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2009-11-25
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Like almost everyone at Lung Moon today, we were here to bid farewell to this long surviving restaurant. We got together 8 of us determine to try out all the dishes they had to order. A few of us have been here before but a few were here for the first time. Although we booked 2 weeks ago and confirmed the booking again only yesterday, we arrived to find we had no table. It was chaotic too with people taking photos everywhere, crowded around tables and grabbing Dim Sum from the steam trolleys. Af
We ordered a plate of char siu and roast goose as that was recommended by previous reviews. My colleague thought pregnant woman fried rice sounds fun and the waiter recommended for our vegetarian colleague the dry fried e fu noodles. With that out of the way, we took turns in twos to raid the dim sum trolleys. Basically, we took whatever types of dim sum they had at any time. So Har gau, siu mai, beef balls, steam chive dumplings, duck web wraps, chickens' feet, steam tripe, bean curd rolls, ma lai go, spare ribs and most importantly, the giant buns. I had never tried a giant bun and cut into the first one to share. Inside was chicken, pork, salted egg yolk and mushroom in my quarter. I could happily eat one of these and be full but I had to leave space to try other things.
Char Siu and roast goose was very good. The Char siu is charcoal grilled and not very burnt but smelt nicely of roast meat and I liked the roast goose more than that of Yung Kee's as the skin was crispy and shiny. I had quite a few pieces
Dry fried e fu noodles was nice with lots of straw mushrooms, very dark in colour, dry and not oily and flavoursome, I had more than a bowl.
Pregnant woman fried rice was a disappointment when it arrived. It was white with bits of vegetables in it. When we tasted it, it was egg white, vegetable bits with ginger which tasted better than it looked but nothing like the same name dish at Xi Yin which has black olives and is almost black in colour. This dish ended up suitable for our vegetarian colleague too.
We wanted to try some fried or baked dim sums but despite walking up and down all 3 floors, none of the dim sum stations had any. Likewise for dessert, there was only ma lai go and red bean bun. The Ma Lai Go came in a big steam basket like a giant cake cut up. It wasn't as dark in colour as some restaurants but tasted really nice. Pure and refreshing and not too sweet. Our vegetarian colleague had one of the 2 red bean paste buns and said it was good but it made her too full.
I had no idea how much food cost in this restaurant and had rung earlier to ask if they take credit cards. They said yes for bills above $200 but when I went to pay (yes, you have to go up to the cashier counter), they said cash only. Luckily, it only came to $760.
We can at least say we have tried many dishes and dim sums at Lung Wah in the last week of its existence and most of the dishes were above average or good. Understand that with this type of management, service and decor, it was a clever decision to sell the building which could feed the owner for generations.
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