カテゴリー: Omelet around the world

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Caxton Grill, St. Ermin’s Hotel, London, UK

I missed any good excuse to come to London in 2012.  I might have been considered that I should be around Wimbledon during Olympic Games so that I should not be in UK in the year.

But, now is 2013 and I am back to London.  And, booked at a hotel I stayed last time.

There seems no change in any sense, appears classic London hotel, and reality is no difference from your perception when you stood at their gate.  And you feel the same when you approach to the reception of Caxton Grill in the morning.  Very classy interior of bar area to restaurant area, and variety of selection of bread, cold cuts, fresh fruits, etc., any of them claims their impressive tastes as well, and no exception with omelette.

Round-shaped very smooth skin at appearance, and half-cooked inside to enjoy a bit of egg source with stuff.    Yes, I came back to UK now.

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Lounge, Intercontinential Grand Stanford HK

It was almost 20 years after I came back to Kowloon peninsula to stay when I got my first passport in my life to come to HK with backpack, to find and stay backpacker hotel to follow a novel I read at that age.

After I started my career as business person, I have been lucky enough to avoid my first overseas experience to stay at relatively luxury hotels in Hong Kong island every time I came to HK.

This time, as suggestion by one of my friends of hotel woman, I booked at the captioned hotel, in Kowloon side.  This hotel is among other classic hotels in TST East, around 5 to 10 minutes walk distance, and thanks to neighbour of Hotel Nikko, I recognised more Japanese tourists around this area (and I was recognised as Japanese, too).  So, if your meetings are arranged in island side, you may hesitate, as you also need to top up another 5 minutes to cross habour by MTR (and actually I did), but once you start to live there, you realise this extra 10 minutes is comfortably nice to cool you down from heated discussion during meetings.

And, this hotel proudly offer their lounge in 1st floor, whoever can use once you pay a bit of extra cost for lounge.  But it is indeed worth to pay for it.  At the evening cocktail hours, their wine list is quite unique enough to enjoy, and quality of finger foods are yet another enjoyable ones from their kitchen.  SO, you can anticipate its quality of breakfast, too.

Indeed I was surprised when I found a list of dishes to order-to-cook for breakfast.      It is rare to find such arrangement (I only saw at Sofitel Sigon before), and moreover, it includes omelette!  And, again and again, you should surprise that you can see and enjoy seamless, rugby-football shaped well-cooked omelette!!!!  As you know I only saw three-folded omelette in HK, so I believed until then that three-folded ones is the one-and-only standard form of omelette in HK…

I would, no wonder, come back there, worth enough to enjoy their omelette again.

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Park Cafe, Marriott Executive Apartment, Yeouido Park Centre, Seoul, South Korea

This was my second trip to Seoul, after 16 months from my first visit in November 2010, and Marriott Executive Apartment Yeouido Park Centre, Seoul, (MEA, as they call themselves) was my base there. Yeouido is located south-east of Seoul special district and called Manhattan Island of Seoul, and indeed financial regulators as well as well-recognized financial institutes have offices in the island so you may expect convenience for meetings if you work in financial industry. However, to get there from airport by train, there is no direct access even from Seoul’s central station (changing Line 1 to Line 4 at Singli station) with 30 minutes, or no direct access to other major cities like Gangnam and COEX area (approx. 50 minutes with Line 9, 3 and 2!) or Myongdong (approx. 40 minutes with Line 4, 1 and x) and… MAE is 10 minutes distance on foot from the closest exit #5. I.e., if you are self-concluded personality like me who prefer to use trains as commuter rather than taxi which you hesitate to speak in Korean to indicate where to go, with a doubt of unclear mis-communication, you might feel a bit inconvenience instead. And… Neighbor of MEA has almost none of shops or restaurants so you need to go back to Yeouido station and beyond business buildings area, but you never expect to communicate in English (or Japanese for me).
BUT.
If you decide to stay within the MEA complex, they have comfortable dining, like Paul’s, which you can find in London, Paris (of course) and Tokyo, and Park Cafe, which serves buffet dining from breakfast to dinner like this, as well as SOO spa and gym offering quite pleasant spa like you find in Tokyo, big baths and variety of saunas.
Okay, back to our favorite omelette.
After ordering a familiar “free range of egg, with variety of stuff like mushroom, onion, ham etc.,” mine was delivered, yes, you do not have to stand in front of the chief to see how he cooks. See, well-round-shaped, seamless omelette. How nice! If I can say a bit more, bit too well-cooked so you have less egg juice when you chop it with your fork. This is quite depending on your preference, you like egg juice to enjoy half-rare or well-done…
Enjoy!
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Garden Cafe, Conrad Hong Kong, Hong Kong


Many of you might know, I love Conrad Hong Kong, where the some of staff recognize me so I feel it as second home. Last December was another chance to come back home, while I have been missing as hotel rates in HK in general rose high as double comparing with a couple of years ago, but it appears nothing changed, all the staff I recognise are around and they recognise me too 🙂

But, one notably discover was that I found a couple of staff in black at Garden Cafe, and one of them made a perfect omelet, with seamless round shape.  Shame, I did not bring my iPhone or cam with me on that day, and that was only when I got that occasion…  I must come back again, so soon…

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Cecconi’s, London, UK

During travel around the world, sometimes you are tempted to go out for breakfast.  Taking a fresh morning air under new sun shining, it should be another good idea to start off your busy day on the road, than starting at gym to sweat 🙂

In the central London, very close to famous street of Old Bond Street, Cecconi’s is there to serve your breakfast, lunch and, no need to say, dinner in a very classic Italian mood.  I.e, omelette is… as it appears as above, very continental style.  But, it is worth to enjoy when in London 😉

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