Xia Mian Guan    夏麵館   (Closed)

Went to IKEA last weekend for some furniture shopping and wanted to have dinner before heading home. While walking around Windsor building, thinking what to have, we found this restaurant having quite a number of people queing for tables. We guessed that this restaurant should be a goos ones, so we decided to give it a try. After waiting for about 10-15 minutes, we finally get seated. We wanted to order "Xiao Long Bao" at first, but we noticed that there is no table ordering this dish. So, decided to give it a pass. Instead, we ordered Dandan Noodles with fried pork ribs, Sauteed Eggplant, and Beancurd Rolls (vegetarian).

The Dandan Noodles was the biggest disappointment we had, the noodles were probably overcooked - a little too soft, and it was not "chewy" at all. The soup was bland too, it did give some peanut scent/aroma but didn't taste any peanut flavor when eating. The fried pork ribs that comes with the noodles was a little "dry", not juicy at all. For the Beancurd Rolls (vegetarian) which has enoki mushroom in them, was so-so, crispy but no surprises. The only dish which we were quite satisfied with was the Sauteed Eggplant. The brown paste used to fried the eggplant and pork slices was tasty but it was a little too oily. By the time we finished the dish, the plate was covered with a layer of oil.

Overall, the food wasn't really bad, but I would say Crystal Jade is still our choice for Shanghainess food.

we saw Windsor House has finally finished its never ending renovations, so we decided to take a look.

the first restaurant we walked passed was this Shanghainese restaurant. There wasn't too many people queuing up, so we joined the queue.

we waited for about 5 minutes, and then we got our table.

here's my comments:

1) the waitresses attitude was actually very good, but the problem was insufficient staff

2) my little bowl that should be clean was dirty

3) food came fast

4) quality of food definitely reflects its price

5) out of the 3 items we tried, the siu lung bau was the best.