Rice Paper   (Closed)

When there late on Sunday

Starter - Lobster avocado salad
came after I finished noddle ( pad Thai) not happy with that

taste : Lobster is chewy , not fresh. avocado is fresh, great presentation, sauce tasty well balanced

Pad Thai - so so , NO MSG .

Dessert - raspberry sorbet, good. while dish is a bit tin . crunchy inside

service - not attentive , didn't offer water when seat down

I always come here for the Grilled Pork Neck bun noodles because although they use pork neck marbled with almost no fat, the meat remains tender and juicy, so having one of these for lunch always leaves me feeling very healthy. I've also tried their set lunch once, and the appetizer platter exceeded my expectations by about 300%! The platter, a beef pho, AND a drink together set me back less than HKD100. (Although I have nothing much to say about the beef pho...)

Desserts are generally decent too! but ONE THING I WILL NEVER ORDER AGAIN = the rice paper duck roll ... I had an awesome duck roll in Hanoi in my last trip to Vietnam and came back really craving it. So since they call themselves RICE PAPER here i expected something that would provide me with at least 10% of the satisfaction I got from the duck roll in Vietnam. but NO this thing was proper nasty
The roll was completely disproportionate (as you can see in the photo), with WAY too much cucumber and more sickeningly, too much mayonnaise. To finish off this most undesirable dish the smoked duck was bland too.

But I'll be back for more grilled pork bun noodles

This has to be one of the ‘fanciest’ Vietnamese restaurants I have been too. It’s on the top floor of the WTC and its overlooking the harbor. It was a pretty gloomy day so the view wasn’t that great. I was ravenous by this stage, we had a light breakfast after a big night and was looking forward to some ‘good’ food. Little did I know, that I was going to be totally and utterly disappointed!

The menu was also fancy – fusion Vietnamese food. We ordered the entrée tasting platter to start (for 2 pax), and it was surprisingly filling and huge. Mind you – it was all fried and consisted of calamari rings, fish cakes, chicken satay on skewers, soft shell crab ‘spring roll’ and last but not least prawns on sugar canes. It was ok, but nothing to rave about, even the soft shell crab was ordinary.

Hubby ordered the beef pho (his quest for searching the best pho in Hong Kong), and well, as much as it was good to have soup on a dreary, cold, rainy day, this was also ordinary. The noodles was ok, the beef was quite tender and decent, however, too much MSG in the soup! It was like drinking MSG water, and personally that’s not how I like my soup! I also noticed that they didn’t serve any beansprouts with it, which we usually get in Vietnamese restaurant. Kudos for the mint leaves, lime and chili – we did have to ask for extra lime though – talk about stingy! They gave one 1/8 of a lime!!!!

MG ordered the red duck curry and it was surprisingly tasty. The duck was tender and succulent and the curry was different to that of Indian curry.

I thought it was a bit odd that they didn’t serve it with rice, but with bread sticks. Have you ever seen bread served in a wine glass before? Well neither have I, until that day!

I ordered the duck breast with rice but it never came. Hubby and MG were almost done with their meal and my dish has not arrived! I was a little unimpressed so cancelled it. The service I thought was appalling, it was slow, and the waiters were so not tentative. They would ignore you and pretend not to see you – it was pretty poor. Don’t think I will come back again that’s for sure.

MG and I needed something that’s not so rich to eat. We have been eating rich food pretty much every day we thought a casual Vietnamese lunch would help but it was totally disappointing. I was looking forward to our dinner as I know it will definitely be better than Rice Paper!

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Perhaps this restaurant should consider focusing on making desserts rather than trying too hard to serve Vietnamese food in vain.
Instead of matching their pretty interior design with quality foods and services, Rice Paper seems to be quite satisfied as being the only "high class" Vietnamese restaurant in Causeway Bay.The food is not exceptionally good yet outrageously overpriced. The food is nothing compare with Lian蓮 @ IFC and even 火車頭 @ Tai Hang is way better than that.

We ordered 小食併盤 and they are not crispy at all.( oddly, they arrived after 2 main dishes) The 軟殼蟹 is quite nice but the rest is just so-so. i bet i can buy the 串燒雞 from Apita or Jesco with a quarter of the price.

扎肉豬頸肉河內炒米粉 and 生牛肉湯河are nothing exceptional but overpriced. I have to say 火車頭 serves way better noodles than they do.

The dessert "French Kiss" is quite nice but of course, overpriced." French Kiss" is simply raspberry sorbet on piece of biscuits mixed with more ice-cream. Special, as not being seen before, but it doesn't mean it worth the money. With $58, i can get the nice macaroon and cake from Paul Lafayat, Zoe cake in Zoe, two mango napoleon from mimosa or opera from Tony.... but not siting in a nicely decorated noisy CANTEEN like Rice Paper.

Not to mention the food, the restaurant has now become A CANTEEN for travel tours. A group of 30 tourists were talking loudly at the time my friend and i arrived, no wonder everyone said Rice Paper is always fully packed.

However, the waiters are nice and helpful. Water was filled quickly and the food were served in a speedy way. Everyone seemed to be extremely busy and i could see that the bowls and dishes are really heavy...

Me and my friend went tonight.

Ordered a few dishes:

1. Cane shrimp - does not taste good at all

2. Vegetable + mushroom - too oily

3. BBQ Pork + Rice Noodle - very average

Definitely will not go again!

I discovered this place about 3 years ago, I have been coming to this restaurant quite often since then. The service and the food has been excellent for many years but sadly my last 3 visits has been quite disappointing. The food and the service has fluctuated drastically each time I've been there.

The Red Duck Curry which is my favorite although last time I was there (12/30/2009) the duck was kind of strange, all boney like the unused, unwanted bits of poultry.

The Green Lamb Curry is FANTASTIC never lets me down, must-try

Their Daily Vietnamese Spring Roll is in fact not changed daily (rarely changed should be its name) is a good appetizer

The Pomelo Salad portion has shrunken every time I go there

I always open a bottle of wine when I am there which I think is very worth its price (I find a Merlot goes very well with the curry)

Nothing matched the nice decor.

We came here on a Saturday afternoon. The duck in the 香鴨黃疆飯 was SOOOO tough that, when I tried to split it into pieces with my chopsticks, they broke! Any pre-packaged duck from Park n' Shop was better than that. The sauce was the only good component of the dish.

Somehow our order for 撈檬 never reached the kitchen. We asked the waitress three times to follow up. We received no apologies whatsoever. After waiting for over an hour, we gave up. How long could it take a Vietnamese restaurant to prepare 撈檬? Of course, on our way out, we saw plenty of 撈檬 at other tables.

Were most of the wait staff on summer jobs? After we indicated that we needed help, our server would finish setting an empty table before coming to our table, even though the restaurant was half empty! Such service could not justify the prices charged at this restaurant.

Food was extremely slow and the restaurant manager was very inch. I ordered 2 appetizers and 1 main course. The appetizers came in 15 mins but the main course came around 30 mins later. However, my book was at 7.30pm but they required us to leave at 8.45pm even though there was nobody queue up in front of the restaurant and it was not 100% full inside. The restaurant manager "inched" me that the restaurant was actually pretty full though.

I haven't been to a restaurant by paying this amount but the service was even worst than a fast food restaurant.

The same girl waitress served us for the two times we went there, and she certainly deserved a big pat on the back!

Food itself was good. The waitress offered very sound advice and efficient service, even when serving a table of 12. Good job!

And for the price, we could enjoy the same sea view as Excelsior's! What more could I say?

A nice place for some casual dining but affectionate atmospehre!

First of all, it's kinda pricy for eating such normal food. the quarlity of food on the certain nite, taste alot worse than the normal days. especially the rice paper wrap, they serve the fruits and the cooked meat together on a bowl, it makes the fruit tasted aweful.
and somehow the waiters are not prepared. food came in wrong order, (not following the menu)
anywayz, it was the worse Xmas dinner experence I have ever had.

At first I asked my friend to try the japanese restaurant next to it, but unfortunately after 1.5 hr we were still waiting so we ate this restaurant instead (we saw many ppl doing this too)

Just less than 30 mins we could enter, but what surprised me was that there were many empty tables inside but it wass just the receptionst s poor efficiency so we had to wander outside (maybe she was way too busy)... anyway, i understand this, so it s fine.

Since it s the first time we tried this restaurant, I found one called "7-beef-dishes" (or sth like this) in the menu which looked interesting. Before we ordered, I asked the waiter TWICE whether that was enough for TWO people ... but I wasn t sure if that was due my poor communication skills, he told me sth totally irrelevant (like ... "oh, if it s for five, then some people may not be able to try some dishes", "don t worry, if it s not enough then order again" ...)

When the food arrived, we realized it was sometime for "wine-accompanying" ... The watier didn t even mention when we asked ... and we left the restaurant with nothing but a empty stomache.

p.s. the environment is good, the seaview is good, though the food i think doesn t worth that much

Tonight I went there to have dinner with my family and reserved a table at 7pm. When I booked the table, the waitress told us that we have to return the table by 8:30pm. I thought: fine, as I think we wouldnt need more than 1.5 hr to finish an ordinary meal!! During the dinner, at around 7:30pm, 2 forigners (Gwai Los) walked in and sitted next to us, I observed that they just ordered some drinks and wine and then waiting for their other gwai lo friends to come. I saw them enjoying the drinks and wine for more than 45 mins before ordering food..and when they ordered food, its nearly 8:25pm, and ridiculously, at the same time, a waitress approached my table and asked us to pay the bill. It is fine if there is a long queue waiting outside, however, there was no body waiting. Secondly, this make us very discontent about the unfair treatment. I believe those who has tried this restaurant will just find the dishes so so with such relatively high price. And tonight's experience will certainly make me hesitate to visit again.

The best of the restaurant lies in the decor and the sea view. This applies to both this branch and the one in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Food is pretty creative with self-made rice paper rolls to curry dishes (the bread that comes with curry dishes is not good, though). It's sauteed vegetables are quite good - not oily at all. I also tried its "sweet and sour mie fan (noodles)". It tastes good, however coming down to it, it exactly is "pad thai" and they just try to make it look like Vietnamese food when it really is a Thai dish.

I would recommend people to give it a try - either you like the creativity and style or you would think it's just overpriced average food. I saw this next table trying out the self-made rice paper rolls. They chewed on the rice paper and said it was so hard (exactly tasted like a piece of paper) they couldn't eat it. I had the same problem last time I tried. I think the rice paper needs some water / sauce to soften up to be eaten - I suppose the waiters should literally teach people how to eat it. Otherwise, it might be a good dish well-wasted.

Nice view (well, not much of the harbour tho) & good service; but food quality is really ma-ma-day for the price they're charging...

Very nice environment with a wounderful Victoria Harbour View !!!

Food is ok but the serving is so SMALL and Expensive.

I highly recommend 七味牛肉in whcih the beef were cooked in 7 diff style .

Overall it is a nice place to have dinner but it better to go with more ppl so you can order more dishes to share.