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2009-03-30
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Had a quick dinner the other night at the Wanchai laneway shop, having been to the SOHO one before around 2 years ago.Had the following:Bread basket - a spongy yet wet bread, comes with warmed garlicky, infused with parmesan cheese dip which was quite nice indeed.1) Wines - 1 Italian, 1 Chilean. Both slightly too expensive at $45 and $50 each. I think the wines here are overpriced by too much, most bottles are from $200-230 upwards.2) Prawn and Lobster Cappellini pasta with Cream sauce - $9X.The
Had the following:
Bread basket - a spongy yet wet bread, comes with warmed garlicky, infused with parmesan cheese dip which was quite nice indeed.
1) Wines - 1 Italian, 1 Chilean. Both slightly too expensive at $45 and $50 each. I think the wines here are overpriced by too much, most bottles are from $200-230 upwards.
2) Prawn and Lobster Cappellini pasta with Cream sauce - $9X.
The Cappellini being much thinner than even Spaghetti no.3, wasn't very Al Dente although I guess that's more like my ordering problem.
This wasn't very Italian in execution. The amount of cream was overwhelming, which had no seafood taste. Surprisingly, there was a lot of crunchy prawn and lobster cooked to the right degree, although the seafood, cream sauce and pasta were all separate entities. Not an enjoyable dish overall.
3) Parma Ham Pizza with Rocket leaves and Truffle Oil. Very thin, crispy pizza base, which had a nice texture but without any dough taste. Could not detect any truffle oil, which is definitely not the problem of my senses because they're usually very fragrant and blatantly obvious even when present in minuit amounts. Probably put on too early and 'baked' the flavour away, or was forgotten.
Rocket leaves didn't have much rocket taste, although a few strands of them had - this is a pet peeve of mine. Why do a lot of Rockets/Rocquette/Rucola/Rughetta nowadays have the missing signature taste?
This pizza was ok-good in general, it just needed slightly more flavour, plus they sprinkled Parmesan cheese on top of the mozzarella, which was strangely over-powering somewhat, although Parmesan certainly goes well with Rucola in general.
Overall speaking, this meal was satisfactory vs its reasonable price, although really falling short if you compare it to real Italian food.
A low to mid 3.
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