Janli0104's Profile

The restaurant offered two dinner seatings over the weekend: 6-8:15pm and 8:15pm til lateI am so glad that we were being offered seating upstairs as we found it not as cramped. Ordered the $38/glass highball, the alcohol was on a weaker size as expected and reflected on the price - still good to try as it’s pretty refreshing for the hot weather. The assorted sushi platter was good. Tasted good and fresh! The slow cooked beef tongue was very tender and went very well with the yuzu pepper! We wanted more!! The clams dish was a bit disappointing as the clams were very tiny (not fatty) and we found some sands in them. Mentaiko egg roll was also very nice even it was intended to be served cold! We also ordered the smashed tuna roll topped with crab meat like everyone - but my first bite was a piece of small ice along with the crab meat! I suggest that they should defrost the crab meat early in advance before serving the dish please - the tuna roll was great but the whole frozen crab meat ruined the dish experience. I liked how the staff/owner would offer tasting before ordering the sake. And they offer various size by glass/ 180ml / 720ml so we get to taste different sake. Overall, nice izakaya that offers good drinks and food in sheung wan/central. Would definitely come back to try the other dishes. …Read More

Came here on a Friday night around 8:45pm the restaurant was empty! Quite a few staff working for such a small restaurant haha friendly staff though The $288 omakase course started off with the citrusy papaya salad, then came with the crispy rice cake with crab. Grilled chicken thigh skewer was tender and flavourful with the secret sauce! Chicken wing was good. My friend liked the soup but I found it a bit salty. Curry was great. Nothing really to complaint. Oh all the dishes were sharing, but portion was generous! Solid Thai food for a quick fix! …Read More

We arrived at this very lively restaurant on the rather empty side of the Hollywood Road on a Saturday night around 8pm. Was told to wait so they can clear one of the last available tables at the time. We were being sat after 5min which was not an issue for us. The restaurant was not too big. There seems to be a semi private area where it sat 6persons (with a curtain kind of separate from the rest of the main dining area) The music was pretty loud playing some pop songs (some Sabrina carpenter music) but I didn’t mind. We ordered right away with our server. The pork skewers came first. A bit on the saltier side but tasty. We also ordered the stir fried Angus beef over a fried egg. It was very delicious but the beef came in very small chunks of meat (not exactly what I would have imagined, more like minced beef but good meat) then we had to wait for another 10-15 min until the other dishes finally came. The morning glory was very tasty (a bit on a spicier side as I did not mention to the server to make it medium spicy like the beef dish. It was so spicy that I had to wait to eat with the seafood fried rice and cleansed it off with the cucumber on the side lol ) Food overall was tasty. Staff were friendly. They kept coming back to remind us the food was on the way. I assume there were only one or two kitchen staff so food took a bit longer to arrive on busy nights. Would love to come back to check out the rest of the menu!…Read More

原味生煎包個底係煎到好脆, 味道係好食,不過食完兩隻之後已經好口渴, 叫咗個蔥油豬扒伴麵都食唔晒, 豬扒炸得好平均, 香口, 但係豬扒好肥, 適合鐘意食肥豬扒嘅人🙂蔥油拌麵味道適中麵質都係我鍾意嘅, 好可惜味精濃厚嘅生煎包已經令到我食唔完碗麵！三個鐘之後嘅表示仲係好口渴!而家堂食做緊promotion叫套餐或叫$60+以上野食仲送free flow 豆漿(冇糖, 凍嘅, 好飲) 不過唔知promotion 會做到幾耐! 如果唔怕味精嘅, 可以一試! …Read More

Conveniently located in soho by the escalator, this place served some very nice Mexican tacos which I haven’t had enjoyed for a while as we all know the Mexican food scene was totally missing in Hong Kong. The staff were very friendly. The staff gave us additional tortilla chips when we didn’t get to finish the very rich cheese dip, though it came with a small chunk of avocado in which I was hoping that they could be more generous with the offer The baja fish tacos were very flavourful and crispy! This dish already gave me enough reason to come back!!Chicken wings were out of this world! Highly recommend it! I would definitely come back to try out other tacos and the burrito! …Read More

As several other reviewers have mentioned, you come here for the food, do not expect good (or at all, any) services. We ordered still water and the wait staff put the bottle of water down with the hand showing us to help ourselves!! What kind of restaurant where they charge you for $1000 a pasta dish and expect the guests to pour their own water?!!!!The owner/chef was the one who was allowed to take orders with an attitude (not in a particular bad way but not too good neither) A few good things: food came in big portions, though the wait staff seemed to be pretty busy running around, they always managed to get us new (hot) plates for almost every new dishes that were being served. I liked the ox tongue was very well seasoned and crisp, red shrimp linguine has a very strong aroma and love the thick sauce lingering the linguine - excellent texture, and the baby squid pasta was pretty interesting too! Most of these dishes tasted very delicious but I am not sure if I am willing to come back again to pour my own water at this price point. …Read More

Went on a Sunday morning ish around 11:30am, there was not much people dining. Just me arriving and one diner almost finished. Ordered the avocado chicken pretgel with a flat white. I must say the coffee was pretty amazing that was not expected (think I would come back even just for the coffee)!!The pretgel looked small but trust me, it was filing (and already cut in half which I really appreciate) the pretgel was out of this world!! I love the soft yet chewy texture, if you don’t know what I am talking about then you need to go check it out yourself ;pOverall, tasty sandwich and good coffee! I will definitely go back! …Read More

Arrived 5 minutes before my booking at 1:30pm. There were two lines, one on the left facing the restaurant was for walk ins, the one on the right was for those who booked. You need to go in to let the staff to know that you have arrived for your booking. At first, the guy said there might be a little wait today, but very quickly I was being seated at 1:29pm ( 1 minute earlier than my original booking time) You will then be asked to pay for your meal at the kiosk right by the entrance. It was pretty straight forward and there was a staff to guide you. Then everyone sit in circles facing the grill. Thank god the ventilation was pretty good, it was not smoky or smelly despite the meat are cooking in front of you. There was a little wait before i got the first meat. Then the second and third meat all came in a timely manner. My meat was very juicy and well seasoned - it tasted as good as they could be eating by itself (no other condiments were needed in my opinion) I was pretty stupid to drop the entire egg into last meat with the remaining rice. The correct way was to separate the egg white and the yolk and just drop the yolk. Overall, nice and welcoming staff! Food was delicious (the last meat was a bit undercooked compared to the previous two but still acceptable)Will come back more often if it’s not so difficult to book! …Read More

牛腩牛筋燘得非常入味, 好淋, 近排食過好多間牛腩，佢係真係最好食! 魚蛋亦都好彈牙! 凍檸茶茶底亦都很好喝! 雖然位置唔係好方便，但係出西營盤地鐵站行2分鐘就到啦! 而家呢啲麵檔, 街坊小舖越來越少, 非常值得支持, 老闆人很好! …Read More

Yummy yakitori with a very good vibe! The restaurant was full with people on a Monday night! Most yakitori were on the saltier side (strong flavoured with seasoning - still yum!) maybe that’s their strategy so you will order more drinks haha! The tsukune with egg yolk was very tasty! $48 buy 1 get 1 draft beer (Sapporo) was hard to beat! Corkage for 720ml sake was $150 per bottle! Good place for some drinks and yakitori with some friends! …Read More

We made a reservation at 6:30pm on a Friday night and we pretty much had the entire restaurant to ourselves until 7:30ish…that’s when most other people started to arrive. We were being served by a Japanese chef. We ordered the omakase menu. Appetisers were just okay, the beef was okay (being the most essential pieces of the meal!) not as tender as I would have expected, also lack of marbling, didn’t melt in my mouth (!) one thing I liked was the egg white foam with the egg yolk, was very interesting and I found I was dipping that most with my beef!Not really worth the price for the quality that we are paying in comparing to the very famous one from Central…Read More

I arrived on a Monday around 12:20pm without making a reservation and managed to get a table (that seats up to 4 persons). I came first to get seats as I knew the restaurant could get quite busy during lunch time, while my friend was on the way, the waiter repeatedly asked how many people will be arriving which was quite annoying...We made our order at around 12:45pm, my friend ordered a pumpkin crab meat soup and linguine while I skipped the appetiser and ordered the cod filet risotto. (the waiter deliberately took the order without mentioning  anything...) The soup for my friend came, the linguine for my friend also came and finished, but my risotto was still not here! It was more than 30 minutes and my lunch still has not arrived. I checked with the waiter and asked him to follow up on my order and he told me immediately without even checking " we are preparing it, risotto always take longer"!! Yes, I understand risotto takes longer time to cook, it is also not my first time ordering a risotto at a restaurant yet it never took such a long time to arrive. It would be nice for the wait staff to mention it might take a longer time then usually especially during peak hours when he took my order, or the chef needs a better time management for their customers. I waited 10 more minutes as the risotto was still not here, I went straight up to talk to the same waiter, he told me the risotto will be ready in 3 minutes, again, he just made it up, he did not even go to the kitchen to check, of course, my risotto did not arrive in 3 minutes but couple minutes more. The risotto came, it tasted okay, the skin of the cod filet was seared perfectly and the risotto was done right. BUT the attitude of the waiter was really poor, bye Fast Gourmet, you were once a go-to lunch spot for me in sheung wan but i recently found the service has gone down significantly and there are much better options for me to spend my hard earned money!…Read More

預訂左半年先book到, 但係真係唔值得等咁耐!預訂嘅時候已經pre-order左少爺焗豬扒飯, 因為我哋只有五個人, 而個豬扒飯嘅portion要求最少6位收費, 我哋都冇所謂啦, 因為都想睇吓究竟係咪真係咁好食! 當晚係星期六, 六點就去到, 知道要八點還枱諗住都應該唔會有問題啦, order左人頭杏汁豬肺湯, 蝦多士, 茶燻雞, 花雕雞油蒸馬友, 焗肉蟹煎腸粉, 仲有Pre order左嘅少爺豬扒飯, 杏汁豬肺湯係足料同重杏仁味, 女仔飲完已經有啲飽, 蝦多士係非常之大隻比平時你喺出面食嘅都大隻, 足料係好食嘅. 茶燻雞 ok啦, 冇乜特別. 我覺得成晚最好食嘅係花雕雞油蒸馬友, 花雕味好濃, 值得推介! 焗肉蟹煎腸粉啲腸粉先至係重點雖然好油但係吸晒啲蟹嘅味道非常惹味! 飲完湯食完四道菜之後等咗半小時都未上豬扒飯而見其他客人每一台都上咗剩係得我哋嗰台冇, 咁我哋追問啦佢竟然問我哋有冇pre order度, 即係漏單啦, 同佢講我地幾日前電話已預訂, 佢先同我哋講話整緊! 當時已經7:45pm, 之後有個疑似老闆娘嘅走埋嚟同我哋講死啦點算呀仲有蛋糕添之後嗰啲客人咪成九點幾先有得食, 係佢哋漏單仲好意思過嚟比說話我哋聽! 之後成餐飯都係成成吐氣因為佢哋係咁過嚟催我哋埋單! 其實成餐飯已經唔係好pleasant因為個老闆娘係咁鬧其中一個夥計, 而佢哋當晚係接左好多外賣, 其中好多嗌左外賣嘅客人都企咗喺門口等咗好耐, 如果佢哋廚房做唔切嘅話就唔好接咁多單啦！認真, 請我都唔會再去! 香港而又畀得起呢個價錢又好食嘅餐廳大把啦點解我要去受氣啊…Read More

Heard this restaurant is quite hard to book as they don’t pick up the phone…Turned out they have some good reasons why. Arrived on a Friday evening, being seated at the table along a ‘corridor’ of the restaurant right across the small kitchen. There’s really only one front of house staff who’s doing almost everything - explaining the menu, taking orders, filling up beverages, serving, clearing tables and much more…it’s understandably there’s no time for him to pick up the phone to take reservations. The jumbo blue mussels could really taste the freshness and loving the flavour! I could really use some bread to finish all those leftover sauce. The much anticipated caviar linguine didn’t disappoint! The prawn americaine sauce in butter was out of this world, love the texture of the linguine - highly recommend to come for this dish alone! The caviar was on point, they added flavour to the dish! Love it! Octopus-clam risotto was good, a bit too watery to my liking, but there’s this magic I was craving for more after the first few bites. I couldn’t stop eating until I got too full. Most of the dishes were great but I would say the linguine was my favourite of the meal! Wonder how I got my reservation? I walked in to book as I pass by the restaurant on my way home almost everyday! …Read More

The drinks here came out pretty eye opening! Passion fruit sparkling ade - pretty but a bit too sour to my taste. Matcha latte was matcha latte but adding a leaf as decoration made it looked more sophisticated! Smoked duck breast salad bowl came in very vibrant colours! I will ask for less dressing next time as I felt like I was tasting more dressing than the ingredients every bite I put in my mouth! The greens and other ingredients were very fresh but the over dressing almost ruined the freshness of these ingredients! Pull pork Benedict took a bit longer to prepare but it came out perfect! The shredded green apples on top definitely added the textures and lightness to the dish! Loved the apple cider hollandaise sauce it really added flavours! Love love love everything about this dish! The sourdough came out crispy not soggy which was superb! …Read More