Jasmine is the kind of restaurant that Spike's been looking for in Hong Kong: a restaurant serving innovative as well as traditional dim sum in an atmosphere conducive to carrying on a conversation with fellow diners.
Operated by the Maxim Group and located on Level G, more or less above PageOne bookshop, our group of four chose mostly items from the dim sum menu, with one or two forays onto the à la carte list.
Our choice included old favourites such as cheung fan ("steamed flour roll"), one with cha siu, the other with beef and mushroom, and cha siu sou ("barbecued pork puff pastry"), which was particularly good, the pastry being light and the filling plentiful.
Among the more creative choices made, the baked crabmeat pastries with cheese were given they highest rating, closely followed by the squid with garlic butter and the asparagus bundle in pumpkin pureé.
The only errant order of the afternoon belonged to me, who decided to try Hoegarden beer and found out quickly I should have stuck with the Tsingdao. The bill came in at a little over 400 dollars.
Operated by the Maxim Group and located on Level G, more or less above PageOne bookshop, our group of four chose mostly items from the dim sum menu, with one or two forays onto the à la carte list.
Our choice included old favourites such as cheung fan ("steamed flour roll"), one with cha siu, the other with beef and mushroom, and cha siu sou ("barbecued pork puff pastry"), which was particularly good, the pastry being light and the filling plentiful.
Among the more creative choices made, the baked crabmeat pastries with cheese were given they highest rating, closely followed by the squid with garlic butter and the asparagus bundle in pumpkin pureé.
The only errant order of the afternoon belonged to me, who decided to try Hoegarden beer and found out quickly I should have stuck with the Tsingdao. The bill came in at a little over 400 dollars.
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