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2023-07-21
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After indulging myself with the cooking reality show recently aired on Netflix hosted at The Langham in London, I decided to pay a visit at this hotel to experience the legendary food and 5-star service as promised on the reality show. To be fair, the price of a standard 3-course set lunch at $298 is considered mid-range only compared to other newly opened five-star hotels in Tsim Sha Tsui. Nonetheless, this price was within the same range of a 30-pound set lunch sold at The Langham in London, w
For lunch, I have ordered a 4-course menu. The freshly shucked hotel grade oysters at an addition of HK$40 was indeed a bargain. The oysters did came in fresh with the 2-condiments, no complaint (well, the oyster itself pretty much did all the work).
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The prawn cobb salad with a creamy lemon sauce echoes that perpetual Roux-comment “presentation is simply not 5-star standard”. While the prawn and lemon sauce were both fresh, the frugal amount of vegetables littered with corn was just not insta-worthy.
Prawn cobb salad
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The Bostonian Lobster Bisque was indeed impressive, but I felt that I was coerced into topping up for this premium option because the other “chef daily soup” was an ordinary cream of corn, an inexpensive ingredient and unfit for a healthy diet. I am unsure whether the chef added maple syrup or brandy and butter into the soup. I pray that it’s the latter, but in any event, oaky flavours were there. Lobsters though, again circling back to the panel comments, were not evenly cooked – some were on the spot but some were over.
Bostonian lobster bisque
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Bostonian lobster bisque
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While the flavours of the lamb chop was perfectly executed, the head chef again, committed the fatal mistake of falling behind in service. 50 minutes into the meal, and long after I finished the bisque, the main dish was still not served. Nonetheless, I thank the staff for the free coffee as pacifier, which tasted amazing. Again, I could hear the same judges complain about how the lamb could have been sufficiently rested if the chef was better organized.
For lunch, I would recommend the show hosted at The Langham, but the restaurant? Unlikely.
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