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2009-09-12
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My girl friend and I took 3 westerner friends here for a meal that wasn't LKF-ised. One was allergic to seafood and couldn't try the 海蜇 which was a shame, we should have been more accomodating.The appetiser combo of 3 was 海蜇, 醉雞 and 馬蘭頭. Alas you can't order 海蜇頭 because it was out of the price range. Our guests thought the chicken was OK, but I guess they didn't realise the sauce came separate, which I generously poured over my chicken, and in fact the 馬蘭頭 as well because it was bland and dry. T
The appetiser combo of 3 was 海蜇, 醉雞 and 馬蘭頭. Alas you can't order 海蜇頭 because it was out of the price range. Our guests thought the chicken was OK, but I guess they didn't realise the sauce came separate, which I generously poured over my chicken, and in fact the 馬蘭頭 as well because it was bland and dry. The 海蜇 was so so, I guess the 海蜇頭 might have been better.
The mains were better. The 糖醋排骨 was not spare ribs but 豬排, which suited our guests well (someone had earlier commented that unless you were coming with westerners, don't bother. I agree). They were also impressed with the 樟茶鴨, which they asked for extra hoisin sauce to go with it. I personally thought it was a bit dry and salty. They loved the "chinese pizza" 家常餅 and dabbled it in all sorts of sauces. 炒年糕 came in big slices and was chewy, but again the sauce was a bit on the heavy side. 小籠包 had some juice inside, but not as much as to make one go "ooohh, that's so good!". 干扁四季豆 - big portion, beans were a little too soft, but otherwise tasted good.
高力香蕉豆沙 and 酒釀雙圓 but it seemed the guys were stuffed by then and only managed a few bites of fluffy eggwhite and drank the soup from the 湯圓, which had a funny "off" sort of sourness to it, rather than the wine flavour I had expected.
When we went home, we all felt very thirsty, and a couple of us just felt jittery and couldn't fall asleep that night. Must have been very generous with the MSG. Service was so so, nothing to extol about. I guess there are some special dishes here that we haven't tried, and I would have loved to order the smelly tofu or eel, but maybe my fellow companions wouldn't have appreciated it too much.
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