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2015-03-20
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There area couple of Peruvian restaurants in Hong Kong. Previously tried Maya in LKF, I enjoyedtheir food. We saw Chicha on Groupon and thought might give it a go. We boughtthe HKD98 lunch set. The restaurant was much bigger than we have expected andwe got to choose from the normal lunch set menu.Aguadito de Pollo (Peruvian traditional rice soup with shredded chicken) This wasweird and I couldn’t put my head around it. It tasted like Cilantro pesto soupwith cooked rice and shredded chicken. The
There are
a couple of Peruvian restaurants in Hong Kong. Previously tried Maya in LKF, I enjoyed
their food. We saw Chicha on Groupon and thought might give it a go. We bought
the HKD98 lunch set. The restaurant was much bigger than we have expected and
we got to choose from the normal lunch set menu.
Aguadito de Pollo (Peruvian traditional rice soup with shredded chicken)This was
weird and I couldn’t put my head around it. It tasted like Cilantro pesto soup
with cooked rice and shredded chicken. The soup was more like a broth rather than a
thick soup and nothing really mixed together.
CevicheI thought
Ceviche is raw fish ‘cooked’ in citrus. However this dish did not have the
slightest hint of citrus. It was more of a sashimi dish. The little bits on the
sides are actually corn kernels. Brown ones are dried kernels and the white
ones were Choclo, (Peruvian corn), they tasted quite starchy and bean- like.
Marisco Jugoso (Aji Amarollo sea urchin rice with sea bass, squid, prawns and scallop)No sight
or taste of urchin, the seafood looked like that they had just been poached. As for
the rice, my companion thought it l tasted like Uncle Ben’s (precooked
flavoured rice). I personally thought Uncle Ben’s tasted better.
Pollo a la Brasa (Juzu marinated spilt chicken, aromatic rice and fiery Rocoto tomato)The
chicken was tender. However, the gravy over it didn’t do anything. The rice was nice, but it basically tasted like rice cooked in the soup we had for starter.
Lucama Sundae (Mixed berries, honeycomb, espresso Manjar Blanco and amaretti crumbs)The
dessert was ok, The ice cream was smooth and the toppings were good. Although I like the design of the spoon, I found it a bit hard to actually eat off it.
Portions were quite small, if I were to pay the usual price of around HK 200 per set, I wouldn’t be happy. We were left quite unsatisfied after the meal. One thing I do have to commend was the staff, they were very attentive and were happy to explain how the dishes were made. I have heard good things about this restaurants, but again most people came here for dinner (hence a la carte). I did look up some of the pictures on Openrice and have to say they looked much more appetizing. Yes, we were using Groupon, but the whole point of going on Groupon was to attract new customers and hopefully they will visit again.
-J
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We used Groupon
(The above review is the personal opinion of a user which does not represent OpenRice's point of view.)
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