My boyfriend, best friend, and I came to Hong Kong for a trip and we absolutely did not plan to eat…read morehere at all. However, one of my best friend's close family friends took us here our first night in Hong Kong and boy were we surprised. We didn't realize that this establishment was a 2-star Michelin restaurant until we got there!
That's not the best part. The best part was that we got to choose our own seafood. Off to the side, they have a few tanks filled with live shellfish that you are able to choose from. Anything from crabs, lobster, shrimps, etc! Of course we didn't do the choosing -- the host did!
We ended up with some deep fried salt & pepper tofu, deep fried scallop fritters, geoduck sashimi, soy sauce prawns, deep fried abalone, razor clams with black bean sauce, Chinese broccoli, and salt/pepper/garlic mantis prawns. Everything was simply delicious because everything was super fresh!
My favorite was the geoduck sashimi, soy sauce prawns, and the mantis prawns. I looooooooooove geoduck, or as other people call it, giant clam. It has such a nice, clean, and sweet taste to it! I always eat it when I get the chance! The soy sauce prawns and mantis prawns just had so much flavor to them .. thanks to the salt of course! I kept licking my fingers afterwards because the flavor was just too yummy!
Apparently their deep fried abalone was what got them their 2 Michelin star status. Normally, abalone is a pain to cook from what my mom told me. Abalone itself has no flavor so you have to braise it with sauce in order to get any flavor from it. Therefore, traditionally, the abalone dishes are all braised and drenched with sauce. This was the first time that I had it deep fried. They use a specific batter for it as well -- I forgot what kind of batter though ... short memory. The abalone itself was reallllly tender. It was probably the most tender abalone I've ever had. It was not tough to chew at all! As for the taste .. eh, I think I prefer something else haha. I never liked abalone that much to begin with so I'm probably a little biased.
The service was really good throughout the meal. They would refill the tea once it was empty. They would change our plates if our plates had a lot of shells on it. They even provided us dessert!! They gave us a variety of custard/pudding cubes!
The cost? Around $4,200 HKD. Was the meal worth the dollar amount? To me? Probably not. That's a little too high for comfort. There are probably other alternatives. They are probably extra expensive due to their Michelin star rating. However, if it's the abalone that got them that and I don't care too much for abalone, then I can abort mission next time!!