This blog is reposted from my food blog onhedonisthk.blogspot and openrice.com.
Seafood Room
Firstly with colourful bell jars like welcoming you to an aquarium, then with enormous chandeliers clinging and the view with skycrapers on both sides of the harbour through floor-to-ceiling windows, it oozes oppulence and glamour, letting diners indulge in the seaview galore.
One can request for these seats at the window side, however we booked it too late thus not having the luck to enjoy seafood while facing the sea.
Summer Vegetable Tart and Seafood Room Ceviche
Really fit for its name, the tart offered a refreshing start with a taste of summer greens. Salad greens were all fresh and herbaceous, including arugula, pea shoots, mizuna on top and cooked spinach melted with goatcheese at the bottom. Some of the greens offered strong pungent flavour, and levels of greens well oozed the gradient of flavour being light to strong from the top to the bottom - the gradient ended with tangy, ageing flavour of goatcheese.
Barramundi w/ artichoke panzanella
Having the barramundi pan-fried is luring with its crispy golden surface. Artichoke panzanella, a kind of veggies that is quite a stranger to me, was placed under the fish like installing wheels to a wooden board to make a cart! Drizzles of pesto sauce at the bottom made it further aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Crispy surface is worth our applause, but texture and the taste of flesh was rather plain. This type of fish tastes rather mild, and with no special sauce to bring out its sweetness but just drizzles of salt as seasoning, it didn't taste bad, but not outstanding either.
Sea Bass w/ potato, olives, tomato salsa
Apparently this is much thicker and larger in size than the previous one. It was fried just right, with tomato salsa not adulterating the delicate flavour and sweetness of sea bass. However, the skin wasn't thoroughly fried as the barramundi, as you may notice that other than the edge, the remaining part wasn't shining in golden yellow and not crispy either.
Let alone being either an aquarium, an art gallery or a lookout venue, the Seafood Room is never expected to be just a "room" to satiate both palate and palette. With all its fancy elements, food is certainty an area to create an appropriate value. We do hope to be back!
