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2013-08-26
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In Little Britain (as opposed to Great Britain) they eat galette bretonne, or, in the local (severely endangered) language, krampouezhenn gwinizh-du. These are buckwheat pancakes that strike me as most akin to dosas in appearance, taste, and texture-- though obviously with more of a buckwheat taste. La Creperie has a branch in Wan Chai, and maybe also in Shanghai-- there's a restaurant in Shanghai called La Creperie that looks a lot like this one (right down to the salt and pepper shakers), but
La Creperie has a branch in Wan Chai, and maybe also in Shanghai-- there's a restaurant in Shanghai called La Creperie that looks a lot like this one (right down to the salt and pepper shakers), but I don't know if they're related. I went to the Sheung Wan one because it's right down the street from me.
At lunchtime it can get crowded, but we went around 8:00pm for dinner and had our choice of seats, and went for the high tables. I got La Marin. La Marin is lardons and mushrooms in a white wine sauce and some scallops. The cream sauce/ mushrooms/ lardons is fantastic-- fatty and delicious without feeling overly heavy, and nicely paired with the galette. I thought the scallops were a little overdone for my tastes, but they're very hard to cook (I've given up cooking them myself, as I can never do it right). Other reviewers complained of burnt galettes! I too like my galette quand elle est bien faite, that is, not burnt-- but mine was cooked perfectly. Maybe they got a new chef? Good, almost excellent: A-/B+ My wife had the complete gallette with tomatoes. This has ham, egg, emmental cheese, and you get to choose one of tomatoes, spinach, onions or mushrooms. She says "I thought it was really good. A-."
I should mention that these galettes are huge and neither of us finished ours. Otherwise we'd have had crepes. We did have the traditional accompaniment to galettes: dry, naturally fermented apple cider from Breiz. You drink it out of un bolee de cidre-- in this instance, just a bowl. I love food that has unique drink pairings and drinks that have vessel pairings-- and this cider is pretty good too.
The service was warm and friendly for us. There's such a variety of galettes on the menu, and the place is so close by to me, that I think I will return. Kalon digor! A
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