Towards the end or at the beginning of Chinese New Year, many restaurants are always fully booked either for wedding banquets or family gathering dinners. This restaurant isn't the best one but they have services. When you book for some specific request, they would cater for your need. So it has been my regular lunch place with my business clients, especially when I want a quiet corner table. Unexpectedly they surprised me on this HK$3,480 (net with drinks) dinner set.
1. Lo Shui platter. Pretty nice. I like the pig's intestine among all of them. Rinse very well and tender juicy too.
2. Deep fried crab cake and shrimp/squid ball. This one is very delicious. Very nice deep frying.
3. Stir fried sliced conch, prawn with celery. Sliced conch is quite difficult to handle. It can be too chewy or uncooked. The chef did a nice job. Yung Kee's chef should come here to check how to cut celery and stir fry it!
4. Shark's fin in Chiu Chow style. Quite a lot of fins and thick too. The soup base is pretty nice.
5. Dried scallop on lettuce. Selected dried scallop, very nice!
6. Steamed crab. When it was served on the table, it smells so good. This one can be done in restaurant since they have a powerful and evenly spread steamer. I don't like crab meat much but this one is very tempting. What's more, very big portion!
7. Steamed garoupa. Also very nice steamer and timing is perfect! The fish is very fresh too as you can see the fins standing up and meats cracked up. I need to add up at least 3 marks (10 marks base) for their asking the guests on how much soy sauce to pour in! Very thoughtful and considerate and yet the soy sauce wouldn't penetrate into the fish meat much. This is very important. If they pour the soy sauce in the kitchen, at least the fish meat would absorb more soy sauce.
8. Chicken in Po Ling bean sauce 普寧豆醬鷄. Hot casserole but the chicken meat isn't too old dry out. Very aromatic Po Ling bean sauce but not salty! All the dishes are very big in portion but my family members were very much eager to clean this casserole.
9. Stir fried stick rice. A separate order is about HK$160. I once thought it's a bit expensive since most others charge this one at HK$80-100. The interesting thing is that it looks quite mashy and wet, but it's not. It's very nice stir frying. I certainly believe it's the Chow Chung's legendary "hot water quick flying in 30 seconds" before stir frying. Can't believe this one came to the table out of the blue.
10. Double pan fried noodles in sugar/vinegar. Quite ok and probably it's not my preference.
11. black sticky rice in coconut sweet. Pretty nice and it's not too sweet.
12. Steamed sponge cake 欖仁馬拉糕. So good and so classic. We finish them all.
13. Steamed red bean and lotus seed paste sticky dumpling. At average and the wrap is a bit chewy.
14. the restaurant. Those electric clay pots are for those braised/stewed food during lunch time.
6 comments:
no.10 is Flora favorite, but not available in Bangkok
i really doubt what those Chiu Chow immigrant to Thailand eat? some traditional Chiu Chow dishes r never available here, maybe the old generation and the new so-call Thai-Chinese eat "horse-tin-goon" only, why don't they just simply call themselves Thais, as they don't speak Chinese, and they don't eat real Chinese food, so why those so-call Thai-Chinese wanna upgrade themselves? even real Thais have more "class" then them
Most people are often not contented with what they are and try every way to stand out themselves, driven by their ego or self-esteem. I think they may learn that term from American born Chinese. So to cut it short, Thai Chinese, because Thai Born Chinese will become TBC which is commonly referred to as "To Be Confirmed". :)
well i don't think they understand TBC, as they don't speak English either; these people always say proud of their own language (available to 65 million ppl), reluctant to learn English (around 1 billion people spoken as a 1st language, another 1 billion people spoken as a 2nd language), once banned Chinese (that's over 1.5 billion people spoken), but called themselves Thai-Chinese!! truly frog in a well!
I like all the dishes here. The price is good for party of 8 to 10.
The dried scallops are so big. Really a value meal.
I see. So this is really nowhere in the mist if no language is practised well.
Stella, I forgot mentioning all these plates are over 16-22 inch in diameter, very big in portion. I am surprised my family members could finish them all. This set is good for 12 persons.
Wow, good for 12 persons at this price with lots of shark fin and big scallops.... Really a big bargain. Even for 8 persons already good price.
Wow, your family members can finish huh. They all eat like me and TC then.
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