A very good food weekend
Posted by SpikeOct 30
With so many choices across so many cuisines and price ranges, I don’t understand why people in HK still like to go to McDonalds or KFC.
Friday night, dinner at Rei Sushi in the IFC Mall. They claim to get their fish flown in from Tsukiji six times per week. The aji tataki was the real standout. The maguro was really nice but the ohtoro was disappointing. Overall I prefer Sushi Hiro in Causeway Bay, but I was at the IFC already for other reasons.
Saturday, lunch at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao, the Wanchai branch of the Singapore chain. Their xiao long bao remains my 3rd favorite in the world and is consistent across all of the branches that I’ve tried. (A little no-name dump in Shanghai is my #1, the original Din Tai Fung shop in Taipei is #2.) The jiang nan style pork ribs were also really really good.
Saturday dinner at Agave, Wanchai branch. If you’ve never been there, this place has over 200 different tequilas listed on their menu, an entire page of margaritas and two more pages of tequila cocktails. So details on exactly what I ate are fuzzy, but it was strips of beef served in a pan with a slightly spicy sauce, some onions, some beans, some tortillas stuffed with cheese served on the side. What I appreciate about Agave is that a large portion of their menu is really Mexican, not the Tex-Mex hybrid that every other place in HK tries to pass off as Mexican.
Sunday, dinner at 798 & Company, the branch of the “gastropub” located in Times Square in Causeway Bay. This place is a problem for me because every time I go there, I want to order the entire menu. But I kept it simple, spaghetti with clams – spaghetti was perfectly al dente, clams were cooked exactly right and the sauce was a very basic olive oil and garlic.
Monday, dinner at Nha Trang, Wellington Street near the escalator, still a line at 9 PM on a Monday which will tell you that I’m not alone in thinking this is the best cheap ‘n cheerful Vietnamese in HK. I practically inhaled the softshell crab and we should have ordered a second plate of the rice noodle rolls with prawns. I thought the Vietnamese chicken ceviche didn’t do anything for me. And we had a beef dish that was not bad at all though the details are a bit hazy.
Okay, I guess you can guess from reading this that I’m heading off to have lunch now. If I was in Wanchai, think I’d be waiting in line for some char siu at Joy Hing. Sadly, I’m in Quarry Bay ….
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