Hey everyone,
After failing to get dinner the first time around, I finally managed to try out this place in the evening. The restaurant seems pretty popular as a wedding destination (I’ve tried within two weekends and the first time the place was booked and the second time a wedding party was sectioned off).
Anywho, to kick off our meal, we went for the double boiled soup.
We got a relatively substantial tureen of watercress soup (soup ingredients appear to be chicken drumsticks, some chunks of pork, ham, duck gizzard, and likely pinenuts.
I don’t know how they got the soup to be so clear, but it was quite fantastic. Immensely enjoyed our soup and had plenty left over to take home.
Next up we tried the free range chicken and mushroom stew and I thought it was a little on the bland side. Chicken had little bone bits so just a bit of caution.
We ordered the seared Kurobuta pork with Chinese broccoli in cognac sauce. I enjoyed the dish though the sauce and flavors definitely over powered the chicken and mushroom stew. Flavor wise, you can imagine black pepper sauce sauteed pork with a hint of cognac. The pork meat appears to be from the pork neck region, but I would have liked the pieces just to be a little smaller (maybe cut in half?).
For our vegetable dish, we went for the sauteed assorted mushrooms and cordyceps in a wintermelon ring. Well… it didn’t quite look like the menu picture, and the wintermelon ring uhm… … was semi-circular I guess, but we had veggies. Unfortunately, this was towards the less flavorful end of the spectrum. I was hoping for some super savory sauce to balance out the wintermelon.
Lastly to end our main courses, we went for the baked sea bass rather than any fresh water fish (there was a coral grouper but I think I’ll let the wallet be a little fatter…). The fish was very well cooked and the sauce was a little bit tastier than just mayonaise (not quite sure the mixture). However, our dish was a little on the late side which likely had to do with the wedding dinner occurring at the same time.
To end the meal, we received some red bean and lotus seed dessert soup. I never really enjoyed these dessert soups, but from my brief sample it was still quite hot and not too sweet.
Overall, I quite liked their double boiled soup. I’ll have to try a few of their fresh water seafood items next time around. We wanted to try their sea snail on an ice bed but didn’t have that this time around. Some of their dishes were a little bland, but I somewhat expected that to be the case so I can’t really complain too much. I’d just say avoid eating there (or well, any restaurants) when they host weddings!
