Eeeee I've been lazy again. Between dreading the start of school and World Cup...real life took precedence over the Internet. Now that's school started, I'm staying at home more though, so more time to blog =D. And I'm actually STUDYING and it's only the 4th day of school *gasp* (as opposed to 4 days before the exam like last year...). All my classmates are doubting how long this will last and why I suddenly changed from the lazy procrastinating pig I was last year. Heh...gotta keep this up.
So, as promised...going to blog about beef. 11/6 was my Mum's birthday (and the beginning of World Cup...can't believe it's coming to an end already ><), and we ordered a bunch (i.e. a dozen per person...only my Dad managed to eat up his share AND the rest of ours too lol) of oysters + Kobe beef from some wholesale shop in Ap Lei Chau for a RIDICULOUSLY good price. Haven't had Mum's cooking in a while...the steak was perfect. Cake wasn't so good though...Black Forest from Mimosa. Totally not worth the price as it was bordering on bland. In fact, I don't really like their famous napoleons either...my favourite is actually from the Peninsula. Beats even the recently popular Tony Wong's or Paul Lafayet's versions.
The next day, after band practice, I went for AYCE hotpot at wtc Causeway Bay with 2 friends. I actually wanted to go to Wildfire, but as I was p
lanning to treat, my friends didn't want me to spend so much and dragged me to the AYCE. They ended up forcing me to let them split the bill in the end though -____- I think the place was pretty new. Also, I believe Hainan Shaoye is next to it and was opening that night/the following night as there were a lot of flower baskets. I want to try Hainan Shaoye so badly but no one will go with me! Parents aren't interested :( maybe I'll drag my brother along. Soooo the restaurant is called Mou Mou Club (I think they meant moo moo....) in English and 牛涮鍋 in Chinese. It's on the 3rd floor of wtc.
They have several sets to choose from. One group of sets include both beef and pork, and with different soup bases to choose from...these sets were less expensive. The other group are sukiyaki sets, and you can choose different grades of beef with different prices. We chose the 2nd tier of sukiyaki set, which costs
$148 + 10% service charge for 90 minutes
. You can also add $20 to have unlimited drinks, but as they didn't have their alcohol license yet, and we didn't feel like pop/juice...we didn't choose this option.
The beef comes thinly shaved on dishes:
For some reason, the quality kept on getting better with progressive plates of beef. Usually it's the opposite...not that we're complaining ;). I think we managed around 4 plates in total. The sauces included the usual...soy sauce, sesame paste, chili sauce, but also had a yuzu dressing which was quite refreshing. Sukiyaki sets also include a raw Japanese egg, which was heavenly when mixed with soy sauce and dipped into with hot beef. Yummmmm...
Other ingredients were laid out buffet style (quite neatly and cleanly too...I ABHOR messy AYCEs :S). The selection wasn't extensive, but quality was good. Veggies included carrots, turnips, romaine lettuce, Chinese baby cabbage, corn, spinach, and a variety of Japanese mushrooms. Processed foods included wieners, various fishballs, and fish-wrapped burdock. The tofu and aburaage (deep fried tofu bag) were among my favourites as the tofu was very fresh (I think it's from Japan) and the aburaage was sooooo good after soaking up all the beefy sweet sukiyaki base. They also had regular udon, Inaniwa udon, and green tea somen. The Inaniwa udon was reaaaaaaally good and slippery and just heavenly with the sukiyaki base. There was also plain rice and fried rice. I didn't try the fried rice as I was too busy mixing the plain rice with the sukiyaki base and eating up SOOOO DAMN GOOD, but my friends said the fried rice was OK.
So...uh, after all that, pretty obvious which set seems more attractive eh. SUKIYAKI BASE mmmm...I could just drink up all that soup (which would probably be very bad for my health :p). Service was OK too...although they were a bit slow in refilling our water glasses. Ohhh, they also have AYCE ice cream tubs, but as I was with 2 guys, they weren't interested in staying to wait for me go on a dessert binge. XP
Went to Henry House for drinks after, but I had to drink virgin cocktails cus I was driving afterwards. Looked sooo retarded haha.
OK back to studying now! Psychiatry I'll ace you >=]
