Feast is the cafe of the East Hotel. They serve tea buffet on every Saturday and Sunday from 3-5:30pm. Charge at HK$138.
1. the food station. 2. the dessert.
3. the sandwich and pizza. 4. the pancake. You can choose from creamy spinach, Frankfurter sausage, mushroom chicken or fresh fruits.
5. Iced coffee. Pretty aromatic and not bitter at all. 6. a very high ceiling.
7. Almond cookies. Very freshly baked. 8. It's just to my palate - a variety of sandwich, with bread from rye, olive, onion, herb, tomato... The Chef didn't season the ingredients but very wise to use the natural ingredients to contrast the flavour, like cheese to grilled bell pepper (salty vs. sweet). This is the way of smart cooking. Besides if the topping is too seasoned, it would overwhelm the original aroma of each specialty of bread.
9. Parma ham with melon on onion bread. So good! The pizza is also nice. They made the tomato sauce by themselves. 10. Pan cake with mushroom chicken. They also made the fresh cream sauce. Freshly made cream sauce is very different.
11. more pizza (actually more sandwich and pancake). 12. Tiramisu. Caramelised orange slice cup cake. I purposedly chose this one because it's hard to make caramelised orange well. If it's too burnt, it would be bitter. If it's not burnt enough, it's not aromatic with the peel scent. It can't be too sweet, nor not sweet enough. So this one is a bit too sweet and not burnt enough.
13. poppy seed lemon pound cake on the left bottom. Bread pudding on the right. Choco mud cake on the right top. In the middle is mini scone. Left is the mango choco. cake. All are good except the scone which is a bit too dry. 14. the cafe. It's not that empty but I just took it by chance.
15. Raspberry mouse. Quite light and smooth. 16. the stair down to the lobby.
17/18. Want a higher seat or something chic. The chair is pretty comfortable. I noticed Swire does use some refined material.
19. The bar area. 20. I like the elevator to show the floor no. in Chinese and arabic number.
5 comments:
What a nice high tea buffet.
Wish LA had this.
Just the culture is different. People in LA prefers a coffee and a cookie or muffin in the afternoon.
So at least there is some good English culture benefiting HK, on top of many others.
LA has no "drink-eat" culture. Coffee, coke and hamburger already make us happy. And Starbucks coffee is considered a treat. BTW, I have found out "Coffee Bean" has better coffee than Starbucks, as introduced by our cousin Anita who visited us from HK 3 weeks ago.
I believe it's the Cantonese culture rather than English culture. Cantonese people eat 24 hours a day. Remember those won ton noodles in the small side street, selling at 9pm til 1am.
Definitely I like the HK "drink-eat" culture.
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