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2015-01-12
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Palace Wedding Banquet is a pretty huge restaurant group that specializes in hosting wedding banquets. They have branches all over Hong Kong, the most famous branch located in The One where they have a spinning catwalk for the bride and groom. On this evening, I came to attend the wedding of a coworker. Didn't take photos of the food as seating was super cramped. So cramped, I couldn't put my phone anywhere on the table. So only food descriptions will be done.Photo of the menu we had for the ban
Photo of the menu we had for the banquet.
We started the meal with roasted suckling pig. It came as always with poppy Chinese music and two red flashing light bulbs stuck in the pig's eyes. Skin was crispy and a good portion of meat was attached. Meat was moist and pretty good.Second course was sauteed shrimp and squid with broccoli and celery sticks. Shrimp and squid were cooked well. Springy and not over cooked.
Third course was deep fried crab claw. At least on the menu but in actuality it was a deep fried square mayonnaise salad dressing cutlet. I didn't taste any crab but inside was a piece of shrimp. I don't know why this was not changed on the menu. It was ok as I generally like deep fried mayonnaise salad dressing. It's a weird trashy side of me.
Fourth course was braised conpoy with straw mushrooms and bok choy. It was ok. Not that great. The sauce was a bit too watery.
Fifth course was shark fin soup. This was a rarity as for the past two years worth of weddings I've attended (probably a total of 15), shark fin was not served. Anyways ... the soup was not great. A bit too thick with cornstarch so it was almost glue like.
Sixth course was oyster and abalone. What I got was actually abalone and bok choy. There was no oyster. Again I don't know why the menu was incorrect. The abalone was braised long enough so it was easy to cut with my knife.
Seventh course was steamed garoupa. Fish was sweet and meat was well cooked. Nothing wrong with fresh fish.
Eighth course was roasted chicken. Meat was dry and skin was chewy. This was perhaps the worst chicken I've ever had at a banquet.
This was followed by braised e-fu noodles and fried rice. Both were unseasoned and bland. the rice was oily. The noodles were soggy and wet. Not good at all.
Chinese petit fours were actually osmanthus jelly and heart shaped pink coconut jelly. The jelly was super hard and was not sweet at all. It was actually kind of flavorless.
Food overall was ok but not great. Decor of the restaurant was white with pretty dangling lights all over. Making it very bling bling. Layout of the restaurant was cramped. Tables and chairs were so close together. There were so many columns that blocked the view of the stage where the married couple were saying their vows. Set up of the TV screens to allow guests that couldn't see the stage was not helped as they were located in the back of the room where staff stood in front, further blocking the view. Service was a bit chaotic. It was odd that the reception table was moved around twice at the start of the evening, making guests entering into the banquet to look around in confusion for where to sign in that they had arrived. Even I was lost when I first arrived and found no reception table at the entrance of the restaurant, only to find it after walking into the restaurant. One coworker was vegetarian and though the restaurant knew of her presence, she was not served any food until the rest of us had eaten three courses in. We asked the waitress where her food was and was replied with an apology that the kitchen was falling behind in food preparation. Another time was another coworker had brought her own personal bottle of wine for us. My boss asked the waitress for a round of new wine glasses. Though awknowledged and we had asked again and again, the glasses never came. My boss ended up tossing all our wine from our wine glasses in the washroom.
I don't know what happened with the service that evening, but for a group that specializes in weddings, this branch did a fairly poor job of it. I've been to other branches and they were fine. I don't know what happpened this particular evening.
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