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This Australian restaurant is located near Zhongxiao Fuxing Station. The restaurant is decorated in gray and black tones, giving it a calm and elegant feel. Sitting inside makes you feel very comfortable.

This is Fine Dining. There are two price menus for lunch and evening. This time we came for lunch on Sunday and chose the Tasting Menu for $1550 + 10%. There are a total of 9 dishes. We also ordered a kangaroo. Meat skewers ($300+10%), the portions of each meal are quite exquisite, but starchy meals such as bread and gnocchi are provided, so you will feel full after eating them all

BTW, water has to be paid separately. You can choose mineral water or sparkling water, or room temperature or ice. This time we chose mineral water (180+10%), which is really not cheap hahaha

(Introduced below in order of serving)

Thyme/Maitake Mushroom/Acacia catalpa
It tastes just like fried mushrooms, quite oily. The clerk said that the mushrooms will have the aroma of coffee and chocolate, but there is nothing to it. This dish is not particularly amazing. It also comes with a bowl of soup, which is cooked with thyme and swordfish. It's quite rich and delicious, but it's also a bit oily. After eating this whole dish, you'll want to drink water.

Bonito/kohlrabi/lemon pepper fingers
The whole dish of bonito tartare looks green. It has a refreshing taste and is very refreshing. I don’t know why the first bite has the taste of fennel, followed by the umami taste of raw fish. The taste is very layered, but the lemon pepper taste. The taste is not very outstanding

Scallop pie
As soon as you enter the mouth, the taste of curry slowly emerges. Paired with scallops, it is very novel and delicious.

Octopus/citrus/ricotta cheese
Originally this dish was rouge shrimp and tomato, but since neither of us eats shrimp or tomatoes, we changed it to octopus and citrus, paired with Australian Ricotta cheese (the clerk said it has a honey flavor, but I didn't taste it); The first taste of it scared me. It tasted like lemongrass (but my friend said there was no lemongrass flavor, and there was indeed no lemongrass in the ingredients). I don’t like lemongrass, so this is not my dish.

Kangaroo skewers
The sauce above is anchovy oil (originally a beef bone sauce, but my friend doesn’t eat beef). The kangaroo meat tastes a bit like beef. It’s roasted very fragrantly. The texture of the meat is between tender and chewy. It’s perfect. The above The sauce has a bit of mayonnaise feel, I personally like it very much, this one is in the top three this year

Sourdough bread/Australian spice cream
The bread is baked so it's crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. The butter is green and tastes like matcha but not matcha. It's very special and magical. The aroma is great. It's really harmonious and delicious when paired with the bread. It's a delicious meal. I was reluctant to part with the finished bread and almost wanted to buy a can of butter to take away, but it was specially made by the chef and was not sold outside.

Clams/Sweet Potato/Salmon Roe
Sweet potato gnocchi is served with salmon roe, clams, and chickpea miso bubbles. The gnocchi is cooked very soft, and there is also some sweet potato puree. It is full of sweet potato sweetness. The clams are very big and there is a lot of salmon. It goes well with the gnocchi. It's good to eat together, but it's a bit greasy towards the end.

Cruciferous/Pork Tenderloin/Grilled Pickles
The side dishes on the side are grilled a little bit and are delicious (personally I think it is even more amazing than the main character pork); the pork tenderloin is very tender and tastes a little sweet when paired with burnt cream and cabbage puree.

Hot cake/eucalyptus/burnt cream
The clerk said this is Australian Christmas Cake, because Australians eat hot cakes at Christmas; there is a ball of burnt cream ice cream on top of the cake, and underneath there is custard sauce made from eucalyptus leaves, which has an essential oil flavor; but this I think it smells like lemongrass again, and it’s different from the hot cake I imagined. This dish is not my cup of tea either.

small dessert
It's a peach fudge and a mint chocolate cake. The fudge is a bit sour, which I don't like very much. The cake is quite sweet. I suggest that people who are afraid of sourness can eat the fudge first and then the cake.

BTW today is my friend’s birthday. I made a note when making the reservation. The restaurant thoughtfully put candles on the last dessert.

The clerk was very nice and introduced each dish to us carefully. He also worked hard to help us add water and clear the table. However, the toilet paper was put away too quickly. Sometimes I just wiped my mouth and took it away. Service It's good, but it inevitably feels a bit wasteful and rubbish.

The speed of serving food was quite fast at the beginning, almost as soon as one portion was finished, the next one was served immediately. However, we had to wait for about ten minutes before the last dessert. The speed of serving food may need to be adjusted again.

Overall, I feel that half of the food is pretty good, and the other half is a bit confusing, but the price is still affordable among fine dining. If you want to try fine dining, you can give it a try ~