“Momofuku ssäm bar is a casual, loud restaurant with an inventive menu that is constantly changing” Is how the restaurant describes themselves on their website. I wish it had been true! I do wish the food had been inventive. For the life of me I cannot fathom how a restaurant like this made it to the 50 best restaurants of the world – #37 this year. Was there dirty underhanded dealings? Is everyone on the committee best friends with David Chang that they felt they had to do him a favour and put the restaurant on the list? Whatever the case may be, the 2 week high of New York dining had to finally crash and burn and it did ever so miserably, at Momofuku Ssam. The 37th best restaurant in the world.
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Pork bun
Duck
Corn pie
Steamed pork bun, hoisin, scallions: Poor show and uninspiring. Nothing close to the magic of Red Farm or Fatty Crab - pork tasted like it had been boiled.
Rotisserie duck over rice: could have been great, but reminded me more of elastic processed food textures – like spam or something equally vile the rest of the dish with ramps, rice, pancake etc was dry and nothing special.
Corn ice cream pie with mango: really? didn’t taste of corn, too rock solid to be ice cream, and salty to new levels of unpleasantness. A mouthful of salt. Creamy, hard, cold salt. The poor mango didn’t have a chance.
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What a waste of time, energy and money. Lovely service though!
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Food: 2
Recommend you go: nope!
