[minder]

Anyone been to / knows restaurants in Hong Kong serving geniune Spanish cuisine?

[PDLM]

Yes, but unfortunately they refuse to serve genuine Hong Kong tap water, so I wouldn't recommend it.

[Brown_By_Nature]

hehe... Ole on Ice house St. is the best I've tried out here.

[minder]

Originally Posted by Brown_By_Nature

hehe... Ole on Ice house St. is the best I've tried out here.

What dishes did you have? How were they?

[alexisbp]

Hey all!

I am here to share with you my discovery of the weekend. It is about a new spanish restaurant and well, I am spanish as some of you know so, you can trust on my opinion on that matter.

Until today I was kind of pissed of with the spanish restaurants in HK, you know the ones I mean. So expensive (specially for dinner) and not really spanish!

But they have just opened a new one called Asador in a commercial centre called Metroplaza in New Territories, in Kwai Fong (Red Line).

Exact address: Shop Nos. 488-490, Level 4,
Metroplaza, 223 Hing Fong Road
Kwai Fong, NT.
Tel. 24874688
Fax. 24850606

So what's so good in this restaurant?

First of all, ladies and gentleman, it offers real spanish food and the owner is spanish.

Second, it is spacious, very nicely decorated and with terrace!

But let's go to the most important aspect, let me describe you our meal (2 pers.)

We chose to start with a potato and tuna salad (that in Spain we call "Ensaladilla Rusa") and also a tapa of CuttleFish with alioli (finally real alioli in HK!). While we were waiting for this to come they brought a nice basket of breads, with small dishes of olives, potatos with mayonaise and a plate with sardine cream. So good!!!! And then the starters were really good (my mother's potato salad is better, but guys, my mother will not come from SPain to cook for you!).

And then, for main dish we decided to share a Spanish suckling pig (in Spanish "Cochinillo Segoviano") and it was delicious! Extermely crispy outside, and juicy inside. It came with some real fried potatos (no frozen stuff, you know) and vegetables. UHMMMMMMM

We were so full that we could not have a try of desserts.

And then the price, total 260, so 130 each, was not bad at all! Specially compared with the prices in Central based "pseudo-spanish restaurants". By the way, of course, ice-water was for free!

Conclusion: Guys, that is Spanish food. Gotta try!!!

I am also writing this report because even if it was so good, there were really few people inside. I guess in the neighbourhood lives more local people, and they may find it expensive. I really don't want them to close the only good spanish restaurant in town, so you know, time to try!!! And by the way, it is not so far!

Alexis

[Flat Hunter]

Reads like a great advert by Alexis. Sure you are not the "Spanish owner"?

[KnowItAll]

Alexis : Why in gods good name would you want to put a spanish restaurant in Kwai Fong???!? Kwai what??? Hardly a location where one would go ... "oh you know what, I read the review the owner posted .. let me go try it out"

FlatHunter:

[chonqing]

is that the owner of OLE and Asador is the same person...

[alexisbp]

Yeps, why in Kwai Fong? That's precisely the reason I cannot be the owner, it is a pity to put there such a good restaurant! As a result, the place is quite empty (the neigbourhood prefers cheaper food) and therefore I felt I needed to help those guys (I have not a single share there, however, if the real owner reads that one day: no estaria mal que la proxima vez me invitarais!! jajajaja).

Anyway, I discovered the place cause is close to my home in Lai King, and my business has nothing to do with restaurants, I prefer to pay and eat :-D

Really guys, hope you can try it, it is honestly, from a Spanish point of view, great food and great value. You can go check yourselves, will not disappoint. BTW, is not so far taking the Orange Line to Lai King (10min from Central) and then just in front of the MTR Exit taking the minibus num. 91A. The last stop (3minutes) is Metroplaza.

[alexisbp]

I went to Ole, I asked if the cook was spanish, reply: No. I asked if anybody was Spanish, reply: No. I was not surprised to find "pseudo-spanish" food. It was not bad, but the tortilla was not the real one, the food was too greasy and the bill... thanks I did not pay! :-)

In Asador I did not ask, the guy just came to us with a big smile and saying "Buenos Dias", to what I obviously replied "Buenos Dias" and then he asked me if I speak Spanish, and he told me he is from Madrid, I told him I am from Barcelona, etc etc etc

I doubt they are the same owner, but even if they are, the food is soooooo different!