Artsy fare before visiting the art fair

Before visiting Hotel art asia and Art Central, I started my art journey here with a meal designed by Nicolas Boutin to celebrate Hong Kong art week which is a five course meal that costs $1488.

Here were two of the five courses that I had.
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L'art du pot au feu:
Beef short rib, multi coloured vegetables, garden leaves and black truffle.
It was beautifully and colourfully presented with a round piece of beef topped with vibrant vegetables and black truffle slices on top.




Beef consomme is poured onto it.



The beef consomme was clear and light tasting like Bovril.
On the menu, it says the beef is short rib but the texture and taste was soft like beef belly.
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autour du pinceau:
This was such a fun dessert to play with and eat because you get to paint it with sauces using a Pentel paintbrush and the dessert was also delicious.



The paints (fruit sauces) were mango, berries, pistachio and strawberry.

It was really fun to paint but more brushes are needed or a pot to wash your brushes because you end up mixing the colours.

The light colours were a bit too opaque when they were painted so I ended up pouring it on the plate to get a bolder colour.
As for the berry sauce, the colour was a bit like blood


The dessert was surprisingly good because I liked the strong citrus centre with real pieces of tart blood orange encased in a light meringue shell decorated with light cream.
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A special Thanks to All about Hong Kong and Beef and Liberty for the tickets.

To see photos of the exhibition, please click the links below:

Art Central
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.837855452916168.1073741915.163554443679609&type=1
Asia Hotel Art Fair: AHAF
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.837850492916664.1073741914.163554443679609&type=1
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Restaurant:
La Terrasse by ÉPURE
Harbour City Ocean Centre 4 Floor

[Lab Made] I-Scream in the dark

Lab Made have teamed up with Dialogue in the Dark to serve four random mysterious flavours to get our taste buds guessing!.

Once we concluded what we tried, we can submit our answers on their FB page to win FREE Lab Made vouchers with coffee cup set + Concert in the Dark preview tickets!


You also get a $20 coupon to use at Dialogue in the Dark tour.

There are four random flavours served and the only clues given are:
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(Hints)A1: Sweet and sour fruity Greek Yogurt

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(Hints)A2: Fresh, Bitter, Sweetness

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(Hints)A3: The flavour of your childhood treat

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(Hints)A4: Sweet, fragrance and creamy

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As it is a competition and the flavours are random, it is hard to review it here but the one I had was sweet and fruity!

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My first negative comment for 豆花妹撈米線

This is my first negative comment for this place because it is normally good and I have been here more than once, but on this visit the sauce was just sweet and made it taste horrible so I think they may have mistaken the sugar for salt.



Hope they get it right next time.

Grapefruit green tea from cha FOR TEA

I was attracted by the poster of ruby red grapefruit green tea so I got it.




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Grapefruit green tea:

I chose the 30% level of sweetness so it was not too sweet and I could still taste the tartness of the grapefruit.
It was really good because there were bits of grapefruit in the drink and the balance of green tea and juice was equal.
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Fried chicken with Chimichurri sauce at Iberico & Co. (Central)

Initially came here for the brunch but the options available were not really exciting so I went for the a la carte items.
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Crispy chicken legs with Chimichurri sauce:

I love chimichurri sauce which was why I chose this.
When it came, there was a generous amount of chimichurri sauce so I was happy.
The chicken was a bit too crispy and hard because it was overdone otherwise it would have been delicious and I wished the chimichurri sauce had more lime juice in it.
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A quick drink at Fiat Caffé

After having some grilled food, I was pretty thirsty so came here for drinks.



I missed the fig drink so I ordered that and had the caramel tea because it was different.


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Caramel tea by Dammann freres:


It did not taste sweet but had a really sweet caramel smell that is just like the Highland toffee tea at Shortbread Teas .

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Honey figs margarita:

It was ruby red garnished with a sprig of mint on top.
The drink was really refreshing and not syrupy followed by the lovely fizzyness of the carbonated water and bits of sweet blended fig.
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My thirst was satisfied!!

Back for Healthy Chicken's detox water

Went back for detox water because it is quite a good deal for $28 but the bottle leaks a bit with the lid screwed on.

The drink was better this time because it had apple slices and blueberry.

Again it had a light refreshing sweet taste with hints of apple and lime.

Seaweed omelette at 焱丸水產

There were quite a few things I wanted to eat including the crab roe where you have to grill it but in the end I got the omelette and tuna rolls because I couldn't be bothered to watch it grill.
The menu was really annoying because it was in Japanese style Chinese and Japanese.

The prices were really cheap but then this restaurant is in Kowloon.

Anyway, here was what I had.
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Seaweed omelette:
I was shocked how fast it came because it came a fews seconds after I had ordered, so it probably implies that this is already made and sitting in a warmer but the omelette was piping hot.

The taste was ok but you couldn't really taste the seaweed even though you could see it and the texture was not that fluffy.

Anyway, found egg shell in it which was white, therefore they use white eggs!


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Tuna rolls:

The tuna roll looked good with the generous strips of tuna given to you as well on the ends but the tuna lacked tuna taste.
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Salty combo mix (Marks and Spencers)

I got the Full on flavour sour cream and jalapeno combo mix for $32 but unfortunately they were too salty with a strong sour cream taste and the Jalapeno taste was not there.


Next time I am going to get the chedder cheese or salt and black pepper flavour.