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2019-05-02
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We went here the other day purely because the Instagram advertisement for one of their chicken dishes—honey mustard curry I think—got stuck in my head. For this reason, I was expecting some over the top flavour on top of juicy, succulent chicken, but really all we got was *some* flavour over some pretty dry chicken. It was really disappointing, and not cheap. We ordered two chicken dishes, a Caesar salad, and a kimchi pancake, and 2 beers. Everything was mediocre at best. We ordered with the int
We ordered two chicken dishes, a Caesar salad, and a kimchi pancake, and 2 beers. Everything was mediocre at best. We ordered with the intention of doing lots of take away to share with a friend, so we purposely over-ordered. That said, our bill came out to about $850 and I don’t think we will be returning. It’s not quite a ripoff, but the food quality just wasn’t there for me. Here’s why:
The Caesar salad we ordered just because we knew that there wouldn’t be much in the way of vegetables otherwise for this meal. It was a good call, and a serviceable salad. However, it had some seasoning on top that I can only describe as “dust” that made for a strange texture. Otherwise the salad was fine.
The kimchi pancake was not a great introduction to the genre. It was a bit greasy, which I expected, but the batter was also quite thick and starchy, and there was surprisingly little in the way of kimchi flavour. It wasn’t terribly impressive.
Now for the main attraction: the chicken. We ordered two different chicken dishes, one sauced the other dry. The first was a half-half mixture of smokey bbq flavored and “volcano” flavoured, which is named for the spice factor I presume.
As you can see, the pieces aren’t exactly swimming in sauce here. We were expecting the pieces to be oozing and dripping with this mess of a sauce, but this was a glaze at best. Worse though was that inside the chicken was rather dry. You could dip the pieces in the sauce for a bit better texture, but really there wasn’t much in the way of chicken flavour, the pieces having been considerably dried out.
The sauces were serviceable at best. The smokey bbq sauce might have passed for a decent American bbq sauce, though a bit less sweet, and the volcano sauce was similar, just with spice instead of smokey flavour. The volcano sauce was the more interesting of the two, but still not terribly impressive.
After we decided to commit to doing take away, we ordered another chicken dish, this time dry. We wanted to test the flavour of the batter and seasonings on their own without any glaze, so we ordered the spicy version of the dry chicken.
Dry indeed it was. Really dry. The chicken, the batter, the bones—everything was dry. There was again not much in the way of flavour, both for the chicken itself and for the batter, and this time certain pieces of batter were uncomfortably crunchy, due again to dryness.
I wanted to like this place, I really did, but it’s just too pricey and mediocre. I’ve enjoyed the chicken from Jollibee and KFC more than I enjoyed this, which really shouldn’t be the case with this price tag.
张贴
