Passed by this place many times but often thought it is just a place for some hip restaurant. So out of curiosity of their all-you-can-eat menu at HK$198, I got to give it a try. After I took the seat, I fount out quite many Shanghai people were sitting around and they all sound like they are regular customers. The waiters and waitresses speak proficient Mandarin. Then I asked if the restaurant was moved from somewhere else. The answer is not. It's just one year something old.
1. the table ware. 2. Hot and spicy soup. Pretty good but it's not hot (temp) enough for me.
3/4. Honey glazed Chinese ham. The chef did a very good job with this one. Golden ham is very salty. So glazing it to sweet is a matter of time and patience.
5. Chilled pork jello. Also pretty nice. 6. Drunken chicken. The sauce is impressive and the wine flavour is just at the balance.
7. sliced pork on rice roll. At average but the sauce dipping is very nice. 8. sweet and sour pork. A bit too hard and chewy.
9. stir fried egg white with shrimp. The egg white was a bit too overdone and dried out. 10. veggie with beancurt sheet. The stock is very nice to bring out the veggie sweetness.
11. picked cucumber - nicely chilled and crushed. Sauce is perfect. 12. One more drunken chicken.
13. Vegetarian goose - this one is very nice. Crispy outside and juicy inside. 14. Nice setting.
15. Oil boiling beef - a bit disappointing as the beef is too marinated 16. One more glazed golden ham.
17, stir fried eel with bean sprout. The eel is selected! The sauce is a bit heavy though. 18. Fish slices in vinegar sauce. This fish is pretty fish and nicely marinated.
19. sweet corn with chicken soup, at average. 20. Pan fried string beans. Quite good.
21. mango pomelo sweet, at average. 22. Osmanthus jello, also average.
23. mini rice dumpling in broken rice wine. 24. deep fried egg white with red bean paste. Both are average. In general, the food are pretty nice. As it's a pre-set all-you-can-eat menu, I need to try their a-la-carte to check further.
5 comments:
Lucky you have the all-you-can-eat Shanghai food.
The dishes look good overall.
And it is a full house.
Actually there are not too many Shanghai restaurant offering all-you-can-eat buffet. That's why I got curious to give it a try.
BTW, those customers speak native Mandarin. I guess only 20% are local Cantonese.
just look at the pics, i suppose the taste is awesome
authentic CN cuisine in Bangkok just doesn't work (too well), as Thais don't pay attention to ingredients and culinary arts, but only emphasize on the very strong taste
If most of the customers there are Mandarin speaking rather than Cantonese, then their Shanghai food must be quite authentic.
I have been quite many places in SE Asia. The only 2 places serving nice Shanghai cuisine are Taipei and Hong Kong, due to the early immigration of the post-war time.
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