Exorbitantly priced food at Hoshino

We went to Hoshino Coffee for a colleague's farewell. Basically the French toast tasted great, but the others were not so great. And everything was overpriced to me. Even the great taste of the French toast didn't reach the greatness of its price.

cheezy cutlet, RM28

We can choose to have this with either rice or toast. I tried some, it was good! Although the price is still off-putting.

Japanese curry chicken rice, RM23.90

I tasted some of the curry, and it was quite good. This also can come with toast instead of rice if you wish.

omu mozza prawn, RM23.90

This is omurice with prawn (I think the mozza is for mozzarella). This, together with the curry rice above and the dish that I ordered below, are on the seasonal menu. I didn't try this one.

soft-shell crab spaghetti, RM31.60

I didn't try this one either, but it can't be too bad... though of course the soft-shell crab contributes to its price, so the price tag is unsurprising.

Then on to the dish I myself ordered, a bomb! (literally)

fuwa fuwa fluffy souffle doria, RM23.90

I don't know what doria is, but this looked so interesting on the seasonal menu that I couldn't resist giving it a try. (my friend says that fuwa fuwa means "fluffy" in Japanese) Now that I look up doria, I find that it is the Japanese version of rice gratin (basically cheese-baked rice). I may not have ordered it if I had known... since I seldom go for cheese-baked rice.

What's special about this dish is of course its fluffiness. I'm guessing that the top is egg white, and it has really puffed up into a cloud.

cutting through the cloud into the rice beneath

Since I didn't know what this dish was at all, I didn't know what to expect underneath it. Turned out it was some sort of tomato rice. I definitely would not have ordered it if I had known it would be tomato rice...

The rice didn't taste bad, but it didn't taste specially good either. I wasn't sure how I was supposed to eat this dish, so I just scooped up some rice together with some of the cloud and ate them together. The rice had a few small bits of chicken, slices of chicken ham, and beech mushrooms in it. There were too little of these, if you ask me. For the price (again), I feel they could have put more chicken!

Just on top of the rice (between the rice and the cloud, there seemed to be a cheesy layer, so I guess they put the rice, the cheese, then the whipped milky/eggy/cheezy mixtureon top.

This is a photo I took while I was finishing up. I suddenly realized that we couldn't see the rice in the previous photos that I had taken.

As for dessert, we ordered French toast and a pancake, because those who had been there before said that it wasn't right to go there and not order dessert. When we ordered, we forgot to say that we wanted the dessert to come later (they didn't ask... though my friend said they did when he came here before), and our French toast reached first of all, before the main dishes. So we had it first.

French toast, RM17.70

The dollop on top is whipped cream. It also came with maple syrup (or corn syrup, more likely) to be poured on it.

The French toast was really good, but like I said at the beginning of the post, this price is still too high. (It's just bread!)

As for the pancake, it was disappointing. It is special because it is a thick pancake (soufflé pancake) instead of the usual thin kind.

single pancake (RM14.80) with added ice cream (RM3) and whipped cream (2.20)

There was nothing special about the ice cream, and the pancake seemed quite bland. We poured quite a lot of syrup to be soaked into it. Those who had already tried both the French toast and the pancake had told us earlier that the French toast was definitely better, but I feel that they should have told us that the pancake was totally "not good" and not worth ordering. As one of them said, the pancake is only photo-worthy.

All prices include service charge and government tax.