18/02/2016
粗菜館 Tso Choi Restaurant
北角炮台山英皇道125-133號月明樓地下
G/F, Yuet Ming Building, 125-133 King's Road, Fortress Hill, North Point
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/not-just-plain-rice-with-pork-oil-e2545601
This place is opened by Chua Lam 蔡瀾, so obviously they serve plain rice with pork drippings.
I didn’t think there would be much on the menu which is why I haven’t tried it but the menu was quite surprisingly.
There is a lot of weird Chinese fusion but the combinations matched quite well.
I don’t know how long they can keep this on the menu due to demand but they had pigs brains which I have never tried before so I had to try it while it was on the menu.
Previously I tried to go to Macau for pigs brain soup but it was sold out.
As expected the texture of pig brain is like pate and very thick and doesn’t quite disintegrate in your mouth with a slight bitter and fishy aftertaste.
It was nice how they made it into an omelette but there is quite a lot of cholesterol with the egg as well.
The other dish I liked was the Pigs liver in Sichuan peppercorn sauce.
Each slice of liver was thick and big with a decent velvety foie gras texture similar to the ones they call (wong sa yun) in Chinese.
I won’t eat liver unless the texture is like this because I hate the dry, hard and rubbery ones.
With dinners like this, you have to have rice and the mains were so good that I had two bowls of rice.
The plain rice with pork drippings looked captivating because the pork drippings were served separately so you can decide how much to put on the rice.
The other main dish we had was the pork belly with preserved vegetables.
I am not keen on the pork belly but the preserved vegetables was delicious with rice!!!!
