One of my best friends often studied where to find some fine cuisine. It was in the late 80's, I was brought to Canton Heen of Luk Kwok Hotel. That was a very impressive Cantonese meal. As my friend migrated out of HK, I seldom visited the Canton Heen.
In the early 00's, my another best friend and I came to Le Menu (the cafe) of Luk Kwok, after she talked about her old time of Wanchai. Le Menu was pretty quiet with only 8-10 tables but the buffet wasn't too bad. Most of all, they served Hagen Daz. That really made my friend and I put a 2 extra star remarks. What's more, they serve some very nice steamed chicken made by Canton Heen.
Later on, I brought my father and sisters' families to try the buffet of Le Menu. Back then, the deco. was still very 70's hotel style with those partition sitting couch and table. There my nieces and nephew found their own small happy world and for the first time they were so free to take any food they like. I still recall their happy faces, and also my father's happy face in seeing his grand kids eating and having fun. There he mentioned Luk Kwok was the boarding place for their sam pan rowing from Shaukiwan when Shaukiwan was isolated from the road transportation. Luk Kwok did mean something to him.
in 2004, Le Menu got renovated and became like this. It then became popular as a buffet hot spot due to its reasonable price at HK$168 net for dinner buffet. As it was getting more and more popular and crowded, we gradually passed it. To me, every few other months, I would come here for a lunch or dinner. The food is average now but the place still means something to me, just like how my father called it as a symbolic destination for getting ashore - Take a Rest...
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oh, an old friend, Luk Kwok, yes her CN restaurant - Canton Heen and buffet in the coffee shop r renowned small party joints since the time i lived in HK, in the late 80's, when i was 10 i think .. hehe
i went to Flavors' buffet on Thursday, due to flooding outside Bangkok, less customers, no tourist, only locals, so quiet, food cut, choices cut, nothing to eat, now the highlight is noodle soup, shit, but still charge full price, THB 1,450++, another example of short sighted management .. sigh
Sigh... your forecast made in August turned up sooner than expected. THB1,450++ for a noodle soup? Better go to the other side Gaysorn's Provence or Nara Thai at Erawan mall. We can take 20 bowls of better quality noodle soup. The hotel management is very short sighted indeed. Under this circumstance, they just go for the half buffet with main course chosen from the menu. This is a very bad image of the hotel. The name of this hotel is now really "renaissance" - only a revival of certain period of time, then fading away.
oh, a little correction, it was THB 1,250++ for my Thursday 'very renaissance' buffet, the 1,450++ is the Fri and Sat seafood buffet, maybe for another 200 baht we hv fish ball, artificial crab meat, thousand years deep frozen soda powder treated prawns (like those serve at Bug and Bee), and Makro grade John dory r the seafood ..
yes, they should offer semi buffet instead if they don't hv enough customers
Sigh... this is a daylight robbery still at THB1,250++ So the cake is probably from Sara Lee's. :)
I remember there is a pastry/bakery shop called Gloucester in my old times. Our mom always bought some after our visit to my brace dentist.
So I know Mickey was born in the late 70's then.
Sara Lee's pound cake is my favorite comfort food guys.
SS
I still remember Gloucester bakery shop, as famous as Cherykoff.
so next time just bring SS to Sara Lee's her favorite comfort food standard restaurants (like those lousy S&P, MK, Bug and Bee, Daidomon, Pizza Pizza) .. need no more Oriental Shop, hehe ..
btw, the M.Oriental's x'mas dried fruit cake by Author's Lounge is very yummy, just bought one from the cake shop, Sea, remember Dusit Thani, why not the pastry chef and the f&b go to hell
Yes SEA, both Gloucester Bakery and Cherykoff are our favorites in our old days.
Glad that you know these places too as you were just baby at that time.
They still held on with their business until the early or mid. 90's.
Mickey, if possible, please make 2 categories. 1 as "S&P, MK, Daidomon, Pizza Pizza" and the other as "Bug & Bee only".
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