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2016-02-28
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I was happy to see some Czech beers in Hong Kong, the Pilsen and dark Kozel tasted good as expected. We went for dinner and ordered Goat Cheese Salad, Beer Grazed Beef Short Rib With baby onion & green beans (same as the previous reviewer), Slow Baked Duck Leg with red cabbage (both dishes with vegetables and duplings). The salad was fresh and the three pieces of goat cheese that were present were grilled and warm, slightly melting on three small baguette slices. It was good. The beef short rib
The salad was fresh and the three pieces of goat cheese that were present were grilled and warm, slightly melting on three small baguette slices. It was good.
The beef short rib was large, more than expected - a positive first surprise - however after tasting it, I found it too soft. In the local context - Hongkong locals like this supersoft meat melting on one's tongue - yet I am always a bit suspicious about this softness, as I assume some special chemistry or technology behind it. In Europe, the meat is rarely as soft as this, and Europeans would not like it this soft.
The duck leg had at least a crunchy crust/skin on the outside, quite tasty, but below it, it was once again a very very soft meat, similar as the rib. The texture was much softer then I would like it. The skin/crust resembled more the Chinese barbecue (siu mei) - crunchy, but with some fat under the skin. If it was really slow baked, the skin should be very thin and paper-like, but it wasn't. So in the end, I had a feeling this was something between Chinese barbecue and the European dish.
Both dishes came with vegetables: Boiled green beans were on the crunchy side, tasting good. The pickled red cabbage was good, probably a canned product from Germany, so nothing could go wrong here. I did not understand why the pickled mini-onions have been cooked/boiled again, as it made them tasteless and soft-ish, but that was a minor thing.
Both dishes also came with dumplings. One kind of dumpling was a bit more thick, maybe made with some potatoe powder. It was slightly moist inside and relatively tasty. The other kind of dumpling was a more light and fluffy, and that was disastrous - it tasted exactly like an steamed chinese bun (baozi) cut into slices and dried out after lying around for one day. It was sweet. A European dumpling should actually be boiled and not steamed, and it should not be sweet.
So overall I found it a gread place for having a good beer with some snack platter, but the food did not convice me. If you are Asian, you will probably be satisfied by the asianised version of European food. Can the restaurant be blamed for adjusting its cuisine to the majority of local customer's tastes? Probably not, in the end, it's a business. I can just conclude, come here for genuine Czech beer, but don't expect genuine Czech food.
张贴