Ciao Chow* - Italian Cafeteria (Kowloon Tong)

Pasta選擇有不少，卻有點失望沒有ravioli。點了Fettuccine alla Bolognese($128)，成品香噴噴，闊條麵是自家製，富蛋香又帶麵粉香，質感幼滑。用上豬肉及牛肉的肉碎下得大方，口感十足，啖啖肉香。甜品毫無懸念點了tiramisu ($78)! 這兒的tiramisu超級高質素，入口盡是香濃的咖啡酒香，夾住軟滑的mascarpone cheese，口感綿密又夠濕潤，好好吃呀！ #traveltobkk

下班後近近地去又一城食晚飯，好耐沒有在這個商場用餐，我發現有間新的西式餐廳ciao chow。入座後店員會給一份menu及點餐紙，有前菜與沙律、意粉、pizza、飲品、甜品。意粉及pizza的配料均可自選，靈活性高。 寫好就行去 cashier付款，還見到開放式廚房弄pizza~ 點了冰茶，是白桃味，清新微甜。 前菜是意式肉丸配新鮮蕃茄醬 $58 肉丸稔身入味，配蕃茄醬好滋味。 Carbonara Pizza $88 意想不到意粉的卡邦尼變了pizza，好有趣 餅底脆中帶煙韌，流心蛋好正，不過煙肉有點鹹。 意大利蜆橄欖油意粉 $88 有惹味蒜頭、微辣的味道，蜆細細粒，意粉味道整體ok。 甜品是香蕉榛子醬薄餅包 $58 香蕉、榛子我好喜歡，薄餅包質地脆脆地，不太甜，內裡餡料不太多。 #2018聖誕

The menu provided lots of choices with great variety. Other than the set pasta and pizza, you could choose your own ingredients and combinations for a custom pasta or pizza. While it mainly sold pasta and pizza, appetisers and desserts were also included to make the meal more abundant. Surprisingly, for a shop located in Central and Festival Walk, most of the dishes charged less than $100! It was totally a bargain. Here came the appetizer. While most meat platter charged $150 up, the one here only costed us $78 with a generous portion of meat! flower The cured ham, which we both loved the most, was smooth and tender. The parma ham was tasteful, and the saltiness was acceptable. The salami was quite strong that it was better to accompany with the pita bread. Love the complimentary pita bread which was toasted but still soft inside, and slightly buttered. As a traditional Italian pasta, the lasagna was cooked to perfection. The lasagna sheets were soaked in sufficient Bechamel sauce and tomato meat sauce, which was very rich and tasteful. The cheese on top added value to its wonderful cheesiness and flavour. love The only thing we could pick on was the portion could be a bit more! While pesto sauce always goes with chicken fillet, I would like to try something new, but turned out to be less comparable than the traditional combination. The pesto sauce was similar to the authentic one that I tried in "Pasta on-the-go" in Venice, Italy. Don't think such quality of pesto sauce was found in elsewhere in Hong Kong, for its specific herbal flavour and richness. The homemade meatball was juicy and squishy. However, the shrimp was relatively tasteless. Even the meatball was of a good quality itself, coming with the pesto sauce didn't make a good combination. Finally, the fettuccine was cooked to al dente and not too soft, still that was something to be proud of as a pasta shop.