Sweden. So the resturant sells northern europe food. The FINDS lunch is much cheaper than the Executive Lunch, from $108 with soup and salad, to $188 with soup, salad, main and dessert. The Executive Lunch was from $218, with appentiser, Secondi (soup or pasta) and dessert.
We had one Executive Set Lunch and one FINDS lunch set to share.
Executive Lunch $218
Appentiser: Carpaccio of Wagyu Eyeround

: the beef was cut very thin. the fat melted in the mouth. however, there was some 渣. Not perfect.
Secondi: Spaghettini with Tuna Belly Tartare

The spaghetti was very al denta. slight taste of white wine was mixed with the strong taste of garlic. the tomato gave a sweet taste in between. however, where was the tuna?? I nearly forgot that. There was only very very very little tuna at the bottom. Was tuna so expensive??
Dessert: Riccotta cannoel
the ricotta was not smooth and creamy enough. the pastry was not very crispy. the one in Angelini was much better.

FINDS set lunch $168
Appentiser: Autumn Salad with Duck Pastrami
The salad was very good. Plenty of differnt kinds of vegetable such as aspargus, beans, and lettuce. the vinegar sauce was yummy. The Duck Pastrami tasted like liver. we do not quite like it.
Main: Singature House-smoked Samon
I think we should have salmon is a restraunt selling Scandinavian food. The salmon was just cooked with strong smoke flavour. The salmon was still very tender. Delicious.
Dessert: Baileys Cheesecake
the cheese cake is very normal itself. however, it became very delicious after adding the baileys sauce. The crust was too thick. it will be perfect if the crust is thinner.
Overall speaking, the food in the Executive Set Lunch and the new FINDS set lunch was good. The new FINDS will be cheaper than the existing Aspasia. We will come again.
Some free vouchers (e.g. buy 5 lunch get 1 free, free wine for set dinner) of FINDS were given. See whether we will come to enjoy the discount?
15% off with Hang Seng Platnium credit card.

had birthday dinner with friends last Sunday night. we booked a table at 6:45 and the waiter requested us to return the table at 8:00. however, it was not full for the whole night. we sat and talked for more time.

the location of the restaurant was very remote. it was very far away from the main entrance of 海運大廈. noone would know that there was such a restaurant if they didn't check Openrice first.

All food we ordered that night tasted quite good: 柚子沙律, 椰青海鮮焗飯,泰式拼盤(細), 燒豬頸肉, 焗南瓜海鮮咖哩, 蒜蓉包, 炒通菜, All are typical thai (or HK style thai food) taste. Nothing special.

Happy birthday to friends!

Had dessert after dinner at about 8:30 p.m.. No people inside!

白玉子寒天芝麻牛乳軟雪糕 $29
白玉子is egg white pudding. 寒天 is something like 大菜糕. It is tastless. There are several choices of sauce and we had the sesame. The sesame sauce is just like sesame sweet soup. very rich. the soft icecream at the top and the egg white pudding at the bottom is very smooth and milky. very delicious.

玉子with green tea and red bean $20
There are choices of cold or hot. We had the hot one. It was actually warm only. The red bean on the top is cool. The green tea sauce and red bean cannot actually mixed with the pudding. The strong green tea flavour did not cover the taste of milk pudding. The pudding is very smooth and rich in milk flavour. Overall, it tasted good.

There was 10% charge for dine-in. It is a good choice for dessert in Shatin.

Fried water spinach , fried spinach with garlic
Both were quite oily. Tasted so so.

Fried rice with pineapple and seafood
The presentation was quite good. There were quite many seafood, e.g. fish fillet, shrimps, squid and nut. Standard taste. Nothing special.

Deep fried squid
The squid itself is tasteless. But it was fried to be very crispy.

Fried rice noodle with pork (wet)
The presentation is quite terrible. I dislike the noodle with much sauce. There was only little noodle but quite many mushroom and pork. It think all ingredients seemed to be swimming in the "sauce pool". Very oily.

Grilled beef
It was very big. The beef was tender and quite juicy. Good for meat lover.

Grilled eel
The eel is quite small but quite thick. The meat will not be too soft. It was grilled quite well.

Deep fried shrimp cake
Crispy. yummy with the sauce.

Overall, the food was not too bad. But it was HK-style Thai food.

Cherry danish $12: very very sweet. I expected that it will be the similar with the one in Mandarin cake shop. Really quite disappointed.

Red bean bread $10: this is quite good. There is much red bean in the middle and there are some walnut inside the bread. Crispy and sweet. Although the red bean does not quite match with the walnut, I still love it.

Three people had lunch on Monday night. We arrived at 7:00 p.m. and it was about half-full.

南乳粗齋煲
Surprisingly, it was not too salty and oily. The vegetables (e.g. pak choi, beans, eggplant) just absorbed the slight taste of 南乳. It tasted quite good.

污糟雞
The name is really quite ugly. It was not dirty at all.
The chicken was soft and tender. Not over-cooked. I think it should be fresh chicken.

鮑汁章魚雞粒炒飯
The rice was fired very well, not too wet nor too dry. Not sure whether there is real 鮑汁. But it tasted good. All of us love this.

Almond sweet soup with coconut
$20 only. Very small. A little bit too sweet.

Overall, the food, service and environment is fine. It is, however, not cheap. I will choose Ming Court in Longham Hotel for a little bit more expensive but higher quality.

15% off with Citibank credit card.

This is a cafe with cutie decoration of snoopy all around. The food and drink was a little bit expensive. For a snoopy lover, it should be worthy for it.

I had a latte $23 and one crunchy hazelnut cake $29 for the tea time. The taste of coffee was very weak. Instead of the beautiful "lattee flower", there was a chocolate powder snoopy on the top. It was cute! The cruncy hazelnut cake was rather sweet. It was better for sharing.

Most people sit there for long time for discussion or chatting. It is a quite good place for 飲o野傾計

Arrived at 12:30 on Sat, not yet full house. However, there were not enough waitress. We waited for a while before having a table.

I felt very excited when I saw the 秋季限定. Per my experience, the seasonal special is always good! There were two sets of 秋季限定, and each cost $200. We had the one with 松茸銀杏飯,刺身,天婦羅,男爵薯仔沙律, 蒸蛋, 麵鼓湯. And also one壽司盛岡冷麵定食 $150.

秋季限定
松茸銀杏飯: very delicious. The 銀杏 is greener than the usual one. It do not have the strange taste of the normal 銀杏. It had a sweet smell and was a little bit chewy. very special! The rice tasted like glutinous rice. It tasted very good together with the 松茸 and銀杏.

刺身: five kinds of 刺身 and each have 2 pieces. The crab tasted the best and others were fine.

天婦羅: There were two shrimps, sweet potato and pepper. All were crispy. But the shrimp was tasteless. The sweet potato was very good.

男爵薯仔沙律: 男爵薯仔 was one of the potatos in Hokkaido. There was too much salad dressing and I don't like salad dressing. So it was not very good.

壽司盛岡冷麵定食
There were five sushi and 8 rolls. All were fresh and delicious. 盛岡冷麵 was very large. the noodles were very chewy. The 泡菜 on the top was very spicy.

Orange was served after the lunch. Very juicy and sweet.

Overall speaking, the food was good and the price was reasonable.