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2016-01-13
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When boyfriend and I walked by this place a month ago, it was still under construction. When we peaked, there was the words "blooming onion" written on the wall and we got excited. Would this place be serving blooming onion? An all time favorite that is always ordered whenever I went to a steakhouse in Canada, we made it a note to pay this place a visit when it opened.Well ... finding out it had opened, boyfriend and I headed over to discover that .... they didn't serve blooming onion. What the
Well ... finding out it had opened, boyfriend and I headed over to discover that .... they didn't serve blooming onion. What they did serve was something entirely different. Even though the decoration on the wall said it had.
Layout was very bright and chic. Seating is in the form of bar top tables facing a wall with high top chairs. Menu is in English and Chinese. You pay and order (cash only, no 10% service charge) at the cashier. When the food is ready, you pick it up yourself at the pick up counter. You can order a burger or their bento sets. Bento sets include a main, rice, vegetables and the daily drink.
The food is cooked on a griddle top, hence the name. This is something that is not commonly found in Hong Kong but for those that grew up (like boyfriend and I) in North America where westernized Chinese and Japanese food found in foodcourts are cooked on a griddle plate (a big flat metal plate), it would be nothing new.Teriyaki Chicken Bento ($42). When it arrived, it was neatly placed in a cardboard box that seemed like a decent size. That was until I opened it up.
Inside were partitioned areas for the rice and meat, corn niblets and vegetables. Corn was basically something from a can so I can't really say much about it. The vegetables were a bit oily and bland. The rice was Japanese rice and was nicely mixed with a sprinkle of furikake. Teriyaki chicken was not dry but not a bit on the bland side. We later noticed little plastic containers of sauce on pick up counter. You really need that sauce because that tasted more like teriyaki and dipping the chicken into it made it a WHOLE lot better. Portion size was smaller than I had expected considering the box was big.
Drink of the day was a honey green tea. This was actually pretty good as it really tasted like they used honey in the drink and not some sort of sugar syrup.
Now, here's my thought. Tastewise, it was ok and I have nothing to complain about if I was in Central and ordered something like this for around $40. In Central, for this price and for this portion, I'd say it was value for money. But as this is Sham Shui Po, where just next door is a shop (that yes ... is a lot less hygenic) that is serving rice, meat and vegetables in a HUGE mountain high portion on a plate for $26, this isn't value for money. When I uttered this outloud to boyfriend, the old man sitting next to us nodded in agreement. And for that, my review is only an ok as it tasted ok but definitely not value for money. As there was no blooming onion as well, I will not be back.
张贴
