another soup curry restaurant in Hong Kong

silverthoughts 等級4 2015-08-25

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I bought a Beecrazy deal for this restaurant and decided to try it out. The deal was for $58, you get a choice of soup curry with rice and a drink or dessert. Boyfriend and I chose one drink and one dessert to try out this place.Located in Kennedy Town, this is the second restaurant in Hong Kong that features soup curry. The first restaurant that had this version of curry was Sama that is located on Gough Street. Sama originates from Sapporo, Japan and is REALLY good. Seriously, REALLY good. Samurai Soup Curry is not from Japan, but from Hong Kong where the owner is French.The shop is very narrow. It's decorated with cartoons of samurai.Menu is very similar to Sama except Sama rates their curry spiciness as bears, Samurai Soup Curry rates theirs as samurais. Menu is in English, Chinese and Japanese. You basically chose the broth, how spicy and what you want in your curry.Seafood Combo Soup Curry in Coconut Broth. Boyfriend chose the seafood combo in a coconut broth with a spicy level of adult samurai. He ordered something similar at Sama. There was clear difference between the soup curry here and at Sama. The broth was clearly not as thick as Sama's coconut broth. It wasn't as fragrant with coconut and tasted a bit watered down. The seafood was a couple of prawn and some squid pieces. Prawn wasn't very fresh tasting. Vegetables included lettuce, green beans and tomato. There was also a hard boiled egg.Roasted Chicken Leg Soup Curry in Crab Broth. This is the same thing I ordered at Sama but this was clearlh not as good. The soup was very watery and there wasn't much crab flavor. I chose spicy level of baby samurai and it wasn't spicy at all. The curry was very one dimensional. Wasn't fragrant at all. The chicken leg was a bit dry and tough as if it was over cooked. The vegetables were soggy and bland. The hard boiled egg was over done as well.Both sets came with tumeric rice. Though portion size for the rice is larger than Sama's portion size, the rice given here was dry and hard.Mango Lassi. Our Beecrazy deal could choose one drink so I chose a mango lassi. This was not very good as well. Not very mango in taste and a bit watered down. Was not thick at all.Runny Mango Pudding with Sweet Potato Cream. A dessert could be chosen with the other Beecrazy voucher we bought. We chose this to share. Generally, I love jelly or anything that is jelly in texture. But this was horrible. It was so horrible, I couldn't finish it. And I ALWAYS finish jelly. It was grainy in texture. There wasn't much mango taste. Combined with the sweet potato cream, this made it worse as it was one starchy mess. It tasted so horrible, I almost gagged.Service was top notch as very friendly. The staff was eager to please and that is a rarity in Hong Kong. It's too bad the food was so horrible. I think if I had not tried Sama, I would have thought .. eh .. ok, but won't return. But since I have tried Sama, this is a poor attempt and would not return and not even recommend it to anyone. 繼續閱讀