Boston lobster set @ Spaghetti house

The set includes: Loster bisque, Linguine with whole Boston lobster in sicilian pomodoro sauce, Porcini and seafood risotto with Coffee or Tea.

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Loster bisque

The soup was too salty and it just tasted like their usual seafood soups with lobster meat added into it.
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Linguine with whole Boston lobster in sicilian pomodoro sauce

There was not much lobster meat in the lobster and the lobster did not taste fresh.
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Porcini and seafood risotto

The risotto was too sickly and it contained too much milk. The fish they used for the risotto was the frozen type and the porcini mushrooms were tasteless.
The risotto rice was too soft and mushy.
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Coffee

Hong Kong style coffee!
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Risotto served on a scallop shell @ The Bull and Bear

Last week, wanted to eat here, but it was being refurbished, so finally came here today.

It is quite a small pub, so there was only 4-5 tables and some bar tables.

The menu today was quite good, had difficulty deciding what to order.
Chicken steak, Pork with lemongrass gravy, risotto, and beef tenderloin.

In the end of I got the Risotto, I rarely order Risotto, because the places here dont do it right, but the one from here was nice and cheesy yet not sickly.
Also there was lots of big prawns, scallops in the rice.
It was piping hot too!

The desserts were as good as before, however the portion was smaller than before!

Yummy pancakes @ spaghetti house

Spaghetti house is not my usual pick for pasta and pizza, because their branches and locations is a bit off radar.

Anyway, went to this one which is located right in front of a bus stop with long queues of people waiting for the bus, so you need to get past the people to enter the door.

I ordered the afternoon tea set, but couldn’t find the apple pie advertised prominently on their tea set menu cover, only available a la carte. I supposed it would be cheaper to just order the a la carte since I didn’t like the drinks.

Ordered the Squid ink rice with pork chops and apple, and the pancakes with peach and syrup.

The squid ink rice was very good, each grain of rice was distinct, and similar to the Japanese pearl rice, there was bits of fruit on top too, and melted processed cheese.

The pancakes were perfect too, haven’t had a decent pancake for along time, especially the Jif lemon ones, everything was the right sweetness too.

Chinese style pizza hut @ Le Fauchon

Whenever there is a salad bar, it reminds me of Pizza Hut, the popular salad bar for people to grab their greens at their hearts content.

However the food here has never appealed to me, although there are some side dishes worth ordering, but a matter of its availability.

I didnt find the food that Westerny at all, more like the Yeh Lam Kok which also pretends to be western.

The Paella is much more creamy than how the Italian ones should be, and the vegetables in the meat dishes are frozen ones.

Service Madly Lousy = SML

Apart from the Quarry Bay MiscoCool, this is the second restaurant featuring communal tables but in larger lounge.

The whole concept is fresh, and vibrant, nice for the young chics and boys to show their pride in a lively lounge. It also reminds me of school dinner days too, a rejuvenation of youth, relive the young days again, sitting amongst other hip and cool people.

If you do not fancy being on display, I guess it needs time getting used to, like California fitness gym for a specific part of the target market.

Anyway, sat down in the middle of a large bench table, people started filling beside us, but there was no one sitting on our left hand sides, so we placed our bags there. We were ushered to place the bag on one side, then a while later, the waiters from the opposite side ushered us to place the bags on the other side, playing shuffling bags here if u've played shuffling chairs!!

Food ordered:

Chicken Confit & Foie Gras with Truffle SaladBasically two pieces of sliced baguette served with salad and a pot with shredded chicken, bits of foie gras topped with poppy seeds. The chicken was not dry or chewy, and the bits of silky foie gras buttered the chicken, but there was not that much of foie gras. I thought it should have been layered chicken, then foie gras then the poppy seeds.

Prawn Toast with truffleSame comment as Babedolphin, no taste in truffle, overly greasy, I suppose the bitterness of the alcohol sauce took away that greasy taste.
Honestly I have had better prawn toasts at Takeaways in UK.

Octopus salad in olive oilThis was a very good mixed of diced yellow peppers, leaves, onions and the octopus, the octopus was chopped tentacles which were very big in diameter, I thought the octopus would be chewy, but it wasn’t at all. There was also some sort of jelly that had formed on the octopus, so it is probably the tinned version.

Lamb kebabThis was a huge stick of minced Lamb on a stick, I tried it with the olive oil from the salad, it was quite nice, and the lamb was strongly covered in Cajun powder. The yoghurt sauce that came with it was lovely, pure sour yoghurt.

Mushroom risottoThis had a very strong smell, but not that strong when I ate it, the texture of the rice was a bit hard, like red grain rice.

I was contemplated to order the Hangar steak and chips, but then I decided to order two desserts, which finished the meal quite elegantly! I wanted Gnocci too, but it wasn’t listed on the menu anymore!!

Pot of chocolate w/chocolate mousse & fudgeThis was yummy chocolate mousse with bits of chocolate cake covered with white cream and topped with two pieces of fudge.

Lime cream w/vanilla pineapple & coconut jellyThere were bits of coconut jelly with cutely diced pineapple pieces, layered with lime cream at the bottom, refreshingly delicious, leaving you with a slight hungriness that you will be back for more next time.

Lastly, we tried to paid for the bill, but one of the dreaming waiters either forgot to print out the bill or there was something wrong with the order, so had to ask another waiter got it for us.

Price wise, I think it’s quite reasonable for around $300 considering we ordered food with truffles, foie gras. I think for a good meal, its best to pick out the fine stuff rather than the stuff you can get anywhere, or it just defeats the purpose.

Christmas Turkey @ Spaghetti house

I was surprised they had special dishes for Christmas, so I ordered items from their seasonal menu.
Most of the items on the list were truffle related.

Ordered the Risotto in squid ink sauce with lamb and the turkey lasagne with truffle sauce.

The risotto is always consistent, however the lasagne was slightly different to how I imagined it to be, I was expecting the turkey to be finely chopped or at least shredded, and the lasagne served in a dish rather than a plate.
However it was slices of pasta sheets, and huge turkey slices (a bit like roast dinners with meat slices) and topped with cranberry diced jelly.
The truffle sauce wasn’t that strong, and there wasn’t much cheese either.

Dining @ Typhoon in hope of a super Typhoon~!~

Since my last visit, this restaurant has improved tremendously.
Big Ernies next door has been replaced by The Blue Goose, and they both serve the same food as Typhoon so you can choose to sit at the Typhoon or at The Blue Goose.
Anyway the lunch sets range from $58-$62, no service charge included but a $1 compulsory charity donation per person.
They have the set lunches on display, so you can see before you order, rice seems to be their speciality.
Last week when I walked past, they had some purple risotto that I found interesting.
I went the Typhoon in the mood hoping the super typhoon would be a ferocious but unfortunately it turned out to be a crappy typhoon!
There were 4 lunch sets: spaghetti puttanesca, fish, pork chop with risotto and mozzarella mushroom bun and chips.
All the set lunches come with soup/salad and a drink.
Ordered the pork chop with risotto and the mozzarella mushroom bun and chips.
I was attracted to both those sets, especially the risotto with peas and herbs, and the pure white mozzarella in the bun with grilled mushrooms.
The soup and salad arrived, the tomato and potato soup came first, the soup tasted a bit sweet but ok.

 

The risotto was as good as imagined and nicely flavoured with the herbs in the rice and peas, although it could have been slightly softer.

 

As for the bun, the mushrooms were grilled keeping the earthy taste of the mushrooms, and the mozzarella was placed in the bun and not grilled.
The bun was slightly old and dry, especially since it was a dusted bun.
The chips were the flat cut types, so I got some vinegar to go with it.
The mozzarella was how it should be, pure white, not melted to tastless stringy cheese.

 

 

To end the perfect lunch, there was a perfect cuppa in a pretty dark clear blue mug.