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Author: fatkidforever

Wealth Banquet (State Banquet)

10 食记

味道

环境

服务

卫生

抵食

元朗

$51-100

粤菜 (广东) 酒楼

fatkidforever

等级2

Okay, Fat Kids. For those of you already familiar with the Wealth Banquet name, this is a somewhat fancier-than-average venue meant to have higher food quality, though the menu itself will be comparable to that of other Wealth Banquet locations. There is also a bit more polish in the décor, which again is familiar-looking but seems to harmonize better. I jokingly coined the term "Mainland Rococo" to refer to the gaudy interior style so common here--you know, with the gold leaf, marble, and oversized crystal chandeliers everywhere. Wealth Banquet has some Mainland Rococo elements but this is balanced by the simplicity of the white and beige color palette. I find that I don't mind it at all.

But why am I wasting time talking about anything other than the food? Today, we came for dim sum and spent $125 on three items. I generally have to get an order of radish cake when I go out, and now was no exception. It was a bit on the dry side this time, but I have to point out that at least it had radish in it. So many kitchens cheat and use mostly rice flour as filler. Here, a sharp eye can pick out actual ingredients, identifiable as dried shrimp, dried scallop, wax sausage and the like.

The bulk of our meal consisted of the Gold Medal Large Platter--that's the Chinese translation--or, as some might call it, the Huge Freaking Basket. This basket is why you need to come to Wealth Banquet. At $68, it contains six different items, typically the yellow custard steamed egg cake, har gow, siu mai, and whatever dumplings they have on hand. I've even been surprised with shark fin shrimp dumplings before.

Some might not like the lumpy, made-at-home quality of the dumplings, but I do; and they're quite large as well. But what really make this basket such a great deal is that the steamed egg cake is probably the best of its style in all of Hong Kong.

Gold Medal Large Platter

Last, but not least, we ordered the Three Treasures dish because I'd been craving eggplant. Apart from the aubergine, it had a stuffed green bell pepper and what I was 90 percent sure was a crab patty. Simple, and about what I expected for taste. Altogether, it made for a solid end to a satisfying meal that didn't put us in the poorhouse.