Pasta De Waraku   (Closed)

I've been here twice, so I obviously don't think it's so bad it's not worth coming back to. There's nothing spectacular about the food, but it isn't bad either.

Here's what we ordered last time: spaghetti with meat sauce, fried pork with tomato sauce, fried salmon & cheese appetizer

The spaghetti with meat sauce: On the plus side, PdW knows how to cook pasta. On my visit to Fat Angelo's for instance, I found that all the pasta was overcooked and mushy. Here at PdW, it was al dente, which is how it should be. On the minus side, the meat sauce I got was very sweet. Jarred pasta sauce can be pretty sweet, but this was *way* sweeter than that. Overall, 5/10-- I wouldn't order this dish again.

Fried pork with tomato sauce: The tomato sauce was much closer to Western-style pasta sauce, and was not nearly so sweet as the meat sauce. The fried pork was good too: juicy inside, crispy outside. If you're a fan of chicken parmigiana, this is a good option. 7/10

Fried salmon & cheese: this is cheesy and greasy. I guess I should've expected that. My wife found it too heavy to eat. I ate mine but I did feel a little icky afterward. 4/10

The food here is hit or miss. If you're judicious in your selection and a little bit lucky, it can be decent. If you're unlucky or don't think about what you're ordering (fried salmon and cheese, for instance), it can be poor. I'd give the place 6/10

This is one of those restaurants that taste good all the time.

Ordered two starters: deep fried cubic tofu, salmon carpaccio, grilled set.

Deep-fried cubic tofu: This was the best, because I was expecting a crunchy skin, and nothingness inside, but it amazed me because it was tasty and chewy inside, like cheese. The tofu used was “thousand layer tofu” (千葉豆腐, 凍豆腐 or 冰豆腐), not usually fried, but in this case, it worked out very well.
If the sauce was served separately it would have been better, as the sweet and sour sauce didn’t match it as well as the salt and pepper one.

Salmon carpaccio: The portion was small, but tasted ok, about 4 pieces of salmon.

The grilled set included onion soup and a drink, in the general it tasted good. The beef patty was very beefy in taste.

though the restaurant is quite ordinary, we liked it very much as it's the first time for us having a try. Slightly more expensive than expected.
We ordered a pizza and three dishes of spaghetti, they tasted good overall. However, the price was a little bit disappointing.

I can't remember the exact names of the food and drink we ordered.
Spaghetti carbonara with bacon:
Taste wise - okay (6.5 out of 10)
Portion wise - outrageously small (you can finish the whole thing in a minute even though if you are a lady)
Spaghetti with bacon and potato
Taste wise - I can't rate it myself (my friend said okay, I didn't ask how many out of ten)
Portion wise - outrageously small
Potato pizza
Taste wise - a little bit better than the Spaghetti (7 out of 10)
Portion wise - outrageously small and thin
Soup
Taste wise - I don't know (my friend didn't say anything)
Portion wise - outrageously small (I've never seen any soup as shallow in depth as this in any restaurant I've been to)
Ginger drink
Taste wise - I don't know (my friend didn't say anything)
Portion wise - outrageously small (a very smalll cup, nearly full of ice cubes, not much luquid there mind you, just one suck with the straw you can almost finish the drink)
Iced Lemon Tea
Taste wise - you can get a lot better lemon tea anywhere in HK (6 out of 10 two thin slices of lemon)
Portion wise - small
I was fascinated by their food models and the look of the restaurant. However things weren't always what they seemed. The portions of the real food were far too smaller than the models, tiny portion I would say. Prices were quite high, the entry level of spaghetti costed 68HKD with a portion that a bit bigger than your palm (depends on how big your hand is. By the way, if you pay a little bit more, Grappas will satisfy you.)
There were few things I would praise this restaurant:
Staff was friendly
Comfortable seats
Interior design was eye-catching
However, a crucial thing was missing. Their appallingly small portion food didn't taste as good as the look of the food models.
I will never go there again, I felt cheated.