Friday, December 03, 2010

Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin 銀座梅林, IFC II, Central, HK

This shop landed at IFC II several years ago and now relocated on another side of the mall (above the HK Airport Express station - good for the travelers to stop by after checking in downstairs and before their train ride to the airport). The shop offers various sets priced from HK$158 to 238 from signature cutlet pork chop to cutlet seafood, with free flow of rice and cabbage salad. On the menu the pork chop sandwich (HK$68) below photo no. 5, as a snack caught my attention and the shop manager highly recommended it. It turned out it's very nice one. The shop uses very good oil, bread mix, flour besides the main character pork chop so from the cutlet to the deep frying. It turned out almost perfect. Why almost? The pork chop is a bit over-cooked. Yet, the pork chop wasn't punched a bit so that the meat texture is a bit too chewy. However, the pork chop itself is still very nice and a full pork flavour. The shop is now promoting their "golden pork 金豚肉" at HK$178 for a set course. This pork was claimed to have more vitamin B-1 and a bit fatter, and that means a bit softer. Another disappointment is the shop didn't make nice rice - too mashy. So their attention seems to be too much on the deep fried stuff. Next time I would order the pork chop sandwich first.





3 comments:

Stella said...

This place is not cheap for this kind of food.

in the sea said...

Stella, this is imported pork from Japan and Yen is going by 40% in the past 3 years. So it's at average.

Stella said...

Oh I see.