EATWELL — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Firstly this place is easily missed because it is on the main road where all the cars are and secondly I thought it was a Thai joint from the outside.

Luckily, someone booked this for an early Winter Stolstice and it turned out to be amazing.

One of the dishes in particular was a very traditional dish and I thought they were weird when they were asking if there was liver in the sweet and sour wonton dish 懷舊錦鹵雲吞.

It was crispy wontons that came with a side of runny sweet and sour sauce with liver in it.

As well as traditional dishes, they also had modern dishes such as the foie gras pancake.

I loved this pancake because the processed cheese and foie gras paired together surprisingly well.

Then we had snake soup which had a lot of herbs in it and the strong dried orange peel taste was really good.

After having a hot snake soup, the lamb pot made you sweat but it was lovely, I love lamb pot and the fermented beancurd sauce.

Finished with the chicken braised in sweet soya sauce.

It was definitely a good chicken that was tender, soft and fully flavoured by the sweet soya sauce.

Anyway, the above were the dishes I liked and I definitely recommend them.

There was also sweet and sour pork but the meat was a bit fatty and the fried rice had the usual...

I have no idea how this restaurant managed to maintain a rating of 3.9. The food was uninspiring, pretentiously creative and overpriced for what it is. We paid HKD 300 per person.

I tried all of their ‘best’ dishes, including the appetiser set which comprised of a fried ebi, a foie gras pancake and a fish cake. The foie gras pancake was greasy and mushy, the fried ebi was stale and the fish cake was probably as good as what one could get from a supermarket.

We also tried a fish dish where the chef minced the meat of the fish into a fish cake, slapped the skin of the fish on top of it, and tried to pass it off as culinary ingenuity. However, during the process, the fish lost its very essence; the fish cake tasted more like flour and the oil that it cooked in than fish.

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Come on, this place felt unreal! I thought we walked into a TVB movie set. Somewhat creepy with the white wall red cloth furniture and out of place decor. Was really uneasy with the top deck diorama of figures with wine bottles. Felt like some worshipping is going on, or those are burnt figure offerings. As soon as we walked in, we felt like we walked into a 黑店。 We were meeting people here so we just went with it. Food was OK. Menu was average HK restaurant affair, bit at 3x the price. Was not 3x the taste. You pay for the creepy atmosphere where you are the only customers, and 3 servers and the owner staring at you...