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2014-08-14
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A new restaurant opened in Causeway Bay from MAX Concepts, the fancier end of the huge Maxim Group. This time it's called Minh & Kok, serving Vietnamese (Minh) and Thai (Kok). It's a beautifully decorated restaurant, with colorful blue walls and open spaces. Everything is relaxing and tasteful as any well done MAX Concepts restaurant.I arrived at lunch and it wasn't very busy. I was given a lunch menu which you can choose a main plus drink for $68 or add the appetizer platter for $92. I decided
I arrived at lunch and it wasn't very busy. I was given a lunch menu which you can choose a main plus drink for $68 or add the appetizer platter for $92. I decided on the platter, tomato soup noodles with crabmeat and fried egg and ice calamasi lemon honey drink.
Service was bad. I ordered by reading the menu in English. Server perhaps had poor English as she had to return twice to ask what I ordered. And whenever she returned to ask what I ordered, it was always wrong. It got to the point of being annoying, that I think when she came back to ask what drink I ordered, I replied in an annoyed tone of voice. Food also arrived in backwards order. In that my noodles arrived first, then my appetizer and lastly my drink. However, food arrived fast. Like 5 minutes after I ordered, my food all arrived. I didn't even have time for a round of Candy Crush!Ice calamasi lemon honey drink was fantastic. I loved everything calamasi and this was strong with the citrus fruit. It was sweetened slightly with the honey. It was also icy cold.
Minh & Kok platter was meal itself. It included a Viet springroll, steamed mince pork parcel, chicken skewer, crab claw, papaya salad, mango beetroot summer roll. It looked beautiful. Sadly, it was all cold. Most likely prepared ahead of time. Springroll was chewy. The steamed mince pork package was also chewy and the rice wrapper thick. The chicken skewer was good but sadly cold. Onlyfish sauce was given. The skewer could have used a little satay sauce. The crab claw was basically pork meat wrapped around a nonexistent crab meat claw. The papaya salad was ok though not acidic enough. The beetroot and mango summer roll was an odd combination as the beetroot was crunchy and the mango was mushy.
Tomato soup noodles with crabmeat and fried egg was ok. The noodles were chewy but the soup wasn't tomato enough and overly spicy. There was minced meat added and the egg was one well done blob, much like you would find in a cha chan teng. After much searching, there was a few shreds of crabmeat.
The place is disappointing as it's a beautiful looking place. Food wasn't bad but it wasn't good. Portion size was pretty good. Price wasn't expensive. It's what I would expect from Rice Paper or Thai Basil, two other MAX Concepts restaurants. Something I'd go to if stuck in a mall. But since this is Causeway Bay, there is no need for me to be stuck with mall type restaurants and thus, I won't return.
张贴
