Surreal Japanese restaurant

Revelers that go to Levels are bound to know where AMAZAKE is located.

Inside, the restaurant is chic and dreamy.

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Assorted seared sashimi salad $138

This was a nice refreshing salad that had a lot of crunch.

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Soft shell crab roll $98

The cucumber slices and the crispy soft shell crabs were a great pairing.

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Amazake house roll $140

The house rolls were tasty with creamy urchin and fatty tuna on top with egg, cucumber and avocado in the middle.

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River shrimps $68

They should have a picture for this because I thought they were just ordinary prawns but they turned out to be a surprise.
These cute river shrimps are deep fried which make them really tasty and crunchy with a little softness in the middle. 

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Sweet potatoes $58

These sweet potato fries were my favourite. Each one was long and chunky, they were crispy outside and silky in the middle.

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Charcoal grilled kagoshima pork belly $120

This is a popular dish with the locals because the pork belly is thick cut and comes with sweet mustard sauce.

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Kagoshima wagyu kinoko mushroom $168

I am not keen on beef but the mushrooms in this dish were sweet with a lovely beefy taste.

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Beef Korokke $88
Minced beef, assorted vegetables served with Japanese mayo, mustard and tonkatsu sauce

I don't like beef, but these were delicious because it was moist minced beef with carrots in the middle.
For some strange reason, they tasted like McDonald's hamburgers.

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Assorted magic mushrooms $78
Slowed cooked with dashi, soy sauce, mirin and stir fried with olive oil

The mushrooms were addictive and tasty with a lovely mirin flavouring.

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Butt, I love you $138

Thie fried rice was intriguing because it had foie gras and chicken butt, after asking the staff they said they wanted the rice to be heavy and greasy but luckily the chicken butt and foie gras are garnished on the side so the fried rice is not as greasy as you would expect.

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Black sesame crème brulee $68

Not your usual creme brulee because it was sesame flavoured with a strong black sesame taste.

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Yuzu cheesecake $68

 I was too full to try this.

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Green tea panna cotta $68

The panna cotta was creamy but the green tea taste was not strong enough.

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Sweet potato latte at Summer Ice

There were still items that I wanted to try so went back for them.
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Purple potato affogato:



The icecream just tasted like the usual softserve which was quite sweet and the purple potato sauce just made it sweeter.
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Hot purple potato latte:

Compared to the one at Gaba concept, this one tasted quite artificial because of the purple potato syrup.
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The bill: $70

Service: OK
Service charge: no
Yummy factor: Could be better
Sweetness levels: OK
Napkins provided: yes
Toilets: no
Noise levels: Noisy
Glass of water provided: No
English Menu: Yes
Air Conditioning: Yes
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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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