Fung Shing Restaurant    鳳城酒家  

We dined there thinking this place would offer an exciting alternative from the usual Cantonese fare. From what we read on the internet, this is one of the two authentic "Fung Shing" in the original family. So we did come here hoping to be served something much better than the one in Causeway Bay.
We ordered all the usual specialties: roast pork with red intestines, sharkfin soup, "fried milk" with "pheasant roll", prawn toast, fried chicken, lotus root meat patties, and their baked sago pudding. Unfortunately, most of them were below average and sloppily prepared.
Sharkfin soup - Nice, but nothing special. On the other hand it was inexpensive. A half portion that served 6 was only $500.
Roast pork and intestines - No different from many other restaurants.
Roast chicken - The waitress recommended this, telling us this was fresh live chicken. It was tasteless.
Fried milk - Starchy and greasy. Lacks any fragrance of fresh milk, as is famous in Shunde. The "pheasant rolls" had no taste.
Prawn toast - Prawns were of adequate size but lacks taste. Would have been much better had they charged more for this dish and use better ingredients.
Lotus root meat patties - The lotus roots were chopped up and mixed into a rather characterless and bland patty. Soggy on the outside and bland overall.
Fried dumpling with clear soup dip - The dough was thick and tasted doughy. Very poor showing.
We had quite a good laugh at my expense of choosing such a dump. But everybody was in good humor and expected the baked sago pudding to save the day. It didn't. The browned top was chewy and hard. Probably it was prepared way in advance and reheated.
It is sad to remember the original Fung Shen decades ago at the then Hoover Theatre site (now the Causeway Bay Regal Hotel). Nothing like the good old days. Just a convenient local restaurant for nearby residents.

Hello!

This is my first time to write 食評. Although i am only 13 yrs old, i will not like some bad and especially COLD food.

OK! Let's talk about the restaurant now! this time we are celebrating the birthday of my aunt. We ordered:
明蝦鍋貼
Half of 脆皮炸子雞
鳳城炒飯
家鄉煎藕餅
蟹肉排雙蔬
蓮蓉西米布甸

I love 明蝦鍋貼 the most because the shrimp is very tasty but i think it is a little bit too oily. There are 10 of them and we have 4 people. I ate 4 明蝦鍋貼! 脆皮炸子雞 is OK but i will not suggest u to have the whole chicken but having half only. The skin is crpsy enough but there is not much 雞味. The 鳳城炒飯 is very big and hot enough but it is very common. Nothing surprise me. 家鄉煎藕餅 is my mum's favourite as it is very hot! It is not very expensive as there are many pieces. HIGHLY SUGGESTED~! 蟹肉排雙蔬 is using the real 蟹肉 but i think there are not much taste. We ordered this just for some vegetables. For the 蓮蓉西米布甸, we saw many of the people ordered it so we ordered. It is just like some glue and very sticky. Maybe it is the cause of i don't like to eat 蓮蓉.

the environment is fine but it seems to be a little bit tight and the services of the waiters are good!

a gathering of 6 ladies tonite, we ordered:

風沙雞 (炸子雞?) - very hot and crispy. but, not much chicken favor, not very good.

野雞卷 - this is not chicken, actually it's fried pork etc. quite nice. but if they could provide a sour and sweet sauce but not the common vinegar, it would taste better.

蝦多士 - quite good, again i felt it's not tasty enough...

肉碎包 - i like this, okay.

火腿魚卷 (?) - okay

荷葉飯 - it's wrapped in lotus leave but it didn't get any lotus scent. it's a good fried rice, but definitely disqualified as lotus leave wrapped fried rice.

西米焗布丁 - great, my love, but this was not excellent, cwb's branch served better pudding.

overall, dishes are okay, not very tasty though. i think cwb's branch is better.

enjoyed a nice dinner with my old friends~

5 ppl, LNY, dinner time
everything was fne & some of them already recommended by other 食家.

乳豬 - waitress claimed it was just roasted....very small portion, fat (not much meat) & cold..$4x...disappointed
鍋貼大明蝦 - good!
roasted chicken - ok
soup, vegetable & fried rice noodle - surprisingly good & large portion
sweet soup - nice

大良炒鮮奶 contain fish, so we did not order
西米布甸 - unfortunately we forgot to order at time of registration (few days ago)..so no available

service - so so
washroom - Gent's: small & "narrow", tall guy easily reach the fan haged from ceiling
environment - so so

First time there, environment is not so good but much much better than "Lin Heung" in Sheung Wan that also have big name. The quality of Dim Sum is good and the ingredients are fresh, even better than "Lee Yuen" which had doubled the price, must go for dinner next time !

First of all, I would say, Fung Shing is the best restaurant which I would vote so far. Remeber when I was young, my father usually brought us to the one in Causeway Bay, which is the location of Regal Hotel now. The food was so unforgetable. After that restaurant closed down and also we knew that the chef and boss opened another one in North Point, then we stick with them until now. By the way, I am the 3rd generation who eat their food in our family.
If say the food is nice, I would not say No at all. However, recently ( in this 2 years), the service level is totally depreiciated, and make me totally disappointed.
Like yesterday, I invited a couple to have dinner overthere to celebrate their wedding. So, I assumed I will order lots of nice food to treat them, like Shark fink, Chicken....etc.
I have booked a table for 4, when I arrived, the receptionist said our table was on the 1st floor but they did have a spare table on ground floor but is non smoking area. Since I am a smooker but I was not aware that I can have my smoking on the street, then I went to upstair. Once I saw the pepole in 1st stair, I was really worried. As it was so crowded and noisy!!!As I mentioned before, the reason for this dinner is to treat a new weddinng couple, so I would prefer to have a quieter place for them to enjoy dinner.
So I talked to the waitress at once and requested to have a table on ground floor. However, the waitress looked at me and replied to me "NO" in very rude manner. Then I asked her if you can check it again, however, it was very sad that she said "that is only table we have, if you don't like it, you can ignore it."
How can they treat customer like this??????
In my memory, I recalled that all the staff in Fung Shing was polite and professional. But how come now they degrade like this!!!!
The worst part is, that waitress keep looking at me in very rude manner, like want to have a fight with me.
As I knew that the purpose of this dinner, so I just keep quiet and took that table.
I did complained this to the captain, who was working it Fung Shing over 20 years. However, he did not do anything and just blamed on too many customers.
I don't want to be too long, but like other friends' comments from Openrice, if Fung Shing want to be survived, I think they should improve their service manner, people spend money to your shop is for enjoyment, not to make themselves angry.
In the past, I recommend so many of friends to have dinner in Fung Shung North Point, but now I will not.
However, I will still being there occasionally, just for my recall of some of my family memebers who are not in HK or pass away......