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2013-02-09
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昭和風的懷舊洋食屋;裝修有特式，服務友善;由海外修讀洋食大阪來的大廚主理。主打的奄列飯不錯但懷舊茄汁燒豬扒反而更有驚喜!推介!Hidden retro kitchen in a commercial building at CWB;Very good Nostalgic Pork Chop;Pretty good omelette;Reasonable sets.Worth a try.Bar Bogie:My wife was thinking about OMURICE (Omelette Rice) a few days ago. I brought her here to see what she thinks about this omurice specialist in Hong Kong. The whole place was decorated like a bar with a prominent bar area and bar equipment. The reason being - this place really used to be a bar.
裝修有特式，服務友善;
由海外修讀洋食大阪來的大廚主理。
主打的奄列飯不錯但懷舊茄汁燒豬扒反而更有驚喜!
推介!
Hidden retro kitchen in a commercial building at CWB;
Very good Nostalgic Pork Chop;
Pretty good omelette;
Reasonable sets.
Worth a try.
Bar Bogie:My wife was thinking about OMURICE (Omelette Rice) a few days ago. I brought her here to see what she thinks about this omurice specialist in Hong Kong.
The whole place was decorated like a bar with a prominent bar area and bar equipment.
The reason being - this place really used to be a bar. It's a somewhat mysterious Japanese bar called "Bar Bogie". It's so mysterious to customers that it folded.
There were 6 counters seats and 8 tables for two persons. There was also a small alfresco area with two small tables for 2 persons. Excellent for smokers.
All the table seats were full when we arrived but bar counter seats were available immediately.
Menu:
This place is most famous for their Japanese omelette rice (choice of tomato sauce, cream sauce or beef sauce) and stewed beef cheeks (?!) There are two types of Omurice. Those with an omelette placed on top of the rice and those with rice wrapped inside an omelette:
There is also a weekly recommendation (which apparently remained the same for months):
My reflex action was to explain the English menu to my wife but was gently reminded that it wasn't necessary as
she could read Japanese...
(That's the problem with having lunch during a busy weekday! )
Anyway, we ordered an "Original Omurice" (with tomato sauce) set and a "Nostalgic Pork Chop" set.
Service:
Good service. Staff from Hong Kong and Japan were all very polite and efficient. Multilingual.
Talking about efficiency however, be prepared to wait for at least 15-20 minutes for your order as there is only one chef, Suzuki San from Osaka making your food to order. Suzuki san used to study cooking overseas (France?) and worked in some famous restaurants in Japan. The amazing thing is that she was smiling naturally as she was cooking throughout our stay. Seemed like she was really enjoying it.
Set Soup & Salad:
Soup: Cream soup. Less than 100 ml . Treat it as an appetizer. Smooth with what seemed like fresh herb de province. Salad: The veggies were very fresh. The mashed potato with sweet corn was very good. The texture of the potato was firm and the sweet corns inside the mash were - sweet.
Egg:
HK$98 for omelette rice with original tomato sauce:
The sauce on top tasted very much like a minestrone. The herbs used were all fresh.The omelette was placed on top of the rice as opposed to a layer of egg wrapping the rice. The former type is suppose to have more egg sauce in it.
The egg taste was decent. The omelette was similar to those served in Japan at the famous omurice specialist "Pomunoki ポムの木".
Rice: This type of rice stirfried with ketchup is interestingly called "Chicken rice", as shreds of chicken are usually added into it. Those served at Hidden Kitchen had no chicken meat but just fried with tomato sauce. The timing of the rice was not bad. Some omurice uses pretty wet rice and others uses dried fried rice. The texture at Hidden was somewhere between the two types. As opposed to Chinese fried rice, there is no absolute correct way for omurice as far as I'm aware.
However, it did not have as much egg sauce as I had initially expected it to have. The texture was also not as smooth as I had expected it to be. Those at Hidden had pretty good egg taste. As far as eggs are concerned, those at Kitchen M in Hung Hom were not bad at all.
All in all, pretty decent. I wouldn't be too pleased if I had to book three weeks in advance but I'd be happy if I walked-in. Then again, I've never been a fan of Omurice anyway. I ordered the Pork Steak Set instead.
Nostalgic Pork Chop ($128)
The Japanese name is "Nostalgic Pork Chop":
This was very good and definitely worth the trek and the time. Thick Cut (3 cm) and covered in mashed apple, vinegar plus something like a Worcestershire sauce base. Very fitting for a Yo-Shyokuya to provide this (restaurants serving Japanese/Western cuisine, usually with retro decor.) I believe this sauce definitely had quite a strong British influence.
Every single bite of the pork chop was tender and flavourful. Fittingly called a "Pork Steak" instead of a normal "Pork Chop". The strong, aromatic pork taste complimented the (nostalgic) sweet & sour sauce very well. I believe the acid from the apple and the vinegar based sauce also helped to tenderize the pork steak. Very good!
Excellent with the cabbage with ponzu sauce and the (small amount of) Japanese rice.Highly recommended!
Finally, tea or coffee:
The special point about the tea or coffee is that the ice used was either frozen iced tea or frozen coffee. So the taste will remain the same even as the ice melts. Good attention to detail.
Conclusion:-Interesting retro decor. Slightly smokey.
-Good service.
-Price of the set was reasonable.
-No complaints about the omurice but the Nostalgic Pork Steak was really good!
I feel nostalgic about it already!
Recommended.
題外話/補充資料：
* 吃完後, 再細看餐牌才留意到原來懷舊豬扒有分【薑汁燒】和【茄汁燒】的! 下次會試薑汁! :D
(以上食評乃用戶個人意見 , 並不代表OpenRice之觀點。)
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