Kam Kok Mansion, 79 Kimberley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Tel: 2375 8080
Open: 5pm-4am
Cuisine: Korean
Price: about HK$125 without drinks and the service charge.
Ambience: K-pop videos blare from the large television hanging on one wall. The service is friendly but inattentive: I had to get up several times to find our waitress, although when she was with us, she helpfully tried to steer us to 'safe' dishes.
Pros: the chicken - if you stick with that, you'll be fine. Some unusual dishes, too.
Cons: the food is made to go with drinks, and your appreciation of the dishes might depend on how inebriated you are. Our waitress tried to warn us off the pupa soup (HK$120), but we insisted on trying it because we were so curious about it. We should have listened: while the soup was fine, the silkworm larvae had a musty flavour and eating just a few was enough.
Recommended dishes: many variations on the chicken - both fried and grilled, with the former far better. We had a 'half and half' of the regular fried chicken and with sweet and sour sauce (HK$155), and we all preferred the former. The oddly shaped pieces had a spicy-salty, drink-inducing coating and were crisply fried. The sweet and sour chicken was a little too sweet at first, but had a chilli kick at the back of the throat. Teriyaki wings (HK$120) came sizzling on a hot iron plate, and had good flavour, but were slightly overcooked. Seafood and cheese with rice cakes and noodles in hot sauce (HK$150) reminded us of the weird dishes we 'concocted' by mixing convenience food at university; carb-heavy and oddly comforting, but I wouldn't order it again.
