La Maison Mongkok restaurant was created after three years of upstream work to offer customers a sincere experience. Located at 148 rue de Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, the restaurant officially opens its doors on June 26, 2024. The chefs, a Michelin-starred team, offer Hong Kong-style Cantonese cuisine, also inspired by French cuisine .
The restaurant's decor takes you to Hong Kong while retaining a Parisian flair. Beautifully decorated, the restaurant has a long, long room, and a smaller room at the back of the restaurant, which can be privatized for events. Attention to detail makes for an authentic experience. Inspired by the Chinese Song dynasty, from the decoration to the values and the menu, the restaurant focuses on the idea of "cherishing things": no food waste in the restaurant, and no dishes either! All broken ceramic objects in the restaurant are repaired using the techniques employed to repair porcelain in the Song dynasty, and the surfaces are covered and decorated withgolden Chineseink.
Chef Long wants to take you on a poetic taste experience that makes sense. A graduate of a conservatory in China, Chef Long has had his own vision of music, food and philosophy since childhood. He traveled thousands of kilometers to France, studied at the famous Ferrandi gastronomy school and then worked in various Michelin restaurants.
The restaurant offers various formulas: a discovery menu at 68.8€ per person, the chef's menu, which we tested, at 58.8€ per person, and different lunch menus at 21.8€ and 26.8€. The chef's menu is available for lunch and dinner, and is a 7-course menu. The restaurant has a large selection of French wines, and Chef Long can suggest a wine and food pairing .
The tasting begins with a chayote salad in lightly spiced red oil. We're served a beautiful plate, with the salad in the form of flowers on which we add the sauce. Fresh flavors, perfect for a start. We continue our tasting with Char Siu, which is Cantonese roast sliced pork, perfectly cooked. Pigeon soup simmered with wild morel mushrooms rounds off the appetizers, with a perfect balance of flavors.
The menu then offers three courses. We start with steamed sea bass with black beans, a delicious fillet of well-cooked sea bass, served with a soy-based sauce. Stir-fried rice with golden eggs is served with a fried rice with thin slices of egg on top. The rice is very original and really gives us the impression of eating golden threads. Then comes the sizzling chicken pot, a delicious chicken cooked with shallot, garlic, basil and ginger, served boiling hot.
The tasting ends with a dessert as good as it is beautiful, fresh mango pomelo, the pomelo being a fruit resulting from a cross between the sweet orange and the grapefruit. The dessert is beautifully presented, decorated with flowers and golden colors. The texture is also very interesting, between mousse and cream .
Surprise! If you tell the restaurant that you've come because of the article on Sortir à Paris and show our article to the waiters, the restaurant will offer you a special aesthetic dessert from the Song dynasty prepared by the Chef. La Maison Mongkok is a delicious address if you like Cantonese cuisine or want to discover it. The Chef explores original flavors, the setting is very pleasant and the service impeccable.
Maison Mongkok can be discovered at 148 rue de Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, from June 26 .
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Location
Maison Mongkok
148 rue de Vaurigard
75015 Paris 15
Booking
www.maisonmongkok.fr
