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2017-09-16
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I have a secret obsession. I am obsessed with bento boxes. Creating them. Collecting them. Staring at photos of them all night online. Whenever I'm in Japan, I always tend to bring back one bento box or item and like a woman possessed, I try to recreate them for lunch. My coworkers have gotten used to my beautiful creations during lunch hour when I crack open my box.So, when I saw photos from Mo-Ikken Cafe on Openrice where they served their food in a bento box, I said to boyfriend .... can you
So, when I saw photos from Mo-Ikken Cafe on Openrice where they served their food in a bento box, I said to boyfriend .... can you bring me? For I wasn't familiar with the San Po Kong area and he lived closer to that area. Strangely enough, Mo-Ikken Cafe has other branches but only this one (and Lai Chi Kok's) only seem to have photos of bento boxes. Otherwise, it was a regular cha chan teng. Oh yes, forgot to mention. It's a cha chan teng but happens to serve some of their food in bento boxes. But if you don't want a cute bento box, you can just get the regular cha chan teng items.
Locate in San Po Kong, in the middle of the industrial area, the front of the restaurant has no signage. In fact, all the windows were covered up. But open the door and inside you'll find a very clean and nice restaurant.
When we arrived, they had just started on afternoon tea service so only that menu was available. Menu is in Chinese only.
I was clearly upset that we had arrived too late for any sort of bento boxes but then boyfriend pointed to this sign. Apparently, during tea time they have a special priced bento box. Today was eel. But the staff later reported to us they had run out (ARGH!!!!! WHY DID WE ARRIVE SO LATE!!!) and beef is now the substitute (ok ... now I don't need to beat up boyfriend for I can get my bento box).
Ordering is in the form of a check off piece of paper. There is no 10% service charge.
Even though I didn't arrive for lunch, this is the check off menu for the lunch menu where they do offer bento boxes for $48 each.
Soup is included with the sets and there are free refills. It's located in the back with the tea and water that you pour yourself. They offer two soups: miso and borsche. I got the miso. it was ok. Nothing to rave about but for free refills, don't complain. Boyfriend tried the borsch. He said it was just mixed vegetable soup in a tomato broth.
Beef Bento Box Set ($42). This is the bento box set. It looked pretty nice. It came with a side of salad and piece of tofu on one side and beef on rice on the other. The salad came with sesame salad dressing. There was also a steamed egg. It appeared they used pearl rice as well. Not Japanese pearl rice as it wasn't as sticky. But pearl rice, none the less. The salad was ok. But the beef was pretty good. Not hard to chew and marinade was savory and sweet. Boyfriend claimed it was better than Yoshinoya. The steamed egg was not smooth enough. It tasted more like the Chinese style steamed egg.
Parisian Baked Pork Chop Rice ($38). No idea why they called this Parisian but that was the name. This was not good at all. The rice wasn't stir fried. Just white rice baked with a pork chop. The pork chop was not dry but not very flavorful. The tomato sauce was also a bit weak. Not much tomato flavor at all.
While we were sitting there, they were planning to close and had extra steamed egg. So, they started passing them around to everyone sitting there. Free stuff is always awesome. This steamed egg also tasted like the one that came in the bento set. A lot like Chinese steamed egg. But it appeared to be more sweeter.
Too bad I don't live close enough otherwise, I'd be back. But it's a good option if I'm in this area and I don't know what to eat. Hopefully can try lunch time where they have more bento box selections.
張貼
