This steak house has expanded with 4-5 branches respectively in Central and Tsimshatsui and the new one took the 21st floor of The One.
1. Rosemary tomato bread. Freshly made and served hot on the table. So aromatic. 2. Iced coffee. Very selected coffee beans.
3. Tomato mozarella cheese salad. Nice mix of olive oil, vinegar and salt/pepper. 4. Poached seabass salmon roll. The cooking is good as the salmon is inside the seabass. Seabass has to be cooked longer than salmon. However, if the fish is a frozen one, poaching is not suggested since the frozen smell stays. Or some chicken stock is used for poaching if fresh fish is not available.
5. 6 oz Australian Angus beef filet - medium rare. I like the way they made it. No gravy, no sauce to go, leaving some meat juice on the plate. Unfortunately, the filet was grilled at a very high heat. The surface is much dried out and even a bit too hard. Not the crispy burnt. As you can see, the surface is a bit too dark. It's true that beef filet or quite a no. of steak should be grilled at high heat. However, if the beef filet is like this thick, they should slow down to medium heat after a quick high heat grilling. After a while, go back to high heat to seal the juice inside, and make it more aromatic on the outside. 6. Vanilla cream custard. Nice presentation and very vanilla. However, it's a bit too sweet to me.
7. Showing some charcoal to tell they use wood fire for cooking. 8. the restaurant is only 20% full. Woo Loo Moo Loo offers the above set lunch at HK$198+ Considering the price, the food quality and the view, it's a good deal.
3. Tomato mozarella cheese salad. Nice mix of olive oil, vinegar and salt/pepper. 4. Poached seabass salmon roll. The cooking is good as the salmon is inside the seabass. Seabass has to be cooked longer than salmon. However, if the fish is a frozen one, poaching is not suggested since the frozen smell stays. Or some chicken stock is used for poaching if fresh fish is not available.
5. 6 oz Australian Angus beef filet - medium rare. I like the way they made it. No gravy, no sauce to go, leaving some meat juice on the plate. Unfortunately, the filet was grilled at a very high heat. The surface is much dried out and even a bit too hard. Not the crispy burnt. As you can see, the surface is a bit too dark. It's true that beef filet or quite a no. of steak should be grilled at high heat. However, if the beef filet is like this thick, they should slow down to medium heat after a quick high heat grilling. After a while, go back to high heat to seal the juice inside, and make it more aromatic on the outside. 6. Vanilla cream custard. Nice presentation and very vanilla. However, it's a bit too sweet to me.
7. Showing some charcoal to tell they use wood fire for cooking. 8. the restaurant is only 20% full. Woo Loo Moo Loo offers the above set lunch at HK$198+ Considering the price, the food quality and the view, it's a good deal.
9. This lift lobby reminded me of Alila Cha Am. I guess it's part of the trend of some contemporary design.
6 comments:
Fine dining is very inexpensive in HK, a diner like this in Los Angeles at a nice restaurant can easily cost $40 USD before tax and tip.
Hi Pixmation,
You are right. Same quality of food here in LA would easily double the price of HK's.
But in BKK just half of HK's.
SS
Normally lunch is cheaper (probably 30% lower) in certain restaurants. Pixmation, what Stella said is very true. BKK is another half of HK's price, and even much less. Let's take Pierre (French restaurant) of Mandarin Oriental HK and Le Normandie (French restaurant of Mandarin Oriental BKK as example. Lunch set at the former one is about US$110 to 150, as compared to US$40 to 50 of the latter. Most of all, Le Normandie is better than Pierre in terms of services and food quality. At least no need to eat the xxx micro-molecule lab-test food and uncooked smelly fish. :)
Yes Pixmation, SEA is right.
You shall try out Le Normandie at MO-BKK to feel the good food, good price, good service, good atmosphere, good view and good dessert.
By the way, their free colorful cookie dessert(in orange, pink and green color) are exactly those you took at Old Pasadena.
Need to have some preservation. Otherwise, you will have a super high hope.
oops.. typo. Should be reservation, not preservation. :)
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