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2009-09-17
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Went to dinner at 板長 yesterday, I noticed that Ricky's group had JV'ed with 岡田珈琲 from Kyushu and opened the first overseas new shop here. They sell a variety of cakes, jams, food, coffee beans to drink-in coffees, cold drinks, etc. They specialise in Drip Coffee - at the moment, some kitchen staff and coffee maker are straight from Japan's shop outlets!*************************岡田 HOUSE BLEND COFFEE - This is the 1st house blend coffee and comprises of 7 different types of beans, with a Brazil
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岡田 HOUSE BLEND COFFEE - This is the 1st house blend coffee and comprises of 7 different types of beans, with a Brazilian Santos as a base. The beans are roasted professionally, with some of the beans roasted at multiple stages and temperatures, each individla bean in the blend also roasted to their desired degree-ness. They're then combined to make the final blending. Note that this house coffee is the ONLY one that's pre-made on their machine every hour - all the other Blends and Single Origin coffees are dripped by hand only when ordered! Due to the fact this blend sells in large volumes, its also roasted in Japan on larger scale roasters, unlike the other beans/blends which are roasted locally in HK on site!
I really liked this coffee. It had a very sophisticated aroma on the nose - supported by a great complexity of layers, with slight nutty and earthy notes in the background, a fresh red fruit and almost floral mid-palate, a certain amount of chocolatey yet savouriness is also tasted. Everything you desire in a coffee is here - even if its engineered, it was done perfectly! I actually found this slightly and naturally sweet too somehow... Comes with fresh whipped cream for putting into the coffee.
MALAWI GEISHA VIPHYA ($60) - I was happy to see this on the menu. Its from a highly rated type of coffee bean called Geisha, sourced from the Viphya mountains somewhere in South Africa - they're AA graded size, wet processed. When ordered, its 'freshly grinded' and then 'dripped' by the Japanese coffee maker, taking 10-15 minutes.... I guess I was paying for both the beans and labour! This resembles a dark tea in a way, slightly pruney sweet yet the aroma was more suppressed that I'd imagined. For a single origin, this was very refined and pleasant, and quite earthy for a non dry-processed bean - I did not need to use the Grinded Japanese Sugar given nor the whipped Cream. Both these coffees were high in caffeine somewhat, you can really feel them!
CHEESE CAKE - This is made by a Japanese chef locally using imported ingredients. Its actually a Rare Cheese Cake which is not baked and retains the fresh cream cheese taste. Its topped with blueberries and a thyme sprif, the bottom supported by a sponge cake. Really liked this - but its expensive!
OMELETTE RICE SET ($75) - I heard the main chef is 'still' Japanese for now, so decided to give this a try. They make this version of Omelette rice by putting the rice on top of the cooked omelette, before folding it from bottom down - this makes it look pretty, but it also means the eggs in the final omu-rice is thinnish at the top, but thicker at the folded eggs bottom! The chicken inside tasted great indeed, the rice was cooked nicely. The Tomato Sauce was slightly like the Kagome type however and the eggs still a bit too over-cooked and thin. Hard to choose between this version and NIJI BISTRO'S one - they're more of the same, except its bigger here. RECOMMEND TO BE SHARED BETWEEN 2! Came with a creamy mushroom soup and Potato salad, both were ok-good without impressive.
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REALLY LOVED THE COFFEE AND SERVICE HERE! YOU EVEN GET TO SELECT YOUR OWN HIGH GRADE, JAPANESE HAND MADE CUP AND SAUCERS IF YOU ORDER THE SPECIALTY COFFEES!
HIGH '5' for Coffee.
CAKE WAS ALSO GREAT. '4' to '5'.
OMELETTE RICE, AROUND HIGH '3' - MID '4' but unfortunately, already best in Hong Kong by my reckoning.
張貼
