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2009-06-24
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The three of us decided to have something that was relatively affordable (i.e. not SoHo priced) and so we ended up booking a table here at CPK. I have been once before - a few years ago to the one in Mong Kok - and it was fine, not unforgettable. We ordered a full sized Greek salad, Shrimp Scampi pizza and a pan-fried Salmon spaghetti with capers between the three of us, which filled us up neatly. Greek salad - Not good. The salad had excessive amounts of lettuce (I was told there is virtually N
We ordered a full sized Greek salad, Shrimp Scampi pizza and a pan-fried Salmon spaghetti with capers between the three of us, which filled us up neatly.
Greek salad - Not good. The salad had excessive amounts of lettuce (I was told there is virtually NO lettuce whatsoever in Greek salad - OK, maybe Americanised Greek salads, but I stand to be corrected if otherwise), barely enough cucumber, tomatoes and olives (the staple ingredients of any decent Greek salad), the absence of a vinaigrette, and the feta cheese was reduced to something that resembled crumbles (Greek salads tend to have Feta cheese chunks). Given I had recently tasted a decent Greek salad in SoHo, it was very hard for me to accept this was a decent rendition of the salad.
Shrimp Scampi pizza - If the name didn't suggest that there was scampi in the pizza, I wouldn't have known. Shrimp, perhaps, but scampi? Where's the scampi? I did like the deviation from the traditional tomato sauce based pizzas (although this makes the pizza untraditional - what a contradiction) and it was good when it was piping hot. The cheese was not stringy, however, but I wasn't too concerned about it. More like a note than a complaint.
Pan-fried salmon spaghetti with capers - Alright. Salmon is typically overcooked in many restaurants because staff never ask patrons how well they want their salmon steak to be cooked (it's not beef or lamb, you know). While I think it was overcooked, my friends thought otherwise and happily enjoyed it. The lemon juice gave the dish an interesting, zesty taste to it. I do like salmon with black pepper though, but sadly (and predictably enough), the black pepper was not aromatic enough to bring out the spice that peppers ought to have.
Staff were relatively attentive. They kept on offering us water until the mains started arriving, and nobody really wanted to care about us when we wanted to check the bill and leave. Funny that, I always thought restaurants were keen to make your money...
In short, I've had better pizzas, pastas and salads than the ones I had at CPK. It wasn't a bad experience; it just wasn't good enough for me to consider coming back here again in the near future.
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