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2014-11-09
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Aug 27 2014Happy Birthday to me! =) A year ago I just came back to Hong Kong and spent my birthday @ Macau with my family. Can't believe it's been a year since I am back to Hong Kong for good. A lot of things happened in life and it's almost too hard to remember all the details anymore. Time to wrap up all the good and bad things and be ready to move on to the second half my 20s.This year I wasn't a loner. Not because I have any massive break-through in life / status (ya, as always.. sorry to di
Happy Birthday to me! =) A year ago I just came back to Hong Kong and spent my birthday @ Macau with my family. Can't believe it's been a year since I am back to Hong Kong for good. A lot of things happened in life and it's almost too hard to remember all the details anymore. Time to wrap up all the good and bad things and be ready to move on to the second half my 20s.
This year I wasn't a loner. Not because I have any massive break-through in life / status (ya, as always.. sorry to disappoint guys) but I have an awesome friend who came to visit Hong Kong during my birthday! =)
Very very excited to meet my old flatmate and I spent my birthday lunch with this gentleman from Sydney @ Whisk, The Mira.
I definitely have this restaurant at the top of my to-go list for ages but going lunch in Kowloon side on a weekday arvo doesnt seem to be all possible for me as an office lady, only if you take a day off work.
I made my reservation 3 days in advance and the lady offered to send me the menu of the day through e-mail (I also asked if she could send me the long list of dress code she told me over the phone but she missed out on that haha).
The theme of this dining experience is to bring you around the world so instead of having a 2 / 3 / 4 course lunch of one PARTICULAR cuisine, they have a good mix dishes that represents different parts of the world.Getting slightly disappointed of what's served on the menu on my birthday day, I almost decided to opt out for various reasons.
1) I hate the smell and taste of fresh celery
2) who likes liquorice really?
3) I do not enjoy sashimi / raw food
4) definitely not spending my money on veggie
All these make it a big NO NO to dine @ Whisk. Jesus I saw the other 2 menus that they have on rotation and this menu is the one that I like the least. Mehhhhh =\
Click >>> http://www.themirahotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/140724_WHISK_Lunch_getaway_menu.pdf
Despite with great disappointment, I couldn't find a proper substitute that I am equally keen to visit so I just decided to play by ear.
Kept hoping that when I got to the place the menu would be a completely different one but this little birthday wish didn't quite come true. (God knows I am stupid haha)
Can't complain more. Juices @ hotel is expected to be good. Mixed Berry Juice VS Orange Juice
Free bread basket with sour dough and some savory twistie with cheese and baconNice and fresh off the oven and it is served with white shea butter. I am no expert of butter but by common sense, 99% of the butter I consumed in life is yellow. So what is this white butter really? *Time to google* It seems that white shea butter is usually refined and filtered, so presumably they are better? haha honestly I still don't know after reading 5 posts about yellow v white butter. We were eating the bread from finish to end, and we only got to taste my sour dough just before our dessert came (before the waiter took it away from us haha). Despite my loving for Chinese bread, e.g. raisin bun, pineapple bun, these are definitely good stuff (Just that I generally wouldn't spend money on them except having them at buffet or at a restaurant).
So you would wonder, out of elimination, what did I end up picking for entree. It was a tough decision to make.
At first, I was thinking the soup coz from my experience, once celery is well cooked and turned soft, they no longer have that fresh grass smell.
My friend said he would for sure order the soup so I decided to pick between the rest of the 2.
Quite determine to go for the duck foie gras, but just as I made my order, this little question just popped out of my mind. "Is it a terrine or is it pan seared?" Didn't quite getting the luck a birthday girl should have, it happened to go against my desire. Mehhhh...I don't like terrine, i could totally imagine it would taste cold and soft like pastes.
So I end up with the scallop tar tar, which I did not cast much hope on it but hmmm....whatever really.
The JAPAN - My whole dish is like a green garden with leaves and no flowers. There is one particularly interesting veg there. It has a snowy look and a very crunchy texture. I really would rather it to be seared scallops (entirely personal preference), but the tar tar is still good. with very very mild hint of wasabi only.
The GERMANY - This celery soup is way better and more interesting and delicate from the presentation to the way how it was served. When the soup arrives the table, the "plate" only have a little bit of soup together with the sticks and puffy white thing in there. The waiter then pour the soup from a jar it into the "plate". The white thingy then start puffing up higher and higher like a little dome/island. And as I expected, it taste nothing like fresh celery. Darn.....SHOULD HAVE PICKED THIS ONE INSTEAD!
The FRANCE - Main for me is the highlight of the whole meal! My little france, is not so romantic! It's more like a little sahara to me instead. This dish has so much going on. Every single bite is a little surprise. The cute little colored potato that looks so much like rock. The dots of mandarin jam. The very thin carrot (is that carrot?) that is in a nice chewy texture as if you are eating some kind of plum. And of course the chicken leg is awesomely tender and flavourful!
The TASMANIA - I really do not quite agree with the stations they named. This is JAPAN, isnt it? I have only tried one bite f the salmon in it's just sooooo soft. As I about to bite into it, there is first a little bit of oil coming out and then the flake of salmon starts sliding off on your tongue. unbelievably good! Can I have sushi roll with grilled salmon but no rice instead next time when I go to a sushi train? haha
Compare to the classy and rather complicated main we had, the dessert is comparably...hm... not disappointing but "simple" I guess. I thought it would also come with a twist but it's looks so ordinary that I almost thought I could make it too. It's a puff pastry base with thin sliced apple and almond flakes on top with icing sugar. It tastes fairly good but I doesnt like how the edge is a bit burnt. I also do not understand why they cannot make a one man portion instead of forcing that we have to order the same dessert if we were to order apple tart. Weird....Vanilla bean ice cream is good tho!I guess the birthday girl is very happy for the lunch treat : ) and she's hoping to come back again when they switch their menu! Looking forward to it!!
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