For months, I have been eagerly waiting for the new eatery that would effectively replace the now-defunct crepe cake specialist Shaz Confections on the ground floor of K11 Art Mall. Finally, we had the answer late last week. It's one of the city's most beloved Australian-style cafe NINETY and I decided to check it out with Jelloman after we dropped little nugget off for his class.
I had their hot milk chocolate when I visited their Star House branch a few months ago and that was really rich and velvety. This time around, it was its iced version getting the call but disappointingly, it was nothing compared to its hot counterpart in terms of richness. Perhaps they should take a page out of the local cha chaan tengs and start making some ice cubes out of their milk chocolate to preserve that richness.
Red bean mochi muffin – A lot of fusion food looks good on paper but fails horribly in execution and this is probably a good example of it.
The layer of red bean mochi was certainly there but it never meshed with the bottom part which was supposed to be the muffin (but tasted nothing like one).
We have a choice of 4, 5 or 6 side dishes on our brunch board. Since I wasn't particularly hungry, I thought 4 was enough to get me through to dinner time.
Miso scrambled eggs – Not surprisingly, the miso flavors worked brilliantly with the scrambled eggs. It was a little heavy but nevertheless pretty tasty.
Grilled sausage with confit lemon mayo – They called this their yaki portion of the brunch board. Jelloman had the grilled lobster with passion fruit mustard but I was looking for some meat.
This came with some nice smoky flavors after finishing on the grill. Not bad.
Torched avocado / pork belly with kimcheese – Out of my 4 side dishes, I thought the most delicious one was the torched avocado hands down. It was simple but it got the job done for me. The pork belly was a little bit on the hard side and the kimcheese (presumably kimchi with cheese) did very little to enhance the flavors of the pork.
We had to scramble to get all the dishes finished up. It was a long way from K11 to where little one was having his class but we were just glad that we managed to squeeze in this quick brunch within such short span of time.
Food Rating: 5/10
Price: $$$
Address: Shop G17A&B, G/F, K11 Art Mall, 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Closest Metro Station: Tsim Sha Tsui
Tel: +852 2368-9123
Website: www.ninetys.com.hk
Opening Hours: 9:00am - 10:00pm daily
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