Meet Jimmy

Jimmy's Kitchen (G/F South China Building, 1-3 Wyndham Street, Central) is one of these classic Hong Kong restaurants which have been around forever - more specifically, since 1928, which at the going rate of mortality in HK food joints is like the dinosaur era. It whips up some "Western" classics and also has a decent selection of more Asian offerings. The service is so slow it is an absolute torture if you are really hungry, but for what I could tell, the food was well worth waiting for.

Gratinated onion soup

The soup came in a ceramic bowl with a very generous layer of fragrant gratinated cheese...

... and was everything you would expect from a French bistro under the cheese crust (note the nice brown colour). Delicious and warming  - true winter comfort food.

Oxtail stew

Without question one of the best I have had in a long time. The tender meat came in a very generous portion. Plenty of sticky collagen and also a few small fat bits made the dish very tasty. The jus was flavoured by the sweet and almost fruity carrots and was absolutely delicious. I barely touched the tagliatelle (pretty good, cooked al-dente) to focus on picking the bones clean. This dish made my day :-)

One of my fellow lunchers ordered a Baked Alaska and I could not resist having a couple of small slices. It was very good (even though we should have put out the flames earlier to avoid burning the meringue). Creamy meringue, plenty of fruit and good vanilla ice-cream, flavoured with a good dose of rum.