Feedmelah.com! Travels – Hong Kong (Part 1), Tsim Sha Tsui – House of Jasmine
Welcome to the first of a five part series of Feedmelah.com! Travels to Hong Kong. In a recent trip to Hong Kong, we are exploring International cuisines and have come across a few restaurants to try.
Whilst searching for a place to eat after viewing the Symphony of Lights (which I suggest is a must-go for first time visitors to Hong Kong), we stumbled across this Michelin recommended restaurant.
House of Jasmine Restaurant
The Menu Outside the Restaurant
This was the Michelin Menu for four people (the price was almost about to hit the four digit mark too); tempting isn’t it? However, we decided not to splurge straight away and to sample the other dishes that they had to offer, of which some were on listed as recommended on the menu.
The Michelin Menu
This upmarket-aimed restaurant has an indoor seating area as shown below as well as an outdoor dining area whereby you can take in the views while having a drink.
Inside the Restaurant
For starters, each table is served is with some snacks of peas and nuts which was slightly sweet and salted.
Starters
Sticking to the familiar dishes, we decided to order a sweet-and-sour pork with pomegranate dish and a crispy barbecued suckling piglet . I found the sauce of the sweet-and-sour pork quite starchy and sticky though the additional of pomegranate balls was a substitute for the usual ingredient of pineapples. The suckling pig was also done rather well. With a crispy skin as you would expect, there was also some meat which was quite salty under the skin (sometimes, the restaurants in Malaysia would typically only serve the skin).
Sweet and Sour Pork with Pomegranate Balls
Crispy Barbecued Suckling Pig
The diced beef with crispy garlic was the best dish of the night that we had. A simple dish, the beef was lightly seasoned and salted which a texture that was very tender and cooked till perfection.
Diced Beef with Crispy Garlic
The steamed tofu and brown fungus in bamboo pith roll was one of the recommendations. It came with a side of asparagus and kei chi (wolfberries) in a thick sticky sauce that was quite bland. To me, the other dishes fared a lot better.
Steamed Tofu and Brown Fungus in Bamboo Pith Rolls
This is their wok fried eggplant and conpoy in crabmeat sauce. The conpoy (dried seafood such as scallops) mixed with crabmeat sauce went very well with the fried eggplant.
Wok Fried Eggplant and Conpoy in Crabmeat Sauce
The last dish that we had came late as the waiters had forgotten to place the order for this dish. All the other dishes were served roughly around the same time except for this one (and it was worth the wait). The crispy beef brisket had a outer layer of fried batter which wrapped around the soft and tender beef brisket which had some layers of fat. For some added information, the brisket is a particular cut of meat that is from the lower chest around the sternum area.
Crispy Beef Brisket
Overall, it was quite a satisfying meal for an introductory start to Hong Kong cuisine and looking forward to more good food ahead.
House of Jasmine
House of Jasmine
Shop 401, 4/F 5 Canton Rd,
Harbour City,
Ocean Centre,
Tsim Sha Tsui,
Hong Kong
Tel: 2992 0232
Non-Halal
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Tags: Hong Kong, House of Jasmine, Tsim Sha Tsui
March 19th, 2009 at 9:30 am
mmmm…… SUCKLING PIG!!!!!
March 19th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
no suckling pig in Melbourne? surely there is some somewhere… just that it’ll be expensive…
March 19th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
It’s good as usual though I quite enjoyed the beef there. For some reason, beef there is so much more tender than the ones you find here.
March 20th, 2009 at 6:34 am
i’m sure there is.. next time i go for a company dinner i might order it.. muahaha
milk the company for nice food.. still haven’t gone to flower drum yet..