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2009-08-29
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As mentioned before, the concept of this store is quite unique - with your own choice of Small, Medium or Large servings and also enjoying Eating on Communal Tables when seating near the front area, the restaurant & bar serves Western Styled Food originating from a few nations all rolled into one (although still executed with a Hong Kong accent in the taste too much!). I really like communcal dining in a way - although Hong Kong's street stalls and Cha Chan Tengs are also well known for commun
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PRAWN & TRUFFLE TOAST (M) - This bread had absorbed too much oil and had absolutely no black truffle taste, nor much prawn taste. Its worst than the version at Absolute Burgers in Delaynomall.
CAESER SALAD (S) - The romaine cos lettuce were fresh, but the sauce was not authentic Caesar nor is it aligned with the newer style Caesar. The dressing in particular lacked worchestire sauce influence, or anchovy influence, it was also not cheesy enough. There was also a lack of other supplements like Bacon or whole Anchovies, barely slivers of Parmesan and Bread Croutons. Eitherway - this was very HongKong style.
MINESTRONE SOUP (S) - This had a lot of tomato paste influence but somehow was way too sweet as well, it had onion, tomato, carrots influence but it was missing the much desired greener vegetables influence, such as cabbage and especially celery, or red beans, and its dried herbs weren't apparent either. It was very Hong Kong style in execution and much like 花园餐厅- a recurrent scheme we found tonite.
GNOCCHI WITH FOUR CHEESE (S) - This tasted and looked very non-Italian, not Western style - it was very Hong Kong style like. For 1 thing, the cheese sauce was thickened with flour at the last minute and looked slightly transparent, plus the Gnocchi's were overcooked, also weren't gnocchi like in taste with a lack of chewy bite, as well as being cut up by a knife rather than hand rolled. The cheese sauce definitely had a slight stinky Blue cheese influence and possibly Taleggio in it, as it carried a barnyardy taste as well as blue cheese taste. At least they got good cheese to put in - but this was not executed well at all. Very disappointing.
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CROSTINI TOAST WITH OLIVES, TOMATO, HERBS (M) - This is an ok starter. Could do with a bit more olive or olive oil taste and garlic.
FRIED POLENTA STICKS WITH TOMATO DRESSING (M) - This was cheap at only $21. The fried polenta were actually coated with bread crumbs, which is not what I'm used to eating - they were fried very dark and had an oily coating, although to the credit of the restaurant they offered to exchange it, but we thought it doesn't matter anyway. The tomato sauce on this was different from another green beans dish - this was more like canned tomatoes but the tomato based sauce was too sweet and wasn't the better Italian canned tomatoes in my opinion. Overall it was very Hong Kong style in execution.
SEA URCHIN PASTA (M) - Using Japanese urchin, this did not had a very fishy smell which affects nearly all Italian Urchin based Pasta dishes - the latter having a very strong sea flavour and a lot redder than the Japanese version, even though both Urchins eat better during summer unlike other urchins varieties. This was quite creamy and very Japanese like, but at the end of the day, I thought the pasta didn't absorb much Urchin taste.
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GREEN BEANS WITH TOMATO SAUCE (S) - Nothing to fault here. The tomatoes used were fresh and the dish was refreshing.
CRISPY PORK BELLY WITH RED CABBAGE & APPLE COLESLAW (M) - This was like what I had last time. Pork Skin WAS NOT crackley at all. The sauce was slightly less sweeter than last time. Overall, an average dish but the pork taste is quite strong, which is good.
RISOTTO WITH BRAISED OXTAIL (M) - This risotto comes by default with soft, well cooked riced. However we informed the staff that we would like it cooked Al Dente. And Al Dente it did when it arrived. It was quite rich with the oxtail and gravy coating the big grained risotto rice - which was definitely a good quality rice grain with a bitey texture. HOWEVER, the execution of this dish was still very Hongkie like, especially the final consistency of the Risotto being a bit non-starchy enough plus the oxtail flavour being quite local. Nevertheless, acceptable.
DRANK:
Lost in Translation - Consisting of Canned Lychee, Sake and Martini Bianco from memory. A nice soothing cocktail that's easy to make but great for summer!
OVERALL - WE THOUGHT WE WILL DEFINIELY COME BACK, MORE FOR THE ATMOSPHERE PLUS DRINKS RATHER THAN THE FOOD; AS I MENTIONED LAST TIME, WE WISHED THE FOOD WAS BETTER EXECUTED AND SINCERELY WISHED THAT THE FOOD ISN'T SO HONG KONG STYLE IN EXECUTION AND TASTE. ITS VERY APPARENT.
THIS TIME FOOD: 'mid' 2 - high '4' range
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