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2016-03-01
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Boyfriend and I met our friend and her husband for dinner at Sai Ying Pun as they live in this area and yes ... we were there for Chinese New Year lucky money. She asked me for some suggestions for us to have dinner. After throwing out a bunch of suggestions of places I've tried and would return or places I wanted to try, she chose this place.Flying Pig Bistro peaked my interest. Located on High Street, a street in Sai Ying Pun that has become more and more like Soho, Flying Pig Bistro was one o
Flying Pig Bistro peaked my interest. Located on High Street, a street in Sai Ying Pun that has become more and more like Soho, Flying Pig Bistro was one of those new Soho type restaurants taking over the usual local landscape.
The restaurant was quite busy on a Sunday evening. Menu is in the form of the placemat and is only in English. The staff also only speak English. As there were five of us (her husband brought a friend), they cramped us into a small four people table despite my friend had reserved a table ahead of time. Lighting was by the light of a candle. Thus, my photos are so dark.
Dutch Mussels with Fries ($188). The mussels were cooked in a nice white wine sauce. There was a fair amount and enough for all to go around. Mussels were fresh. The fries were the large chunk kind and alright. Crispy exterior and soft interior. However, they were served with mayo/mustard sauce which is .... ok. I'm a ketchup and fries girl. This was so wrong for me. Why fancy up fries with a dipping sauce that doesn't work? Ketchup is always the way to go.
Classic Caesar Salad ($125). A fairly decent salad as every bit was dressed with the salad dressing without it being soaked. They served it with a few crunchy croutons, freshly grated Parmesan and crispy bacon. Yes, crispy bacon! However, the bacon was two long strips. I think I would have preferred they served it sliced up so you get bits of bacon with the lettuce instead of just eating one whole long piece of bacon on it own.
Organic Rib Eye Steak ($285). This is a completely shareable main as it is 500 oz. My friend's husband requested rare and it came out medium rare. He was disappointed but I pretty much expected it to come out medium rare. It came with two dipping sauces: green peppercorn and Bernaise. The dipping sauces were ... not that remarkable. I just ended up not dipping my steak in them at the end. It came with roasted vegetables that included zucchini and cherry tomatoes. However, I took one bite and it was drowned in salt. There was also a roasted piece of garlic that just needed a bit more time to roast because it was still a tad undercooked.
Pork Knuckle ($245). As this restaurant was named after a flying pig, we ordered a pork knuckle. This was also over salty. Meat was also dry. The skin was hard as a rock instead of crunchy. It came with a mashed potato that was mixed with carrot. This was a pretty disappoiting mash potato as it was not creamy enough and rather chunky. There was not one hint of butter, making me wonder if the chef here believes in using butter at all? They also ran out of sauerkraut (shocking as it was 7 PM!) so the staff let us substitute with another side. We chose sauteed mushrooms. Oddly, these were seriously underseasoned.
Seafood Linguine ($158). For this price, I expected my pasta sauce to have real depth with the taste of fresh herbs and seafood. Instead all I got was a very average tomato sauce with not much else. Seafood was alright. At least the pasta was cooked al dente.
Rather disppointing foodwise. However, staff was top notch. Clearing plates whenever asked and bringing out food in an appropriate manner (first appetizers and then mains when appetizers were finished). It's too bad the food was disappointing. Soho style food that is on par with some of the more average Soho places. But if it was in Soho, I probably would return as it's more convenient. However, as this is in Sai Ying Pun, I wouldn't really purposely make a trip to eat here again as there are still many unexplored options.
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