Bolo Bolo - Restaurant HongKongais Paris — Restaurant in Paris

Summary: delicious Hongkong style food for a good price! Fast service! Staff service can be improved tho

Reserved for Sunday dinner for 3 persons. We had a table easily. We ordered for drinks: Hongkong Lemon Iced tea (6€), Hongkong milk tea (6,5€) and Red Bean Sago (6€). We all loved each of these, very refreshing and close to what we know! All the drinks were perfectly balanced, good level of sweetness! It was slightly disappointing though that the waiters didn’t inform us that sago wasn’t available anymore and just served us the red bean drink without it. I had to ask to find out why my drink was missing something.

For food, we ordered the fishball curry (6€), Haa Do Si (shrimp toast, 6€), Lemon chicken (8€), eggplant hongshao (13€), salt and pepper spareribs (16€), black pepper beef (15€) and a bowl of steamed rice (3€ each).

Fishball curry: 6-7 pcs of fishballs in a light curry sauce. Delicious for a starter/snack!

Haa do si: Shrimp on toasted bread with a side of mayonnaise. The shrimp was soft and contrasts well with the bread’s crunchiness. It was buttery and good!

Lemon chicken: crispy breaded fried chicken with lemon. I was a bit disappointef they used marmalade lemon on this so it was more on the sweeter side than the tangy side of lemon but it was still generally good as a dish. I love fried chicken so this was good.

Eggplant Hongshao: I loved the soft eggplants in a flavorful sauce. 😍 i recommend this! Although I did find that it was too expensive for what it is.

Salt and pepper pork spareribs: fried spareribs with bell peppers and onions. This is one of my favorite dishes when I think about cantonese food so i wanted to try their version and it was good but it’s missing more spices and msg 😅 I also thought that for 16€ the quantity was lacking.

Black pepper beef: flavorful and tender beef served over onions. This was my favorite dish of all that we tried there. Highly recommend this one!

As for the restaurant, it was nicely decorated, had various table styles (regular and high tables), plenty of space for group siezs (max 6 probably). I would appreciate some more friendly vibes from the waiters as they weren’t smiling at all when we were there and we had to approach them to ask for additional orders because they rarely looked at us😅

Overall, I will come back because it is a good...

If you're looking for authentic Hong Kong food, you can skip this. Popped into because my partner and I were looking for canto style dishes and saw the cheung fun dish they had.

We ordered the hong kong style fried rice, expected a din tai fung style light and fluffy fried rice with char siu and the delicate brown of soya sauce. But no. What we got was a wet plate of rice drenched in oil and soya sauce. The flavour was as though I was drinking pure sunflower oil. The egg and prawn within the fried rice were decent but not enough to say I'd ever order it again or even come back for tag matter. The rice was more like fresh cooked rice with soya sauce tossed in. It didn't seem as though it were fried in a wok and there was definitely too much moisture within.

The cheung fun was quite dry. The flavour was okay but nothing special again.

The service was good. Fast and polite. Can't complain there. And the atmosphere and decor was nice, however it was quite busy and loud and we found it hard to speak to one another due to the noise.

Personally if you're looking for Westernised canto food then this place is okay to fill those cravings, but I definitely wouldn't walk in with high expectations of trying out authentic hong kong...

If you're looking for an authentic Cantonese cuisine experience, then this isn't it. None of the servers actually speak Cantonese and the menu is in simplified Chinese (yikes!?), so I would say the most authentic Cantonese in the whole joint is hopefully the chef/cook and the restaurant's decorations.

That being said, the HK milk tea was excellent and loved how the ice was frozen milk tea (in the cutest bear form) so that when it melts, the milk tea doesn't become diluted with water. The pineapple bun took me by surprise...it was actually good, but I guess you can't go wrong with something that has a huge slice of butter inside. The beef noodles were great as well and the fried shrimp wontons and that's where it ends. I would not order the other dimsum nor the other items pictured again as they were mediocre at best.

Will come back for those items I had mentioned above. Perhaps will try other things on the...