Sunday brunch at Lawry's HK

Lawry's offers a Sunday brunch from HK$200-320 including a red or white wine or fresh juice, a salad or soup, a main course and a coffee or tea.  This time we ordered a mix grill (lamb/steak/spring chicken/sausage) and a grilled seafood platter (lobster/prawn/salmon/sea bass/scallop/mussel/squid) and a prime rib of course.  Everything is awesome and unexpectedly fresh.  Had 2 baskets of bread too.  Nice wine and freshly squeezed juice to the appetite and aromatic coffee and tea to finish.  Highly recommended to bring your family for this brunch on weekend.

 

 

 

 

Consistently worst at Ruby Tuesday, Taikooshing HK

There are times we might make some X-file mistake of going back to places where we had some horrible time.  Last weekend I did such a X-file return to this place.  A one trip salad bar at HK$88 for some canned fruits and veggie in no-frills salad dressing.  The beef burger (HK$128) can be the more eatable one, but only the burger.  The fries is warm and too wet and oily.  The fish fingers - forget it.  It's soaked in the oil not deep fried.  The waitress kept on asking me to join their membership (payment of HK$250 for 3 months and getting 50% discount).  I kept on replying "no need".

2012 Autumn review: Lawry's, the prime ribs,

Lawry's HK is one of the few restaurants that hasn't disappointed me in every visit I have had.  Though this time the service is a bit not up to standard, the bread, the salad, the mushroom soup and most of all, the prime "Prime Ribs" are always the drive to get me addicted to re-visiting Lawry's.  I ordered 2 baskets of bread to go with the mushroom soup.  The funny thing is that I don't like mushroom soup and cream soup much.  Except for this one at Lawry's, I would empty the bowl.  Their signature spinning salad with chilled fork deserves an all-time two-thumbs up.  When the prime ribs was served on the table, the nice beef aroma with the warm hot original beef stock gravy and the Yorkshire pudding with moist mashed potato.....  :)

Winter review: Lawry's Prime Rib, Lee Gardens, Causeway Bay, HK

This place has become busier lately. In general food quality was still kept in its standard, but service quality dropped a bit but didn't matter much to me. The pumpkin shrimp soup is very outstanding (photo no. 3).

Video: Spinning Chilled salad, Lawry's Prime Rib, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

OK, here is the video of how authentic of the spinning salad was served at Lawry's. The dressing is just a perfect touch. Not too heavy but every romaine lettuce has an evenly spread of the dressing. As you can see the bed of ice and the delicate metallic bowl, it was very chilled. Excellent!

Spring review: Lawry's Prime Rib, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

1. My favourite sourdough and bacquette. Lawry's is one of the few places in HK I can get sourdough. 2. it was around 8pm but most customers arrived at 9pm.

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3. a closer look to my favourite sourdough. 4. Lobster Bisque HK$85. It's pretty good but a bit too creamy and salty to me. If the cognac is a bit stronger, it would be perfect.

5. A frozen fork to take their famous spinning chilled salad. This is something simple but very thoughtful. Eating should be like that. We should care about some little details in our meals. 6. Spinning salad. Still very good. I often regard food to be served either hot or chilling cold. I don't prefer it to be at room temperature except water.

7. Spicy mustard and creamy mustard. I prefer the spicy one. 8. Lawry's cut HK$428. It's about 18 oz. Awesome! At this size of cut, it's so juicy and tender. However, I found a piece of wrapping paper on the outskirt. Though it's not that serious, I needed to tell the waitress to relay it to the Chef that they need to check on the other parts of the rib so that the customers wouldn't get the same. Of course, the waitress insisted to replace with another one, but I refused so by telling her that such a nice rib being dumbed is not what I want. That piece of paper is nothing but I need to have the Chef be aware of that.

9. Yoshire pudding. Personally i don't like it much as it's too filling. 10. Roast Spring chicken HK$298. Lawry's may need to concentrate on prime rib. The meat is too dry. I can tell the process of defrost wasn't done well. It was probably defrosted in either air or water exposure. By way of this, the meat juice would be gone easily. Roast chicken is another one which we think it's easy to cook. Sorry it's not.

11. Raspberry cake. I was offered this dessert complimentary due to the prime rib tiny flaw. Though it's not a big deal, the gesture is and in fact the waitress kept saying "sorry". 12. Iced decafe coffee, also complimentary.
13. It's on the 4/F of Lee Garden's mall.

Cherry Pie by Billy's Reed, North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, Southern California, USA

I can't believe I found out this photo taken a long long time ago. I didn't take photos much back then. This photo meant so much to me as Billy's Reed in Palm Springs is my most favourite restaurant in Palm Springs. Their cakes and pies are awesome! I used to order a half tuna melt sandwich (a full portion at SE Asian standard), coleslaw and a cup of clam chowder, followed by either a pumpkin pie or cherry pie.

Sounds like Sizzler, sounds like fun

Back in the mid 90's, I used to watch a very lively and tempting commercial with scampi [a new American term for shrimp (usually meaning unshelled shrimp) I ever learned] bouncing on a sizzling hot plate and there went the slogan "sounds like Sizzler, sounds like fun". Whenever I passed by this Sizzler in Thailand, this slogan rang up again in my brain. Lots of American restaurants I often think of - IHOP(International House of Pancake), Denny's, Carl's Jr., Panda Express....etc.

1. The Thai version Iced Tea is of course sweeter than any other iced tea I have tried. 2. Beef fillet and pork loin with wild rice. I remember my friend used to have a very wild face for ordering wild rice. The meal is just average but I don't mind going to Sizzler as it offers a nice salad bar.