 | 2/F, The Excelsior Hong Kong, 281 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay 銅鑼灣告士打道281號怡東酒店2樓 |
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| 2/F, The Excelsior Hong Kong, 281 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay 銅鑼灣告士打道281號怡東酒店2樓 |
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| Guangdong | Chinese Restaurant | Hotel Restaurant | Business Dining |
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Thanks to OpenRice for organizing this event held every year. 
Each course was paired with wines from Marks and Spencer's my favourite food store in Hong Kong. Although I do not drink, I tasted them and appreciated the colours and smells of each wine. 
Marks & Spencer Sparkling Burgundy: Diced beancurd with spicy salt and marinated pork knuckle: The diced beancurd were neatly stacked on the plate surrounded by pork knuckle slices. It had a nice crisp coating with smooth and soft tofu in the middle seasoned by the spicy salt on the coating. ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ Marks & Spencer Crow's Fountain Chenin Blanc: Sliced braised live abalone with oyster sauce and Japanese soya sauce: 
I am not sure what flowers they used but the flowers looked like pansies. I preferred the abalone cooked in oyster sauce because the soya sauce one was a bit sweet. ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ Double boiled soup with tea tree mushrooms, sea whelk and caterpillar fungas: 
It was nice how the soup was presented in a tea pot and served like Chinese Tea. ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ Marks & Spencer Secano Estate Pinot Noir Rose: Crab claw steamed with egg white and Chinese wine: 
It would have been nicer if the wine was stronger. The egg white at the bottom tasted the best because it had absorbed all the essence from the crab and wine. ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ Marks & Spencer Contino Rioja: Sauteed King prawn in supreme soya sauce: 
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ Marks & Spencer Crozes Hermitage: Mini squash pot with Australian Wagyu beef and vegetables: 
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ Sauteed kale with ginger: This was a huge kale stalk carved like a flower. The pairing of ginger and kale was nice. ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ Fried rice with assorted seafood: 
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ Marks & Spencer Malmsey Madeira: Dessert platter: 
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★ See you all next year and the future gourmet pros and gourmet elites to be. Thank you to all my fellow openricers for support, there are too many names to list here so I have not in case I miss any out. Supplementary Information: ◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎Price: $0 Service: good Yummy factor: good Glass of water provided: Tea was provided English Menu: Yes ◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓖⓘⓡⓛ◎ Other Ratings: Taste 4 | Environment 4 | Service 4 | Hygiene 4 | Value for Money 4
Recommend |
Some of the French whites were good at their below $200 price tag. Good for a quaffer and casual drinking. . 
This came with a dramatic Dry-Ice effect, both were good in their own ways. ~ 8/10 . 
Quite mushroomy with a clear broth base, I liked how this was so clear, but wished that it could carry more depth and individual taste of all the different components. Yan Toh Heen in this aspect was a notch above here. ~ 6.9/10 . 
This was so sweet and cooked perfectly. For a party of more than 50 people all at once, you got to give them respect for synchronicity and able to cater for a big crowd.  9/10. 
This was SO GOOD... The normal version is served shell-on and with a darkened soy sauce coating. The version here was peeled and deveined but pre-fried with a thing batter coating, a slight deviation from the norm. Really liked this with it's almost smoky flavour. ~ 9/10 *如果有蝦頭仲好的. . 
Looking so cute, although I cannot taste the wagyu flavour, I really liked this pumpkin idea. It is so individualized . Hope they find a stronger flavoured beef 1 day whether from marbling fat or from meatiness. 7.5/10. 
To me this was a little too raw, and surprisingly not enough green taste. 6/10 . 
To me personally this is more of a Canton dish, as after so many years of working in Fujian I have not encountered this! As for Hokkien Mian, I will vouch for their existence, it's just ever so slimey and nothing remotely to do with the soy and prawn version in Malaysia or the white version in Singapore. Back to the rice, the Canton interpretation is always wet and filled with minced duck and vegetables. The one here was more like a normal dry dried rice. ~ 6/10 . 
Old school pastry desserts, with both China and Hong Kong influence. These were made well and tasted like the recipe suggests. ~ 8/10 ****************************** A good meal overall. Needs more consistency to become a Michelin contender, but I was actually quite impressed with the meal in terms of thoughtfulness. Dining Offers: Tasting Event Other Ratings: Taste 3 | Environment 5 | Service 4 | Hygiene 4 | Value for Money 3
Recommend |
This is first time coming to Yee Tung Heen and I'll have to say I am impressed! The ambiance is trendy but still kept its traditional chinese restaurant factors. I also like how the tables are pretty spread out so it's not too loud. Also worth mentioning is the service here is superb!! We had a table of 3 and we opted for a healthier meal choice that night. We ordered the pumpkin with wagyu beef, stirred fried green beans, vegetarian dish with winter melon, and lastly crab roe fried rice. This is the reason why i wanted to come try out this restaurant. The display is just so appealing that you dont want to eat it. It's basically a mixture of wagyu beef chunks with pumpkiin chunks stirred together. And on the side, it's served with lettuce leaves. 
Supplementary Information: HSBC premiere credit card offers a discountTable Wait Time: 0 minute(s)
Date of Visit: Dec 06, 2012 Other Ratings: Taste 4 | Environment 4 | Service 5 | Hygiene 5 | Value for Money 3
Recommend 0 |
芒果布甸-非常鮮而不太甜
乾炒牛河-加了小白菜，佷夾味
牛肉球-沒有感覺到有肥肉粒
網子窩貼-網子非常香脆
生果盆-鮮甜、漂亮
Sauces-精緻、好味
芒果牛柳條-好味
脆皮雞實在一流Recommended Dish(es):
脆皮雞,網子窩點,西米焗布甸 Table Wait Time: 0 minute(s)
Date of Visit: Apr 12, 2012 Spending per head: Approximately HKD400(Dinner) Other Ratings: Taste 5 | Environment 5 | Service 5 | Hygiene 5 | Value for Money 4
Recommend 0 |
Food for thought (Non-member) |
I was very pleased with my last visit to Excelsior, the new decor is very nice and the food is more refined. I really enjoyed all of the dishes we had but I LOVED the wagyu baby pumpkin!! I would eat this anytime and all the time. I would rather have one piece of something amazing than a bunch of something that is just so-so and that is what I felt here with the new menu. Also we had the Duck which was carved table side and added a sense of show to the dinner  My only critique is that it felt like we ate for hours because of the type of service. Can't wait to come for Dim Sum  Recommended Dish(es):
Wagyu Pumpkin,Duck,Snow Fungus Papaya Table Wait Time: 0 minute(s)
Spending per head: Approximately HKD900(Dinner) Other Ratings: Taste 5 | Environment 4 | Service 5 | Hygiene 5 | Value for Money 4
Recommend 0 |
Having eaten here several times in the past we wanted to see what the newly renovated resteraunt was like, and find it about half full on a Saturday night. The decor is a great improvement on the old overly bright décor of old and is done up in muted reds with spotlights onto the tables to give a sophisticated atmosphere. The prices have also been highly revamped and are more in line with a 3 star Michelin resteraunt than one in a 4star hotel with no Michelin star. We usually start with the thousand year egg with ginger, but could not bring ourselves to pay $75 for it. We started with the marinated pork knuckle ($140) and a Szechuan hot and sour soup with seafood ($96). The pork is served off the bone for ease of eating but is covered in a sickly sweet sauce which rendered it inedible to my partner. My soup was bland with no trace of hot or sour, but did include nice seafood. We followed with the old classic, sweet and sour pork($173) which arrived warm with the thick sauce congealing. We had to send it back to be heated up which was done with good grace. The meat was good quality but the sauce exactly the same as you get in other places for half the price. Beef with tangerine ($206) was a nice portion of good quality meat, but we could not detect any tangerine flavor it was so subtle. Rice vermicelli with abalone, bbq pork and vegetables($206) was unremarkable, but perfectly decent. This two course meal with tea ($22) and two Tsing Tao beers ($132) came to a grand total of $979 made a little easier with a 10% discount if HSBC credit card is used. To sum up, beautiful new décor, average food, average service and way way overpriced. Date of Visit: Oct 22, 2011 Spending per head: Approximately HKD500(Dinner) Other Ratings: Taste 3 | Environment 5 | Service 3 | Hygiene 4 | Value for Money 1
Recommend 0 |
Having dinner there due to our backup dinner plan ... Peking Garden is already full and this is the closest fine Cantonese restaurant nearby. We had ... *please apologize my poor translation* Braised winter melon with barbecued duck : I really missed the dish my parents cooked. And it was really a recommended summer dish. It was nice even the barbecued duck is further cooked with sauce. I think the winter melon was nice and well-cooked, including mushrooms and veggie, it was really healthy. Eggplant with salted fish in hot pot : this was surprisingly the least oily pot I have. Enemy of eggplant, I just had the sauce to match with my rice. It was good. Fried pork in sour sweet sauce : the pork cooked was crispy and hot-fried. And they provided meat, not fat. And the sauce to me was excellent as I dislike too sweet, I adore very sour dish, even it is served hot. If you are my ally, you will like having it as well. And side dish pepper, pineapple was not bad too. Yee Tung fried rice - it was a dry, clean bowl. Surprisingly not oily again, and not salty. Nice. In addition with the courtesy, the eatery is quite nice. Yet, there are more choices if you are willing to walk further to the Lee Garden area. 
Other Ratings: Taste 4 | Environment 5 | Service 5 | Hygiene 5 | Value for Money 3
Recommend 0 |
Cinderella (Non-member) |
I read the comments by other foodlovers so I made a reservation two days in advance. Yet I was a bit late due to the heavy rain, the receiptionist couldn't find out record (?!?) luckily there are vacancies and we could still sit in without waiting. having no ideas about the menu, we just picked some Dim Sum including the Dim Sum Platter, some soup to warm the stomach and a main course. The Dim Sum were alright, the soup was up to standard but the main course, which name I have already forgotten (some awarded dish) is pretty impressive. The scallops were slightly fried with eggwhite and the dried scallops were made into silky thread as plate to support the dish. A picture says a thousand words - so I was so eager to take the picture of this dish. When it came to the bill, the staffs were pretty slow, otherwise the service was quite ok. 
Spending per head: Approximately HKD200 Other Ratings: Taste 4 | Environment 4 | Service 4 | Hygiene 5 | Value for Money 4
Recommend 0 |
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