Fine dining in the hustle and bustle of Wan Chai

I was so happy to get invited to a tasting dinner at Le Chef which used to be Cafe De Metro park.

During lunchtimes they serve the buffet and in the evening they serve fine dinners paired with specially selected wines.

The new decor is so much nicer and stylish.
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Assorted bread and condiments:

 

I loved the bread selection and the breads were warm too.
They had foccacia and mini crispy buns as well and it was delicious with the butter and balsalmic vinegar provided.
The oil which I thought was olive oil was actually orange flavoured oil.

 

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Botan Ebi Carpaccio in Ceviche:

 

This was beautifully presented but I felt that there was too much yuzu sauce which covered the prawn taste and it was slightly too sweet.
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Togarashi Seared Tuna Salad with Shizo Vert:

 

The tuna was delicious. The edges of the tuna were crispy. As the the flavouring was quite heavy, the crispy edges and soft tender tuna reminded me of the Chinese roast pork belly.
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Cream of Pumpkin & Fennel Soup with Scallop:

 

The colour of this soup looked like butternut squash, but the taste was amazing. It was extremely creamy and I love Fennel.
The Fennel was strong and wholesome.
The scallop in the soup gave it some depth.
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Seafood Tomato Soup:

 

This soup was quite interesting, it was quite creamy with strong basil.
There were lots of mussels in the soup.
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Double Flavored Brown Crab: Baked Brown Crab Shell with Crab Meat & Mango Salad:

 

The mango salad and crabmeat was a refreshing pairing and the mango was really sweet.
The baked crab was full of surprises, there were mushrooms in the creamy sauce and beneath the sauce, there was generous crab roe!!

 

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Sauteed Tilapia with Lemon-herb Glaze:

 

The fish was really satisying and the mash was delicious.
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Poached Japanese White Peach in Red Wine:

 

 

The poached peach was presented beautifully and there shard of yellow sugar glass on top was pretty.
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Coffee or Tea :

 

To finish off the meal there was soothing tea.
The lemon slices were separate so you could decide how much lemon to put in.
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Once again I would like to thank Le Chef and the the related people for inviting me and giving me the lovely travelling garment holder.

Back for more Beautifood with da beautacious chefs

The food was so delicious last time so I was back for more.
My title should be beautiful chefs to be correct but the chefs are guys so it sounds a bit weird using the word beautiful, so I used beautacious!
This time I dined there so there was a 10% service charge.

I was really hungry so I ordered the Veg Yuba tacos and the sushi burrito.

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Cantonese steamed fish:

In my previous review I forgot to mention the design of this sushi burrito.
There is a twisted end at the end of the wrapper which is designed to make the sushi come out when you twist it like lipstick.
They reminded me of sushi poppers which comeout by pushing the stick at the end.
The taste of this cantonese steamed fish was slightly different this time. There was no chili in it because the version I had before was modified to this one because it was too spicy.
The taste was still as nice as the first time because of the sauces and silky fish but rice was firmer this time and held together.
The sushi burrito also seemed bigger than the first time. I wonder if they made them bigger.
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Vegetarian Taco trio:

This was three all vegetarian yuba tacos filled with roasted pumpkin with cream cheese, eggplant with yellow miso and porcini mushrooms with onion cream.
For the porcini mushrooms please see my previous review.

Roasted pumpkin with cream cheese
I wish there was more cream cheese in it because the taste of cream cheese was not that prominent.
The pumpkin was a bit too sweet for my liking. It would be good if they replaced the pumpkin with potatoes but that is my personal preference.
Eggplant with yellow miso
This was quite nice, it was molten eggplants with miso sauce inside with crispy spring onions.
Out of the three yuba tacos, my favourites were the porcini mushrooms and eggplant.
But in general I love these tacos and I hope to see more flavours in future.
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