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URBAN TIGER It’s complicated.

My fiancee has a saying… when she pays it always Su#$& 

A new place recently opened with Southeast  Asian flavors and a professional bar that makes very small cocktails for a very big price... Urban Tiger, and its very loud ambiance and retro style were intriguing we unfortunately had to check it.

From the street, the bar and interior looked very pleasant, the long bar, the decoration, lightning give a nice 20′s touch. That’s all actually. Once you are there after few minutes you realize that somehow you not in a restaurant but more a club. You need to shout to have a conversation, while listen a horrible electronic “music” that has nothing to do here. The drinks are way to small for that price, they taste delicious i’ll give them that, but  once you have you three sips you stay with a kilo off ice in your drink. The price of the wine... just don’t get wine. 

We were welcomed with crispy petals with sesame that are just vulgar shrimp chips, the cucumber water is a nice touch though. It’s free and they refile your glass every time it’s empty. We had trouble to decide what to eat thank to the over complicated names on the menu.  But thanks to the table next to us we did no order the salmon tartar. The all dish looked like a bird regurgitates the salmon on the plate.

In one word, our experience was SPICY. The menu states different ingredients, rich flavors yet the only flavor you got is an overpowering hot chili fire that annihilates all the ingredients.

The mapo steak was of course way overcooked, chewy and like the rice blend. The tofu was supposed to be crunchy. I am not a big fan of tofu, and it will stay that way. It was soft and unnecessary. 

The Marhapofa malaccsaszar (bao) were truly horrifying. Flat, gummy dough, the pork belly was dry and cooked in water, not even sired, way too much coriander, and of course it was blend. I mean why a professional chef would try to play with spices and accommodate the flavors that offers Asian cuisine when you have near you a nice bottle of Sriracha.