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2016-09-25
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In my opinion, there's nothing not to love about omelette rice. It's comfort food at it's best, piping hot rice fried until fragrant and tucked into a thick, fluffy blanket of eggs (brings to mind the good old advice of crack an egg in it, doesn't it?). The dish, while deceptively simple, depends heavily on these two basics to make it exceptional. Anyone who has scrambled an egg before will know how difficult it is to scramble an egg properly - there are simply too many components in play to mak
As such, I begin my review.
The restaurant itself is a cozy 20-30 seater, a full house on the Saturday night that we dropped by. The waiting time was astonishingly quick - the reason for which I found out only after we were seated. Nothing to do with food or service, but more on that later. With the tight space constraints, the restaurant is only staffed by one frazzled young lady who breaks off from taking our order to serve the other customers, and accidentally spilled egg . Nothing severe enough to leave behind a bad impression in my mind, since the pace of the restaurant is laid-back and relaxed. To people particular with service, however, there certainly are lots of room for improvement.Orders were quickly passed on to the kitchen once made, and our drinks are the first to arrive. Nothing special about the drinks: cordial and club soda that is a touch too heavy on the orange cordial to make it a fruit punch.
Taking the advise of reviews from this page, I've ordered the boneless chicken wings with cheese, the sweet potato croquette, as well as grilled squid. These are the first dishes to arrive at the table, with the exception of the grilled squid that was served last.
Boneless chicken wings with cheese (demolished before we could get a photo):
It's hard to go wrong when your food is deep fried. The boneless wings stuffed with cheese came to our table hot and crispy, meat moist and succulent as is expected of the wing part of the chicken. Cheese lovers may be a tad disappointed with the amount of cheese that is stuffed in this. Instead of being fully stuffed to the brim with cheese as I had expected, there is only a nibble of it to accompany the mouthful of meat from the mid-wing. There's enough of it to justify the title of the dish, but not enough to satisfy, in my personal opinion. It could do with just a little more of cheese, please and thank you! Still, a very good fried chicken wing (it will consist of only the mid-wing and the wing tip). I recommend ordering this.
Sweet potato croquette:
南瓜可乐饼
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Faultless. Again, it's deep fried. Short of burning the food, you can't go wrong. Crispy with a good, solid bite and no danger of falling apart on the fork. The other croquette option on the menu was crab and cream. Compared with other items on the menu, croquettes aren't a must-order. It would be a good idea to save your stomach for the other grilled items, or even ala-carte dishes such as angler fish liver (unless you're a potato lover like me).
Grilled Squid:
It was served just a little charred, the way I feel grilled food should be. The outside is dry with crispy bits where it has charred beautifully, the white insides tender and moist and cooked just right. There is no wedge of lemon on the plate. Instead, lemon juice has already been squeezed over the squid. I ate a few pieces even though I generally do not eat squid (usually seems a little tasteless to me).
Omelette rice (Ox-tongue):
流心蛋包饭，牛舌
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The omelette is not as thick as I would have preferred, but more damning is the lack of fragrance and the sweetness of eggs that an omelette should have. Instead of creamy, it comes across as watery. Hardly encouraging when the omelette itself is a main component of the dish.
Now, on to the fried rice. There could not be a more uninterested component on this plate than it. The fried rice is, in a word, boring. Instead of using tomato ketchup, the rice is fried with soy sauce, with the addition of thinly sliced onions for sweetness. Herein lies the biggest complaint of my meal. It tastes mediocre. It tastes lazy. I've had better fried rice put together with nothing but rice and spring onions and it tastes much brighter than this. The ingredients of the fried rice tastes like separate ingredients, a very unhappy marriage of food on the tongue. The only difference in what you are ordering - be it ox's tongue, uni, or salmon - is simply a difference in the ingredients that you will be eating. When put together, there is no difference in taste except for in texture. They could have cooked the rice first, and threw in the ingredients later, giving it a good toss before serving. It's clumsy, uncoordinated. Paired with the omelette that offers nothing but some variance in texture and moisture, it's dull at best. I've probably wasted a good many calories on this.
Good things, however, can be said of the accompanying white sauce (out of the traditional ketchup, curry sauce, and white sauce with cheese). Most white sauces I've tasted tend to be heavy, and it creates a sense of fullness before I've so much as eaten half the plate. The white sauce that they serve here is not overwhelmingly rich, pleasantly creamy, and goes very well with the food.
In summary:
Disappointing, for a restaurant that boosts of omurice as it's main dish. The options on the menu are by far too fancy: uni, squid ink and seafood, spinach and clam, unagi, ox's tongue, wagyu, salmon and bacon, so on, and on. With the quality of what they are serving (specific to omurice), I would much rather a basic ketchup and chicken fried rice than what I am getting. I love the idea of a lava omelette, and I would love it even more if it worked. In total, the omurice feels more of a gimmick than a good dish that lives up to its name and value. There are definitely lots of room for improvement in this area.
Not all is lost, however. As I've mentioned, the other dishes that aren't omurice are very good. Other than grilled and deep fried items (very good alcohol accompaniments, I assure you... had I room for more food, I would have ordered some gizzard), there are also a few hotpot items. Still, if you are only there for for skewers, why not take your business to an izakaya with a wider selection of beer that specializes in skewers? If a restaurant doesn't dedicate any effort into what they are claiming as their main dish and brand, there isn't much of a point in a second visit.
题外话/补充资料：
One of the tables in the restaurants is directly underneath the A/C unit, resulting in cold air being blown directly onto the patrons and the food. The food tends to turn cold really quickly (which affects the taste), and it gets too chilly to stay for long once the meal is over, especially if you are with a group. This is simply an observation and not a complaint, particularly since the restaurant needs to utilize all the space that it can get.
(以上食记乃用户个人意见 , 并不代表OpenRice之观点。)
张贴
