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Item: Pici
Rating: 4
Author: cmjang12

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Wan Chai

$201-400

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cmjang12

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I've had difficulty finding a great Italian place in Hong Kong. So far, many of the Italian places are either mediocre, or just simply cannot make great Italian food. I've been to one place where they've overcooked their gnocchi and under-cooked their pasta noodles, and I've had one place where they simply could not cook their seafood right. I managed to find one great Italian place, and I found another that serves very good pasta. Pici is this restaurant that focuses on pasta. They handmade their pasta from scratch, and all their food is delicious. I chose the tasting menu where we could choose 2 starters and 3 pasta main courses. Each had a lot of positives, and few things that could be improved. The burrata cheese with tomato, rocket greens and basil was delicious and fresh. The homemade meatballs, made with pork, beef, tomato sauce and Parmesan were delicious, soft and moist. The three pasta dishes were different. We had the ravioli carbonara made with egg, Parmesan, peccrino and guanciale. The flavour was good; however, I felt the pasta was a bit too thick for my liking. My favourite was the tagliolini pasta made with shallot, white truffle paste, and fresh shaved black truffles on top. It was cooked to perfection. The one criticism I would say was that the pasta dish was too oily. My hands were very oily at the end even though I did not touch the pasta by hand. We also had the orcchiette with Italian sausage, spicy n'duja and cherry tomato. It was different and reminded me of this comfort Korean noodle soup dish; however, I found that there was inconsistency in the cooking of the orcchiette where some were cooked perfectly where some were tough / thick to eat. For dessert, they served tiramisu and raspberry panna cotta. The tiramisu was good; however, they sprinkled too much cocoa powder on top of the dish. The raspberry panna cotta however was very disappointing. Not only it was not served properly the way it's supposed to served (upside down), but when I have my first spoonful, it was very liquidy and was not set at all. When asking the serving for another tiramisu to replace to replace the panna cotta, she said that it's the way they make and serve the panna cotta. I was not happy with that response and clearly someone does not know how to make a proper panna cotta, or know what a panna cotta should look like. Overall, with a nice glass of rose, it was a pleasant dinner. Lots of carbs for sure, but it was delicious overall. I would go there again just for their burrata cheese appetizer and their tagliolini pasta with truffles.