Last month, we decided to go to have Chiu Chow food to celebrate friends birthday.One of our friend came later, so we ordered the food first. We ordered Pan Fried Silver Fish With Egg, Sliced Soyed Goose, a bowl of Double Boiled Pig's Stomach & Salted Vegetable Soup, Stewed Assorted Vegetable with Chinese Ham and Baby Oyster with Mince Meat Congee.When my other friend arrived, the food were served within 5mins after we asked them to do so, that's effective, perhaps we ordered 15mins in advance.
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Last month, we decided to go to have Chiu Chow food to celebrate friends birthday.
One of our friend came later, so we ordered the food first. We ordered Pan Fried Silver Fish With Egg, Sliced Soyed Goose, a bowl of Double Boiled Pig's Stomach & Salted Vegetable Soup, Stewed Assorted Vegetable with Chinese Ham and Baby Oyster with Mince Meat Congee.
When my other friend arrived, the food were served within 5mins after we asked them to do so, that's effective, perhaps we ordered 15mins in advance. Basically the dishes served all together, our tasting sequence as follow:
First, we had the Goose, that' really nice, tender, juicy, no bones; there is tofu underneath the meat as other chiu-chow restaurant.
Then we had the soup, the pepper is strong enough, felt the warm-air from my throat to stomach. One of my friend said the organs usually had some unpleasant favor, so we ordered a bowl to share, after tasted a sip, he couldn't find that favor.
Next, we shared the silver fish with egg, honestly, I seldom eat silver fish, I have no clue what taste it should be, anyway, the fishes were bigger than I expected; the dish was a bit oily.
Following, we had the congee, there were quite a lot of baby oysters inside, the soup was ok. My friends love it very much!
At last, we tried the veggie, well, veggie were ok, but the Chinese Ham was too salty and the sauce as well. Luckily, we had the soup and congee as diluter.
I live very close to this restaurant and have been very curious about it since I moved here. It's the oldest Chiu Chow place in HK, and apparently Li Ka-shing used to eat here (source: SCMP). So, in carrying through with my commitment to try more Chinese things, I headed here the other night. I aimed for what everyone else was eating in the other reviews, cuz I figured that would be the best stuff.You often hear this dish described as an "oyster omelet" or an "oyster pancake." Neither really wor
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I live very close to this restaurant and have been very curious about it since I moved here. It's the oldest Chiu Chow place in HK, and apparently Li Ka-shing used to eat here (source: SCMP). So, in carrying through with my commitment to try more Chinese things, I headed here the other night. I aimed for what everyone else was eating in the other reviews, cuz I figured that would be the best stuff.
You often hear this dish described as an "oyster omelet" or an "oyster pancake." Neither really works-- it's drier and less eggy than a western omelet (there's tapioca starch in it), and it's nothing like a western pancake (although it is similar to a "kimchi pancake"). Juicy baby oysters in the middle and an eggy-starchy "cake" thing all around. Except for the oysters (which are only minimally fishy), it's pretty bland. There's a sauce to dip it in that's slightly sour-- and it needs the sauce for flavor. It's also not obvious how to eat this with chopsticks. B
The soy sauce goose leg reminded me a lot of Hainan chicken. It's served cold-- or at least not hot-- there are inconvenient bone shards everywhere, and the dish seems very focused on the fatty, salty skin as opposed to the meat. This is probably a fantastic rendition of the dish, but I found it cold and greasy and unrewarding. C
I thought the greens were pretty good. They were labeled "Chiu Chow Vegetable" or something very nondescript like that. It was a very "thin" green, almost a little like lettuce, and it was somewhat more saucy than Cantonese greens. A little greasy too. B+
This was my first time at a Chiu Chow restaurant. I've had oyster pancakes before, but I'm not really in a position to evaluate the objective goodness or badness of this restaurant. Hopefully my descriptions help you envision what the dishes are like, but don't take my ratings seriously.
I probably won't come back here. I found the food similar to Cantonese food, and maybe a bit greasier. Plus, the seats there are really hard on someone who has a very bony posterior like yours truly.