Five of us were seated around 1 pm. It was still bustling, and we were too late for the suckling pig. Oh well. Next time. We also accidentally refused the final order of baked char siu buns brought around because I had marked them on our order sheet already. We ordered a LOT so I’ll summarize what stood out for me. Well I’ll try to summarize.
Very happy with:
Crab roe xlb though I was hesitant about ordering them. Not super strong roe flavor, but good flavor overall, well made, nice amount of soup, none of the skins tore.
Siu mai. Just really solid and satisfying
Seafood dumplings with XO sauce. Nice wrappers, loved the finely shredded XO sauce topping.
Espresso ribs. I understand why people don’t like them, I understand why people DO like them more. But I also preferred the more traditional
Spare ribs with black beans. Tender, no scary bone fragments, delicious.
Taro puffs. Not greasy, nice bed head appearance.
Not crazy about
Portuguese egg tarts. Over cooked. Mine was scrambled eggs.
Fried fish in rice sheet roll. Had been sitting and had no contrasting crunch to the slippery rice sheets.
Har gow had thick skins that stuck and fell apart, underwhelming filling.
Everyone else (I just can’t remember it all) was very good.
I still can’t answer my own question about weekday vs weekend, but judging from yesterday’s meal I’ll take a slight reduction in crowd sizes during the week in the future without worrying I’m getting a lower standard from the kitchen.
