Do you like Cantonese cuisine? Maison Mongkok offers you high quality Hong Kong cuisine with French inspiration, offered by Michelin star chefs. The restaurant will open its doors on June 26, 2024.
Restaurant The Mongkok House was established after three years of work upstream to provide customers with a sincere experience. Located at 148 rue de Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, the restaurant officially opens its doors on 26 June 2024. The chefs, a Michelin star team, offer one Hong Kong-style Cantonese cuisinewhich also draws inspiration from French cuisine.
The decoration of the restaurant takes you to Hong Kong while holding one Parisian style. Very nicely decorated, the restaurant has a long, long room and a smaller room at the back of the restaurant, privatizable for events. Attention is paid to details to make the experience authentic. Inspired by Chinese Song Dynastyfrom the decoration to the values and the menu, the restaurant focuses on the idea of ”pampering things”: no food waste in the restaurant and dishes either! All broken ceramic items in the restaurant are repaired using the techniques used to repair porcelain during the Song Dynastyand the surfaces are covered and decorated withgolden ink from China.
Leader, Longwant to take you to one poetic taste experience which makes sense. Graduated from a conservatory in China, Chef Long has had his own take on music, food and philosophy since childhood. He traveled thousands of kilometers to France and studied at the famous school of gastronomy Ferrandi, then worked in various restaurants Michelin.
The restaurant offers different formulas : A discovery menu at €68.8 per person, the chef’s menuwhich we tested, at €58.8 per person and different lunch menus to €21.8 and €26.8. The chef’s menu is offered for lunch and dinner and is a menu in 7 strokes. The restaurant has a large selection of french wines, and Chef Long can offer you one food and wine pairing.
The tasting begins with one chayote salad with slightly spicy red oil. A very beautiful plate is served to us, with the salad in the form of flowers, which we add to the sauce. Fresh flavors, perfect to start with. We continue the tasting with Char Siuwhich is fried sliced pork Cantonese, perfectly cooked. There pigeon soup simmered with wild morels completes the starters, in a perfect balance of flavours.
The menu then offers three courses. We start with steamed sea bass with black beans, a delicious sea bass fillet very well prepared, accompanied by a soy sauce-based sauce. ONE fried rice with golden eggs and served with, or fried rice with thin strips of egg on top. The rice is a lot original and really makes us feel like we are eating golden threads. Then comes sizzling chicken casserole, delicious chicken prepared with shallots, garlic, basil and ginger, served boiling.
The tasting concludes with a dessert as good as it is beautiful fresh pomelo mango, where the pomelo is a fruit resulting from a cross between the sweet orange and the grapefruit. The dessert is very beautifully presented, decorated with flowers and golden colors. There structure is also a lot interestingbetween mousse and cream.
Surprise! If you tell the restaurant that you came thanks to the article on going out in Paris, and you show our article to the waiters, the restaurant will offer ONE aesthetic dessert special of Song Dynasty prepared by the chef. There Mongkok house is a delicious address if you feel like it Cantonese cuisine or if you want to discover it. The chef explores original flavors, the very pleasant surroundings and impeccable service.
The Mongkok House can be discovered at 148 rue de Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, from 26th of June.
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