Bought 4 discounted prepaid coupons each $49 for $110 and went with two friends. Went via restaurant's named two-storey modern boat, the journey took 45 minutes. Went to the right utmost site; restaurant has two sites both are tented one view ones each has may be 30 tables.

Ordered and comment on food as follows:

Butter Lobster $400 - $200 for 1, ordered 2, half for each. After had Boston lobster at two earlier occasions, shocked at lobsters' small size, thought there's only 1 lobster on the dish and checked with waiter who said indeed two lobsters were on the dish that these are better ones comparing with the big forearm ones. So these seem to be those "baby lobsters", actually it very much look like the 牛油大蝦 as pictured in earlier review by Kan Lee -- taste is not badf but I prefer more the taste of the Boston lobster I had in that Shaukiwan restaurant birthday banquet. To me this is not worth the money for $100 for quantity like two small pieces of tasty meat. SO FUTURE BUYERS BEWARE!

豉椒炒蟶子 / Fried Razor Clams with Bean & Chili Sauce $160 - Waiter said only sell Clams by the piece for $40 each so ordered 4 pcs. They are more those 蟶子王. Tasted good.

Soy Friend Noodle $60 - A little too many soy but quantity and quality good.

Ginger juice Gai Lan $50 - this is disappointing, it did not come in hot pot and felt little ginger taste, very mildly fried.

Garoupa $200 - the cheaper basic one sold for $200 for 0.6 kg. Got one and its cooking time is just shorted some seconds with very little meat still stuck to the bone, it is delicious, its soup too, wasn't aware of ginger and spring onions perhaps taken by my friends or little. This is highly recommended and on my must order list for next meal here.

Can't remember at this moment what may be one more dish we ordered but checked bill added upto Hk$1,030 including tea and mustard seems $50 something. Should have taken a photo of the bill as seems to be around $150 difference.

Due to the discounted prepaid coupons we cannot order set meals which should be more economical but anyhow we had one meal that isn't expensive. With coupons we paid average $200 person including free boat here. If we come without coupons it would cost about $250 for one person, saved about $50 or $60 ferry fee not bad for one seafood meal with garoupa, Razor Clams and Lobster -- this lobster I would avoid next ime and can order some more hopefully good food. Of course if we eat as many as when we're younger instead of moderate eaters now the food cost will go up!

Tips the other visitors to Nam Ah Island - there are still one other bigger and perhaps 3 smaller restaurants there at least one or two with set-menu signs on the street, and there are price tags at the fish boxes that you can check and compare before selecting restaurants.

Further this is a decent restaurant with decent but small toilets on first floor.

Took a group of 10 friends to celebrate a birthday together......and it was really a fine and fun excursion. Food quality mostly excellent, service friendly and efficient. (This may have been helped because we were a bilingual group, so no language barrier.)

We really enjoyed the end-to-end excursion. Pickup in Central, beautiful boat ride to the restaurant (helped by the fact it was a lovely evening) and return afterwards. All efficiently booked in one (English-language) phone call.

On arrival, we were given the option of the restaurant on the left (newer, apparently), and the "traditional" restaurant on the right. We opted for the left, which seemed a little less crowded, and were happy we did so. As noted by a previous reviewer, this is not "fine dining;" it is an outdoor dining experience on a remote island, but within that concept, it was a fine experience.

The kitchen seems to be at its best when doing seafood (duh....). Our Cantonese-style whole steamed chicken with vegetables was pronounced by the local experts to have insufficient taste.

But everything else was really really good:

Steamed peel-them-yourselve prawns: succulent and accompanied with a small selection of sauces (e.g. traditional soy sauce but also pepper oil and cantonese-style hot sauce). I ventured into the pepper oil and loved the contrast in flavor from the usual soy sauce.

Deep-fried squid: crispy outside and not tough (as some squid can be).....the oil used for frying was clearly fresh and the squid were flavorful.

Open-face scallops covered with light bean thread noodles and garlic sauce...ooooo the noodles with garlic and a bit of the scallop meat were to die for! I wanted four more (but couldn't have them, as we had ordered the precisely right number of pieces

Steamed whole garoupa: this was the centerpiece of the meal and also the agreed flavor champ. Not drowning in soy sauce.....this was Cantonese cooking at its best, and everyone admired the adept cooking, which brought out the fish's natural flavors.

Clams with black bean sauce.......the clams were small and tender but frankly licking the sauce off the shells was the really wonderful part.

Vegetables were fresh and cooked just right, with a bit of crunchiness still left in the stalks. Fried rice just okay. For dessert, we opted from their Movenpick ice creams (well it was a birthday party) and the restaurant threw in a complimentary fruit plate.

We brought our own wine.....the corkage charge was eminently fair, and the staff very helpful in providing glasses and a bucket.

Oh....and the toilets were clean, too! :-)

I like to bring visitors to HK to Sok Kwu Wan and with their free shuttle boat, Rainbow has always been a convenient and reliable option.

Increasingly though, the food quality is not what it used to be.

The quality of service was rough-and-ready but polite and responsive and the environment was exactly as expected (it's an outdoor restaurant on a remote-ish island; it is what it is). No scams, either. I'm not Chinese but nobody tried to pull any "tourist prices" on me.

The food, though. Hmm. Top billing on yesterday's dinner service was the garlic lobsters. Not cheap, but perfectly cooked and absolutely delicious. The deep-fried shrimps were mostly okay, tasty, but a bit tough and overcooked. The steamed garoupa was a big disappointment. The waiter decided to "carve" (i.e. destroy) it before he brought it to my table, without checking first if that was what I wanted. So instead of a beautiful fresh fish ready to eat, we got a sad, messy pile of fish meat, bones etc. The fish itself was tasteless, the sauce was watery, and it was hard to eat since the bones had been mixed into it. I wish they'd asked first before mashing it up. I'm perfectly capable of serving steamed fish myself.

Salt-and-pepper fried squid was awful, tasteless, texture-less and basically cold. I don't believe this was cooked fresh when we ordered it.

I think I might have to start looking for another atmospheric seafood restaurant. There's plenty of choice.

This place used to be OK when I ate there 3 years ago, but this time it was very disappointing. The service was extremely poor. Waiters were incapable, inattentive and rude. We were given the farthest table on the terrace and the wait staff would quite happily ignore us when we waved. That reminded me of those so-called wait staff at Lin Heung.

The food was equally disappointed. The fried salt and pepper squid was under-seasoned. The shrimps were tough, as were the steamed scallops in garlic. The deep fried oysters had way too much batter on the outside and the chef clearly forgot about the seasoning. Razor clams in black bean sauce were the best dish out of the lot, but I'd consider it mediocre. The fried rice was also poor; any char chaan teng could have done a better job.

Somehow I feel this place has turned into a complete tourist trap - offering you a free ride but of course as the saying goes there is no free lunch. Don't be surprised to see nuts being charged to your bill (2 @ $30 each) adding to the already extortionary prices. With so many other places one can get quality seafood, I will certainly not go back or recommend this place to anyone.

we ordered steamed scallop with Garlic, ginger and spring onion with lobster on egg noodles based, spicy and salted squid.

however, we were very disappointed.
The scallops steamed too long and tasted like a rubber. Garlic was too salty and cover the taste of scallops.

Also, they just chopped the lobster into half. this is not easy to take the meat out and again no taste at all as they cooked too long. the egg noodles were too salty again.
they deep fried the noodles but the noodles are not crispy at all. All i could feel in my mouth are oil and salt.

for spicy and salted squid.............i am not sure if the chef misread the order. i only could taste black pepper but no spice and salt.

we are disappointed from first dish til the end.
Plus, we were shocked when we looked at the bill. 750$ for a meal like that.
totally not worth it!!!!

Went there after hiking last Fri,

Only two dishes strike us heavily...

Sweet and Sour Pork - since we have 9 ppl, I think they have mkae this dish in large portion, its really great but later find out it cost $140... but still I reckon its value for $$$

: Worst dish have to be the fried noddles in soy sause, really bad, tasteless...

u'll find that no seafood were mentioned coz its all below standard...

To be fair, I have to say in the beginning that the food quality is not bad and everything we had were fresh and tasty. The problem is we had a non-Chinese at our table and the restaurant staffs tried to sell us "tourist seafood" at "tourist price", eg.
Lobster, "baked with cheese and noodle" - $1300
Garoupa, "rainbow fillet style"- $1000
AND, we had only 6 of us. We requested for a smaller lobster but they just don't have! the staff there was trying to tell us "it's the usual size for 6 people la". And I looked around and saw groups of 10-15 people having the same sized lobsters!? I guess they just treated us like tourists who would pay any prices...but seriously, I have bought lobsters from market before and they were like 1/4 of that price.
As for the garoupa, we ended up going for simple styled steaming and it was $400 only. The cost for each person turned out to be like $500-600 while we shares 3 bottles of decent white wines among us, which we think was fair.
Having said that, I don't mind going back just for the location and quality of food, just hope that they can take account of the current economic condition and be more realistic when it comes to pricing!

just been there last weekend with our client, as they recommended. this is my first time go to lamma island. we took their free ferry to lamma, (never know hong kong had such nice place). anyway, we had 10 dishes for 14 people, had
steam fish,
lobster with butter,
shrimp in soy sauce,
sweet and sour pork,
abalone
2 veg. dish
one fried rice and one noodles
and another 2 dishes ( forgotted)
the Lobster with butter and Sweet and sour pork are the must try dishes, About the lobster, i tried it so many time in different place, but i never had such a delicious butter lobster before. The sweet and sour pork, one of my favour dishes, it is a common chinese dishes, but the way they cooked it made the meat very crunchy and about the sauce, the taste is just right. other dishes is quite nice too. such a good recommendation, and it cost around $3000 include 2 bottle of wine. maybe something for improvement is their service, it was ok, but i think it can be better. have such a good environment and good and food, will definitely back there again.

Had dinner last weekend, too disappointed, 10 reasons not to re-visit:

- missing boat & table booking
- dangerous boat ride (especially embarkation)
- unstable quality control (once the award winning dishes)
- poor manner of the manager (yelling to customers)
- dirty washroom
- over priced seafood
- bad wine selection
- charing for storeroom as "private dinning room"
- messed up food order
- unfresh steamed fish

Would it be due to Easter holiday, more and more people went there and therefore service level is somehow affected.
My friend told me the food quality was great, and as I've never been there before, I hope the service will be better.