Restaurant review: Momojein in Wan Chai - modern Korean
First courses need work but main dishes and desserts shine in this stylish outlet
Cuisine: modern Korean
Price: about HK$280 without drinks or the service charge
Ambience: nice, stylish décor. We had seats in a comfortable booth.
Pros: the menu is brief and the dishes sound tempting. Presentation of the food is creative.
Cons: kalbi hotteok (“juicy hand-crafted beef wrapped inside a house-made chewy crêpe bun that is then pan-seared for the ultimate crispiness”, HK$82) was juicy but too sweet and the sauce served alongside it wasn’t necessary.
Flowered chives pancake (HK$108) was unevenly cooked – about a third of it had a crisp exterior but the rest was too pale and doughy, and the sauce it was served with had hardly any flavour. Samgyetang (HK$79) was a mixed lot: the broth didn’t taste much of either chicken or ginseng, but the chicken roulade with glutinous rice was moist, tender and creative. Spicy chicken noodles (HK$130) was dull: the soup was bland, despite the thick layer of chilli oil floating on top, and the chicken meat was stringy.