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2011-12-02
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I walked into this famous michelin star dim-sum shop in the mezzanine level of the MTR Hong Kong Station (I refuse to say that this shop is in the IFC) at 11:15am and there were empty seats. Rumor has it that this shop is supposed to be amazing. I ordered their beef and fried egg rice ($25), and a fried cabbage cake ($17).The beef and fried egg rice was ok. As in not good, not bad. very so-so. The beef was soft and moist which was obviously good, and the egg was done well with the yolk in liquid
The beef and fried egg rice was ok. As in not good, not bad. very so-so. The beef was soft and moist which was obviously good, and the egg was done well with the yolk in liquid form ready to spill out. The rice, however, was stiff and tasteless. I would normally give this a 7 out of 10 but given the fame of this shop, my expectation was clearly missed.
The fried cabbage cake was terrible. I already gave the shop a lot of credit for putting lots of cabbage into making this thing, but the frying was done in the worst way possible. It needed more time on the frying pan as the end product was flimsy and ready to fall apart. I literally couldn't pick it up with my chopsticks. I would give it a 5 out of 10, all 5 points for the taste.
The service was a disappointment too. I was asked to move to a different table when i was nearly done with my entire meal and the waitress even approached me when i had my mouth full of rice. I was very shocked to be asked to move when I clearly would be finishing and leaving within 5 minutes. I even joked and asked if she was serious. Unfortunately she was.
Never going back to this shop again except maybe for takeaways.
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