LIS Café  

Tried the semi-buffet lunch in LIS

Overall, the food is great

1. Salad
- Quality ok
- Choice adequate
- Potato salad quite good
- 螺絲粉沙律 ok
- For the cold cut, the quality is suboptimal

2. Main course
- Ordered pasta
- The pasta is too hard
- The tomato sauce ok
- The meat tastes and loos strange
- Below average

3. Dessert
- 好好味
- 款式很多
- It is good that the waitress will give you the dessert you want, good service
- The ice cream, which is yogurt ice cream is delicious
- Other dessert also very good

4. 飲品
- ok, 任飲

The environment is quite comfortable

Basically this place serves a semi buffet in the quiet side of Hong Kong.

Ordered the risotto which was slghtly too creamy, but the starters, soup and dessert were ok.

The main course menu has about six dishes to choose from.

The dessert ranges from waffles, ice-creams and cakes.

L'hotel Island South is my recent interesting find. I don't think there are many hotels in the world that are surrounded by factory buildings (OK now we're talking about new hotels, I don't mean those hotels converted from industrial buildings).

Once inside you feel the stark contrast to the outside world - the bright, marine-themed decorations immediately brings you the "holiday mood".

Let's not forget I came to Wong Chuk Hang for business...and now I deserve my little escape.

On this fine sunday Tenz n I were mo-liu-ing at home... and we suddenly craved for buffet. Logged on to Openrice and searched around... hm, this place nearby looks pretty good (from all the previous comments and photos)!! Nil problem for booking too, plus a 25% off deal... let's do it!
Now I daresay my appetite is edging on comparable with COCKROACHES... I practically eat anything. My lenience towards tastes and flavors is also very high, I seldom detest food... plus, it IS a hotel buffet we are going to right, how bad can it get?



We arrived around 1930... there was a F-load of kids running around... fine, family day, ok la... The environment and ambiance were pretty nice too. The service members were helpful and friendly. Scanning the food tables, wow, looks just like what people posted on Openrice!! And we were getting pretty hungry too, so off we went to feast ourselves.
And thatz where it all headed DOWN-HILL. Way down.
Now as you are reading my review, please kindly scroll down to look at photos of previous entries. And, please do a little re-cap of what I have written so far. All looks pretty good eh?
Yeah, you got that right. It is all just LOOKS.

I have taken this photo for better illustration. The fish and the hairy crab were on the house - each person gets to choose one. Looks pretty good right? But the thing is, when I put the fish into my mouth, the texture was softer than the fish you can find from a fillet o' fish. There was nil flavor. The crab... looks like there were plenty of roe, but once you suck on it, it was tasteless.
Now when I say tasteless, it doesn't mean they have forgotten to add salt or marinate the food. It literally means there was no flavor. When I pulled a piece of meat from the crayfish shell and ate it, it was soaked with water, and not a single pint of lobster or crayfish or shellfish or WHATEVER taste - I was simply chewing on a slab of 'thing'.
the funny thing is, they were able to do that to all the food. You can imagine how I felt when I was eating their smoked salmon - the texture was like smoked salmon, but there was just a small bit of salmon flavor, not to mention any saltiness or anything else. Same works for their shashimi.
I tried to think that it was my palate gone wrong. I tried the whole night. But when I started doing their desserts - I could not lie to myself anymore. Their desserts tasted quite good (esp they got strawberry yogurt)!!! So all night long I wasn't dreaming or anything, their hot fishes and seafood were really like what I have described!!
So you see why I feel like being cheated? Everything looked right, but the flavors were all wrong. ARGH.
Hope the management can deal with this... or else, it doesn't matter what discounts you put up. People would rather pay a bit more to eat better.
Have never given a crying face in Openrice. Never expected LIS to be my first. <Sigh>

Went to Ocean Park earlier this month with my friends and they brought me to this new opened hotel for buffet at night!! The hotel is doing a promotion....I think it was on 20-25% discount.

First of all, the hotel is very new and stylish! and very modern as well!When we got out from the lift....saw a big fridge with more than 10 desserts in it!!!*drooling*!!!! but the biggest highlight from that night is their SEAFOOD!!!!! so many different styles of crabs and seafood!!



~*yummy**yummy* and each of us got a free hair crab each!!!



They also have salad, small cocktail dishes, sashimi, noodle bar and bbq section!





ok...here comes my favourite part of the night...dessert!!! My favours are the serradura and the mango glass dessert!





overall, I think it is a very good buffet with good ambiance too!