controversial devil chef alvin leung

[kasia]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UcVEex99Wns

Outside the hotel, this clattering rush of a city is experiencing its own culinary revolution. One restaurant receiving much-deserved buzz is Bo Innovation. Its creator, Alvin Leung, Jr., is a blue-haired acoustic engineer turned self-taught chef, who's rarely seen without his signature sunglasses and dangling diamond earrings--one a cross, the other a devil's tail. Part rock 'n' roll, all Hong Kong entrepreneur, Leung integrates local ingredients with foreign delicacies. His menu includes such standouts as thousand-year-old eggs in ginger cones, sausage ice cream and Szechuan sauce--braised suckling pig.

www.forbes.com/business/fyi/2007/0312/037_3.html



whadda y'all think?

[SunWuKong]

hahhah that guy's a personality. maybe playing it up for the camera, i don't know. but at any one time there are usually several of those fusion/experimental type restaurants in that neighborhood where his restaurant is (Soho). that neighborhood is where some of the more expensive restaurants in HK are. lots of expats and returnees hang out there. i wasted so much money taking girls there to eat.

[ism]

I'm down for it. Can't be any worse than New American, but it can be worse than modern French.

[CBC guy]

I love Soho, only thing is, as SWK said, its WAAAYYY too expensive for the likes of me

So I'll stick to my goon chow au ho, thank you. :wink:

[kasia]

http://www.boinnovation.com/main.html

you can find the menu there. you know, none of that sounds particularly appetizing to me. i think i'd prefer dai-pai-dong food with some beer.

[SunWuKong]

http://www.boinnovation.com/main.html

you can find the menu there. you know, none of that sounds particularly appetizing to me. i think i'd prefer dai-pai-dong food with some beer.

to the best of my knowledge, the only dai pai dongs in HK now are all congregated at an indoor facility in my old neighbourhood, North Point. there might be some other ones still outdoors in the boonies somewhere in New Territories, i don't know.

but thank god they put those dai pai dongs indoors. i love eating in HK, but it's also the only city i've ever gotten food poisoning.

[J Honcanese]

I don't mind what he's doing actually - it's great that he's experimenting and trying out new exciting things. I'm not a huge fan of that kind of food myself, but who knows, if I ever try his stuff I might actually like it.

I once had a similar sort of meal made up of fusion or "modern Asian" dishes. There was a really interesting dish made up of Japanese beef and coconut udon. The beef I loved, but I wasn't very fond of the udon; it was quite strange because it almost tasted like a dessert. Then there was a platter of pressure-cooked vegetables on wasabi mashed potatoes; basically everything was shrunk to a super-small size. It looked fantastic but I didn't find it particularly satisfying.