I have been craving for Asian food. Took Beans to Pho Ben yesterday for some Vietnamese food, and while it was good, it still didn’t quite satisfy me. D isn’t much into Asian food because he thinks that everything has MSG. He gets a really bad reaction to it so I can’t really blame him. He’s very picky so I had to do my “due diligence” before I drag him into one.
Ginger and Fork came up as one of Houston’s best restaurants this summer (Thrillist, June 2016). The menu online was not vast, as opposed to the usual Asian restaurants here. I made a quick call and spoke to the owner who assured me that their Hongkong cuisine does not have MSG. Armed with that guarantee, off we go!
Looking around, I didn’t see any Asians. I was told that the hallmark of a good Asian restaurant is when most of its patrons are Asians. I looked at the menu and I see why. Flounder for $48! No self-respecting Asian would pay that amount for fish. Not because its unaffordable, its because the idea is nuts. Anyway, there are other stuffs in the menu that are priced sanely so we stayed.
Taking into account how meticulous every dish was prepared, this is still a good restaurant. I am still curious what a $48 flounder would be like but I have a feeling that it would be worth its price, judging how everything turned out. Most importantly, I finally had my Asian food fix, and, D didn’t develop an MSG rash!
