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| - Went here with a friend who suggested going to Monte Carlo. I was thinking that was a hotel and thought the price would be exorbitant. However, I checked Yelp! before and they did say it wasn't too bad price wise.
I have to say ambiance and food quality was relatively hotel level. The price isn't though.
If I had to compare against Firefly which is close to this restaurant in terms of food, this is SO MUCH better and surprisingly CHEAPER for what you would pay for at Firefly.
Although the food was good, it's still too pricey and far to be a default restaurant, but don't let that hold you off, it's still good and I would take friends and clients there.
As for food, I had the standard HK cafe multi-course meal: soup, salad main and dessert with a side of coffee/tea and bread. I spent about $25 with tips.
I started with a lobster bisque which is pretty much water with a little bit of lobster chunks. However, it is still quite flavorful if not filling. It made me hungrier though, good thing there was a side of bread to tide me by.
Then I had the abalone salad. I doubt it's one of those high grade abalone, but it still has the texture and the salt-watery after aroma I expect and like from abalone. It was also given in reasonably sized chunks so it's not too bad.
For the main, because I was feeling cheap, I opted for the cheapest thing on their multi course menu which was the Crab Meat Pasta. Oohh that was yummy. Maybe because I had a hankering for mac and cheese with some shellfish for hte past few days and this just hit the spot.
For dessert we got pina colada pudding. I never had pina colada pudding before. I do like it. Especially since this had no extra charge compared to the standard cheese cake.
For tea, they provided us with proper English tea. So we assembled our own HK style milk tea. It tasted so much better than the ones you get from the other HK cafes.
The waiter service was good, not super duper good, but good for the price range you are getting into. However, it's more expensive on Friday to Sunday so I won't bother going at those times (plus I hear there is Karaoke at those times ugh).
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