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2014-05-02
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I was unaware of Fusian Gourmet's existence until relatively recently. In a bid to eat more healthily, I scoured OpenRice's "Western" restaurants in Sheung Wan thinking that something nearby must have something easy on the heart. And what luck, this place is actually good.I will say that it's overpriced. I've complained about this before but $30 for a can of soda is ridiculous. I never expect that someone's going to charge me four USD for ten cents of sugar water, but then BAM! it happens everyw
I will say that it's overpriced. I've complained about this before but $30 for a can of soda is ridiculous. I never expect that someone's going to charge me four USD for ten cents of sugar water, but then BAM! it happens everywhere here, and it does absolutely nothing to foster goodwill, imo. We wanted to try the bread, because we've been looking around for good bread in HK (my friends bake their own and I'm really jealous, but not so jealous as to become less lazy, or to become magically possessed of an oven). Still, it's $20 for three measly slices.
The bread we got was OK, but it didn't blow me away: a raisin thing-- sorry, but raisins belong in bread about as much as fish roe belongs on pizza-- only Hong Kong violates the natural law so flagrantly. Another was sundried tomato-- good enough, but I can't think of any real uses for sweet tomato bread. The French bread was the best, but similar to the supermarket stuff of my childhood.
I decided to order off the a la carte menu instead of the set lunch (only the good die young, as they say). I got the prawns and angel hair. I enjoyed the quantity and variety of vegetables in my pasta: sugar snap peas, baby corn, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, asparagus, and more. The tomato sauce was a little bland, but on the other hand it wasn't greasy or sugary or bad in any obvious way. I did think the angel hair was overcooked, so that the pasta experience was much more mushy than is desirable. The prawns were insanely jumbo, and while nothing special, were pretty meaty and nicely had the tails removed.
Overall, I'd get this again but it doesn't actually stack up to the shrimp and angel hair pasta I make in my own home, which is a bad sign because I'm hardly a star chef. The mushy pasta is really the Achilles' heel and but for that it would've been great. Merely good though: B
My wife got the set menu red snapper with orzo and tomato sauce. In many ways, it was just like the thing I ordered, but with snapper replacing the prawns and orzo replacing the angel hair. The tomato sauce was the same, as were the vegetables. Given the mix-and-match nature of the affair, my wife thought there was no real "theme" of the dish and while everything was good, it didn't really go together. She gives it a B/ B+.On the whole I thought the place was good, and I can assert with certainty that we will be going back. Next time I'll skip the bread and soda for two ($80 all told) and maybe squeak away with a pricey-but-manageable lunch. Overall: B
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They were way understaffed when we showed up. Plenty of tables, but our server was working so hard she forgot that we asked for the check. I've marked "service" a little low here but I really think it's the management that needs to keep a sufficient stock of employees.
(以上食记乃用户个人意见 , 并不代表OpenRice之观点。)
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