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Item: Ming Bistro
Rating: 4
Author: Picky Couple

Ming Bistro

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Guangdong Shanghai Dim Sum Stir-Fry

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I had read about how nice/creative the presentation of the food here was before I came, so I had been looking forward to dining at this place for quite a while.Enough had been said by others about the tableware so I don't think I need to say much about it. 蕎麥茶 was served rather than normal tea at a cost of $15+10% per person. We found the 蕎麥茶 being too diluted. We were seated near the back-door of the restaurant and there was lack of air conditioning so my lunch partner kept sweating for most of

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I had read about how nice/creative the presentation of the food here was before I came, so I had been looking forward to dining at this place for quite a while.

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Enough had been said by others about the tableware so I don't think I need to say much about it. 蕎麥茶 was served rather than normal tea at a cost of $15+10% per person. We found the 蕎麥茶 being too diluted. We were seated near the back-door of the restaurant and there was lack of air conditioning so my lunch partner kept sweating for most of the meal.

We ordered 1 appetizer only. It was a bit spicy compared with what I expected. The portion of the sheet jelly was quite big. I found it ok overall.

We tried 4 dim sum. Let me start with the best ones first.

This one was really good. The presentation was very cute. The shrimp ingredients were very fresh and the wrap was so thin. Very good indeed.

There was plenty of soup inside while the wrap was not too thick either. Although the price was not cheap (about $15 each), it was ok.

They were quite crispy. Unfortunately, there wasn't much spinach flavour. There was also some meat inside which I hadn't expected but there was no complaint about this.

This one was very very bad. There was no swallow's nest as expected. But the biggest problem was that the custard wasn't flowing at all! Their presentation didn't justify $75 at all!

We also tried 3 mains.

This one was very delicious. There were quite a lot of tenderloin cubes and they were well seasoned. Even the potato cubes tasted good.

This one was quite good. The portion of the pork was quite big and they did have crispy texture and were well seasoned. The only complaint was that the pork lacked rich pork flavour.

The fish was bigger than thought as we had expected a really small fish from its name. The fish was pretty fresh. The minced ginger was a bit salty though. Overall, quite a good value for money.

We ordered one dessert to share.

We were amazed when it was served to us and a cost of $68+10% seemed such a great value for money. But then when we found out the Chinese tea was really just Chinese tea with nothing special, $68+10% for 6 small black sesame dumplings was really such a big joke. Sorry that I had really expected some 烏龍茶 sweet soup to go along with the rice dumplings...

Service was a bit slow toward the end when we kept asking for our dessert and the bill. Overall, the mains seemed better and offered a better value for money while the dim sum didn't seem to be so. Maybe we had picked some wrong dim sum. The overall smiley face was mostly due to the mains.

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Date of Visit

2018-08-13

Dining Method

Dine In

Spending Per Head

$265 (Lunch)

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