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2010-06-06
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We chose Yixin for our Saturday lunch as there is parking outside and because my friend's friend is extremely fond of duck. Our friends were from Singapore and US and one of them does not eat pork. We managed to order enough dishes without any pork. One dim sum I wanted to try was traditional shark fin's soup dumpling but we can wait till next time since it has pork inside. The famous pi pa duck. It wasn't as nice as I remembered it to be when Yixin was in Causeway Bay. The whole duck used to be
Our friends were from Singapore and US and one of them does not eat pork. We managed to order enough dishes without any pork. One dim sum I wanted to try was traditional shark fin's soup dumpling but we can wait till next time since it has pork inside.
The famous pi pa duck. It wasn't as nice as I remembered it to be when Yixin was in Causeway Bay. The whole duck used to be flattened and the inside marinated very nicely. Now it is just like a roast duck and a little too fatty too
Fried milk is a dish of fried egg white, milk, crab meat and mushrooms. I didn't use to like it as it tasted too much of milk but this time I did as they added a lot of crab meat which diluted the taste of milk.
Fried beef with yau teo. This is an old fashion Cantonese dish and as I am a yau teo fan, I try to pick out more yau teo pieces and as they slice the dough and deep fry it, it's very crispy and it soaks up the beef sauce making it tasty
Fried broccoli was my daughter's choice and I asked them to put less oil. I only had one piece as my daughter took too many pieces.
Fried ho fan with beef in black bean sauce. I ordered this as I saw the next table had a dish which looked good. It turned out to be just average.
Fried lotus root with lily bulb and sugar snaps. Again my daughter's choice as she loves vegetarian dishes. I saw our US friend didn't like the lily bulb pieces and I agree it has a taste and texture that takes getting used to.
Prawns baked in vermicelli in clay dish was not as nice as I had hoped and as this dish came late, we didn't finish it.
Plain rice and congee at Yixin is a good quality, much nicer than most other restaurants, so we ordered some to go with the dishes. Their congee has bean sheets melted inside and so it's smooth and smells distinct.
The meal was a gathering of old and new friends, our new friend liked the duck and most of the dishes. We didn't finish some of the dishes and had to pack them to take home.
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