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2009-11-13
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TOMATO BAGEL - EMMENTAL CHEESE + SMOKED TURKEY + AVOCADO -I haven't tried YO BAGO to compare to here as they were closed whenever I got there. Harvest's Bagel however is quite expensive at $48 with little filling. The 'Tomato Bagel' turned out to be a dough infused with semi-fried tomatoes - slightly misleading. The Bagel itself was intended to replicate the New York experience. Unfortunately the TEXTURE was a bit tragical: the centre was too dense as it was clumpily wet, more like playdo
I haven't tried YO BAGO to compare to here as they were closed whenever I got there. Harvest's Bagel however is quite expensive at $48 with little filling. The 'Tomato Bagel' turned out to be a dough infused with semi-fried tomatoes - slightly misleading. The Bagel itself was intended to replicate the New York experience. Unfortunately the TEXTURE was a bit tragical: the centre was too dense as it was clumpily wet, more like playdough but minus the all important chewiness factor! ... I suspect the dough formula is somehow amiss or they were over-boiled in water, or the cooking wasn't perfect. ITS AT BEST, A BAGEL LOOKALIKE. (Perhaps not surprisingly, HARVEST also couldn't decide on whether Bagels got invented in 1683 or 1783 in their Histories Column, as there's mis-prints on the tray liner sheet as it showed two versions!)
The ingredients were fresh but suffers from being ungenerous. I wasn't expecting a stack of fillings but the very thin shavings of food sandwiched inbetween could not even lend flavours that penetrate through the carbohydrate once its in your mouth.
CAPPUCINO -
An Openrice friend once told me the coffee here is ok-good. Hope she doesn't mind me saying (I'm sure she can agree to disagree, at least sometimes! ) but my coffee this time was too scolding hot and in the end I couldn't finish it as the milk tasted burnt. May be another person making it would fare much better. It has some easy-to-please flavours, mainly caramel and the trademark Swiss vanilla plus a hint of smokiness. It a very likeable coffee and reminds me of Starbucks!
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Wanted to come for lunch and like their Bagels on a regular basis - its not easy to strike the 'lunch' double bonanza by finding a free table plus eat decent food all at once in Central, with all the mad dashes by fellow lunch goers! The result here was slightly below expectations and at this price range I would rather exercise my other options...
张贴
