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2015-06-21
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Given my friend is back in Hong Kong from Switzerland, 3 ladies decided to go somewhere nice for afternoon tea which is normally a great way to spend an afternoon for girls chit chat. Afternoon tea or high tea, being a British thing, I chose The Continental, a British restaurant run by the Swire group. I thought that would be a safe choice, given the restaurant is run by a conglomerate which would have no problems getting the chefs and ingredients to build a successful restaurant. I called to b
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Well I thought maybe the restaurant is very popular and that is why they need to remnd you to leave, so in a way, I just continued to wish for the best and still looked forward to tasting a authentic British afternoon tea at a Britsh restaurant.
Finally Saturday came, and I arrived at the restaurant. We were placed in a nice table at the window. I am glad they kept the beautiful wavy ceiling that was there when this restaurant was stil Domani. Very efficiently our afternoon tea set arrived. The 3 tier set was nicely presented and there was also a basket of sconed. Yes, the scones was the reason I came to this restaurant as I do miss the fresh, warm fluffy scones with cream and jam from my days in Australia. The scones at The Continental is hardly warm, not fluffy at all, and taste like mmm... the ones I get from Wellcome. This is very annoying as a British restaurant that can't get scone right has committed the same cardinal sin for a char charn teng that can't get their pineapple bun right. As I was concerned that I might just got the "bad" batch of scones, I requested the waiter to change and sorry the new batch had the same quality. I am now convinced that the scone is consistently bad. As for the rest of the goodies on the 3 tier dish, most of them were mediocre, so one may be better off buying cakes from Maxim's cake shop and cut them to small cute pieces. The taste would not be much different.
So if you like to donate HKD365 to the already wealthy Swire Group, for a worse than mediocre Afternoon Tea set, be my guest but you can be sure I shall not step my foot there again unless one day, they get their basics right, i.e. make thier scones right!!
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