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Date Dined: Monday 29th August 2011- 6.30pmIntro:spanish tapas to me seems EXPENSIVE and SMALL portion, so has never been one of my top cuisine. but in london, there has a been a trend for comtemporary tapas, which i love. The food is much more choice and it atste better, in my opionion. so after searching, I wanted to come to FoFo by el willy for so long. anf yes, spanish tapas is seen to be xpenisive for such a small portion and for a chinese perception, we like our food cheap and HUGE por
Intro:spanish tapas to me seems EXPENSIVE and SMALL portion, so has never been one of my top cuisine. but in london, there has a been a trend for comtemporary tapas, which i love. The food is much more choice and it atste better, in my opionion. so after searching, I wanted to come to FoFo by el willy for so long. anf yes, spanish tapas is seen to be xpenisive for such a small portion and for a chinese perception, we like our food cheap and HUGE portion. So let see if ordering 5 tapas and a drink will fill this chinese person up.
"Tapas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtapas]) is the name of a wide variety of appetizers, or snacks, in Spanish cuisine. They may be cold (such as mixed olives and cheese) or warm (such as chopitos, which are battered, fried baby squid). In select bars in Spain,
The serving of tapas is designed to encourage conversation because people are not so focused upon eating an entire meal that is set before them " WIKIPEDIA
SO EAT SMALL, TALK MORE!!!!!!! is the art of tapas!
Ordered
Fried croquettes of iberian ham of 36months, $98
Crispy suckling pig on potatoes with mojo picon sauce, $115
Pan fried Foie gras with truffle and confit onion, #98
Spanish omellete with with poatoes &onions $60
Organic eggs cooked at 62 degree in crispy potatoes and onion nest with chorizio $110
Drinks- Pink sangria (jar) $380
Taste: Spanish omellete with with poatoes &onions $60- This was made just as the one I had before UK. Nice and round. bright yellow with bits in it looking like onion! This was VERY VERY VERY VERY disappointing. As far as I am concerned, Spanish omellete usually are called Tortilla, and for the past few times I have ordered, the centre seems bit more runny. So when you cut open the egg, some egg will flow out. Even if i am wrong, this egg omellette is way overcooked. The egg should be creamy and souffle like, But isntead this was hard, dry and stiff. was not enjoyable eating and would HIGHLY NOT recommend this dish. a;though this will fill you up as it is made of eggs and potatoes.
Fried croquettes of iberian ham of 36months, $98 - This was yet another disappointing dish. The crquette came in small portions. Came in 6. So small and not appealing at all. The texture was squashy and soft. teh outside was not crispy or hard, seems like the whole thing was small and soft. teh size did not appeal to me. the taste was averahe. i prefer other places that makes croquette. costing nearly 100 dollars was not worth it. the inside was creamy and had more taste than the tortilla. I had only one piece and did not intend to have another piece.
Pan fried Foie gras with truffle and confit onion, #98 - this came in four piece. All comes with on top of a piece of toast. This looked absolutely amazing and could not wait to dig in. the foie gras was lightly pa fried so it was nice and warm, on top of a green leaf then on top of the toast.
Underneath the toast was the confit onion, which i had to scoop up after having the foie gras. The taste of the onion compliments the foie gras, brings out the rich buttery taste of the foie gras. Because the foie gras is softa nd creamy, the toast adds more of a texture to it and also neutralizing the rich taste. What a perfect combination. although i cannot taste the truffle which is said to be in the dish, this was still the perfect dish. 4 in a portion, small portion, but just enough. Enough for your satisfaction and enough for you to daydream about it after the meal.. For 100 hkd, this was absolutely WORTH IT!
Organic eggs cooked at 62 degree in crispy potatoes and onion nest with chorizio $110- This came in a rather BIG bowl. And yes, you can imagine it as a bird nest with the fried crispy stripes of potatoes. With then two organic eggs on top. We chose it with chorizio. We asked the waitress to scramble the egg ina nd mix it around. Which soon the egg becomes the creamy runnys auce mixed with the cripsy potatoes with chorizio scattered around. At first this dish tasted bit strange. it is like something i have never experienced. the texture was absolutely different. the potatoes are thina nd so crispy and you cannot atste the potatoe taste to it nomore. the egg sauce was slowly making the cripsy potatoe less crispy. There arent much taste to it unless you eat it with the chorizio, as it is VERY salty. chorizio is rather hard and stiff, but extremely salty just like our cured chinese sausage. But a good combination. A must try for a new sensation experience.It became soggy in the end as the crispy potatoes has soaked up the egg mixture. So our kind waitress did advise us to eat it warm.
Crispy suckling pig on potatoes with mojo picon sauce, $115- This also came in 4. each crispy suckling pig was nicely cutted into a square shape, most proabably 3cm by 3cm. each on top of a potato. the potato is much smaller than the suckling pig, that way it will not over take the taste of the pig. the dish came with the sauce which i tasted of alot of pepper and little bit sweet. I put the sauce onto the potato as the potato was tasteless, lack of seasoning, maybe for a purpose.
The suckling pig was crispy and the meat was really tender. Although when you try to cut the pig, it usualy seperates the skin and the meat of the pig. the skin of the pig was delicious, crispy and not hard as some places try to reheat the pig and turns the skin real hard.
Pink sangria (jar) $380 -Mixed of Barcardi Rum, white wine, cassis, strawberry and grapefruit. - i chose this sangria than the red or white sangria because of the fruits thatw as mixed into it. with pink sanfria, they would use strawberry, cassis and grapefruit. whereas the red sangria would use peach liquer and cinnamon. the white sangria, would use lychee and apple. to me, starwberry and cassis seems more fruity and sweeter to me. And, FYI, it was NOT disappointing. I loved it. i cannot taste much of the white wine, but i could taste the cassis and strawberry. made me drink more and more. I expected it to be quite a small glass, but soemhow was rather a BIG glass. it really fills you up. i had about 3-4 glass. 1 jar of sangria nad 5 plates of tapas made me really full. So not a good idea if you aren't going to stay a whole night to chat, but just for dinner. if you know you can't drink TOO much and wonts tay for too long, i will opt for a glass instead which only cost $65 dollars.Service: we were served by a waitress who was superb. i can't say perfect as there was still room for improvement, like maybe try smiling bit more, but she was good enough/ Even when we took a long time to order food, she recommended us some dishes. Our tables was quite small, so our dishes did not all fit on our tables, she asked if we would like the unfinshed dish be put onto a smaller dish. Our sangria was refilled very often too. Like I said, they paid attention to us but would have been better if more of a smile. everybody likes to see a happy face. After the bill, I realize there is a comment card slipped inside. I like places who consider their costumers comments to be valuable. so i decided to write my comment , but OH NO, there was no pen.
So was it just an act tos how they do care about your comments but dont expect or want you to comment. Anyhow, later on, the manager gave us a pen. I dont know, if they would read the comments I gave or thrown away in the bin.
Conclusion: I expected quite a lot from this restaurant, as I have seen nice pictures on openrice and read nice reviews. there are few missed on the dished which gave me a bad impression of the restaurant. we have earlier booked atable for two for 8.30pm. It was 80 percent full. we were seated infront of teh bar on EXTREMELY small tables. there are two sides of seating area, on the left and right of the bar. More privacy and better view. But we were seated in the middle, infront of the bar. No privacy, no view. Not exactly best seat. Seems like they just put some tables there for emergency. did not like it.
The wines was huge and that impressed me as majority was spanish wine, and 3 different types of sangria.There are lots of choices on tapas, from salads, to cold meat, rice and seafood. even two pages of dessert. I was TOTALLY disappointed in the spanish omellete which immediately make me dislike the restaurant and think it is overated by me. spanish omellette is a simple dish that can be easily made.But this dish by them was HARD, STIFF nad DRY. Cannot get wosrt. the suckling pig was crispy and suckling, cooked to perfect, although many people wouldnt like the spicy sauce, you can always eat it without the sauce. It will still taste good. the Foie gras was my favourite. i wished I have never ordered the croquette which was badly made, I would have ordered two paltes of the Foie gras. it was warm, creamy on a crispy piece of toast. Yum. i highly recommend.
as there are a few hits and missed, I did not order dessert as I did not want to disappoint myself anymore. the place is on 20th floor above beijing club at M88 in LKF. Not high class, but not too cheap. casual dress will be fine.
TBH there is one thing i really dont like about thsi place is, the waiters and waitress seldomly group together chatting. That is not very professional. And soemtimes two of them would stand right next to me so i can clearly hear what they are discussing about which also not evry appropriate. To make sure your service is top notch i think they need to improve on this and look abit more professional.
Overall nice place in Hk as not many Comtemporary spanish tapas place in Hk. Price isnt outrageous nor cheap but good if you are coming with few friends for a chat to eat and drink. But do however considr it is Mitchelin star rated!
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